Chema Madoz: Not Everything is What It Seems To Be

These are some of the works of Chema Madoz, a Spanish artist and photographer. A surrealist. He’s one of my favorites. I do not have the exact words to express my appreciation towards his works. The doubts. I guess that’s it. Doubts are always amazed me. I took the original excerpts directly from his website here :

cubo

Not everything is what it seems to be, and Chema Madoz (Madrid 1958) ensures it’s evidence. Hidden among daily things arises new worlds. New dimensions led by metaphor alters the perception of an immediate reality. The absurd, the paradox, the humor – why not the wittiness – are to be found at the photographers studio. The idea commences it’s process of superiority of the object and establishes a given discontext. The irony with which Madoz assaults recognizable objects creates a relationship with viewers that leads to paths of a parallel universe.

incendio

escurre

quesera

The photographs are not only the reflex of what was there (a luck of portable memory) – quoted by Fernando Castro – but also related to conscious of disappearing…. That their photographic metaphorical in frame things of singular symmetry or make us focus in simple items, in points of view modifying real ….

uralita

maleta mapa

cm 103

Cristian Caujolle underlines that the art of Madoz is articulated by unreal objects whereupon behind their normal appearance, recognizable (an envelope, a glove, a matchstick, a pencil, etc.) Which are familiar to us all, hides a weirdness which yields new sensations avoiding to consider the photographs as dead natures.

tijeras

vela

violin

escalera

Since quite sometime ago Chema Madoz comes up with silver ideas. With his work opens up unexpected spaces, forms of great strength, reaching us all, as it reminds us of something and forces us to unlimited reflections.

taza espiral

chanclas

Through his photographs we advance to understand strange things of forms and the circles which constantly are produced in nature.

stanteria

tijera candado

maletin

During his trajectory we’ve been gifted with a huge making of doubts and has recreated among spaces not even reachable in dreams. In his expositions time after time are shown the placenta after birth.