FLORES PARA MI FUNERAL

Casimiro Martinferre

Desde el 30 de Septiembre / From September 30th 2017


INAUGURACIÓN Sábado 30 de Septiembre 12hs / Opening September 30th - 12hs

“Flores para mi Funeral”. Piezas únicas en gelatina de plata de Casimiro Martinferre quien fue accésit en el 1º PREMIO INTERNACIONAL DE FOTOGRAFÍA MONDO GALERIA y que ahora forma parte de nuestros artistas representados. Pide un catálogo para poder reservar las obras antes de la exposición ya que se nos van de las manos.
Travesía de Belén 2. Madrid – 28004

“Flowers for my Funeral”, unique pieces on silver gelatin by Casimiro Martinferre who has been a runner up at the 1º INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRICE MONDO GALERIA and now he is part of our represented artists. Ask for a catalogue to book this unique works before they fly away from our hands.
30th September 2017. Travesía de Belén 2. Madrid – 28004

 

 

 

“Flores para mi funeral”. 2017. Casimiro Martinferre.

 

SOBRE LA OBRA

Hablar de fotografía es hablar de palabras, de sentidos, de inspiración. Una luz y el negro. Una oscuridad, el negativo.

Al pensar en la obra de Casimiro Martinferre pienso inmediatamente en Baudelaire, Charles. Aquel mitológico hito de Historia. Aquella llama nocturna soplada a fuelle de gaita. A vientos tempestuosos que nos traen el mar, nuestra poca cordura y el comienzo arcaico de una modernidad que hoy acaba.

Pues sí. Llegamos al fin sin saber qué hacer con nuestro desperdicio, con la codicia que flota en un Manifiesto delicado y tenue en busca de luz. Aquella que perdimos.

Gelatinas de plata que tuercen las palabras en un arcabuz emocional del que no estamos a salvo, ni queremos. Estamos aquí, ahora, en el momento exacto que nos corresponde. El momento de comenzar a ver que estamos muriendo y que eso es lo más valioso de nuestro tiempo, lo que nos hace brillar. Dilucidar un futuro creado por el empuje de una herencia descontrolada de pasado.

¿Y ahora? Me pregunto atónito. Ahora… es el momento de abrir este libro, de seguir sus palabras, de descubrir imágenes que hablan tanto de un planeta sucio de nosotros mismos como de un alma ardiente despojada de coraza.

Diego Alonso


 

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MUSICAL PORTRAITS

Deborah Feingold

From 30th NOVEMBER 2017 to 30th JANUARY 2018


OPENING thursday 30th November - 20hs

 

“It was very free-form, and I´d never been happier. Being around jazz musicians, I learned how to improvise. That changed my life. It was risk-taking and it was exciting.” DF

MONDO GALERIA presents for the first time in Spain a solo exhibition by Deborah Feingold, an American photographer pioneer of adding musicality to portraiture. Always close to the music scene, each one of her images has a careful construction based on rhythm and melody overturned to color, which has managed to tame beasts of the likes of Keith Richards or Tom Wolfe, as well as create intimate dialogues with less hedonistic characters such as Brian Eno or Sinead O'Connor. Her indisputable career makes it today, with time, one of the most important portraitists of pop culture since the end of the 70s.
 

 

“David Byrne”. 1983. ©Deborah Feingold.

20 of the best portraits by Deborah Feingold make this exhibition an unmatchable tour through the last decades of a century (XXth) when popular culture was invented and that musicians were turned into great visual aspirations beyond their musical talents.

 

“Sinead O´Connor” 1990. ©Deborah Feingold


The musicality on the portrait

Musicality is related to the beautiful, the aesthetic and the tangible of music, but it also refers to what is born inside, which is inherent to the musical person. Almost all good musicians, if we observe, carry that musicality in their person. Their posture, their way of walking, the expressions or the space they fill in. That musicality is what Deborah Feingold captures with her camera.

Although aware of the presence of the camera, the portrayed one appears playing, creating, negotiating his image with the photographer. Although the compositions are sometimes complex, naturalness is what always prevails, strangely, within these moments built to the millimeter. There is whaere we can see her experience, a photographer who knows how to prepare her canvas so that at the moment of shooting it is the improvisation that prevails, the ease, the fluidity of the moment and the encounter. And in this she behaves totally like a Jazz musician. Miles Davis (with whom Deborah had the opportunity to coincide) does not improvise on an empty open field, the king of the bebop, like his friend Coltrane or many others, improvise on a specific melody, once absorbed and assimilated. When they dominate it, is when they can put it together and disarm it innumerable times, undo it, dissect it and always return to it as if nothing had happened.
In the image exists a time factor that is irreversible, but that is what ends up creating a good photograph. That: it could not be half a second before or a half after. There is an exact moment that makes the photograph and that moment in the portrait is a moment of confluence between the photographer and the photographed, a supreme moment that is engraved on the plate and it is the result of all the ingredients that were carefully prepared for that image, added to the improvisation of the moment and united by an amalgam of time and magic that is the only thing that create an image as these are. Then, analysis will come with the years, the time, who have become the portrayed or if an image has become an icon or not, but, the important thing, the essential, was there dormant from the exact moment it was shot.

 

“Brian Eno” 1981. ©Deborah Feingold

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Deborah Feingold
(Rhode Island, 1951)

One of photographer Deborah Feingold's earliest darkrooms was actually a prison cell. After graduating from Emerson College in the early 1970's, she was awarded a grant to teach photography to troubled youth in a Boston prison, affirming her belief in the power of the camera as a tool for self-expression and communication and laying the groundwork for a decades-long career photographing the most prominent names in American culture.

Feingold moved to New York City in 1976, where her relationship with a jazz musician inspired her to embrace a spirit of improvisation in her photography and led to her first major assignment: shooting jazz icon Chet Baker for the Artist House record label. Her work with Baker and others on the label caught the attention of Musician magazine, who hired Feingold as their New York liaison.
Turning her small apartment into a makeshift studio (this time her shower stall served as the dark room) and freewheeling it on the unpredictable streets of New York, Feingold captured indelible images of some of the most legendary names in music, from B.B. King and James Brown to Bono and Madonna to REM and Pharrell.
 
Feingold's unique ability to put her subjects almost immediately at ease engendered the kind of rare moments of honesty and intimacy that became the hallmark of her work, and over the ensuing decades, her photographs would appear in Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek and The New York Times among others, along with countless album and book covers. The portraits in her catalog read like a who's who of cultural icons: President Barack Obama, Mick Jagger, Bill Gates, Tom Wolfe, Prince, Johnny Depp, George Carlin, and many more.
 
 
 

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Alia Ali

“Borderland"

Exhibition of photographs / from 23 March to 22 April 2017

Opening THURSDAY 23 March 2017 - 20hs

 

Being covered can be interpreted as a state of confinement, but in fact, one can be confined whether or not they are veiled or not.”.

A.A

MONDO GALERIA presents for the first time in Spain the latest works by multimedia artist Alia Ali. “Borderland” continues with her photographic investigation about the textile processes from around the globe. With this series she continues exploring the boundaries within dualistic relationships. Her work takes her around the world searching for those fabric patterns in extinction and their evolution in time, traditions and cultures from villages, cities or empires.


As guest artist for this exhibition, Madrid based designer Lidia Muro creates a site-specific installation in MONDO GALERIA working with textiles collected by her from around the world.

Casual, or causally both artists have been at different times  in the same places. For very different reasons, but with the same passion for fabrics, thus a very sharp dialogue has been created over the two works.

 

BORDERLAND is a series of portraits that questions the barriers which divide and unite us, all at once. The characters in her portraits, called “-cludes”, are enveloped in layers of fabric from eleven different regions of the world. The fabric as a borderland becomes a territory of exploration where  the mysterious becomes apparent, restraint becomes freedom, and illusion becomes reality.


The sensation gathered from these magical images created by Alia Ali is strange as in The Tempest by Greenaway. On one side they absorb us as a mirror, while on the other they transmute us to political thinking, to this incomprehensiveness where we are submerged, even if just by pluralities weight.

It is not easy to face an image which departing from a flat element and jetted in the form of pigment on to another flat element – specifically cotton paper – can gather such an inward strength to propagate at thinking level both, towards the interior of it as to the entire world surrounded, getting us trapped on a roller coaster of ideas circulating through the most opened channels of universal energy. Far beyond the earthly world, in orbit.


 

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Terry O´Neill

“Legendary

EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BIGGEST STARS FROM THE 60´ TO THE 90´
(curated by Diego Alonso)

from 12ve January to 14th February 2017

Opening 12ve January 2017 - 20hs

 

“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”


Audrey Hepburn

MONDO GALERIA presents for the first time in Madrid this exhibition of photographs by TERRY O'NEILL, curated by Diego Alonso in which we face the most important icons of the twentieth century photographed at different times of their artistic careers . Audrey Hepburn , Sean Connery, David Bowie or Naomi Campbell pose in front of the lens of a photographer who is characterized by the closeness of his images and his invisible presence. The faces of the protagonists of a century has passed in front of his lens. Admirable , adorable , endearing and above all sincere these 18 portraits selected specially for the exhibition will be distributed in between MONDO GALERIA and Hotel Hesperia in Madrid.

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LEGENDARY
Text by Horacio Basilicus

A retrospective selection made by Diego Alonso for MONDO GALERIA shows the extreme variety of the works by a photographer who, from the 60s until today, has photographed the faces of young music talents and major Hollywood stars, models and star-system characters.

Terry O´Neill´s career began  in the 1960s after a sheer stroke of luck. His plan was to travel to the US to become a musician, but he happened to take a picture of the British Foreign Secretary asleep at the airport in London. A newspaper bought the picture and his career took a complete turn over.

His personal style has been defined by two factors: the use of a 35 mm camera, which is much lighter and easier to handle than most modern devices, and the amount of time he would spend with his targets, who he would practically shadow for days. The outcome was a natural, direct and casual style that remained throughout his career.

 

 

Kate Moss

1993. Gelatin Silver Print / 90 x 90 cm. / Signed and Numbered

© Terry O´Neill / Iconic Images / Courtesy MONDO GALERIA
 

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DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

“A night with Marilyn

Exhibition of photographs / 24th November 2016 until 10th January 2017


Opening Thursday 24th November - 20hs.
 

"In my recollection she moved with a floating slow motion, more ethereal than real.
That was the strange thing about Marilyn’s voluptuousness and beauty… it wasn’t really earthly".

Douglas Kirkland

 

 MONDO GALERIA pays a tribute, one more time, to the great "Diva" of the silver screen and pop icon: Marilyn Monroe. For the first time in Spain presents the exhibition "A night with Marilyn" by canadian photographer Douglas Kirkland. Frank Sinatra´s music, champagne, silk bed linen, a man and a woman. The dream of any man of that time materialized on a young photographer shooting his assignment for the 25th anniversary of the mythical Look magazine. The result: un unforgettable series of photographs, a vulnerable, natural and undeniably seductive Marilyn, an unprecedented style which will inspire upcoming sessions with great photographers of the time.
What is it, all this obsession about Marilyn Monroe?


Is it her fragility (though she had the strength to get to where she got)? Is it her sensuality (even if much of her beauty was artificial)? Is it her acting (despite not having been a great actress)?


Over the years (and with the help of artists and strategists), Marilyn Monroe has become an icon; one of the biggest and most important cultural icons in contemporary history. We could consider her a meta-icon, since she is an icon that does not symbolise anything in particular, and at all in general.


A sign of our times. A collective obsession. Marilyn Monroe is not a woman anymore, nor an actress, nor a diva, but she is a symbol of our paradigm, a cult element comparable to an Hindu or Greek goddess, such as Rati or Aphrodite. She is an object of adoration into a culture without gods, or a culture in which gods are ever closer to humanity, and to vulnerability.

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