Past - MONDO GALERIA

Sergio de Arrola

Rolling Habits: Africa

Exhibition of photographs and book presentation

MONDO GALERIA presents for the first time in Madrid a solo exhibition by Sergio de Arrola (Madrid, 1979), aka Rolling Habits. This exhibition composed by 33 photographs in big format is the official launch for his second book "Rolling Habits: Africa" (the first one was "Rolling Habits: USA").

Sergio de Arrola travels with his bicycle to the most remote and unexpected places of the planet searching to connect with other beings in a "face to face" encounter. As an alien on a bike, Sergio get closer to the human part of each person, simply for the sake of being.

In times of airports, cars and high speed trains the Odyssey started by Rolling Habits takes much more value and significance. Scumbled through the pages of the book he tells us the stories of different characters who cross his way by chance, free into an uncertain destiny, although promising. He becomes a kind of contemporary Quijote who does not fight against giant fans but instead he tries to get close to them to exchange friendship. His camera (Sancho) and his bicycle are the only things that attaches him to his culture; apart from that he travels released to the rhythm of his pedaling and to the causality of his thought.

Terry O´Neill - Gered Mankowitz

“Breaking Stones“

MONDO GALERIA - San Lucas 9 - 28004 - Madrid

MONDO GALERIA presents for the first time in Spain "Breaking Stones. A band on the brink of Superstardom. 1963-1965" an exhibition by Terry O´Neill and Gered Mankowitz celebrating the international launch of their new book of the same name. This exhibition puts together the best photographs of The Rolling Stones between 1963 and 1965, the most important years for the creation of the bands images, and a very particular time for pop culture. 25 photographs, some famous, some unknown, memes this exhibit un unmatchable opportunity for music and pop lovers. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards youth, even childish, discovering themselves in front of the camera, along with Brian Jones building up his myth of infant terrible. Bill Wyman full of irony and Charly Watts in an accessible mood, soft, without his elegant hermetism that will arrive later. After more than 50 years this photographs are a must to understand the growth of an era, with music, photography and art giving a turn of 360º to everything that has happen until then.

©Terry O´Neill

César Saldívar

Espejismo (Mirage)

Embroidered Analogue photographs and Mexican Meta-images

Exhibition / 17th of March - 9th of April 2016

OPENING THURSDAY 17th of MARCH - 20:00

MONDO GALERIA presents “ESPEJISMO”(Mirage), the new work of Mexican artist César Saldívar. The artist has reviewed all the work that he completed in Mexico since 2000, celebrating the new millennium. Saldívar appropriates his black and white gelatine prints by embroidering over them with coloured silk thread. Inspired by the tradition of Mexico and contemporary artists like Julie Cockburn or Maurizio Anzeri, Saldívar’s work surprises us by the way the artist looks at himself and how his work is re-invented in this creative process. What is interesting, and unprecedented in this case, is that he works on photographs that he takes himself, contrary to the appropriation of an old or found photograph that is the norm of this technique. In this way, his work transcends the purely aesthetic to grow into a much more complex exercise of inner gaze and meta-image. In each photograph we can traverse each stitch of coloured thread that highlights details of a tradition that have already become distant.

Read more …"Espejismo" César Saldívar

Antón Goiri

“Concrete“

Photography Exhibition/ 10th of November - 12th of December 2015

Opening Tuesday 10th of November 2015 – 20:00

“My head is a dark labyrinth, and sometimes lightning strikes and illuminates the paths. I never know why I do things."

Ernesto Sábato "El Túnel"(The Tunnel)

MONDO GALERIA presents Antón Goiri new exhibition in Madrid. The Basque photographer presents his vision shaped by spaces that play with our perception, anchored in the thin line between reality and fiction.

Like an idyllic hero, Antón Goiri flies over the depths. He invites us to join his journey, a journey simply to experiment with light, reflection and shade.

With his camera he faces bleak scenes, dealing with heavy realities, yet somehow manages to fill them with poetry that only his imagination and refined technique can extract.

As an alchemist of the image, the tunnels and underground enclosures that dominate his subject matter become alive beyond their usual sinister appearance. When looking at Goiri’s work, one does not face the haunting tunnels of Ernesto Sábato or intimidating passageways that transport the characters of the move The Matrix. In “Concrete” we see light tunnels, in which architecture and construction disappear to bring us closer to a dream space trapped between the universe of David Lynch and Nicolas Winding Refn. It is no coincidence that Goiri’s images refer to novels, films or dreams, since his imagery is a narrative composed with precision and above all the intention to take us beyond the everyday.

Goiri’s work transports us to his space and puts it in a more metaphysical plane than that of a simple image hunter. It places us in the space of art, where we cannot see the space for anything but simply what it is.

Read more …"Concrete" - Antón Goiri

Martín Sampedro

“LATEИTE“

Exhibit of Photographs / from 14th October until 7th November 2015

Opening wednesday 14th October 2015 - 20hs

"Simulation does not correspond to any territory, to no reference, no substance. Instead it is to generate through models of something real without origing or reality: the hyperreal."

(Jean Baudrillard ""Simulacra and Simulations")

MONDO GALERIA presents "Latente" (Latent) latest exhibit by Martín Sampedro (Santander, 1966) in which the artist investigates, through new technologies, the future of photography.

A conscious tribute to early photography and its Masters. Sampedro elaborates a singular cosmogony looking to reveal (to us) a new world hidden in new methods of creation which is apparently artificial but in reality it is so intrinsic to the way our minds build up images.

Thirty photographs present Martin Sampedro´s own iconography departing from ideas and deja-vus well used to invite us discover a mesmerizing unfolded world where he masters light, form and photography language. If recently was oin vogue to talk about "Expanded painting" or about concepts as "Post Photography", in "Latente" we are in front of a re-definition of photography medium. It is a game, where the artist creates images without a camera (as Man Ray has done at his time with his Rayograms) to create Alter Portraits where the faces of the protagonists merge(as Robert Mapplethorpe has tried to accomplish by superposing negatives) or well merged body volumes (as one can remember on Hans Bellmer´s poupette).

In this exhibit the visitor encounters an aesthetically surprising universe where the artist revises all his previous work to create for us with poetry a Genesis which has never existed.

With his Alter-Retratos, Sampedro, tributes photography as a media and by means of using mythological greek names, apart from relating past and present, he is commenting directly on the actual situation between of closeness and distancing of Greece and Europe.

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