Chema Madoz

Chema Madoz: Obras Maestras (Masterpieces) is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"Chema Madoz Born in Spain in 1958, is one of contemporary photography's most personal and innovative artists. His work, influenced by surrealism and visual poetry, composes a complex magic universe where objects are never what they seem, or seem to be what they aren't. Madoz brilliantly plays with the perception of those who view his images and explores beyond reality.

In just one year (2000), his profound, intuitive work received Spain's National Photography Award, the PHotoEspaña Prize and the Higashikawa Prize. The artist, who has always lived in Madrid, has held numerous exhibitions since the mid-nineteen eighties. Outstanding among them are Objetos 1990-1999, the first retrospective that the Reina Sofía Museum dedicated to a live Spanish photographer; Chema Madoz 2000-2005, organised by the Ministry of Culture; and Poética, a travelling show that has received the praise of critics and public alike in countries such as Japan, China and Brazil.

Obras Maestras (Masterpieces) This book, which initiates La Fárica's Obras Maestras Collection, tells the story of Chema Madoz through the reproduction of more than 300 photographs within its 450 pages.

Page by page, three decades of creation are covered and the artist's inner world is revealed. His life and works are discovered thanks to essays by Duane Michals, Oliva María Rubio, Estrella de Diego and Christian Caujolle as well as an extensive and detailed illustrated timeline." -- dust jacket