Comments on: La idea inicia su proceso de superación del objeto y establece una descontextualización Dadá.

La idea inicia su proceso de superación del objeto y establece una descontextualización Dadá.

amberglow — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:21:32 -0800

-- photos

By: Viomeda

Viomeda — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:49:25 -0800

neat, I like the one of the bread on the table/in the table that looks like a peanutbutter cookie from a distance. Thanks amberglow

By: blastrid

blastrid — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:49:54 -0800

i've always found Dada to be a little meaningless...

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:00:15 -0800

i've always found Dada to be a little meaningless... : > it really is Dada meets surrealism meets a sort of kitsch, i think.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:01:04 -0800

I'm not sure I'd catagorize thes photos as Dada; there's a little too much context within the compositions. Dada (as I understand it) was largely about freeing art from context. Nice photos, though.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:01:39 -0800

Ha! Took me awhile. Very creative.

By: Viomeda

Viomeda — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:10:03 -0800

Well, if you live in America you gotta love kitsch, it's the backbone of the nation.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:13:53 -0800

These are all very creative compositions. I'm getting more and more impressed as I go through them all...

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:15:32 -0800

neat photos!

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:17:35 -0800

This is good.

By: ancientgower

ancientgower — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:23:30 -0800

So far, there are more than three that I want to hang on my wall.

By: ancientgower

ancientgower — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:26:57 -0800

How much do you think is Photoshopped? Or are all of them? They're still beautiful: I'm not one of those who dismiss the new technologies as "cheating." I'm just curious.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:28:11 -0800

How much do you think is Photoshopped? Or are all of them? They're still beautiful: I'm not one of those who dismiss the new technologies as "cheating." I'm just curious. I think the Xray one might be, unless they did it in a darkroom. Other than that, nah, I'd say these are all legit.

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:15:57 -0800

nice

By: taosbat

taosbat — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:31:18 -0800

burnt matches

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:03:35 -0800

These are lovely!

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:07:28 -0800

Thanks amberglow. Imaginative entertainment on a slow afternoon. Multi-tool blades in a sardine can, bobby pin rain falling on a hair ocean, fingerholes in a pipe, a burnt match thermometer - how differently an artist sees.

By: Area Control

Area Control — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:23:56 -0800

I now realized that I've been irresponsibly leaving my piano unclamped.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:24:50 -0800

Oh man, this gives me a wonderful idea for a library prank. Now I just need to figure out how to smuggle in a collapsible arch form.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:40:14 -0800

i should give a via credit to Trio (they have a cool email thing where you get sent a thing to do, a thing to see, and a thing to buy each time)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:57:58 -0800

These are some of the cleverest (and I mean that in only a positive way) pieces of visual art I've seen in a long time. I really like this artist's sense of humor, his sense of style and extreme simplicity. These are wonderfully executed statements. They're like visual Zen koans. I'm a big Chema Madoz fan now. Thanks, amberglow!

By: rob511

rob511 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:33:05 -0800

pretty | witty | gritty | committee | pity

By: TheGoldenOne

TheGoldenOne — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:31:52 -0800

And once again, I fail to understand art.

By: pointilist

pointilist — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:50:10 -0800

thanks for this.

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:58:28 -0800

The only savings bank that pays interest in eternity. Blago umf!

By: JujuB

JujuB — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:26:05 -0800

I love the hangman's noose made of pearls.

By: illovich

illovich — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:54:13 -0800

Nice photos - I generally don't care for overt surrealism, but these I like. I found the google translation of his author statement to be funny (it was all I had, my spanish is pretty rusty):

Everything is not what seems, and Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) is in charge to put it in evidence. Hidden between the routine character new worlds arise. New dimensions that of the hand of the metaphor alter the perception of the immediate reality. The absurd one, the paradox, humor - by what gregería- does not meet to it in the study of the photographer. The idea initiates its process of overcoming of the object and establishes a descontextualización Dadá. The irony with which Madoz assaults reconocibles models establishes a relation with the spectator who leads to him by the ways of a universal parallel. … the photographies are not single the reflection of which it was there (a luck of portable memory), - Fernando comments to us I also castrate have to do with the conscience of the disappearance… … in his photographic metaforizaciones he frames things of a singular symmetry or causes that we pay attention to simple displacements, in points of view that modify the real thing… Cristian Caujolle emphasizes that in the work of Madoz it is articulated by deceptive objects that behind their habitual appearance, the one that we recognize (on, a glove, a match, a cane, a balance, a pencil, etc.), because are to us familiar, hide a surprise that produces a new sensation that it prevents to consider the photographies like dead natures.

Photographic metaforizaciones indeed.

By: johngumbo

johngumbo — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:06:00 -0800

Reminds me of Michiko Kon. Those images are a bit hard to see, but they are made almost entirely of fish.

By: humblepigeon

humblepigeon — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:40:10 -0800

It's like he dropped the art, and it broke, so he tried to replace it with intellectualism. In other words, it didn't do much for me. Nice quality photography, though.

By: magullo

magullo — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:13:20 -0800

FYI: I am pretty sure Chema shot these on 6x6 film using a Hasselblad (and mostly natural light) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chema_Madoz