Born in Madrid in 1958, Chema Madoz began self-taught photography and printing in the early 1980s, in the creative effervescence of Movida. He began exhibiting his work in 1983 while working as a bank clerk. In the early 1990s, he decided to stop photographing people and landscapes to focus exclusively on objects. The photographer picks them up in flea markets, shops or even garbage bins, randomly from his street errands. He says, “With photography, I discovered the possibility of…

Born in 1958 in Madrid, Chema Madoz has been spending the last thirty years creating a body of work that manages to escape the trends of artistic photography while constantly honoring it with the most beautiful tributes. In the influence of Surrealism, the photographer becomes a sculptor, on a line stretched between the real and the imaginary. By transforming objects, often utilitarian, playing with collage, juxtaposition, reflections, he then brings chaos in everyday life and see…

Esther Woerdehoff Gallery is pleased to present a selection of recent works by the Spanish photographer Chema Madoz. A bottle of night black ink, a tie acting as barrier or a swinging butterfly, these photographs describe a poetic inventory of reality, transformed by an illusionist photographer. Chema Madoz selects the size and edition he gives to each of these precious silver prints and the gallery presents for the first time his stunning large prints, where a giant butterfly becomes a bird …

Chema Madoz | Obras MaestrasVernissage: Wednesday, March 2nd, 6 pm - 9 pmExhibition: March 2nd - April 3rd, 2011Esther Woerdehoff gallery is pleased to present Spanish photographer Chema Madoz's recent work. The exhibition comes with the publication of his last monograph Obras Maestras by the edition “La Fabrica”. Like a poet assembles words, Chema Madoz realizes his photographs based on a vocabulary of objects that he combine…

La Galerie Esther Woerdehoff propose, du 30 janvier au 10 mars 2007, l'exposition collective Bestiarium. Elle met en premier plan la créativité et les rêveries des photographes contemporains sur le monde animal. C'est un panorama insolite et surprenant. Protagonistes sont, bien sûr, les animaux: pris dans leur environnement naturel, vus comme des jouets ou comme partie essentielle dans les cérémonies humaines. À l'interprétation donnée par les photographes représentés par la galerie…

27 octobre au 28 janvier Chema Madoz