13/1/2015
Javier Porto
Mondo Galeria, Madrid
The exhibition presents Some 25 snapshots in which we can find the similarities, distances and connections between two cities that have always desired and repudiated each other: New York and Madrid.
MONDO GALERIA presents a solo exhibition of the enigmatic photographer Javier Porto, who was a point of connection between the mythical city of New York and Madrid in those days when Andy Warhol and Pedro Almodóvar were protagonists of a well agitated night (and day) life. “La Movida” has exist as an artistic movement? Was there "Pop" as an active group? Or it is History what compels us to classify some trends of each era into a bag of soft candies?
Grace Jones, Alaska, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlos Berlanga. The photographs by Javier Porto (Madrid, 1960) are, today, an historical document of a period in which what seemed most important was to destroy History. Some 25 snapshots in which we can find the similarities, distances and connections between two cities that have always desired and repudiated each other, seduced and envied one another, almost like a misunderstood love story.
To get rid of the past by creating a new present was the way that slowly but at variegated steps Postmodernity was built.
The early 80' are seem so far away today, and however, may be the beginning, the root of our current state of calm in which the spectacle seems to be the normality, sat every morning to our table.
Image: invitation card
Opening: Wednesday 14 January 2015
Mondo Galeria
Calle San Lucas 9
Madrid