Small Passions. The artist places his work very near to fictional territories and to implicit game, drawing a visual poetry which speaks to us through subtle images thread together as a necklace in hands of a goldsmith.
Next February 29, a solo exhibition of the Spanish photographer Alfonso
Brezmes’s series “Small Passions“ opens at the camara oscura art gallery.
Alfonso Brezmes (Madrid, 1966) places his work very near to fictional
territories (The Secret Life of Things, 2001; Urban Fragments, 2006) and to implicit
game (Intersecting Words, PHE 05; falsOriginal, 2006), drawing a visual poetry which
speaks to us through subtle images thread together as a necklace in hands of a
goldsmith. This way, across a simple process of manual assembly, he manages to
construct these delicate castles near to fall that appeal to drowsy parts of our
conscience.
In this “Small Passions” now shown, starting from scale models after
photographed, as if we were transported into a collector´s cabinet, Alfonso takes a step
further in his constant adventure of exploration to enter the jungle of daily pleasures,
seen across an entomologist’s magnifying glass who ends up becoming fond of the
creatures of his analysis. Thus, at the level of our look, he unfolds a tiny universe of
opposing desires, of never ending stories in which the measure of things crashes with
the size of the passions that dwell in us. The originality of this oneiric world lays not just
in the surprising formal findings, but mainly in the paradox they always raise, facing us
to our surrounding reality, forcing us to look at it with other eyes, maybe more awaken.
Opening: Friday, February 29 at 8.00 pm
Preview (press, collectors and professionals)*: At 7.00 pm
camara oscura galeria de arte
c/ Alameda, 16 - Madrid