Past - MONDO GALERIA

"IBICENCO^VIII:INFINITY"

Opening 14th July 2023 - 19:30hs

IBIZA

José del Río Mons / Noemi Manser / Carlito Dalceggio / Margherita Chiarva / Sin Sin Man / Zoe Bedeaux T.I.P. / Gerhard Hoenh / Burkhard von Harder / Vikram Kapur / Zaira González Beas /

MONDO GALERIA presents the eight edition of “IBICENCO” from Friday 14th July 2023 in a very special location in Ibiza. AGUAMADERA, its a rural house builded in 1888 and recently converted into an agrotourism with wood fire cooking. Ten international artists and some guest appearances present an interpretation of the idea of “Infinity” through different media (photography, paint, video, performance) curated and ensambled byDiego Alonso and Alexeja Pozzoni (DiegoandAlexeja).

Since its first edition the choral exhibition “Ibicenco” presents through art and objects a vision over a very unique and particular way of being and feeling from the Island of Ibiza.

The exhibition can be visited at AGUAMADERA, Ibiza. By appointment ONLY.

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Probably Ícaro thought he was touching the sky
when he dived into the eponymous sea...”
Me caigo y me levanto (1967), Julio Cortázar

Carlito Dalceggio / "Return to the origin" - Video 4:30 min. Music by Khalab

Sin Sin Man / "Untitled" - Ink on paper 40x57cm

José del Río Mons / "Untitled" - Pigment print on cotton paper

Gerhard Hoehn / "Untitled" - Mix media on aluminum

AGUAMADERA is an Agrotourism that serves as a vessel to connect guests with light-hearted individuals. The experience and care for nature that unites us in genuine discovery and celebration.

www.aguamaderaibiza.com

Margherita Chiarva

“The Space in Between“

Exhibition from 26th until 29th February 2020

Opening 28th February 2020 - 19hs

MONDO GALERIA presents for the first time in Spain "The Space in Between" an individual exhibition by Margherita Chiarva, an artist who closes with her work and career an evolutionary circle opened towards the end of the 19th century by British pioneer Anna Atkins.

The Space in Between 2019

© Margherita Chiarva

The idea in her work stems from the interaction with materials and creative research. It is not a process of imitation but a process of generating a new reality embodied in silver salts. The magic of shades and textures born with the impact of light on the photosensitive material. Sometimes an image looks like one thing, other times, forms appear from the shadows or well interact with remains of reality stolen from a negative discard. But always, the unknown emerges, brings to surface a new invented reality in which who wants to see will find.

The exhibition curated by AD Studio is completed by the soundscape "Call Thou Upon My Name Unto Eternity, And It Shall Never Fail" created by Toni Castells to accompany the imagery created by Margherita Chiarva, and to elevate the space of the gallery into a sacred-spiritual escape for visitors to dive into an immersive experience.

TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE and 1970s ROCK LEGENDS

Gijsbert Hanekroot

From 8th June to 31st August 2019

OPENING Saturday 8th June 19.30 hs

PGA CATALUNYA RESORT - HOTEL EL CAMIRAL

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace.." John Lennon

MONDO GALERIA in collaboration with Amante Collection present at PGA CATALUNYA RESORTS - Hotel Camiral a selection of photographs by Gijsbert Hanekroot as a tribute to David Bowie and other legends of the 1970s like Mick Jagger, John & Yoko, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry or Frank Zappa.

20 original photographs by Gijsbert Hanekroot arrive for the first time to Barcelona to depict a decade of changes and revolution through music. A time when sex, drugs and rock´n´roll were the mainstream while the post-war economic boom was coming to an end. A pivotal change in culture. The “Me” culture, as quoted by Tom Wolfe, was the beginning of a self-centred society, based on the importance of the individual as contrary to the community. It was the birth of the self-created personality, and this collection of photographs portray some of the best influencers of the 70s. in this art.

RUSSKAYA AMERIKA

Andrea Santolaya

from 2nd to 30th JUNIE 2018

OPENING Saturday 2nd June from 12 to 22 hs

"They began a journey that continues through generations. They remain faithful to their tradition" Andrea Santolaya

MONDO GALERIA presents the latest unpublished work by Madrid born photographer Andrea Santolaya. "Russkaya Amerika", a trip to the far extremes of Alaska where she meets the last settlement of the Old Beleivers (sect separated from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1966). Emigrated from Russia finally settled in this corner of the world after fleeing the persecution for years through three continents (Siberia, China, Brazil, Oregon and finally Alaska)

BY THE RIVER OF KINGS

Jacob Aue Sobol

From 17th FEBRUARY to 30th MARCH 2018

OPENING Saturday 17th February 20hs

"The Chao Phraya River is the lifeblood of Thailand. It is born as the Ping and Nan rivers become one. From there its waters flow south to Bangkok. These pictures are a recording of what I saw and the people I met along The River of Kings in Bangkok." J.A.S

MONDO GALERIA presents for the first time in Spain "BY THE RIVER OF KINGS" an exhibition of the Danish photographer member of the MAGNUM PHOTOS agency: Jacob Aue Sobol (Copenhagen, 1976). This work compiled in a book of the same name presents “the” city of Bangkok found by the photographer. Its streets, its people, its lights sifted by the black and white contrast so particular of Sobol´s work. His approach to people is very special, his search for beauty in unique compositions that poke around in between the grotesque and the unbridled at times and between the perverse and the childish others, but always in the search for love.

The author will be present on the opening to sign books and a portfolio review will be organized for photographers who like to Exchange with the photographer.

“By the river of Kings”. 2016. Jacob Aue Sobol.

Bangkok, Nueva York, Singapur, Madrid ...

Black and White photography has challenged the world of truth; it has defined a parallel reality beyond comprehension. We have absorbed information coming from a medium presumed to be close to real life but certainly seriously far from it, much closer to a hallucinatory realm. When have our dreams or imagination been deprived of color? When have our collective unconscious been on black and white?
Photography has been from its beginning, somewhere in the middle of 19th century, a tool to help socioeconomic development to grow on a controlled direction, taking us to what we understand today as “common… ordinary”.
“Ordinary” or “common” did not exist before we could print a presence or personality on film or paper. (not even think of image in motion). Everybody was, as a matter of being, not focused on the looks of others; of “The other”.

Nowadays we concentrate on an individuality pushed and pampered by fashion, image and aesthetics, leaving aside humanity, sensibility and love. There is where evolution from personal disappearance has brought us, pressed by technocracy and scientology (not religiously). Religion is far from it, its abandon, left behind. No rules of control or order, just business. As always has been but in a macro way (wave. Tsunami). An endless desperation for selling what nobody wants. An invented market empty of goods, empty of content.

We travel far, and we do not see the human. We travel far trying to find a difference to pumper us, that makes us feel comfortable on our shit. That creates an “Other” where it’s just light; silver and paper. Humanity is there, on the streets that are different from our streets but deeply inside are the same ones. On rivers that carry an energy that its somewhere in our veins but we don’t want to see it. In an order, that because it seems different to ours, makes us feel it as distant, but it’s really there, just next to our day by day things on the deep core of family life. Can we change that? Can we move from our convention and accept a different stream, a different source, a different river?

That’s the challenge, the purpose, the quest that we face on this work. A vision, of a world that is there, waiting for us to accept it and to acknowledge it as a part of our life.

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