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José Maldonado "Cíclope", Festival Proyector

14º Festival Proyector | https://proyector.info 08.09 > 09.10.2021 | Madrid · Pelayo 68 | Aural | info@auralgaleria.com | www.auralgaleria.com Under the title "Cíclope", Aural presents a selection of video projects of motion_picture made by the artist José Maldonado throughout more than twenty years (1998 / 2021). The various video projects are developed as a reflection process and an analysis of matters that the artist has been considering and working with throughout his life: the issues and the formalization of language, the connection between signs and meaning, epistemological matters and, especially, the relation between the human being and the process and procedures of abstraction and the poetics of images. The different video projects which belong to this selection, experiment, through a diffracted relationship, the intra-relation between text and image and the potential and various configurations resulting from that tautness or internal product; the possible states of the same information particle and the inevitable intertwinement that derive from this circumstance. Some of these projects were made out of focus, approached as syntax experiments that allow the development of works in other materials and formats. They are, therefore, and above all, an intimate and sincere reflection that shows the way of doing by the autor. - - - *Please click on the photo to access to the video and additional information and detailed photos. *More information about the artist is available below.

- OFF_SET (fuera de lugar)

José Maldonado

OFF_SET (fuera de lugar), 2007 / 2008

Digital colour video / Sound BSO José Maldonado.

51m 14s

José Maldonado

Ø, 2016 / 2017

Digital black and white video / Sound

4m 33s

- ECO + NARCISO.“llic, quidquid ero, semper tua dicar imago. Propercio, Elegías, I, XIX*.” *Allí, todo será siempre su imagen.

José Maldonado

ECO + NARCISO.“llic, quidquid ero, semper tua dicar imago. Propercio, Elegías, I, XIX*.” *Allí, todo será siempre su imagen., 2005

Digital colour video / Sound

4m

- FUTURO CIEGO (Cíclope)

José Maldonado

FUTURO CIEGO (Cíclope), 2007 / 2008

Digital black and white video / no sound

57m 45s

- LONE REIDERR*

José Maldonado

LONE REIDERR*, 2001

Digital colour video / (máster mini DV) Sound BSO José Maldonado

13m

- OFF_SET (fuera de lugar)

José Maldonado

OFF_SET (fuera de lugar), 2007 / 2008

Digital colour video / Sound BSO José Maldonado.

51m 14s

- FUTURO CIEGO (Cíclope)

José Maldonado

FUTURO CIEGO (Cíclope), 2007 / 2008

Digital black and white video / no sound

57m 45s

José Maldonado

Ø, 2016 / 2017

Digital black and white video / Sound

4m 33s

- LONE REIDERR*

José Maldonado

LONE REIDERR*, 2001

Digital colour video / (máster mini DV) Sound BSO José Maldonado

13m

- ECO + NARCISO.“llic, quidquid ero, semper tua dicar imago. Propercio, Elegías, I, XIX*.” *Allí, todo será siempre su imagen.

José Maldonado

ECO + NARCISO.“llic, quidquid ero, semper tua dicar imago. Propercio, Elegías, I, XIX*.” *Allí, todo será siempre su imagen., 2005

Digital colour video / Sound

4m

Aural Galería | Alicante · Labradores 17, +34 617050603 | Madrid · Pelayo 68, +34 912595508 | info.auralgaleria.com | www.auralgaleria.com - "OFF_SET (fuera de lugar)" | https://vimeo.com/560529623 An obscure workshop and a long, slow walk through the history of recent art. Unexpected encounters with objects that supplant, or not, their referents; unattributed signifiers of their potential meaning, thus entering a phantasmatic dimension where states tend to confuse themselves in a communicative and informative paradox. The possible dimensions intertwine with the real dimensions in an amalgam of signs and meanings. - "FUTURO CIEGO (Cíclope)" | https://vimeo.com/559722444 To read the future in a crystal ball ... clean the ball ... without blemish. To find the right light, the ideal point of view ... a certain perfection. Pastime that cleans the unique pupil that watches everything; a probable and imagined future through the spherical lens. - "Ø" | https://vimeo.com/561307355 Ø is redundant ... write it like this ... think it like that ... living it. The project {Ø} that could be called the empty set of the empty set is, in a certain way, an uninhibited exploration of the human being's capacities for abstraction, but also of the possibility of making real what immaterially allows us to build, inhabit, think, err… A Super 8 projection of a film, its celluloid, perforated. The light from the projector passes through the hole in the transparent celluloid (the image was erased). The hole is therefore white - almost - and a light hole traps dust, doubly penetrated by light and by the invisible or absent. The celluloid breaks down and the celluloid splices together full of dust: making film of the rest. Yet another film: that of space-time and the light that informs us. - "LONE REIDERR*" | https://vimeo.com/17566757 *reader / rider / raider A spectator walks the road into the deep of the night ... but he meets a strange reader under the lights of a roundabout ... the reader is looking at the pages of a catalog of Courbet ... our spectator goes round and round ... becoming a rider hunted in the roundabout; caught by Courbet, the raider, and his decoy. No way out. - “ECO + NARCISO. llic, quidquid ero, semper tua dicar imago. Propercio, Elegías, I, XIX*. *Allí, todo será siempre su imagen.” | https://vimeo.com/562103057 Photograph (post) 3 is the scanned image of the entire videotape [48 '']. It contains the text (post) (3) generated by digital editing software (non-linear). It is therefore an attempt at "cinema" (post). The work has multiple and cross references. These are some of them: > The relationship between NARCISO and ECO (recreated by Ovido in his / s "META" _morphosis) > Audio and video as parts (or not) of a multimedia whole (post) > Friendship and love as an almost pitiful acceptance of appearances (I quote Beckett quoting Proust) > The work of Marcel Broodthaers "Second of eternity" cited by José Luis Brea in his text "Contemporary transformations of the image-movement: postphotography, postcinema, postmedia" available at: http://mpison.webs.upv.es/2222/textos/brea.htm This text, among other readings, inspired part of the conceptualization of this work. This work is dedicated to JLB (10 years + late) The photograph (post) 4, that is to say the one that you are seeing or "reading" right now, contains the comment that you are, I insist, seeing or reading (post). - - - José Maldonado Gómez (España, Madrid,1962) In 1982, Maldonado began his activity as a self-taught artist taking part in the creative national and international movements and collaborating as an illustrator and artist in publications from the time: La luna de Madrid, Madrid me mata, Madriz (magacine) … Since then, his work has been shown in art galleries from around the globe: Juana Mordo, Toni Estrany, Froment & Putman, Denise Van de Velde, Helga de Alvear, Aural, T20. Maldonado’s works have been featured in Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Instituto Valenciano de Arte Contemporáneo (IVAM), Prospect de Frankfurt, CAPC of Bordeaux, La Caixa or the Musée d’art contemporain in Lyon, among others. As well, Maldonado's work is in numerous public and private collections across the globe, including Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Caixa de Pensiones, Museo Patio Herreriano, Marugame Hirai de Tokio…. The artist received his Bachelor in Fine Arts from Universidad de Salamanca and his Doctorate from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Currently, he is a Professor of Fine Arts at Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Faculty of Fine Arts in Altea, where he teaches Intermedia and Transmedia. His ongoing project largely revisits the productive corpus made during the nineties, on the basis of a fact that works as a threshold: the impossibility to generate a full and satisfactory “sensation” of the communicational link that shows the reality of the subject, its intentions and its vital needs of communication. The dimensions of the language and the alterations of transcodification, as well as the analysis of allegorical structures can be found in the center of attention of his work.