pleasing vertigo by jose Conceptes
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“A very complex composition, where nothing is random.” My work is open to divergent interpretations, whichever drives you to sharp your mind and think about every single photography. Each one of them is a very complex composition, where nothing is random, apart from whose perception is been whatched. I try to give a very special attraction to all my photography. And I would like to transmit a sensation of eternity through the simplicity, calmness and neatness of the urban buildings. These snapshots show us much further from the specific representation allowing so to create my own architecture. A sort of timeless architecture, where the images disassociate from the place, from its real space. I capture my own perspective of the empty spaces simply though my photographic camera. Therefore, along my work you can visualize how the past fuse together with present and future, far from any chronology. José Conceptes
Foreword Just like the fingertips of the musician Carles Santos to his piano, Jose Conceptes, with his eye and his camera discovers why their city is referred as « Vinaròs Trosset De Cel »: A piece of heaven under the warm light which bathes the Mediterranean Sea. After several years of experimentation, through this series of photographs, the author rejects all the canons to create new architectures, incorporating doses of ambiguity through clean, wire-looking and useful lines which bring to life these inert bodies which now speak to us through the aerial, the stable and the physical. It is like a labyrinth through which runs an intricate and non-figurative world of lines, cubes and circles that come together into pneumatic spaces where one could not easily discern the beginning and the end. Jose Conceptes is interested in what can be seen but also what cannot, in what the eye does not pay due attention to. He gives importance to what often goes unnoticed. New shapes in banal aspects. A game with volumes, shadows and textures seen as the footprint of a landscape created by men. His snapshots are far from concrete representations, which allows him to create and capture his own architecture through his lens, regardless of the real space pictured. The series of lines, the emerging spaces, the heterogeneous lining of non-figurative aesthetics where no natural element can be discerned. With all of those, he strives to uncover deep mysteries with an architecture that is both spatial and sensorial. Architectural shapes in space where time stops to reveal timeless structures yet full life and movements. Because this is what photography is: capturing time, movement and its arrest in a given moment for an eternity. Jose plays with space and architecture until he achieves silent and timeless structures, reduced to their most basic and elemental forms, capable of creating new metaphorical and artistic meanings.
Delta, Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Dream Trips 2013
Little Houses Colour Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, , 2017
House Contained Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, , 2014
The Steamboat Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2015
Concreate Scrapseries Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton Urban Geometri , 2013
Industrial Overlap Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2015
Selfie Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seems, 2017
Sinuous curve, Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2017
Take Off Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seems, 2015
Overland Transatlantic Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri
The Polygon Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2013
Oscillation of Triangles Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2017
Triangleand Texture Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2009
Zebra I Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seems, 2013
Zebra II, Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seem, 2013
No Traduction I Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seems, 2015
No traduction II Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seems,2015
Projections Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2014
The Pergola of Vinaròs Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seems,
2014
Cross Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2014
Square Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2016
Zig Zag Bar Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2016
The Comet Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2014
Between the living and the inert 01 Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Entre lo vivo y lo inerte, 2015
Between the living and the inert 02 Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Entre lo vivo y lo inerte, 2015
Between the living and the inert 03 Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Entre lo vivo y lo inerte, 2015
Skier Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton 2015
Chalk Stroke Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton 2013
Zebra IV Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seems, 2013
Tripod Zebra Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Nothing is what it seems, 2013
Blade Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Rayadarus, 2012
Somthing Hypnotic Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2016
Ocillation of Triangles Printed on paper Museum Rag Baryta 100 % cotton series: Urban Geometri, 2017
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ose Conceptes is a multiple awardwinning Spain-based conceptual photographer and creative graphic designer, Born in Valencia, Spain in 1978, Jose is interested in what can be seen and can’t be seen by the human eye. Each of his photograph allows the viewer to extend imagination and form a personal reflection of the work. Architecture and urban landscapes dominate his works. He plays with the strength of angles, lights and shadows (in black & white) to give his photographs a special attraction where simplicity, cleanliness and stillness convey the character of eternity inherent in urban structures.
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His snapshots are far from concrete representations, which allows him to create and capture his own architecture through the lens, regardless of the real space captured, thus creating images detached from the space and the make up his own visual architecture as timeless spaces.
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JOSE LUIS GARCIA ALONSO Vinaròs, Valencia, (Spain) 1978 EDUCATION • Joso Visual Arts, Barcelona 1997-2001 • Conceptual photographer, creative graphic.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
GALLERIE KOO, “Timeless Cognition” LE FRENCH MAI. Hong Kong. 2020 OMAE, Alternative art market. Seoul, Korea May 2019. POCKET FINE ARTS. Individual Exhibition From April 13 to May 11, 2019 Taichung, Taiwan AFFORDABLE ART FAIR HONG KONG. Galerie Koo. Hong Kong. 2020 37th KOREA GALLERIES ART FAIR 2019. GALLERY NOW, Seoul, Korea. AFFORDABLE ART FAIR SINGAPORE. November 16-18 2019. Pocket Fine Arts, Taiwan. GALLERY NOW. Individual exhibition with Myung Yishik. 2018, Seoul, Korea. INNERVISIONS. Collective exhibition. May 18-20, 2018. Espace das Arts Sans Frontières. Paris. 36th KOREA GALLERIES ART FAIR 2018. GALLERY NOW, Seoul, Korea. FNAC SPAIN. Individual traveling exhibition in Madrid, Barcelona and Zaragoza. Collective exhibition of the finalists of the “CARPETES OBERTES” Contest Thursday April 27 to May 19 at the EASD in Valencia. Individual exhibition “Els Conceptes” Place: PUNT MULTIMEDIA, Barcelona. Own stand at MARINA D’OR Art Week. Individual exhibition in Cáceres EXTREFOTO. Individual exhibition at the ARTEFÍMERE gallery in Córdoba Individual exhibition at the Castillo del PAPA LUNA in Peñiscola.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS • InnerVisions. May 18-20, 2018 Espace das Arts Sans Frontières. París. • Gran Teatro | Manzanares - Castilla-La-Mancha • MEZQUITA, Curator Chema Madoz. Sala Galatea. Córdoba.
BIBLIOGRAPHY • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
RTHK (Radio Television of Hong Kong.) La2 - RTVE (Radio televisión española ) La aventura del saber “Boek Visual” PhotoEspaña “Balcones” COVID ‘19. Diario EL PAÍS. EL PAÍS Semanal.. Interview. Cadena SER Radio Maestrat, “Hoy por hoy” dZoom: Un paseo por la fotografía urbana. La ciudad a tus pies” LMF Magazine NEWS magazine Córdoba Book ONEEYELAND, the best in the best photographs. Vol. 4. DOCA furniture design LensCulture Handtrade Corp. MONTHLY PHOTO magazine, Korea. PhotoDot Magazine Korea
AWARDS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
1st prize JOSE ANTONIO SEQUÍ, Tarancón (Madrid) 1st prize “ADOR FOTOGRÁFIC”. Ador, Gandía, (Valencia ) 2st prize Concurso Nacional de fotografía “SARTHOU CARRERES” Vila-real. 1st “Photo Capture” Award SEGOVIAFOTO 2017 1st prize for the best collection in MANISSES, VALENCIA PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNIAL 1st Prize of the national photography contest CREATIVE 2015 - Barcelona. 1st prize for the best photography in the NATIONAL COMPETITION of MANZANARES. 1st prize best photography in the XXVI PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION , CANARIAN ISLANDS 1st prize for the best collection in the ANDORRA INTERNATIONAL VILLA CONTEST 1st prize XXI NATIONAL COMPETITION OF PHOTOGRAPHY CITY OF FRAGA 1st prize the best series of photographs the international contest “EDUCANT LA MIRADA” Barcelona. 1st prize for the best photography of creative photography. ADOR FOTOGRÀFIC. Medal of the CEF, (Spanish photographic confederation). FIAP Honorable Mention Award in the Light section and six finalist photographs in the XLII INTERNATIONAL GUIPUZKUA TROPHY Finalist among more than 750 collections in the national photography contest “Mezquita Prize 2014” Curator: Chema Madoz. Featured artist in the prestigious digital magazine LensCulture.
Acknowledgment The artist wishes to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals in the realization of this project: Director & Curator : Patrice Vallette Editing Coordination : Choa Pui Teng Designer & Project Coordinator : Arif Hassan
Publisher Vallette Gallery 8, Lorong Kemaris 5, Bukit Bandaraya, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 019 301 2569 info@vallettegallery.com www.vallettegallery.com This catalog is published in conjuction with the “Pleasing Vertigo” Virtual Exhibition at the Vallette Gallery official website, from MARCH 16th until APRIL 16th 2021 Copyright © Vallette Gallery 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher.