Alfonso Brezmes

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PRESS RELEASE

ALFONSO BREZMES
"Small Passions"

camara oscura galeria de arte

February 29 - April 12, 2008

Opening: Friday, February 29 at 8.00 pm
Preview (press, collectors and professionals)*: At 7.00 pm

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.

ALFONSO BREZMES - "Small Passions" Press Release as pdf-File 80,8 KB

For further information, please contact Juan Curto on +34 914 291 734, by email at info@camaraoscura.net or by visiting our website at www.camaraoscura.net

Madrid, January 31, 2008.

camara oscura art gallery
T. +34 91 429 17 34
c/ Alameda, 16, 1º B
ES 28014 Madrid

* Please contact us to confirm your attendance for the preview on February 29 at 7.00 pm.