Artist Statement
Propositions
Propositions assemble the projects dealing with contemporary art issues through photography and video. Contemporary art, as most intellectual endeavors today, has its own narratives, languages and contradictions that often feel highly specialized and removed. These projects search for visual structures that raise questions and pull them back to the social and political.
Elegies of Manumission
Elegies of Manumission collects projects that, through portraiture, deal with social and political issues. Since the advent of modernity, the legitimacy of portraiture has been questioned and in extreme conflict. With these controversies in mind, the work would be better defined as anti-portraiture as it is not individuality but the embodiment of ideas what is being represented.
Max was born in Barcelona, Spain. He lived and worked in Palo Alto, New York, Madrid and London. In 2009 opened his first stable studio in Barcelona and since then focuses exclusively on personal project-based work.
Solo Exhibitions
Propositions, Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, Germany, 2013
Elegies. FotoQuartier Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2013
Proposition One. Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012
Elegies. Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia 2012
Proposition One. Klompching Gallery, New York, USA 2011
Proposition One. Spicer House, Barcelona, Spain 2011
Vertige. Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland 2010
Don’t listen to me. Spicer House, Barcelona, Spain 2010
Selected Group Exhibitions
AIPAD, Klompching Gallery, New York 2013
Welde Kunstpreis, Alte Feuerwache, Heidelberg, Germany 2013
Premios Lux, 20 años, Palau Robert, Barcelona 2013
Rencontres Internationales, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2012
Photo Forum. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA, 2012
The Gathering. Rhubarb. Diemar/Noble Photography, London, 2012
Winter Salon, Klompching Gallery, New York, USA 2012
Photographers Network, Siegen, Germany, 2011
Fotoventas. Madrid; Spain 2011
Fnac. Madrid and Barcelona, Spain 2011
Escuela Arte, Granada, Spain 2011
FotoTageTrier Triennial, Trier, Germany 2010
Awards and Honors
Welde Kunstpreis 2013, Nominated, 2013, Germany
Rencontres Internationales 2012, Paris/Berlin/Madrid
Encontros da Imagem, Best Portfolio, Finalist, 2011, Portugal
National Award of Professional Photography, Gold LUX, 2010, Spain
Grand Prix Jury's Special Award, Fotofestiwal 2010, Poland
Books
Proposition Three, Spicer House Editions, Spain, March 2013
Proposition One, Spicer House Editions, Spain, February 2013
Elegies of Manumission, Nazraeli Press, USA, March 2012
Selected TV, Magazine, Journal and Online Features
Monthly Photography, Proposition One, interview by J. Junga Yang, Feb. 2013, Korea
Photographie Magazine, Proposition One, feature by Ute Noll, Sept 2012, Germany
TA3, Elegies of Manumission, TV Feature, July 2012, Slovakia
Pravda Kultura, Elegies of Manumission, by Jena Opoldusová, July 2012, Slovakia
The Photo/ARTVAS, Vertige, feature by Joanne Junga Yang, June 2012, Korea
Lens Culture, Elegies of Manumission, review by Jim Casper, May 2012, France
Photo Eye, Elegies of Manumission, Book of the Week, April 2012, USA
Wired, March 2012, Taiwan
Icon Benetton, February 2012, Italy
Lomography Magazine, by Jean Mendoza, December 2011, USA
DW-TV Deutsche Welle, TV feature, November 2011, Germany
Feature Shoot, feature by Alison Zavos, November 2011, USA
PDN – Photo District News, November 2011, USA
NYC Art Scene, November 2011, USA
NY Art Beat, October 2011, USA
Spain Culture New York, October 2011, USA
Wired, August 2011, Italy, USA and Japan
Lens Culture, Proposition One feature, July 2011, USA
Profifoto Magazine, front cover, June 2011,Germany
Conscientious, by J. Colberg, European Photographers, March 2011, USA
Hotshoe Magazine, interview by Bill Kouwenhoven, February 2011, UK
La Fotografia, June 2010, Spain
Education
Graduate from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)
Master from Stanford University (USA)
PhD from Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain)
Fulbright Alumni
Representation
Klompching Gallery (New York)
Charles Guice Contemporary (San Francisco)
Spicer House (Barcelona)
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