David Delgado Ruiz
[ BIO - STATEMENT - ARTIST CV ]
BIO.
David Delgado Ruiz. Madrid, 1975
There was a time when photography was fully immersed in the paradigm of the decisive moment, that supposed ability to segment time and stabilize the fullness of the pure event. The play of multiple perspectives, so characteristic of historical avant-garde aesthetics, opened up the possibility of incorporating formal, spatial, and iconographic disruption into representation. Collage and photomontage, with their capacity to bring together elements from diverse fields into a single context to create a unit that was no longer purist but essentially precarious, broke old taxonomies in art and opened up avenues of research that remain, to this day, constantly explored.
David Delgado Ruiz has developed a discourse that is organized around some of the conflicting areas of photographic representation. To do this, he creates fissures, introduces interferences, questions the widespread acceptance of the image as a promise of contact with reality, and culminates in a reflection on imagination and its rhetorical possibilities. Specifically, his #UnReality series stems from the juxtaposition of seemingly unconnected images that are nevertheless assembled by a common denominator: time, space, or speed. These three parameters are adopted by the artist to unmask, in his own words, “the relativity of convictions, the absurdity of fanaticism, as is the tedious observation of.” We are not, therefore, faced with a mere game of mixed resources, but with a daring program of unprecedented connections where reality slides across the surface of a fractured mirror.
His compositions seek to dismantle the unfounded models of any visuality that claims to be monolithic and open up to an understanding of a hyperconnected world, but also a decentralized and diffuse one. Thus, elements separated by thousands of kilometers or events that occurred in very different temporal frameworks coexist in the same composition. The device of the image within the image serves to semantically reactivate the content of what we see and open it to plural perspectives. In this sense, David Delgado Ruiz does not construct artifacts that can be resolved in a first glance, since each image contains events whose existence remains in an unstable territory: that of their impossibility in canonical time and space. The artist ultimately achieves the possibility of estrangement amidst so much obviousness and, above all, ensures that the image does not become a platform for answers but a realm for doubt.
Text: Carlos Delgado Mayordomo.
Curator and Art Critic.
Statement.
Since childhood, I remember thinking about the perception of time.
I was always disturbed by the intriguing observation of movement within those stretches of time that can feel eternal or, conversely, pass in a flash.
It was this reflection that led me to photography, as a medium to create, through images, the narrative of a lived moment.
I document contemporary reality, telling stories about how time and space generate a context in the social relationships between human beings and the hostile environment that surrounds them—the city understood as past, present, and future.
The line I work on, which I call "Intervened Reality," is where I develop geometric symmetries between the different spaces I inhabit and investigate from emptiness and stillness, thereby creating a new fictional reality.
Artist CV.
EDUCATION
Advanced Photo Courses at Efti.
MAGNUM LEARNING.
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Gregory Halpern: Documentary Sur/Realism.
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Matt Black: The Documentary Commitment
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Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling.
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The Art of Street Photography with Magnum photographers. Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas, Richard Kalvar, Carolyn Drake, Peter van Agtmael and Mark Power.
Photography Workshop Juan Manuel Castro Prieto.
Workshops by Pablo Almeida, Large Format Painting for the Mérida Theater Festival Sets.
Member of: (PRNewsFoto/Getty Images New York)
EXHIBITIONS / Exhibitions & Contemporary Art Fairs.
2025
[ Life in Mars ]. DDR Art Gallery. Calle de la Encomienda 21, 28012. Madrid (Spain).
12.05.2025 – 20.06.2025
2024
Itaca. Group exhibition at the new DDR Art Gallery exhibition space in Madrid.
2023
estampa Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid. Oct. 2023. DDR Art Gallery.
Art Madrid International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid. 22-26 February 2023. DDR Art Gallery.
2022
estampa Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid. Oct. 2022. DDR Art Gallery.
Art Madrid, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid. Feb. 2022. DDR Art Gallery.
un(fair) Milan. April 2022. DDR Art Gallery.
2021
Just Mad International Art Fair, Madrid. Geomag Cube Art.
Librarte, Castilla y León Artist Book Fair. DDR Art Gallery.
FIG Bilbao, International Contemporary Art Fair. DDR Art Gallery.
2020
Art Madrid. DDR Art Gallery.
Mulafest, Madrid
FIG Bilbao, DDR Art Gallery.
Librarte, Artist Book Fair. DDR Art Gallery.
Alégrame Esas Pascuas, Factoría de Arte y Desarrollo, Madrid.
2019
II BLIPOINT INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST, MULAFEST
FIG Bilbao. Paper Art Fair. November 2019.
IV Huete Photowalk, Exhibition of awarded works. MAC Florencio de la Fuente acquires two works for its photography collection. September 2019.
JustLx, International Contemporary Art Fair. Lisbon, May 2019.
Espacio Utopia. Blipoint Festival. October 25, 26 and 27, 2019. Barcelona.
2018
MARTE, International Contemporary Art Fair. http://feriamarte.com/participantes/
February 2018, Ephemeral Museum, FRANQUEADOS´18, Madrid.
2017
09.06.2017 to 22.07.2017 PhotoEspaña XX Anniversary BAT Alberto Cornejo Gallery UNA + DOS.
June 2017 ABIERTO by Theredoom, C/Doctor Fourquet 3 Madrid.
October 2017 White / OPEN NOT CLOSED, at A B I E R T O by Theredoom, C/Doctor Fourquet 3 Madrid.
October 2017, We Are Fair, Centro Conde Duque, Madrid.
December 2017, Alégrame Esas Pascuas, Factoría de Arte y Desarrollo, Madrid.
July 2017, SANFEST
May 2017 FAC 3 (Home Art Fair), Madrid.
2016
OCT. 27 – OCT. 30 Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam by Alicia Rey Gallery
JUN. 24-26 MULAFEST BURN Art Prize
17 NOV. – 20 NOV. MARTE FAIR; Castellón, DDR Art Gallery.
May. 28 Fair FAC
May. 06 – 08 Art & Breakfast by Veo Arte
FEB. 18-28 2016 FRANQUEADOS 0.16 “Transgressive Intervention” Award
FEB. 25-28 2016 XV DEARTE Fair Palacio de Neptuno, Madrid. Contemporary Art Week.
2015
MONDO GALERíA HOME CASA HOME 2 (DEC. 17 2015 – FEB 15 2016
Feeding Art Gallery Oct. 22 – Nov. 05 2015
Alicia Rey Gallery, Affordable Art Fair Milano’15 19-22 March 2015
MARCH 19 Cervantes6 Art Gallery, Oviedo
FEB. 20 HOSTELART, THE HAT by Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo.
JUN.20 Weird Art Event, By Suburbus13, Madrid
2014
Fundación Telefónica Instagramers Gallery
2013
Parking Gallery, Alicante, *
Truétano Madrid
2011
Galería O+O, Valencia, *
2010
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Galería Juan Martin
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G. Maresa Arévalo
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Henaine Fine Art México
El Espacio Efímero Madrid
2003
Montserrat Gallery New York City, USA.
Topaz Gallery Barcelona
1999
Pro Art Gallery Madrid
1998
65th Autumn Salon, Madrid
PHOTOGRAPHY and ILLUSTRATION in PRESS
Documentary Photographer at Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo. #PAConTour *
Photographer INPUT Magazine
eCommerce & Content Manager Blog DDR Art Gallery
Art Blogger DDR Photo Art Gallery
Bonart * Press Photographer
Blogger El Faro de Vigo El Faro de Vigo (Press) *
Collections.
Carmen and Lluís Bassat Foundation.
Cervantes Institute, Lisbon.
National Photography Center, Spain.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid, Spain.
Telefónica Foundation.
MAC Florencio de la Fuente Photography Museum.
BURN Collection.
Private Collections in Italy, UK, USA, Mexico and Canada, among others.
Awards, scholarships & artistic residencies.
2015 BURN Collection Award, MULAFEST Festival Madrid.
2016. FRANQUEADOS, Award for Best Installation.
2024 Finalist Pilar Citoler Biennial Award, University of Cordoba, Spain.
Works by David Delgado Ruiz can be seen at:
DDR ART GALLERY, Calle de la Encomienda 21, 28012, Madrid.
Phone +34 659819791
