Maddox Arts

Maddox Arts is a gallery of contemporary art founded in 2007. It is based behind Claridge's hotel in the West End of London, at 52 Brook's Mews. The gallery fosters some of the best new and emerging artists both in the UK and internationally. It also promotes Latin-American art including Argentinean collective, Mondongo and Venezuelan artist, Magdalena Fernandez.

History

Maddox Arts first opened in October 2007, with the group show 'Irrational Exuberance'. The original owners were David Gonzalez and Juan Manuel Gonzalez Mantero, two financiers who originally found a space on Maddox Street, but later moved the gallery to a busier location on Brook's Mews. In 2008 the Gallery was sold to Mario Palencia who took control of Maddox Arts. The gallery maintained its location, name and identity which had already been established with some ambitious and varied shows from international artists. Maddox Arts not only exhibits International Contemporary Art, but also art from South and Central America. Thanks to Palencia's own background from Venezuela, the gallery has begun to show more artists from South America, an under-exhibited phenomenon in the UK, and for which the gallery has won some important admirers from the Tate and elsewhere.

Maddox Arts Gallery has made its reputation throughout the contemporary art scene by putting on outstanding exhibitions curated by worldwide recognized curators such as James Putnam. These include 'Viva Lolita' in 2008; a show inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's iconic novel, Lolita, which brought together eighteen international contemporary artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Trevor Brown, Nick Ruston, Charlotte Beaudry, Nazif Topcuoglu and Young British Artist, Mat Collishaw.

This year Maddox Arts was proud to announce its participation at PINTA London 2010, the fair of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art. Located in Earls Court Exhibition Center, the fair took place from June 3 to June 6 and presented over 60 galleries from around the world. The gallery was delighted to feature the work of Vicente Grondona, Mondongo, Mercedes Baliarda and Venezuelan Cipriano Matínez. Maddox Arts also commissioned Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz to produce a video installation, The Origin of Illusion, for PINTA's selected projects space curated by Pablo León de la Barra.

Maddox Arts Gallery has worked with a variety of international contemporary and modern artists including Artists Anonymous, Jens Lucking, Stu Mead, Temsuyanger Longkumer and it currently represents Caroline Rothwell, Emi Miyashita, Vicente Grondona and Mondongo as well as Magdalena Fernandez, among many others.

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