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Paloma Navares (born 1947) is an interdisciplinary Spanish artist who combines sculpture, photography, video and audio in her installations. [1] Recurring themes in her work are the feminine condition, the historical representation of women through art, the critical analysis of the canon, madness, beauty and aging. [2] [3]
Navares was born in Burgos, Spain. [1] She lives and works in Madrid and Alicante in Spain.[ citation needed ]
In 1985-1986 she created Seravan; A Song for a Fallen Tree and Origin and Moonlit Nights which were mainly exhibited in art centers and museums in Europe. In 1997-98 she did the scenery design for The House of Forgetfulness and Bodies of Shadow and Light with the company Lanonima Imperial. In 2004 she did a scenery design project for the opera Juana by Enric Palomar, first performed in 2005 at the Opera House in Halle. Since she began her art career in 1979 she has exhibited in more than one hundred venues around the world and her work has been seen in fairs and art biennials.
In 2018 Paloma Navares was awarded the MAV Price (Women in the Visual Arts) recognizing her contributions in a long career. [4]
In 2024, the ENAIRE Foundation awarded her with the Trayectoria Prize, “for a life dedicated to artistic creation, exploring the limits of a theme that, in a perceptive way at the beginning and decisively later, becomes a mantra without seeking it: the feminine universe.” The ENAIRE Foundation also organized a solo retrospective exhibition of her work at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. [5]
Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of a royal hunting lodge, the Palace of Zarzuela, near Madrid, where that type of entertainment was allegedly first presented to the court. The palace in turn was named after the brambles that grew there.
Jose Maria Rodriguez Madoz better known as Chema Madoz, is a Spanish photographer, best known for his black and white surrealist and poetic photographs.
Juan Pablo Ballester is a Cuban-born artist who works mainly with photography and video art, although he has also worked with installations and performance art. He has also developed activities as a curator, assistant curator and cultural manager.
Rafael Navarro Garralaga is a Spanish art photographer.
Juan Vicente Aliaga is a Spanish art critic who has written widely on contemporary conceptual art as well as on gender and queer theory. In his pioneer 1997 book Identidad y diferencia: sobre la cultura gay en España, co-authored with José Miguel G. Cortés, he expressed criticism of the assimilationist strategies of mainstream LGBT+ associations in Spain, advocating instead for a politics of difference and the reappropriation of slurs like "marica" and "maricón", similarly to what happened with "queer" in English-speaking countries.
Óscar Esquivias is a Spanish short-story writer, poet and novelist.
Sara Facio was an Argentine photojournalist and publisher. She was best known for having photographed, along with Alicia D'Amico, various cultural personalities, including Argentine writers Julio Cortázar, María Elena Walsh and Alejandra Pizarnik. She co-founded the publishing house "La Azotea" alongside María Cristina Orive in 1973.
Aura Garrido Sánchez is a Spanish film and television actress. She has appeared in such films as Stockholm and the television series El ministerio del tiempo.
Jean Laurent or, in Spanish, Juan Laurent Minier; sometimes simply J. Laurent was a French photographer who mostly worked in Spain.
Marisa González is a Spanish multimedia artist. She is considered a pioneer in Spain for the use of the new technologies in contemporary art. She works in distinct disciplines like photography, installations, video-art or net-art. She has been Vice President of the association Mujeres en las Artes Visuales MAV, from 2010 until 2016.
Rocio de la Villa is a Spanish university professor, art historian, curator, researcher and art critic. She has edited and collaborated in the edition of distinct catalogues and publications related with the art and the position of the woman in the artistic world. In 2014 she was rewarded with the Prize MAV in the modality of Criticism of art. She also goes by the names Rocio de la Villa Ardura and Rocio Villa-Ardura.
Marian Lopez Fernandez-Cao is a Spanish university professor, curator and researcher, specializing in art, feminism, art therapy and social inclusion. Since 1992 she has been a professor in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and is expert on the artist Sonia Delaunay.
Javier Sáez del Álamo is a Spanish sociologist, translator, and gay rights activist, specialising in queer theory and psychoanalysis.
Philipp Fröhlich is a German painter who lives and works in Brussels. His figurative paintings are influenced by his studies of scenography in the class of Professor Karl Kneidl at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and he frequently uses models for the composition of his works.
The National Award for Plastic Arts is one of Spain's National Culture Awards for Fine Arts, along with the National Award for Photography and Velázquez Award for Plastic Arts. Established in 1980, it is granted annually by the Ministry of Culture and Sport to recognize the meritorious work of contemporary plastic artists. It is given for works or actions published in the prior year which contribute to the enrichment of Spain's cultural heritage. Despite being developed by an administrative body, the selection of the award's winners is intended to be a true reflection of the values and feelings of society. It is endowed with a prize of 30,000 euros.
Andrea Graciela Giunta is an Argentine art historian, professor, researcher, and curator.
Xavier Antich i Valero is a Catalan philosopher, writer and university professor from Catalonia. He is a professor of aesthetics at the University of Girona. He chaired the board of the Tàpies Foundation between 2011 and 2022. Since Feb 2022 he is the President of Catalan Civil Association Òmnium Cultural.
Memorias del ángel caído is a 1997 Spanish thriller film with horror and fantasy elements written and directed by Fernando Cámara and David Alonso. It stars Santiago Ramos as a clergyman suffering a crisis of faith, alongside José Luis López Vázquez, Emilio Gutiérrez-Caba, Asunción Balaguer, Tristán Ulloa, Héctor Alterio, and Juan Echanove.
Jeannette Miller is a writer, poet, narrator essayist and art historian of Dominican art. She was awarded the National Literature prize from her country in 2011.
Patricia Mayayo Bost is a Spanish art historian, professor, and researcher. Her areas of research and study include the historiography of feminist and queer art, the history of women artists, and contemporary artistic practices.
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