UVNT MAHOU TALKS x PAREID

About the Speakers

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  Alejandro Azañón

  Alejandro Azañón was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1992 and graduated in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He later furthered his studies with a Master in Legal Counsel at IE Business School and currently works between Madrid and Brussels as a Data Protection and Cybersecurity lawyer for a US firm.

  Since 2017, and inspired by the works of the family collection, he decided to start his own contemporary art collection focused mainly on painting, where several national and international artists stand out such as Rafa Macarrón, Austyn Weiner or Edgar Plans, among others.

  @alejandroazl

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  Gabriela Vera

  Consultant and private curator whose specialization is contemporary art in all its media. Having lived in Venezuela, New York and now based in Madrid, she has developed throughout her career in the art world a keen eye for creating from scratch or expanding her clients' collections in a consistent, personal, meaningful and enriching way. Her commitment is both to the collector and to the development of art history being written today. Therefore, her methodology is based on both in-depth research of living and emerging artists -their history, technique and conceptual support-, as well as the analytical study of the global art market. 

  Gabriela works with art enthusiasts committed to an active mission to collect and contribute, so she always brokers loans of important works from her collections to museums around the world. Throughout her career she has developed valuable relationships with major galleries, institutions, artists, dealers and curators in order to successfully build the collections she has been developing as a guiding hand along the way. 

  Gabriela earned a certification in Art Business and a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art and the Market at Christie's New York. Gabriela has been building her private art collection in parallel since 2015. Artists such as Dominic Chambers, Austyn Weiner, Jordy Kerwick and Anastasia Bay are part of her collection. As she has also expanded her collection since moving to Spain with established and emerging Spanish artists such as Javier Calleja, Edgar Plans, Imon Boy and Ivan Forcadell.

   

  @gabyavera

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  Diego R. Figueroa-Rodriguez

  Diego R. Figueroa is an attorney whose work focuses on the art world. His extensive background and involvement in art law has been reflected in the representation of intellectual property, financial, tax and real estate matters, as well as serving as an advisor to artists, museums, galleries, collectors and organizations. Diego's prestige as a philanthropist, collector and board member of numerous cultural institutions, such as the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, is embodied in his role as chairman of the International Youth Committee of the Museo del Barrio in New York.

  One of his most notable interventions has been the successful representation of a group of street artists in a high-profile copyright lawsuit against a major film production company and Hollywood.

  Diego has taught numerous courses and degrees on art law, focusing primarily on Intellectual Property Law in the United States with a focus on street art.

   

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  Julia Betancor

  Born in the Canary Islands in 1969 and graduated in Fine Arts at the UCM in painting conservation. She worked and extended her studies in Florence, London and the United States doing her internship in the Conservation Department of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofia. She continues to attend seminars and courses, actively participating as a speaker at international conservation conferences to keep up with the latest advances in science, materials and applied technology.
   
  Thanks to the support of Onkaos, she has created the Lab for virtual conservation of new technological artistic media, achieving the first successful case in 2020: preserving the work generated by algorithms and AI of the artist Mario Kinglemann, "Memories of Passersby I".
   
  She is a member of ICOM-CC, American Institute Conservation (AIC) and IIC among others. She is also a volunteer member of the Board of the Grupo Español de Conservación GE IIC for international relations and has coordinated the Covid-19 Heritage Resources Cabinet.
   
  Someday she will finish her doctoral thesis, but in the meantime she has co-founded For the Love of Art network with SIT. Spain, is host of the podcast "For the Love of Art" and Professor of the Master E.T.O.A at the University de Nebrija.

   

  @juliabetancor

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  Iván Forcadell

  (Alcanar, 1993) Ivan is a multidisciplinary artist focused on painting, sculpture,  installation, and recently on video art and performance. With a carefree attitude and without  forced formulas, the artist intertwines narratives of his childhood in the countryside, folklore and  irony. 

  Forcadell graduated in Design from the EINA University of Barcelona. He has numerous national  and international exhibitions, among which are: “Flux Cutting”, Foco Gallery, Lisbon (2019), “The  beginning of the second act”, Lluís Coromina Foundation, Barcelona (2019), “Remedios  Matamoros Fibla” , We Collect, Madrid (2019), “Primavera de Escayola’’, Casa de Indias Art  Center, El Puerto de Santa Maria (2020) and “Un beso, una araña y una flor ( Letters to L.B.)”,  Random Space, Mahón (2021). The artist’s work has been included in renowned press such as:  Harper’s Bazaar, El País ICON, Vogue Spain, El Mundo or Architectural Digest Spain, among  others.

   

  @ivan.forcadell

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  Vanessa Barragão

  (1992)

  Textile artist based in Portugal who, through her creations, raises awareness about pollution and climate change, as well as the importance of circular economy and the need to recycle in our daily lives. Her works are handmade, using artisanal techniques and waste from the Portuguese textile industry. 

  Most of this waste used to be found in the back of textile factory warehouses, taking up a lot of space, before ending up in a landfill.

   "One man's trash is another man's gold." 

  Her beautiful creations and environmentalist vision have garnered hundreds of thousands of followers and have influenced people's perception of the devastating consequences of "fast fashion," encouraging those who admire her work to create sustainably and recycle as much as they can in their daily routines.

   

  @vanessabarragao_work

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  Ricardo Cavolo

  Ricardo Cavolo is one of the most international Spanish artists.

  He has exhibited in several galleries in Madrid, London, Barcelona, Montreal, Mexico City, Porto, Milan...

  He has worked in several advertising campaigns and for brands such as Gucci, Apple, Zara, Starbucks, Alexander McQueen, Bally, Nike... As an illustrator he has published several books and a graphic novel with publishers such as Lunwerg (Spain), Nobrow (UK), SM (Spain), Two Dollars Radio (USA) or Límina (Italy).

  Ricardo has participated with his murals in several festivals such as Mural (Canada), Glastonbury Festival (UK), Label Valette (France), Cut Out Fest (Mexico) or Mulafest (Spain), and created murals in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris, Moscow, Hong Kong, Montreal, Singapore, Seattle, Mexico City, Bordeaux, Bali... among many others.

   

  @ricardocavolo

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  Luis López

  Born in Alicante, he studied graphic design at the Espai Gráfic school and desktop publishing at the EASDA, to become a professional in illustration. From Barcelona he publishes in magazines collaborating with fashion photographers such as Xevi Muntané or Ferran Casanova.
  In 2011 he won the Contemporary Art Contest 'Propuestas', exhibiting her work mixing photography and illustration.
  During 2014 he developed self-taught modeling skills, creating her first collection of sculptures. He also did work for artists such as Maria Escoté or Eduardo Casanova, as well as other brands.
  In 2016 he produced his first limited edition Zombie Mario in Singapore with Pobber Toys, and got his first sold out a few weeks after the release. For Popeye's 90th Anniversary in 2019, he also produced two limited editions, this time with ZCWO.

  In 2020 he launched his first online course on the creation of Art Toys on the Domestika platform, and throughout these years he has been participating in different exhibitions around the world, in cities as emblematic as NY, Singapore, London or Barcelona. Today he continues to combine his work as an illustrator, graphic designer and Art Toys.

  @luaiso_lopez

   

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  Octavi Serra

  The work of Girona-based artist, designer and photographer Octavi Serra focuses on capturing the ironies, truisms and frustrations of modern life. Optical illusions and waste products are presented in public spaces and then photographed as part of an engaging philosophical series. The Spanish artist's work is a sign of our times and a reaction to dissatisfaction with the current social landscape. Serra constructs conceptual installations that poke fun at the current culture and question the status quo in a very serious way: each image portrays a message about some kind of sociopolitical problem. Whether it's surveillance, greed, corruption, environmental destruction, selfishness, technology... no stone is left unturned. Whatever the aspect, Serra's sense of disillusionment is evident. In a recent interview, he warns, "We've been sold a base pattern for living in the world, [and] if we don't make an effort to overcome it or change it, it's easy to end up looking like automatons."

   

  @ooss_ooss_ooss

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  Jorge Isla

   (Huesca, 1992) currently based in Bilbao, Spain. 

  Since 2015, his artistic practice focuses on the observation and analysis of reality and on the modes of production and consumption of contemporary society. Represents a set of ideas based on issues related to the perception of everyday and methodologies for searching materials from the immediate context, their collection, reinterpretation, resignification, manipulation and intervention as a conceptual object from a plastic investigation by combining several media: writing, photography, videoart, and installation, depending on the nature of each project.

  He won the VEGAP 2015, MAPA Grant of LENS School 2016, Visual Arts Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture in the Collège d’Espagne à Paris (2017), etc. His work has been exhibited in different solo and group shows such as Antonia Puyó Gallery, Galeria Presente , La Rambleta , The Natural History Museum of the Universitat de València, Photoespaña , XV Bienal de Fotografía of Córdoba, Kir Royal Gallery, CentroCentro Cibeles, Matadero, Art Lima, Unseen Art Fair, Estampa Art Fair and Photo London Art Fair among many others.

  Besides his practice, since 2018, Jorge also develops his work as a teacher in Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza, Spain), in addition, he’s part of the editorial board of Graffiti Removals, the largest submission based image archive of removed graffiti around the world.  

   

  @jorgeisla.nft

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  Ana Barriga

  (Jerez, 1984)

  Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Seville in 2012, where she completed a master's degree in Idea and Production in 2014-15. In her works she tries to find the balance between reason and emotion through a very personal aesthetic. Two apparently contradictory territories that, by friction, generate a type of energy that interests him. She tries to move in the field of playfulness and play, very important elements both in her work and in the way she works. The artist collects objects from flea markets or second-hand stores to create a kind of archive of residual popular culture: children's toys, decorative objects or discarded everyday objects that she then paints, breaks, modifies and assembles as if she were playing, using them to convey an idea, creating the scenes on which most of her paintings are based.

   

  @anabarrigaoliva

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  Gema Álvaro

  Con profundo amor por las artes en todas sus vertientes, y dedicada a ello desde diversos prismas, desde la creación como ilustradora y pintora, desde su estudio como historiadora del arte y desde su conservación, como conservadora restauradora.

  Diplomada en conservación restauración de bienes culturales, en las especialidades de pintura y documento gràfico, en la escuela de conservación y restauración de bienes culturales de Madrid.

  Grado en Historia del Arte por la Uned.

   

  @gemagemacion

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  Javier Peña - Ibáñez

  (1985, Logroño)

  Architect with a studio in Madrid, is a curator, researcher, teacher and consultant in architecture, design and the city. He is the Director of Concéntrico, the Logroño International Festival of Design and Architecture, and focuses on the management, curation and dissemination of cultural projects.

   

  @concentricofestival

  @jpenaibanez

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  Emilio Ruiz Mateo

  Córdoba, 1974 

  Cultural manager, press and content management expert. He is currently artistic director of FLORA International Flower Festival and press manager at Jazzmadrid, Festival Ellas Crean and Automática Editorial. He has developed projects such as the coordination and conceptualization of contents in La Noche de los Libros (Comunidad de Madrid), Festival Eñe (La Fábrica) and Miami Book Fair International; coordination of web and social networks of Centro Cultural Conde Duque or editor-in-chief of Notodo.com and Estandarte.com. 

  His editorial work includes the Abierto x Obras catalog (for Matadero Madrid), the MADrid About You guide (for Turismo Comunidad de Madrid) and the magazines Eñe and OjodePez. 

  In his spare time he makes collage, under the pseudonym Mateo Fetén.

   

  @festivalflora

  @emilioruizmateo