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York), the Carlos Maside Museum (Madrid), the Spanish Engraving of Charleroi, the Cultural Centre of Arlon, the Cultural Centre of
Rafa Forteza was granted by the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation in
Contemporary Museum of Marbella (Spain), the Contemporary Art Ottignies, and the Royal Opera of Wallonie in Liege (Belgium).
1995. For this reason, he moved to the workshop of Milton Keynes
Museum of Ibiza, and the Dormitory Authority of the State of New
(England), where he created the series of xylographs entitled Cruz
York, among others.
Fabré, Naco
Calamar (Cross Squid). Between 1995 and 1996, again at the Pilar i
Since 1986 Ana de Matos holds exhibitions on a regular basis, the most Palma, 1965.
Joan Miró Foundation, he carried out the book Têtes with the pho-
outstanding of which are: Vestidos Mínimos (Minimal Dresses), an itiner- In 1991 the Majorcan artist Ñaco Fabré began to devote his time
tographer Julia Calfée, for which Antonio Saura wrote El temblor de
ant exhibition supported by the Galician Government in 1999; Vestido and energy to engraving at Torculari Workshop in Palma, and also
la Máscara (The tremor of the Mask). A different collaboration in
anima y Habitación Apropiada (Anima Dress and Appropiate Room); worked at several other graphic art workshops such as the Pilar i Joan
the year 2000 results in the book El Trencalos, written by Joan Punyet
an Installation created at the Galería Dos Coímbras in Braga (Portugal) Miró Foundation’s, working together with the engraver Joan Barbará
Miró and containing images of Rafa Forteza. The psychiatrist Joan
in 2001. Fragmentos at the Galería Art Consult (Panama) in 2002. Love and the artist Rafa Forteza, also at Taller 6A in Palma, and continued
Bauzá has done a laconian psychoanalysis of the artist, with whom he
for Ever at Procesalia 2002 (University of Santiago, Spain); Nowhere his training at Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium.
has worked for a period of three years, and it will be published in the
Man at Madrid’s Galería Caja Negra in 2003; No Lugar (No Place) at In 1996 Ñaco presented his exhibition Diario Intimo (Private Diary)
year 2004. Currently he exhibits Diré. Diré de + (I will say, I will say
the Province Museum of Lugo; Construcción-Destrucción at the Galería at Palma’s Casal Solleric. In 1997 he held an exhibition at the Pilar
more) at the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation.
C5 Colección of Santiago (Spain), and also the installations created for i Joan Miró Foundation, and together with Galeria Altair they held
the 11th Edition of ESTAMPA at the Pabellón de Cristal, and Sujetos exhibitions at ARCO in Madrid in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Since
Galiot, Nieves
(Characters) for the Edición Madrid II at the Palacio de Minas in 2003. 1997 he held some exhibits at Madrid’s Galeria Astarté, Arret Sur
Córdoba (Spain), 1968.
L’Image of Bordeaux (France), Henseleit Gallery in Dortmund and
The Andalusian artist Nieves Galiot graduated in Fine Arts at the
Eleftheriadis, Marios
also in Cologne, at Marc Van Meensel (Belgium) and also Van den
University of Seville, specialising in Engraving and Design in 1993.
Thessaloniki (Greece), 1971.
Voort Gallery in Ibiza. He also participated at the travelling exhibi-
Two years later she established an engraving and printing open work-
Mario’s artistic training includes disciplines as diverse as dance, literation Set Pintors per al Canvi de Segle (Seven Painters for the Turn of
shop in Córdoba where she worked on traditional techniques as well
ture, archaeology, architecture, textile design, decoration, restoration the Century). He received a grant by the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation
as modern image handling and serialisation. Nieves worked at several
and above all art. He followed a course on plastic arts in Bourges to carry out a project outside Spain. Together with the Palma-based
national and foreign workshops, such as Miró’s graphic art work-
(France) from 1991 to 1996, and he continued his art studies at the Galeria Altair he held an exhibition at Art Chicago, with Henselei-
shops, Printmakers Workshop in Edinburgh and Havana’s Graphic
Sorbonne University from 1993 to 1996, where he attained an Arts Bucholz at Frankfurt and at the New York-based ARTEXPO, and with
Art Experimental Workshop.
200 Degree and a postgraduate course included in the European Program Galeria Astarté at several fairs in Turin, Lisbon and Buenos Aires.
Nieves Galiot’s creative task could be seen at many individual
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on Graphic Arts, thanks to his remarkable project “Graphic Works In 2000 he received the City of Palma Award for painting.
and collective fairs in Córdoba, Seville, Málaga, Cadiz, Madrid,
and Research” which he had carried out from 1997 to 1999.
Barcelona, Ourense, Segovia, Mallorca, Edinburgh, Havana... at
In 1997 he began to collaborate in the graphic workshops of the Forteza, Rafa
ESTAMPA International Fair in the years 1999, 2000 and 2001,
Bourges Graphic Arts National School. Since 2000 he worked Palma, 1955.
and at Madrid-based ARCO in 2002. She has also received Awards
as a teacher in Engraving at the Higher National School of Art of The Majorcan artist Rafa Forteza graduated in Fine Arts by the
and Grants at contests such as the 5
Limoges-Aubusson in France. Although he is an artist of young age, University of Barcelona in 1983. In 1981 he began to exhibit at Galería
his career is already considered to be important. His works have been 4 Gats, and a year later he was finalist at the IV Barcelona Biennial. At
displayed individually and collectively at a large number of exhibi- that moment he got in touch with the Talleres Barbará, where he began
tions venues. Among his individual exhibitions stand out Histoires to work with engraving and bibliophile books. There he carried out the
d’Amour et de Colors at Paratiritis Gallery (Greece), The Aesthetics of work entitled La muralla (The Wall), engravings of 2×1 m., and Macla,
Violence at the Myndlista og Handidaskoli in Reykjavik (Iceland) and engravings of 2×2 m. acquired for the funds of the museums Moma
Ars Moriendi at the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation. He also shared and Pompidou, and the Reina Sofia Art Museum.
collective exhibitions with other artists at IFLA in Beijing (China) As a consequence of his new and valuable experiences in the field of
in 1996, Safnahus Borgarfjardar Museum in Borgarnes (Iceland) graphic arts, he carried out the book Cinamon in 1993, with poems by
in 1999 and at Engraving 2002 in SE Europe, Cultural Olympiad Joan Brossa, with which he obtained the Bibliophilism International
2001-2004 in the port of Thessaloniki (Greece). Marios has also par- Award in the city of Leipzig, Germany. In this same period he began
ticipated at important arts fairs such as Estampa 2002.
to collaborate with José Carlos Llop, with whom he has made several
His training background was completed with his learning of dance, books, of which is outstanding Casamatas bajo la Luna (Casamatas
cloth design as well as his technical assistance for dance shows such Under the Moon).
as at the European Final Four Women’s Basketball, with the choreog- In the year 1994, he created with the collaboration of Friedhelm
raphy by Daniel Lommen Company AENAON in Bourges (France) Mennekes the artist book Kunst und Religion, granted with the
in 1998 and the Hercules 20th Anniversary of the Wallon Parliament Especial Engraving Award given by the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation.
(choreography by Daniel Lommel Company AENAON), at ven- In that same year he published Estar, Estarse (To Be, To Stay) with
ues such as the Royal Theatre of Namur, the Palais de Beaux-Arts seven poems by J. Ángel Valente.
th Spanish National Engraving
Awards granted by Caja Madrid, the 5th different institutions such as the Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, Caja de Asturias, Junta de
Andalucía, Fundación Vázquez Díaz, the Instituto de la Juventud
and Fundación Unicaja, among many others. He obtained the Pilar
Juncosa and Sotheby’s Award by the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation.
Among his individual exhibitions are noteworthy “The Impossible
Stairs “at the Cracker Factory (Edimburgh) in 1996, “Human Hire”
at the Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art (Seville) in the year
2000, “Levels of Sound” at the Photography Centre Salas Patio de
Escuelas, University of Salamanca, in 2001, and Panópticos. La escritura
de lo visible (Panoptikons. Writing the Visible) at the Pilar i Joan
Miró Foundation in 2002. Recently he has carried out several projects,
some of them related to Public Art and Urban Intervention.
Jakober, Ben
Vienna, 1930.
Of Hungarian origin and British nationality, his usual residence was on
Mallorca until he recently settled down in Malta. Art appeared late in
the life of this self-taught artist. His first works, characterized by a great
ironic content, belong to the series Stop Art presented at the FIAC in
1982. The work Arqueología del Presente (Archaeology of the Present)
marked a new period in him: bronze skullhelmets that simulate ancient
pieces and invite us to travel from present to past, and from past to
present. In the year 1989, with the work “Fulgurations”, he started a
new cycle making use of technological top materials of that moment:
through computer cirquits, Jakober created panels in the manner of
paintings, with which he again emphasized on the archaeology of the
present. In the 1990’s he started a series of monumental orders inspired
by the Renaissance masters: La Copa de Paolo Uccello, located at Palma’s
Autovía de Poniente, and Mazzocchio, created for the Espai Cúbic at
National Engraving Awards the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, and nowadays located in Prato
at Spain’s Contemporary Engraving Museum, the Pilar Juncosa and (Florence). In 1993 Jakober and his wife, the artist Yannick Vu, were
Sotheby’s Grants for projects in Joan Miró’s graphic art workshops, invited to take part at the Venice Biennial with Il Cavallo di Leonardo.
a Honourable Mention at the contest Premios Generación 2000 fi- From this moment onwards both artists began to work and sign their
nanced by Caja Madrid, and also the Rafael Boti Grant for plastic art works together, and they produced in 1998 Ánfora (Amphora) for
research offered by Córdoba’s Council in 2000.
Palma’s Airport. They have exhibited at the Pelaires Contemporary
Cultural Centre of Palma in 1994, the São Paulo Biennial in 1996,
González, Dionisio
the Mucsarnok Palace (Budapest) in 1998, the Valencia Biennial and
Gijón (Spain), 1966.
Castle of Santa Bárbara (Alicante) in 2001, and the Palace of Sástago
From the very beginning, Dionisio added to his work the principle (Zaragoza) in 2002. More than twenty international museums house
of habitability transferred to space whether it is orbital, cybernetic, in their works, some of them being in public places all over the world.
speculative sites or irregular emplacements, to create a resistance or Achille Bonito Oliva signed in 1996 a monograph on their life. They
an artistic activism. In conclusion, related to the artificial and civiliz- are founding members of the Yannick and Ben Jakober Foundation,
ing need for creating the big house of the human species, once the which can be visited in the city of Alcudia, Mallorca.
loss of the millenary idea of celestial coverings remains clear. He is
Doctor in Fine Arts and current Professor at the University of Seville. Laguens, Mercedes
He followed courses on engraving, inphography, advanced photogra- Tarazona (Zaragoza), 1953.
phy, mass media and cinema in various centres of Canada, England, She graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She lives and
Scotland and Portugal. He has received several grants and awards by works in Palma since 1978. She has held several exhibitions in Zaragoza,