04Feb 2024 by kike_K No Comments
Aircraft in the Sierra de Guadarrama

Aircraft in the Sierra de Guadarrama

Books
A fresh new book written by Michel Lozares, so interesting as the two previous publications focussing on the story and the wreckage of air crashes that had happened in Spain. A very entertaining and easy to read approach dealing with history and technic, the book is a sort of journey through time, fully illustrated which includes photographs, maps and a bunch of curiosities. I am glad I have met Michel, a man always going off the beaten path, with a positive and tireless mood, a man with so many projects in mind he is capable to achieve. The book 'Los Aviones de la Sierra de Guadarrama' is a limited edition which can only be purchased the Librería Gaudí
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06Jan 2024 by kike_K No Comments
Cristóbal Vergara

Cristóbal Vergara

scale replicas
I probably met Cristobal in 1982. Since from the start he was a member of a group of scale-modellers collaborating with the magazine Modelismo & Historia and thereafter his name has been in so many Spanish publications and exhibitions. I know fewer people true to themselves just as he is, nearly ever acting and working far from new trends and styles, having his own way to understand and make things overtime. It is hard to understand my own biography without him. He absolutely deserves to be a great historical character in the world of Spanish modelling.visit the website
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26Apr 2023 by kike_K No Comments
Marie-Denise Villers

Marie-Denise Villers

Painting
It seems that everything had conspired to erase the name Marie-Denise Villers (1774-1821), so that she would fall into oblivion: obviously she was a woman painter, just a few of her works have been recovered. She had two sisters who were painters too. All those circumstances have contributed to the scholars’ confusion. Furthermore, for a while, her best-known work was awarded to the painter Jacques-Louis David. ‘Young woman painting’ is an iconic picture. Some refer to it as a self-portrait while other people understand it is really a picture of Charlotte du Val. I know nothing about the path of that portrait, a road leading to the New York Metropolitan Museum. I guess a philanthropist experienced both the charm and the mystery of that young girl who is watching us,…
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