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Enrique López Pacheco Artist

Enrique López Pacheco Artist

Painting
Enrique López Pacheco Is a Mexican artist who has left an indelible imprint in my life. I met him in Manolo Rojas’ art gallery in the summer 2002. I immediately liked his much simple and quiet character, his spirituality and a very particular sense of humour.  We worked together a few times once settled in a remote beach in Cadiz and then a few times in my atelier.  He used to work with plastic cards employing them as scrapers or spatulas and much liked to undergo new techniques. He could improvise a drawing using black soot from gas heater or achieve a watercolour by moistening the paintbrush in a cup of coffee. While working he used to talk about painting, about movements of avant-garde dealing with abstraction and about everything…
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Juan Manuel Villalba

Juan Manuel Villalba

scale replicas
Juan Manuel Villalba I was privileged to work close to him for a few years, each one with our very own drawing board; I worked on my texts while he made his astonishing models in scale, tireless, orderly, surrounded by silence. Before every delicate step I merely looked askance to him. He picked a tiny piece with the tweezers, applied a drop of glue and unhesitatingly, with a steady hand, placed it in its exact location. When I noticed he felt relaxed, I approached just to a have a look to every single fragile detail next to disintegration. He employed merely a dozen small tools, laid onto an always clean and tidy table, plus the assembly instructions and yellow plastic bits. While other areas of the atelier were a real…
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Javier Escudero

Javier Escudero

Guillermo Coll, Illustration, scale replicas
Javier Escudero When I first met Javier I was only twenty-one years old. It could be said that he adopted me. He has always been generous and so really patient, he is the one who has taught me more, the one who has mostly influenced me. He was a sort of magician and he still is a holder of so many and so strange knowledges. I remember the first time I paid a visit at his place, a penthouse with a large terrace located in one of the best districts in Madrid, full of books, paintings and scale models… That place soon became my refuge so I used to come on any pretext, just to talk about how things were going, to seek advice.  In this cosy place I was…
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