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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South

South

Guillermo Coll
For a number of years I worked in the publishing house ACCION PRESS, S.A. We used to inform of so many modelling exhibitions and contests that took place in Spain or other countries.  We were well received everywhere so these travels of field work and pleasure allowed me to visit a great amount of places and to meet so many interesting people. I need to point out that, every time on our way down to Southern Spain, towards Andalusia, either to Fuengirola, Almeria, San Fernando or Alcala de Guadaira, I felt deeply thrilled. We left Madrid in a filthy weather and drove through large plains (La Mancha, Don Quixote’s parts); next, we reached a mountain pass and realised we were heading for the light: smooth rolling hills strewed with olive…
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