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Andrés Galeano

Andrés GaleanoInfinite #2 - Unknown Photographers2018Found photo album’s pictures, C-Prints 102 x 60 cm

Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 627. 08010 Barcelona - Tel.: +34 936 338 360 - www.rociosantacruz.com

Andrés Galeano (Mataró, Spain, b. 1980) holds a Philosophy degree from the University of Barcelona, a Photography diploma from the Freie Fotoschule Stuttgart and a Sculpture/Free Art degree from the Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin. He works with photography, video, installation and performance and has realized exhibitions and performances throughout Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the USA.

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Galeano is a disciplined collector of second-hand photos, be they analogue or digital. He has a large collection of family photos (more than 10,000 analogue photos). He is interested in the amateur use of photography, the democratization and expansion of photographic devices, recycling iconographies, and discovering moments (whether they be Kodak or Google) in which Photography appears to naively reflect upon itself, creating an unexpected metadiscourse that points to Photography’s documental essence, and to its inexorable desire to stop time and to communicate. He is a post-photographer that recombines images that others have taken. As his obsession for the sky reveals, he is interested in the relationship between Photography and divinity, the desire to transcend the moment expressed by photography and its industry. Proof of everything just mentioned can be found in his current projects: Afotos (2015-16), that investigates the concept of a non-photo, Unknown Photographers (2012-2018), that poetically recombines analogue family photos, Image Touché (2012-2016), that analyses the desire of the contemporary digital image to be touched, Google in View (2015), that explores the device of Google and its pretensions of divine omniscience and omnipotence (Godgle), and Al Sol (2015, 2016), a photographic installation that speaks to the essence of photography, reflecting on light as an agent that both enables and destroys the image. Unknown Photographers is a post-photographic project based on montages of analogue found photo album’s pictures and reflecting on the latent desire of every photograph to trascend the instant.

Galeano currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Andrés GaleanoSky Studies #4 - Unknown Photographers2016 Found photo album´s pictures, C-Prints81 x 81 cm

Andrés GaleanoSky Studies #10 - Unknown Photographers2018 Found photo album’s pictures, C-Prints 81 x 81 cm


Andrés Galeano Sky Studies #14 - Unknown Photographers 2018Found photo album’s pictures, C-Prints92 x 67 cm

Andrés GaleanoSky Studies #11 - Unknown Photographers

2018Found photo album’s pictures, C-Prints 102 x 72 cm

Andrés Galeano Sky Studies #13 - Unknown Photographers 2018Found photo album’s pictures, C-Prints92 x 67 cm

Julia Llerena

Julia LlerenaEl impulso de archivo

2017 Installation. Found objects on glass and wood shelves 65 x 42 x 5 cm


Llerena currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

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Julia LlerenaEl impulso de archivo 2017 Installation. Found objects on glass and wood shelves 65 x 42 x 5 cm (each)Installation view

Julia Llerena (Sevilla, Spain, b. 1985) completed her BFA studies at the University of Seville, the University of Barcelona and the Florence Academy of Fine Arts (2003-2008). In 2014, she earned a MA in Research in Art and Creation from the Complutense University of Madrid.

In 2017, she won the Circuitos Award in Madrid and a place at the Blueproject Foundation residency programme in Barcelona. In 2017/2018, she presented the project Home, Una cuestión global at the Sala Santa Inés of Sevilla, supported by the Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales. Llerena participated in several exhibitions, such as L’efecte vora, curated by Anna Dot at SAC (Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona), and DISRUPT, curated by Marlon de Azambuja at Rodriguez Gallery (Poznan, Poland). In 2016 her work was exhibited in the group show Qué sienten, qué piensan los artistas andaluces de ahora? at the CAAC (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla), 3+3 at the Embassy of Spain in Tokyo, Un lugar y el tiempo at Espacio Odeón (Colombia), and at the ABC stand at ARCOmadrid. In 2015, she was one of the artists featured in the exhibition Buscadores de Oro at OTR (Madrid). In 2014 she received the Injuve Prize and was selected to exhibit at Galería Espacio Mínimo after winning the Entreacto competition. She also participated in the Intransit programme and ATELIER, a workshop activity in connection with RETROALIMENTACIÓN, curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto and Francesco Giaveri at the Sala de Arte Joven managed by the Regional Government of Madrid. In 2013 she showed her work at Mediterranea 16, the Young European Artists Biennial in Ancona (Italy) and participated in the Young Spanish Artists Post-Biennial at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo of Salamanca (DA2).


Julia LlerenaEstrato cero - Lámina 82018 Found objects on paper42 x 30 cm



Julia LlerenaEstrato cero - Lámina 20 2018 Found objects on paper42 x 30 cm

Lluís Hortalà

Lluís HortalàDISRUPT2018 Oil painting on wood112 (diameter) x 5 cm


Hortalà currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.

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Lluís Hortalà (Olot, Spain, b. 1959) studied at the Sant Jordi Fine Arts School, in Barcelona. Between 1995 and 2001 he lived and worked in London at Delfina Studio residence.

His exhibition Opac, presented in 1991 at La Caixa Foundation in Moncada, Barcelona, marked the beginning of the series of works known as “Topographies of sight” - circular shaped wall sculptures of polyester covered wood. His other works are related to architecture as well as to the structures of the body. He explored the subjects of landscape, light installation, drawings and sculptures, relating his personal experience as a mountain climber to the artistic outlook. In 2014/15 he went to Brussels to study marble painting, wood imitation and trompe l’oeil at the Academy Van Der Kelen. He is currently working on painting related to the history of marbles in architecture and art. Lluís Hortalà has exhibited at numuerous galleries and museums: MNCARS (Madrid), Fundaçao Gulbenkian (Lisbon), Atrium (Vitoria), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona) and Le Carré (Nimes), among others. His works form part of important collections, such as Colección Soler Villa, Colección Fundació “La Caixa”, Barcelona, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz Fundación Banesto Madrid, Fundación Marcelino Bon Santander, Trust Fundation. Washington DC, USA; and museums such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Colección AIP Lisboa, Portugal, Del na Studios London, England.

Mar Arza

Mar ArzaCeladura2018 Book pages 155 x 105 x 6 cm


Arza currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.

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Mar ArzaDesleído VII2018 Rolled paper50 x 35 x 3 cm

Mar ArzaDesleído VIII2018 Rolled paper50 x 36 cm

Mar Arza (Castellón de la Plana, Spain, b. 1976) trained at the faculty of Fine Arts of Valencia and at the Carnegie Mellon School of Art in the United Kingdom, where she completed a Master’s degree in Sculpture, which earned her a scholarship from the .

Her last project In Vain was curated by Valentin Roma and exhibited at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona) throughout summer 2018.In 2017, she received the DKV Award for the best emerging artist’s gallery exhibition (Resquicio at RocioSantaCruz) in Catalonia.In 2016, she was awarded with the MANGO Prize for the best young artist at SWAB Fair (Barcelona). In 2014 she participated to the Amposta Biennial, where she received the prize as finalist. In 2013, she received the Guasch-Coranty prize at the Valls Biennale and the Arts Libris Award in Barcelona.

Mar Arza is a sculptor of words that - meticulously disharmonized from their original stories - create new conceptual, verbal and plastic meanings. Through this non-writing, she rewrites manipulated books in search of an artistic lyricism. Her work integrates a debate between words and their sensitive and material dimension. With this intention, she chooses pages of books from which she meticulously dissects texts and phrases or emphasizes words that adopt a sculptural form.


Mar ArzaNebulous condensation2018 Old mirror and paper55 x 45 x 3 cm

Mar ArzaDesiertos cicatriz...(murmurios)2008 Book pages 32 x 27 cm

Mar ArzaDesiertos cicatriz... (pensamientos)2008 Book pages34 x 27 cm

Sergio Vega

Sergio VegaTrópicos tristes (Ibirapuera/Cadúveo/sillas)2018 Collage, inkjet print, painted steel wire, pencil 75 x 40 cmEd. 3


Sergio Vega (Buenos Aires, Argentina, b. 1959), works in various media, including text, photography,

video, sculpture, diorames, miniature models, and installations. His works deal with colonialist theories and socially relevant issues. In his work, color and imagery are presented simultaneously, synchronized as parts of a unified system that sustains them in parallel tensions. Various scenes provide multiple views of the same subject.

Since 1995, Sergio Vega has been working on an interdisciplinary art project called El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo, which is inspired by a book of the same title written in 1650 by Antonio de León Pinelo. Drawing on the burgeoning discipline of Natural History, Pinelo had set out to scientifically prove that the Garden of Eden was in South America. Embracing this idea, Vega has made several research trips to the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil, detailing his adventures in a travel diary and later using this material to create a series of photographs, videos, dioramas and installations that explore how colonial discourses have been constructed in relation to the specific mythology of Paradise.

Vega currently lives and works in the United States.

Special Acknowledgements: Galerie Karsten Greve, Galleria Umberto Di Marino

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Sergio VegaCatedral-Ananá kitsch2018 Inkjet print110 x 105 cmEd. 3

In addition to his artistic pursuits, Vega is a professor of photography and sculpture at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Between 1991 and 1992, Vega participated in the Whitney Museum of American

Art’s Independent Study Program, and received his MFA in 1996 from Yale University.

Vega also participated in numerous international exhibitions, among them the upcoming 14th Cuenca

Biennial, the 51st Venice Biennale, the 5th Biennale de Lyon, the 3rd Moscow Biennale, the 2nd

Kwangju Biennale and the 1st Yokohama Triennale. His works have been reviewed in Artforum, Frieze Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, and Time Magazine.


Sergio VegaIntervenciones en un libro (curvas)2018 Collage, cardboard, acrylic paint, pages of a book 40 x 60 cm

Sergio VegaMujeres exóticas y arquitectura2018 Collage, cardboard, acrylic paint, inkjet print 40 x 60 cm

Sergio VegaMono azúl (sobre el destino individual)2018 Collage inkjet print, cardboard, wood 65 x 50 cm

Sergio VegaIntervenciones en un libro (la columna de Vilanova Artigas y el agua)2018 Collage, inkjet print, acrylic paint, color pencil, plastic spatula 75 x 60 cm

Pep Duran

Pep DuranBacklot Constructions2018Mixed media installation Variable measuresSpecial Project UNTITLED MIAMI 2018


Duran currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.

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Pep Duran Sin título 32017Giclée print, objects, wood on cardboard 65 x 50 cm

Pep Duran Sin título 42017Giclée print, objects, wood on cardboard 65 x 50 cm

Pep Duran (Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, b. 1955) dedicated, from the beginning of his carreer, to scenography, developing over the years his own way of understanding construction and representation in stage design.

His work form part of numerous private and public collections, such as Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Artium (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Fons d'Art de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación LaCaixa (Barcelona), and Colección Banc de Sabadell, among others. He has exhibited both collectively and individually in galleries and museums of Barcelona, Valencia, San Sebastian, Madrid (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Amsterdam (Holand), Köln (Germany), Turin (Italy), Copenhagen (Denmark), Mexico City (Mexico), San José (Costa Rica), to name a few. He has made several stage designs for the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and the Teatro de La Zarzuela in Madrid. As artistic director he has collaborated on several films, and in 1989 was awarded the Cinematografía de la Generalitat de Catalunya for Best Costume Design for the film Luces y Sombras by Jaime Camino. In 2009-2010, his project Sin Escenario, organised by SEACEX and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, travelled worldwide to various contemporary art museums, such as MARTE (El Salvador), MADC (Costa Rica), MAC (Panama), and the Centro Cultural de España in Mexico.

Pep Duran has been selected by the Artistic Directors of UNTITLED Miami Beach 2018 to participate in the Special Projects' section of the fair with the installation Backlot Constructions (2018).


Pep Duran Sin título, Serie Suite Magma i Nucli2014Felt, wood and leather 57 x 57 x 4 cm

Pep Duran Sin título, Serie Suite Magma i Nucli2014Cardboards, stiched straw and graphite 40 x 35 x 6 cm

Pep DuranSin título, Series Suite Magma i Nucli2014 Fragments of wood 34 x 31x 6 cm

Pep DuranSin título, Serie Suite Magma i Nucli2014Felt, stitched straw, leather, cardboard and wood fragments41 x 40 x 5 cm

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Andrés Galeano Sky Studies #1 · Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 627. 08010 Barcelona - Tel.: +34 936 338 360 - Andrés Galeano Sky Studies #14 - Unknown Photographers