Artists
Fernanda J. Carregado
Fernanda Jimena Carregado, born in 1977 in Argentina, is a multifaceted artist with a remarkable career in the art world. Her training covers various disciplines, from sculpture and textile design to ceramics and decoration, allowing her to masterfully manage multiple forms of artistic expression. Her connection with art began in her youth, and she has complemented her academic training with self-taught exploration in areas such as architecture and fashion with over 20 years of experience.
Raúl Delgado
Raúl Delgado has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Audiovisual Design and Post-production from Columbia College in Chicago, 1997. He has a great professional career in the audiovisual sector collaborating with renowned production companies and entertainment brands, bringing an innovative and artistic approach to each project. For over 20 years working freelance and creating audiovisual content for TV, advertising and film collaborating for iconic brands such as Nickelodeon, MTV, Paramount Comedy, Cartoon Network, TVE, Discovery Channel, Discovery, Max, TNT, Boing, TCM, Guggenheim Museum, Yoko Ono retrospective exhibition, Niki de Saint Phalle and Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK among others.
Passionate about travel, Raul has traveled to more than 50 countries on 5 continents. In all these trips he has been able to develop his other great passion, photography, thus starting in the artistic field. His professional career in the audiovisual field allows his photographs to enjoy a great technique, combined with the search for aesthetic beauty.
Paco Sanguino
Paco Sanguino is a multidisciplinary artistborn in Seville, 1962 With respect to the work that represents him, he points out that at this moment he is in a technically desired evolutionary state. He forgot the academy some time ago and solved visual discourses in a more concise way by the need to make a speech without technical boasts and much more focused on painting as a tool than as an end. His work represents the relationship between the individual and the rest of society, as well as the importance of the objects with which he interacts in it. He relies on his daily findings with the approach of the project as an essential basis, the discipline of that project places him in a committed position not to deviate, to reach a discourse without ambiguities, also without excesses. Critics and curators of Contemporary Art such as; Fernando Francés CAC Málaga, Bernardo Palomo “Diario de Jerez”, Jose Manuel Sanjuan, “La Opinión de Málaga”, German Miguel Borrachero, “Director of the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving”... have represented him and written texts for catalogues in galleries and museums.
Frank Westermann
Frank Westermann, Leverkusen, Germany, 1957 . 2022 . Marbella, Andalusia, Spain.
A multidisciplinary artist with a vast career of constant research and relentless search, he began his training and artistic interest in the USA but it was when he settled in Marbella, Malaga, that he enthusiastically developed his creative process.
Based there, he exhibited in numerous countries, participating in prestigious Fairs and Biennials, such as Santa Fe, Malaga and Madrid.
He has also exhibited in the contemporary art museum of Malaga CAC, MGEC of Marbella.
Portugal, Germany and the USA have been able to enjoy his work. But the south of Spain was his home and his centre of operations since he settled there. The light of Andalusia seduced him and captured the interest and love of his camera; “Light is the costume of photography” Alberto García-Alix. This phrase defines very well what the artist saw through his lens.
The strong Mediterranean influence always inspired him in photographs the purest and most genuine objects, people and environments that his coast could offer to capture them in his work with a sublime extravagance.
"Ideas arise, I don't go out on the street or travel looking for a specific photograph. I just let myself be surprised by the images, by the scenes that life gives me" Frank Westermann.
His projects consist of complete series that group portraits, interior landscapes, exteriors and an imagined fauna with a very specific meaning for the artist. They are based on his own symbols, obsessions, and personal experiences. His work remains constantly alive, as during the production process, the pieces grew in line with his feelings and daily experiences. His images awaken unexpected feelings and thoughts in the viewer because they not only display beauty but also evoke wonder and mystery. The author wished to give his creations the sensation of entering a hidden world that the human eye cannot grasp at first glance, hence the charge of eroticism, sensitivity, melancholy, and his wild passion for life.
“FANTASY IS THE BEST WORKING TOOL” FRANK WESTERMANN
Ana Matías
Ana began her career with a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree at the 'Universidad Complutense de Madrid', concentrating in the field of portraiture, investigating by means of photography, painting and printmaking.
In 1993 she moved to Marbella, where she founded her own studio 'Con Tinta Roja' doing painting and graphic work, experimenting with printmaking ,and also completing her training at various workshops and the CISA MGEC along side artists and technicians such as Joan Hernández Pijoan, Pavel Albert and Jesus Núñez.
Since 2003 Ana has participated at exhibitions of prints, with work based on a personal and intimate vision of people in her neighbourhood, people who describe their relationship with the world we live in and then make their own social chronicle. At the same time on numerous solo and group exhibitions,Ana has been selected for various competitions such as the National Awards MGEC, the Prize of the City Council of Naranjo Eduardo Pinto and prize of the II Bienal del Ayuntamiento de Mijas.
Her book of photographs and drawings called "Retratos, La Mala Fama" was pubished in 2008.
Rafael Chacón
After more than 35 years of continuous training and research, which has not yet ceased, in which he has been pursuing the expression of his artistic restlessness in an object or an image, he has developed a diverse professional profile ranging from costume design or scenography, graphic design, photography and illustration, culminating in recent years in a happy discovery of modelled. clay and the kiln: ceramics. His encounter with ceramics began at the hand of a well-known ceramist and trainer Yoko Akabane, whose workshop he attended for three years. This stage was followed by several specific courses on different techniques and his own experimentation with materials, essential in the visual arts.
In recent years he has participated in several group and solo exhibitions. He is currently considered one of the most sought after ceramic artists in his field in Andalusia.
Judith Borobio
Judith Borobio is an interdisciplinary creator who builds a living artistic ecosystem, where art, science, body and territory dialogue as forms of knowledge. Her projects are based on a biophilic and participatory practice, which shifts the focus from the object to the process and from the individual to the collective, generating sensitive, critical and inclusive experiences within diverse contexts. Working with organic materials, bodies and landscapes in transformation -inspired by the transience of environments and the performativity of gesture- redefines how we inhabit and relate to the world. Founder of “Materia” and “Territorio Malahierba”, she promotes collaborative creation processes that promote eco-social awareness, inclusion and symbolic resistance. Her work proposes new ways of inhabiting the planet through listening, connection and shared action.
Maria Egea
María Egea is a visual artist born in Málaga in 1969. Her work arises from the fusion between her profession as a flight attendant and her deep passion for painting. Throughout countless trips, she has been building a kind of visual navigation chart that reflects her unique way of interpreting the world.
Her life experience is transformed into a very personal pictorial vision, in which art and travel intertwine to offer the viewer an immersive experience, charged with emotion, memory and movement.
she has participated in numerous exhibitions, including JustMad, Marbella Design Fair and the CAC Malaga, consolidating a solid and constantly evolving career within the contemporary art scene.
Laura Ray
Laura Ruiz Ray was born in 1986 in Madrid, Spain. Her work explores personal growth and introspection through portraiture combining soft colours, geometric shapes and natural elements. Her work becomes a symbolic space where the duality between the visible and the hidden is revealed, what we show to the world and what we keep in silence.
Through a contained but emotional aesthetic, Laura invites the viewer to an inner journey, to stop and listen. Each piece works as a kind mirror, a place to recognize oneself, question oneself and connect with one's own emotions from calm and contemplation.
Her artistic approach does not seek definitive answers, but rather to generate questions and open spaces for internal dialogue. In this sense, her works not only decorate a space, but inhabit it with meaning, promoting a deeper connection with oneself and the environment.
