Ana del Castillo - Spegazzini

Spegazzini Glacier is one of the boundary glaciers between Argentina and Chile following the 1998 Agreement to determine the course of the border from Monte Fitz Roy to Cerro Daudet. The lower section of the glacier lies in Argentina, in the Lago Argentino department of the province of Santa Cruz. This work stems from memories of that place a few months ago.
Pigments with acrylics on double-thick canvas and paper have been used. The painting does not need to be framed.
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Ana del Castillo is a photographer and artist, winner of various awards, who works for different agencies around the world, and has presented her works in London, Italy and Spain.

Economist and multidisciplinary artist (Godella, Valencia. 1963). Professionally she is an economist, devoted to online commerce in recent years, a activity she has postponed to dedicate herself almost exclusively to traveling, to experimenting as a painter, and to working for different international agencies as a photographer.
Her beginnings in photography go back to her childhood; her work has been published in the ABC newspaper, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, catalogs, or on Castellón’s bus shelters, in addition to several awards and exhibitions in London or Madrid. Her academic training has spanned several years with photographer Tere Arcos.
She finds in Europe, although globalization advances by leaps and bounds, in each country and its cities, unique characteristics that she tries to capture in her images, both of people she encounters on the street and of buildings of all ages, or moments in any setting.
Her trips to Iceland, Switzerland, South America, Africa or Norway have influenced her with mountains, architectures, and seas, other of her great themes at both the pictorial and photographic levels.
Her dedication to painting came later. She began her artistic training with the artist Álvaro Romero in the nineties, continued with the Godella-based painter Germá Llorís, then with the painter Fernando Jiménez and with Lucía Peiró i Lloret, a renowned plastic artist. “At the start of the new century she co-founded a heterogeneous group of artists called Equipo-Argo, now composed of thirteen women, who carry out their activity in a factory-type space near the city of Valencia. The group maintains constant contact among themselves and with artistic vanguards in different spheres. One of the group’s goals is to argue for and carry out one or two annual exhibitions. The group has already held many exhibitions across our geography.

Technically, for the creation of her works she uses powder pigments, “their tonal breadth is ideal for my paintings, which turns the workshop into a kind of laboratory of plates and powders where binders, resins, etc., compose a chaotic universe where I feel absolutely serene and creative.”
In recent years her artistic production has been showcased in exhibitions, mentions and awards. Highlights among the early ones in 2016 with Equipo-Argo the collective at Centre d'Art Taller d'Ivars in Benissa (Alicante), the collective in May at espai.inf, an exhibition space at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the collective exhibition Sala Virgen de la Fuente (Teruel), Colectiva at the Casa Cultura Rocafort “La Superficie del Círculo”; in 2017, with the same collective, Mirada de Dona in the La Marina El Puig de Santa María exhibition hall (Valencia), Old Town Bétera Exhibition Hall (Valencia), Museros Exhibition Hall (Valencia), Mirada de Dona in La Eliana Exhibition Hall (Valencia), Paisatje Urbà in the Náquera Exhibition Hall (Valencia); and in 2018 also with Equipo-Argo in the Villa Eugenia Exhibition Hall of Godella (Valencia) with “Abstractus”, collective at the Sala Exposiciones Municipal de Mislata (Valencia) and Sala Exposiciones Biblioteca Dénia (Alicante), with “Abstractus”, and a collective at the Sala Exposiciones Massamagrell (Valencia) with “Black and White”.
She has been selected for the XXXIV Painting Contest “Salvador Soria” Vila de Benissa (Alicante), in the Festival D’Arts Quart de Poblet (Valencia) exhibition, in the XIII Desideri Llombarte Painting Award in Peñarroya de Tastavins (Teruel) in 2016. The following year she was selected by the Legado Andalusí Foundation, touring her work across the country; she was a finalist in the Premi de Pintura Ciutat de Manises (Valencia), selected in Valencia Ciutat Oberta Bienal de las Artes de Valencia. For 2018 her work was selected for the Dances de Alcalá series in the photography prize of the Gúdar-Javalambre Tourism Association (Teruel), winning later editions, and selected for the José Camarón International Art Contest in Segorbe.
In 2014 she won the Camarón prize at the Segorbe Art Contest (Castellón), had a solo show with her series Europe in Instantes at the Bancaja Segorbe foundation, in 2016 she won the Las Provincias Photo Marathon in Dénia (Alicante), won the Balearia prize, and the runner-up in the I Eurostars Hotel Real Photography Prize. She has been selected and exhibited at the Valencia-based Entidad Cultural Valenciana El Piló in 2016 and 2023, and together with Equipo-Argo she held a collective show at the prestigious Godella Villa Eugenia exhibition hall in 2018, an exhibition later moved to the Mislata Municipal Exhibition Hall.
She was again selected with work on display in the José Camarón International Art Contest in Segorbe in 2020, 2023 and 2024.
At the end of 2024 she held a collective exhibition at the Galería Ronda in Valencia, and is represented by the Galería del Sol, also located in Valencia.
In December 2024 she received the National Heritage photography prize from the hands of the Infanta in Madrid.
She continues to receive numerous awards for her photographs and paintings, and has several exhibitions on her schedule for the coming months across Spain.
According to the prestigious critic LFMM, “her architectural works transcend the photographic plane to be endowed with a surreal quality that gives them undeniable value.”

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