Ana del Castillo - Spegazzini

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

Economist and multidisciplinary artist (Godella, Valencia. 1963). Professionally an economist, devoted to online commerce in recent years, a activity she has postponed to travel almost exclusively, to experiment as a painter, and to work for different international agencies as a photographer.
Her beginnings in photography go back to childhood; her work has been published in the ABC newspaper, in publications of the Ministry of Culture, various books, catalogs, or on the billboards of buses in Castellón, in addition to various awards and exhibitions in London or Madrid. Her academic training spanned several years with photographer Tere Arcos.
She finds in Europe, although globalization advances at a rapid pace, 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 place.
Her travels to Iceland, Switzerland, South America, Africa or Norway have influenced her with their mountains, architectures, and seas, others of her major themes both pictorially and photographically.
Her dedication to painting came later. She began her artistic training with the artist Álvaro Romero in the nineties, continued with the godellan 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-like space on the outskirts of Valencia city; the group remains in constant contact among themselves and with artistic vanguards in different fields. One of the group’s purposes is to organize one or two annual exhibitions. Many exhibitions have already been held by this group in our geography.

Technically, for the creation of her paintings she uses powder pigments, “their tonal range is ideal for my works, which turns the workshop into a kind of laboratory of plates and powders in which the 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. Notable early moments include 2016 with Equipo-Argo in the collective at Centre d’Art Taller d’Ivars in Benissa (Alicante), the collective in May at espai.inf, a display space at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the collective exhibition Sala Virgen de la Fuente (Teruel); collective at Casa Cultura Rocafort “La Superficie del Círculo”; in 2017, with the same group, Mirada de Dona in La Marina El Puig de Santa María (Valencia), Sala Exposiciones Antiguo Ayuntamiento Bétera (Valencia), Sala Exposiciones Museros (Valencia), Mirada de Dona in Sala Exposiciones La Eliana (Valencia), Paisatje Urbá in Sala Exposiciones Náquera (Valencia); and in 2018 also with Equipo-Argo in Sala Exposiciones Villa Eugenia de Godella (Valencia) with “Abstractus”, collective at Sala Exposiciones Municipal de Mislata (Valencia) and Sala Exposiciones Biblioteca Dénia (Alicante), with “Abstractus”, and a collective at 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 Premio de pintura Desideri Llombarte in Peñarroya de Tastavins (Teruel) in 2016. The following year she is selected by the Fundación Legado Andalusí, her work touring the country; she is a finalist in Premi de Pintura Ciutat de Manises (Valencia), selected in Valencia Ciutat Oberta Bienal de les Arts de Valencia. For 2018 her work is selected for the Dances series of Alcalá in the photography prize of the Asociación Turística Gúdar-Javalambre (Teruel), wins later editions, and selected in the International Art Competition “José Camarón” of Segorbe.
In awards she obtains in 2014 the Camarón prize of Segorbe Art Contest (Castellón), she exhibits individually with her series Europe in Instants at the Bancaja Segorbe Foundation, in 2016 she wins the Maratón fotográfico Las Provincias in Dénia (Alicante), wins the Balearia prize, and an accésit in the I Premio Eurostars Hotel Real de Fotografía. She is selected and exhibits at the Sala de la Entidad Cultural Valenciana El Piló in 2016 and 2023, and together with Equipo-Argo she holds a collective at the prestigious Villa Eugenia art exhibition hall in Godella in 2018, an exhibition that later moved to the municipal exhibition hall of Mislata.
She is again selected with work exhibited 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 Galería del Sol located in Valencia as well.
They award her the National Heritage photography prize by the Infanta in Madrid in December 2024.
She continues to receive numerous awards for her photographs and paintings, and has several exhibitions on her calendar 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 touch that gives them undeniable value.”

Patxi Guerrero Carot (Professor at Universidad Jaime I) published in various media.