Fitxa persona

Sagunt (Spain), 1962. PhD thesis El individuo exterior. Figuras y espacios en la ilustración gráfica del siglo XIX (The external individual. Figures and spaces in the graphic illustration of the Nineteenth-century) (2007).

His research can be framed within the theoretical field of visual studies. Focusing on the historical interpretations of 19th- and 20th-century European painting, graphic illustration, design, and photography, it aims to establish cultural connections between the history of Aesthetics and technical epistemologies. Director of the Valencian Archive of Design (Arxiu Valencià del Disseny) and the journal Arxiu, he took part in the Prometeo I+D+i research project “Arxiu Valencià del Disseny: shaping the future, designing the present, rescuing the past (GVA PROMETEU 2021/001), as well as the I+D+i Project "The artistic life in Valencia (1880-1936). Sources for a dictionary of artists". (HAR2009-14480). In 2010, he published his PhD dissertation in the book ‘Graphic illustration in the 19th century. Functional and dysfunctional features’ (La ilustración gráfica del siglo XIX. Funciones y disfunciones). Since then, he has been invited to take part in the Workshop on Satirical, Caricature, and Graphic Illustration (ASCIGE) at the Nouvelle Sorbonne University, Paris and regularly collaborates in International Arts Festivals such as Incubarte (6 and 7) and Perifèries 13. Committed to making contemporary art accessible to all, he has participated in outreach programmes at the Cañada Blanch Foundation (Fundación Cañada Blanch), the Contemporary Culture Centre of Valencia (Centre de Cultura Centemporània del Carme) and the Valencian Institute of Modern Arts (IVAM). He has also published various critiques of contemporary artists and develops curatorial tasks at the University of Valencia, the Casa-Museu Benlliure and the IVAM of Valencia.