The chair’s team is composed of doctors Sergi Domènech and Enric Olivares.

Sergi Domènech Garcia

Sergi Domènech García (Carlet, 1982) is doctor in Art History by the Universitat de València (cum laude) with an international mention. He was a researcher during his predoctoral training in the Department of Art History of the UVEG. He was a researcher at the Demetrio Ribes Chair and at the Institute for Aesthetic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He has carried out research stays at a variety of international centres, including Warburg Institute, in London, and he has been a visiting professor at several universities in Latin America. He is a member of the Spanish Society of Emblematics and secretary of the Imago journal, which the society publishes. He is currently Academic Secretary of the Department of Art History of the Universitat de València and coordinator of external internships of the Master’s Degree in History of Art and Visual Culture.

He has dedicated part of his research to the study of Latin American art, although not exclusively. His research focuses on the analysis and interpretation images. His main line of research is the study of “practices, persuasive ingenuity and visual rhetoric religious images in the baroque period”, as well as the continuity of practices and expectations of sacred images in modern times. This is reflected in his current line of research, “Image, religion and power in contemporary Spain”.

Enric Olivares Torres

Enric Olivares Torres (Algemesí, 1978) is earned his doctorate in Art History by the Universitat de València (2016) and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Art History. He has received a series of training grants from the City Museum of Valencia (2002), the Department of Art History of the Universitat de València (2003-2007) and the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia (2008). He was awarded the 5th Award for Cultural Research Joan Baptista Cabanilles in Algemesí in 2005.

He has participated in the cataloguing and installation of exhibitions on 19th and 20th century painters such as Juli Peris Brell, Manuel Benedito and Manuel Sigüenza, as well as on other artistic exhibitions in Algemesí (Salvador Esteve Toldrà and Leonardo Borràs) and exhibitions on local clothing. He collaborated on the creation of the guide for the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia (2009) and wrote the catalogue for the Permanent Room Adolfo de Azcárraga of the City Museum of Valencia.

His research focuses on ritual manifestations in the Valencian festive sphere during the Modern and Contemporary Ages, and visual culture, especially the source and development of visual representation of war in medieval and baroque art, the image of the hero and the sacralisation of triumph. He balances these efforts with the study of the local history and art of his hometown, where he also serves as a secondary education professor of Geography and History.