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August 6 - September 30th.,
Reception: August 11, 3-6 PM
Showing posts with label Gail Gelburd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gail Gelburd. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Gail Gelburd / Landscape! / St Francis Gallery in Lee MA.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
MS17 ART PROJECT / Contemporary Art Space
OPENING RECEPTION: 5 PM, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21
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Encased Memories - Artist Gail Gelburd uses mixed mediums,
photography, encaustic, found objects and other non-art materials
to create individual sculptural works that together comprise an installation
that explores natural calamities, displacement, loss and memory.
On view through January 31.
MS17 Art Project, Contemporary Art Spaces
in the Atrium at Harris Place
165 State Street
New London, CT 06320
in the Atrium at Harris Place
165 State Street
New London, CT 06320
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Newark Museum's Blog
Ajiaco: The Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
Thickening Our Own Ajiaco
By Dina Zingaro
...While exploring the exhibit, I noticed that even with its great diversity of “ingredients” in the works, the importance of connections and nourishment underlies most of the collection. Artist Manuel Mendive illustrates this idea of connection between humans, animals, and the natural world in a striking scene in his painting Se Alimenta mi Espíritu (My Soul is Nourished) where a group of animals and humans appear to flow and fuse into one another.
Manuel Mendive's "Se Alimenta mi Espíritu" ("My Soul is Nourished")
Amid the busy scene, a small child receives nourishment at the center as he leans upwards to drink from the utters of a cow, which could also plausibly be a human since a man’s head emerges from the cow’s back. This mysterious form continues below and morphs into a human positioned on their hands and knees, serving as the stepping stool for the small child drinking from the cow’s utters. There is an undeniable connectivity between the individual figures as animal nourishes human and human supports human (i.e. the crouching human helps the child reach the utters). Even the landscape’s foliage appears to encourage this idea of interdependence as it seems to embrace the figures and weave its way around the contours of the animals and humans. Such an emphasis on the links and nurturing relationships between the human, animal, and natural worlds permeates much of the exhibit.
Just around the gallery corner, in his painting Hijos de Obbatala (Children of Obbatala), Cepp Selgas further explores the power of making such connections by employing a familiar image of nourishment: a mother breastfeeding a child. The painting immediately reminded me of the Escher tessellations I created in elementary school art class where a shape is repeated (which in Hijos de Obbatala, is a baby’s head) and the void between its contours becomes another repeated shape.
Cepp Selgas' "Hijos de Obbatala" ("Children of Obbatala")
Reflecting Yoruba religious beliefs, the repeating head of a child suckling a mother’s breast personifies the teaching about Obbatala, an Orisha (a spirit or deity that embodies one of the manifestations of Olodumare or God in the Yoruba spiritual system), who creates all human bodies. Depicted as a mother and dressed in his traditional white cloth, Obbatala is the owner of all Ori (literally meaning “head”), which refers to an individual’s spiritual intuition and destiny. According to Yoruba tradition, a human being works with the Orishas to develop his or her Ori in order to attain a more balanced character with the hope of attaining alignment with their divine self. Thus, to know one’s Ori is to know one’s self…something we like to call “self understanding.”
By likening the process of gaining self-identity in the Yoruba religious tradition (alignment with one’s Ori) to an explicit act of nourishing, in this case breastfeeding, Selgas references the deeper emotional and psychological nourishment that mothers often provide to their children. Therefore, Obbatala is not merely an “owner” of human bodies, but is a builder and molder of the individual characters.
Alongside Mendive’s My Soul is Nourished, Selgas echoes the idea of connection, but also stresses the power of such relationships – whether with people, animals, places or a god – to both influence and nourish our characters. A well-known Yoruba proverb echoes the importance of crafting individual identity: “Ori la ba bo, a ba f’orisa sile.” (“It is the inner self we ought to venerate, and let divinity be.”)
Whatever these personal connections may be, they inspire, mold values, spark imagination, and seep into choices and actions; to nourish them is only to thicken the broth of one’s personal Ajiaco*.
*Ajiaco: The Stirrings of the Cuban Soul exhibition is actually on view at the Newark Museum from June 8 until August 14, 2011 / Today!
Thickening Our Own Ajiaco
By Dina Zingaro
...While exploring the exhibit, I noticed that even with its great diversity of “ingredients” in the works, the importance of connections and nourishment underlies most of the collection. Artist Manuel Mendive illustrates this idea of connection between humans, animals, and the natural world in a striking scene in his painting Se Alimenta mi Espíritu (My Soul is Nourished) where a group of animals and humans appear to flow and fuse into one another.
Manuel Mendive's "Se Alimenta mi Espíritu" ("My Soul is Nourished")
Amid the busy scene, a small child receives nourishment at the center as he leans upwards to drink from the utters of a cow, which could also plausibly be a human since a man’s head emerges from the cow’s back. This mysterious form continues below and morphs into a human positioned on their hands and knees, serving as the stepping stool for the small child drinking from the cow’s utters. There is an undeniable connectivity between the individual figures as animal nourishes human and human supports human (i.e. the crouching human helps the child reach the utters). Even the landscape’s foliage appears to encourage this idea of interdependence as it seems to embrace the figures and weave its way around the contours of the animals and humans. Such an emphasis on the links and nurturing relationships between the human, animal, and natural worlds permeates much of the exhibit.
Just around the gallery corner, in his painting Hijos de Obbatala (Children of Obbatala), Cepp Selgas further explores the power of making such connections by employing a familiar image of nourishment: a mother breastfeeding a child. The painting immediately reminded me of the Escher tessellations I created in elementary school art class where a shape is repeated (which in Hijos de Obbatala, is a baby’s head) and the void between its contours becomes another repeated shape.
Cepp Selgas' "Hijos de Obbatala" ("Children of Obbatala")
Reflecting Yoruba religious beliefs, the repeating head of a child suckling a mother’s breast personifies the teaching about Obbatala, an Orisha (a spirit or deity that embodies one of the manifestations of Olodumare or God in the Yoruba spiritual system), who creates all human bodies. Depicted as a mother and dressed in his traditional white cloth, Obbatala is the owner of all Ori (literally meaning “head”), which refers to an individual’s spiritual intuition and destiny. According to Yoruba tradition, a human being works with the Orishas to develop his or her Ori in order to attain a more balanced character with the hope of attaining alignment with their divine self. Thus, to know one’s Ori is to know one’s self…something we like to call “self understanding.”
By likening the process of gaining self-identity in the Yoruba religious tradition (alignment with one’s Ori) to an explicit act of nourishing, in this case breastfeeding, Selgas references the deeper emotional and psychological nourishment that mothers often provide to their children. Therefore, Obbatala is not merely an “owner” of human bodies, but is a builder and molder of the individual characters.
Alongside Mendive’s My Soul is Nourished, Selgas echoes the idea of connection, but also stresses the power of such relationships – whether with people, animals, places or a god – to both influence and nourish our characters. A well-known Yoruba proverb echoes the importance of crafting individual identity: “Ori la ba bo, a ba f’orisa sile.” (“It is the inner self we ought to venerate, and let divinity be.”)
Whatever these personal connections may be, they inspire, mold values, spark imagination, and seep into choices and actions; to nourish them is only to thicken the broth of one’s personal Ajiaco*.
*Ajiaco: The Stirrings of the Cuban Soul exhibition is actually on view at the Newark Museum from June 8 until August 14, 2011 / Today!
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Ajiaco / Soup Bowl No.3...click!
Al que no quiere caldo…3 tazas
Photos at Art-Images-Library
Newark Museum
Ajiaco / Soup Bowl No.2...click!
Al que no quiere caldo…3 tazas
Ajiaco' Opening Night / Newark Museum
Ajiaco' Opening Night / Newark Museum
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Art Knowledge News...click!
More on AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
Cepp Selgas/Los hijos de Obbatalá/Acrylic&Oil/ 60X48in./1992-2009.
Cepp Selgas/Los hijos de Obbatalá/Acrylic&Oil/ 60X48in./1992-2009.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Ajiaco / Montclair Patch...click!
Ajiaco: Stirrings Of The Cuban Soul
By CAROL SELMAN
"Among my favorite paintings is Cepp Selgas' (b. 1951) "Children of Obbatala," an acrylic on canvas masterwork where the creation deity Obbatala is represented as both male and female, mother and father, suckling the children of the earth: The rounded back of each infant's head becomes a breast nourishing the infant behind. In the interspaces between the curves of the infant faces are doves, perhaps representing the Catholic Holy Spirit and creating a pattern of negative and positive grounds".
Irene's Images / A link...click
A ROOM WITH ANOTHER VIEW
AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban soul
A VIDEO.
Nota al comentario:
Entendido. Ajiaco es un proyecto independiente desde USA. Y la música del video está muy “Si Cuba”, que ya es otra historia.
Ajiaco / The New York Times...click!
By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
"We miss the effects of the revolution and later developments, and how these made art of the Cuban diaspora even more of an ajiaco".
...Hum!...I say.
"We miss the effects of the revolution and later developments, and how these made art of the Cuban diaspora even more of an ajiaco".
...Hum!...I say.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
AJIACO / Channel 13's SundayArts
Photograph by Michaelangelo Di Nonno.
Channel 13's SundayArts / NY's PBS station, will do a brief on:
AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
This evening Thursday, 7/28 at 8 pm.
& AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
On Sunday, 7/31 at noon Channel 13's SundayArts.
Don't miss it!
Channel 13's SundayArts / NY's PBS station, will do a brief on:
AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
This evening Thursday, 7/28 at 8 pm.
& AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
On Sunday, 7/31 at noon Channel 13's SundayArts.
Don't miss it!
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
ART IN DEPTH
Explore the Art of Cuba
Photograph by Michaelangelo Di Nonno.
Estoy de vuelta al tema Ajiaco*, de vuelta a Nueva York, tras mi reciente visita al esplendido Museo de la vecina ciudad de Newark. Y de vuelta al estoico esfuerzo de trabajar a media maquina con un casi imposible servicio de Internet.
Más ingrato no pudo ser el día de ayer, raspando los 100-grados, con humedad-pico de contra; pero también a su vez, un día de gratitudes en el orden personal.
Desde Octubre de 2009, la exhibición AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul ha visitado varios museos en USA. Vistas anunciadas todas en mi blog. Dos piezas mías de formato mediano-grandecito forman parte de la muestra.
Debo gratitud por mi participación a la gestión personal de los curadores de arte, Benjamin Ortiz y Gustavo Valdés y a la entusiasta acogida por parte de la Dr. Gail Gelburd, curadora y creadora del concepto Ajiaco; que desde el principio concibió mi cuadro Los hijos de Obbatalá, como centro-eje de cada una de las diversas instalaciones. Confesión pública y privada de su parte. Y mi ego y yo muy agradecidos, por supuesto.
Mis obligadas gratitudes del día de ayer, son también en torno al específico evento, que dentro del marco de la exhibición Ajiaco se llevó a cabo en el Museo de Newark, bajo el titulo ART IN DEPTH / Explore the Art of Cuba ; con lecturas y visuales, ofrecidas por la Dr. Gail Gelburd y el Dr. Alejandro Anreus, donde en la selección visual de ambas, fueron incluidas mis piezas.
Y finalmente mi gratitud al grupo anónimo de amantes del arte que respondieron con el “Lleno” de un auditórium, nada pequeño. Maravillas gratas de un día ingrato.
*AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul / Newark Museum
Junio 8 - Agosto 14, 2011.
Photograph by Michaelangelo Di Nonno.
Estoy de vuelta al tema Ajiaco*, de vuelta a Nueva York, tras mi reciente visita al esplendido Museo de la vecina ciudad de Newark. Y de vuelta al estoico esfuerzo de trabajar a media maquina con un casi imposible servicio de Internet.
Más ingrato no pudo ser el día de ayer, raspando los 100-grados, con humedad-pico de contra; pero también a su vez, un día de gratitudes en el orden personal.
Desde Octubre de 2009, la exhibición AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul ha visitado varios museos en USA. Vistas anunciadas todas en mi blog. Dos piezas mías de formato mediano-grandecito forman parte de la muestra.
Debo gratitud por mi participación a la gestión personal de los curadores de arte, Benjamin Ortiz y Gustavo Valdés y a la entusiasta acogida por parte de la Dr. Gail Gelburd, curadora y creadora del concepto Ajiaco; que desde el principio concibió mi cuadro Los hijos de Obbatalá, como centro-eje de cada una de las diversas instalaciones. Confesión pública y privada de su parte. Y mi ego y yo muy agradecidos, por supuesto.
Mis obligadas gratitudes del día de ayer, son también en torno al específico evento, que dentro del marco de la exhibición Ajiaco se llevó a cabo en el Museo de Newark, bajo el titulo ART IN DEPTH / Explore the Art of Cuba ; con lecturas y visuales, ofrecidas por la Dr. Gail Gelburd y el Dr. Alejandro Anreus, donde en la selección visual de ambas, fueron incluidas mis piezas.
Y finalmente mi gratitud al grupo anónimo de amantes del arte que respondieron con el “Lleno” de un auditórium, nada pequeño. Maravillas gratas de un día ingrato.
*AJIACO: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul / Newark Museum
Junio 8 - Agosto 14, 2011.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
Newark Museum from June 8 until August 14, 2011.
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul is an exhibition that has been traveling through the United States for the past few years. Curated by Dr. Gail Gelburd, Professor of Art History at Eastern Connecticut State University, and organized by the Lyman Allyn Art Museum (in New London, Connecticut), the exhibition is actually on view at the Newark Museum from June 8 until August 14, 2011.
At The Newark Museum' opening night with the enthusiastic and great artist, Ben Jones.
The exhibition consists of more than fifty objects, including paintings, works on paper, photographs, sculpture, installations, and audio works by 22 artists: Alejandro Aguilera, Belkis Ayón, José Bedia, Juan Boza, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nelson Domínguez, Juan Francisco Elso, Carlos Estévez, Flora Fong, Joel Jover, Wifredo Lam, Laura Luna, Ana Mendieta, Manuel Mendive, Clara Morera, Santiago Francisco Olazábal, Tomás Sánchez, Esterio Segura, Cepp Selgas, Leandro Soto, and Elio Vilva.
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul is an exhibition that has been traveling through the United States for the past few years. Curated by Dr. Gail Gelburd, Professor of Art History at Eastern Connecticut State University, and organized by the Lyman Allyn Art Museum (in New London, Connecticut), the exhibition is actually on view at the Newark Museum from June 8 until August 14, 2011.
At The Newark Museum' opening night with the enthusiastic and great artist, Ben Jones.
The exhibition consists of more than fifty objects, including paintings, works on paper, photographs, sculpture, installations, and audio works by 22 artists: Alejandro Aguilera, Belkis Ayón, José Bedia, Juan Boza, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nelson Domínguez, Juan Francisco Elso, Carlos Estévez, Flora Fong, Joel Jover, Wifredo Lam, Laura Luna, Ana Mendieta, Manuel Mendive, Clara Morera, Santiago Francisco Olazábal, Tomás Sánchez, Esterio Segura, Cepp Selgas, Leandro Soto, and Elio Vilva.
Friday, May 13, 2011
AJIACO at Newark Museum
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
June 8, 2011—August 14, 2011
This mixed media exhibition takes its name, Ajiaco, from a soup made from a motley collection of ingredients. In this case, the soup is a metaphor for Cuban culture - itself a melting pot of disparate, sometimes contradictory and conflicting elements: Spanish Catholicism, and its association with colonial domination, mixes with Eastern and indigenous traditions. The art on display examines the complex an evolving nature of this legacy.
Newark Museum
49 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102-3109
Tel. 973 596 6550
http://www.newarkmuseum.org
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Ajiaco: Stirring of the Cuban Soul
After a period of two months and a week open to the public at Paul and Lulu Hilliar University Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana; Ajiaco: Stirring of the Cuban Soul, had its final day yesterday. This "All Cuban Art Show" was organized by The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, CT., and guest-curated by Gail Gelburg, Ph.D., Professor of Art History and Criticism at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Ajiaco is scheduled to be open-next at The Newark Museum, June 8, 2011 - August 14, 2011, Newark, New Jersey.
Hilliar University Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana (right side of picture- Los hijos de Obbatalá ), one of my two paintings in this show.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Hablando Bloguerias No.44
FALSA ALARMA! / Mi primer video
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Colgar mi primer video en Youtube, fue por supuesto mi aprendizaje final. En la misma tirada aprendía como incorporarle música, cerrarlo y publicarlo.
Mi maestro voluntario no está siempre disponible.
He retirado el video para continuar trabajándolo, y seguiré aprendiendo a cocotazos.
Mantengo mis agradecimientos, aun sin video:
Recientemente, daba las gracias al buen amigo Rodolfo Peñuela, porque tuvo la gentileza de instalarme un (VuPoint) de mi propiedad; un regalo de dos cumpleaños atrás, y darme instrucciones de cómo usarlo para la conversión de transparencias a imágenes digitales.
Hoy vuelvo a darle gracias por instruirme en los principios de video-edición digital.
Como producto de tal empeño hemos colgado apenas un par de horas atrás; mi primer video en Youtube. Un videoclip de un minuto y quince segundos, donde colocando la cámara sobre una mesa vitrina; la cual refleja mi cuadro “Los hijos de Obbatalá”, pude captar la escena de mi ceremonial contemplación en el centro del espejo-reflejo.
La corta escena toma lugar en la sala primera de la exhibición “Ajiaco”, en el Lyman Allyn Art Museum de New London CT.,USA, el pasado Septiembre del 2009.
Un verdadero "Kodak Moment"...al menos para mi.
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Colgar mi primer video en Youtube, fue por supuesto mi aprendizaje final. En la misma tirada aprendía como incorporarle música, cerrarlo y publicarlo.
Mi maestro voluntario no está siempre disponible.
He retirado el video para continuar trabajándolo, y seguiré aprendiendo a cocotazos.
Mantengo mis agradecimientos, aun sin video:
Recientemente, daba las gracias al buen amigo Rodolfo Peñuela, porque tuvo la gentileza de instalarme un (VuPoint) de mi propiedad; un regalo de dos cumpleaños atrás, y darme instrucciones de cómo usarlo para la conversión de transparencias a imágenes digitales.
Hoy vuelvo a darle gracias por instruirme en los principios de video-edición digital.
Como producto de tal empeño hemos colgado apenas un par de horas atrás; mi primer video en Youtube. Un videoclip de un minuto y quince segundos, donde colocando la cámara sobre una mesa vitrina; la cual refleja mi cuadro “Los hijos de Obbatalá”, pude captar la escena de mi ceremonial contemplación en el centro del espejo-reflejo.
La corta escena toma lugar en la sala primera de la exhibición “Ajiaco”, en el Lyman Allyn Art Museum de New London CT.,USA, el pasado Septiembre del 2009.
Un verdadero "Kodak Moment"...al menos para mi.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Cepp Selgas / Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
Hilliard Art Museum/Lafayette-Louisiana/July 2 to Dec. 18, 2010.
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Los lazos familiares / Acrylic on paper / 42X36in. / 1995.
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Los lazos familiares / Acrylic on paper / 42X36in. / 1995.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Más ajiaco...anyone?
Gail Gelburd' Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
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Lyman Allyn Art Museum
New London, Connecticut
September 12, 2009 to February 21, 2010.
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Hilliard Art Museum
Lafayette, Louisiana
July 2 to December 18, 2010.
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Newark Art Museum
Newark, New Jersey
June to August, 2011.
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul-Septiembre del 2009, en el Lyman Allyn Museum de New London, CT. Foto: Gustavo Valdés.
Ajiaco:Stirrings of the Cuban Soul es una muestra que contribuye a visibilizar el arte cubano fuera de su territorio y favorece la difusión internacional de la cultura y de las tradiciones cubanas.
Así, como en un ajiaco, los artistas participantes en esta muestra, no mantienen una unidad estilística formal, técnica o generacional. En su conjunto, este ajiaco artístico nos muestra una amplia panorámica de la diversidad y el sincretismo religioso cubano, en su entorno espiritual, con artistas que viven o vivieron en la diáspora, y con artistas residentes en la isla. Ellos incorporan en sus poéticas interpretaciones, elementos circunstánciales y propios, partiendo del sincretismo que los une.
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
Pavel Acosta, Alejando Aguilera, Belkis Ayón, José Bedia, Juan Boza, María Magdalena Campos Pons, Luís Cruz Abaceta, Nelso Domínguez, Francisco Elso, Carlos Estévez, Flora Fong, Joel Jover, Wifredo Lam, Laura Luna, Ana Mendieta, Manuel Mendive, Clara Morera, Santiago Francisco Olazábal, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Sandra Ramos, Tomás Sánchez, Esterio Segura, Cepp Selgas, Leandro Soto y Elio Vilva.
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Lyman Allyn Art Museum
New London, Connecticut
September 12, 2009 to February 21, 2010.
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Hilliard Art Museum
Lafayette, Louisiana
July 2 to December 18, 2010.
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Newark Art Museum
Newark, New Jersey
June to August, 2011.
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul-Septiembre del 2009, en el Lyman Allyn Museum de New London, CT. Foto: Gustavo Valdés.
Ajiaco:Stirrings of the Cuban Soul es una muestra que contribuye a visibilizar el arte cubano fuera de su territorio y favorece la difusión internacional de la cultura y de las tradiciones cubanas.
Así, como en un ajiaco, los artistas participantes en esta muestra, no mantienen una unidad estilística formal, técnica o generacional. En su conjunto, este ajiaco artístico nos muestra una amplia panorámica de la diversidad y el sincretismo religioso cubano, en su entorno espiritual, con artistas que viven o vivieron en la diáspora, y con artistas residentes en la isla. Ellos incorporan en sus poéticas interpretaciones, elementos circunstánciales y propios, partiendo del sincretismo que los une.
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
Pavel Acosta, Alejando Aguilera, Belkis Ayón, José Bedia, Juan Boza, María Magdalena Campos Pons, Luís Cruz Abaceta, Nelso Domínguez, Francisco Elso, Carlos Estévez, Flora Fong, Joel Jover, Wifredo Lam, Laura Luna, Ana Mendieta, Manuel Mendive, Clara Morera, Santiago Francisco Olazábal, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Sandra Ramos, Tomás Sánchez, Esterio Segura, Cepp Selgas, Leandro Soto y Elio Vilva.
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