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On the occasion of the exhibition “VLC. Valencia a clear line “Sento Llobell presents his book” Vencedor y vencido”.

Vicent Llobell Bisbal ( Valencia, 1953)

He got a degree in Fine Arts in Valencia,and after that he started working as an anatomy professor in the same college from 1979 to 1981, in this year he stopped teaching for fully dedicating to drawing comics.

He was labelled as a member of the so called ‘Nueva Escuela Valenciana’ (New Valencian School) in the 80s, inside the ‘clear line’ movement.

He has published titles as ‘Romance’, El Laboratorio del Dr Arnau’, ‘Ruinas’, ‘Cazando Millonarios’ y ‘El cartero audaz’ both written and drawn by himself. He also collaborated with writers as Ramón de España in ‘Velvet Nights’, and the novelist Jaume Fuster in the series ‘Tirant Lo Blach’.

He has got a vast book on advertisement illustration. Over time, the presence of the three dimensions becomes more frequent in his work. He has designed avant-garde fallas as the ones of the City Hall square in Valencia (1986 and 1987), or the ones in Na Jordana square ( 2005 and 2011), and the walkable giant figure of Gulliver in the dried Turia riverbed, in this city as well. Other examples of his three dimension aesthetic are caricatures, paper crafts, published in the magazine ‘El Jueves’.

Since 1981, he has edited 12 comic books, he has also illustrated 6 books and has designed 25 posters. His illustrations and comics have been published in many media as “Bésame Mucho”, “El Víbora”,” Cairo”, “Madriz” ,” TBO”,”Pequeño País”, “El Temps”, “El Independiente”, “EFE EME” or “El Jueves”.

Nowadays he lives in Sagunto ( Valencia), and he still draws comics. He has begun to teach again postgraduate courses in The Fine Arts College of Valencia and monographic courses in ESAT, in the same city.

“La inmensa minoría” is a book tribute to journalist and art critic Rafael Prats Rivelles died in February 2015.

Collects more than one hundred articles published in the newspaper Levante-EMV between 1993 and 2015. They correspond to a selection of his weekly column published Monday that appeared in the same newspaper. The work has been coordinated and edited by his widow, the artist Maria José Marco, and J. R. Seguí, former head of Culture Levante-EMV and current digital newspaper columnist Valencia Plaza. It also has introductory texts of professors and art critics Juan Ángel Blasco Carrascosa and Roman de la Calle and the own journalist and writer J.R. Seguí. The work is a walk through the history of art and culture that Prats Rivelles took during his years of professional practice and is a tribute to his memory. Items collected are also a kaleidoscope of those who participated during those same years in the Valencian and Spanish cultural activity and a reflection on their own time. Rafael Prats Rivelles was biographer Max Aub and besides art critic, curated numerous exhibitions, including the artist Amadeo Gabino dedicated organized by the IVAM. The work will be edited by Denes Editorial .

Proyect PINQ of La Erreria (House of Bent) by artist and performer Graham Bell Tornado

This project carried out in collaboration with La Erreria (House of Bent) involves the celebration of a series of opening ceremonies for an international network of nature reserves- called P.I.N.Q. (Post Industrial Natural Queer) Parks to protect diversity in all its forms- biological and cultural.
In the past nature conservation has often been related to conservative politics where local peoples were displaced to “clear the land” for hunting, fishing or even green holiday pursuits. Under current green washing environmental practise, huge corporations can burn acres of tropical forest to plant palm oil, a supposedly green alternative to other fuels. The PINQ Park project recognises the historical value of Europe’s abandoned lots, warehouses and factories, spaces which are like open wounds in the landscape, displaying the wreckage of our industrial past. A past which is slowly being erased by the processes of colonisation by nature.

These places are of interest to queer ecologists and during the ceremony are designated “safe” spaces, for the species which live there, for women and LGTBQI people. They should be protected, not only for the value of their industrial ruins, but because they harbour ecosystems made up of pioneer species (of plants, insects, birds,etc) which have adapted to live in these sometimes toxic circumstances.

The first P.I.N.Q. park was opened by transgender shaman Geyserbird in Valencia on the winter solstice 2013 with a participative ceremony open to the public which reclaimed an abandoned industrial site which lies between a recently created park with luxury apartments and the new Safari Park, all built on land which once would have been agricultural.

The second P.I.N.Q. Park ( Barcelona) was opened in a disused lot near the artspace Hangar on 22nd February 2014 as part of a collaboration with Davis Museum -“the smallest contemporary art museum in the world“. In this ceremony we burned a copy of the Spanish law protecting biodiversity, a law which is in extreme contrast to the aggressive urban expansion currently swallowing up what is left of the spanish countryside.