Fernando Castro Flórez
Fernando Castro Flórez (Plasencia, 1964) works as a Professor at the Institute of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts, Autonomous University, Madrid. He collaborates as an art critic for the supplement of newspaper ABC Cultural. He has written regularly in cultural supplement of newspapers such as El País, Diario16, El Independiente, El Sol, and El Mundo, among others; and magazines such as Descubrir el Arte and Revista de Occidente. Director of the magazine Cuadernos del IVAM and member of the editorial board of Pasajes. He has been member of the Museo Reina Sofía Board of Trustees and he is member of the Museum’s Acquisitions Committee. He has curated a number of exhibitions such as the Chile Triennial, the Curitiba Biennial or the Chile Pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2011. He has curated solo exhibitions of Anselm Kiefer, Tony Cragg, David Nash, Nacho Criado, Fernando Sinaga or Antón Lamazares
As an editor and translator, he has been in charge of publications such as Walter Benjamin work. He is author, among others, of the following publications: Elogio de la pereza. Notas para una estética del cansancio (Julio Ollero, 1992), Escaramuzas. El arte en el tiempo de la demolición (CendeaC, 2003), Sainetes y otros desafueros del arte contemporáneo (CendeaC, 2007), Una “verdad” pública. Consideraciones sobre el arte contemporáneo (Documenta, 2010) or Contra el bienalismo. Crónicas fragmentarias del extraño mapa actual (Akal, 2012).
