Cristina Santander's big, beautiful prints are the cause of expectancy every year at ESTAMPA. This seemingly untiring Argentine printmaker is smart, creative and highly successful. Cristina's work was recently selected to represent the UNESCO, and she was delighted to work with its fine director, Dominique de Lantivy.

Etcher and gallery owner, Paco Aguilar and wife Marian, from the Gravura workshop in Málaga were still waiting for the transport company to deliver their prints on the opening day of the fair. But they finally got it together and had another successful ESTAMPA.

This is Gabriella Locci, the driving force behind Casa Falconieri in Sardinia. This year, besides winning the prize for the best stand at ESTAMPA, the presented work by Paola Dessy, Angelino Fiori, Gabriella Locci, Alberto Marci, Roberto Puzzo and Giovanna Secchi.

This lively and delightful group of young people who ran the stand of the Centro Portugués de Serigrafía are: (l-r) Paola Borges, Ana Pachecoand Joan Prates. The CPS has a new building in Lisbon, totally financed by the successful subscription operation they have been carrying on for years. Congratulations!

Rodrigo and Alvaro Juarranz, tend the stand for their father, José María, of the Editorial Fuentemolinos in Madrid, editors of some of Spain's top graphic artists, including Barceló, Dalí, Antonio Jiménez, Miro, Luis Moro, etc.

Martínez Macarrón, Madrid's most complete supply source for printmakers.

Another stand from the Canary Islands, the Cabildo Insular de La Palma, with an exhibit of the work presented to their Carmen Arozena International Printmaking Prize.

María del Castillo and Henner
Hagenlocher of Die Blau Tinte
workshop in Granada presented
Marías work, along with that of
Stavros Chatziianou and
Apostolos Yayannos.

Maureen Booth attends a client at the World Printmakers stand. That's her work in the background. Also on the stand was work by Jennifer Waelti-Walters (below) and Joan Dubanoski. Madrid fair goers indulged in a veritable feeding frenzy on Jenny's work. Our sincere congratulations to her.

Miguel Negro tends the stand of Artágora, a Seville-based artists' cooperative with a virtual gallery on Internet. Participating in this admirable initiative are Guillermo Bermundo, Alison Buchanan, Rafael Cerdá, Neus Colet, Alicia Gallego, Hernández Stewart, Liviana Leone, Miguel Macho, Javier Marínez Ancín, Josep Mateu, Clara Oliva, Victoria Orozco, Marina Pérez González and Antoni P. Vidal.

Mariano Casas of Contratalla-Art runs an art publishing house, a gallery and printmaking workshop in Valencia. This year in ESTAMPA he presented the bibliophile's book, Fin de Fuga with poems by Juan Barja and woodcuts by Miguel Garlanda.

José Rincón runs an etching workshop and gallery for initiates in Madrid. In his second year in ESTAMPA he presented his own work, as well as prints by Javier Aranguren, Rafael Canogar, Joaquín Capa, Miguel Conde, Cassandra Constant, José Luis Fajardo, Amadeo Gabino, María Jesús Gómez, Jesús Nuñez, Mar Prat.

Cendra from Valencia showed six well-differentiated artists at ESTAMPA 2004: Fernando Evangelio, Xelo Garrigós, Josepa Gilabert, Cáliz Pallarés, Cuca Paulo and Miguel Angel Ríos.

The El Almez/El Lledoner screenprint workshop from Viladamat, Gerona, (though founded in Granada by Antonio Marco González...) is one of the oldest ESTAMPA veterans. This year they showed work by Gudrun Ewert, Emilio Sdun, Elena Laura, Chama, Miguel Jiménez and Miguel Reyes.

The media were out in force in ESTAMPA 2004. This Madrid TV announcer was suprised while reporting the fair.

Gonzalo Díaz of the Sala Conca in La Laguna, Tenerife has been in business since 1970. This year in ESTAMPA he presented work, including this curious "Michelin Menina" multiple, by Fernando Bellver, Rosa Muñoz and Andrés Rábago. Rosa's work was particularly bewitching, digital photographs of domestic scenes mounted deep in the woods. Fascinating stuff, very creative, original and not a little unsettling.

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