Professional economist and rising cultural promoter, he studied Law and Economics at the University of Madrid, and later went on to study at the Centre Europ\u00e9en Universitaire de Nancy, Bologna Center of The Johns Hopkins University and finally a PhD Programme at the University of California (Berkeley).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has been a Professor of Regional and World Economics at several universities in Madrid, a member of several working groups at the OECD in Paris and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, as well as being present during the negotiations for the integration of Spain into the European Economic Community in Brussels. He has directed the Studies and Publications Service of a major Spanish bank as well as the journal \u2018Desarrollo de la Sociedad Internacional para el Desarrollo\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a cultural promoter, he was the founder and director of the Cine-Studio at the Ciudad Universitaria in Madrid, where he met the composer, researcher and filmmaker Jos\u00e9 Val del Omar, whom he accompanied to festivals and international technical congresses. Together with his wife, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Val del Omar, he published the three-volume work \u2018Val del Omar sin fin\u2019 (Ministry of Culture prize, 1992) and coordinated the collective book \u2018\u00cdnsula Val del Omar\u2019 (1995) at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, as well as the short works \u2018Tr\u00edptico elemental de Espa\u00f1a\u2019 (1996) and \u2018Val del Omar, m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del surrealismo\u2019 (2000), in both Spanish and French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, he has worked extensively on the dissemination of Val del Omar\u2019s work at festivals, film libraries and institutions in Spain, Western Europe, the Americas and North Africa. From 2002 to 2004, he curated the exhibition Galaxia Val del Omar, which toured several Cervantes Institute venues around the world to commemorate the centenary of Val del Omar\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2003, he also curated the exhibition Val del Omar y las Misiones Pedag\u00f3gicas, presented at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid and other national institutions, highlighting the work of the young Val del Omar in this important initiative of the Spanish Republic in the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2010, he directed the edition of a pack of five DVDs, Val del Omar Elemental de Espa\u00f1a, for Cameo (Barcelona), bringing together most of Val del Omar\u2019s cinematographic works and some of the films of his followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2011 \u2013 after the presentation of the major exhibition Desbordamiento de Val del Omar in Granada, Madrid, Barcelona and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria \u2013 he signed a contract with the Museo Nacional Reina Sof\u00eda (Madrid) to include the author\u2019s technical, audiovisual and textual works in the museum\u2019s permanent collection. These were preserved until now in the Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Val del Omar & Gonzalo S\u00e1enz de Buruaga Archive (now the Val del Omar Archive) as well as in the Picto Lum\u00ednica Audio Tactil (PLAT) laboratory that Val del Omar founded and worked in until his death in 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2013, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology named the PLAT Laboratory (currently on permanent display at the Reina Sofia National Museum) as one of the 101 Masterpieces of the Madrid metropolitan area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the last decade, exhibitions, publications and screenings have taken place in different parts of the world, confirming the title of the seminal 1982 work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Val del Omar sin fin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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