Spain
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Enrique Juncosa (Palma de Mallorca, 1961) is a Spanish writer a free-lance curator. He has published seven collections of poetry in Spain. Some have been translated into English, Book of the Ocean (1991) translated by Joanne Pottlitzer and illustrated by Miquel Barceló, and also Bay of Flags and other poems (2010), which presented two of the Spanish collections in one volumen and was translated by Michael Smith. He has also publsihed numerous essays on Contemporary Art on artists like Miroslaw Balka, Gerard Byrne, Francesco Clemente, Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Deacon, Iran do Espirito Santo, Martin Puryear, Susana Solano, Juan Uslé, Apichatpong Weerasethakul or Terry Winters. Some of these essays were collected in The Irish Years, Selected Writtings (2013). From 2009 and 2011 he edited and directed Boulevard Magenta, and art and literary magazine published in Dublin. He has translated into Spanish works by Djuna Barnes, Julian Barnes and Colm Tóibín.
Juncosa was also director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin for nine years (2003-2012). He was granted the Order of the Civil Merit by the Spanish Government for this job. Previously, he had been deputy director of Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and also IVAM in Valencia, Spain. Besides, he has curated many shows in other institutions like Tate Britain, Hamburguer Banhoff, Berlin; MACBA, Barcelona; MAXXI, Rome; or Fundacao Gulbenkian, Lisbon. He was curator of the Spanish Pavillion in the Venice Biennale in 2009.
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June 2016