ANTONIO
RABAZAS ROMERO

Graduated in Fine Arts with an extraordinary Bachelor's and Doctorate award. He He holds a degree in Fine Arts with an extraordinary Bachelor's and Doctorate award. He was awarded an FPI scholarship (1996-2000) to complete his doctoral thesis. He began teaching in 2000 as an associate professor, obtaining a position as a full professor in 2002 in the Department of Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Madrid (UCM). He also served as Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Art Research and Creation (2010-2012). His research activity includes three recognized research periods. He directed the research group: "Urban Drifts. Artistic Interventions in the Territory" from 2009 to 2021, when it merged with the group "Climatologies of the Planet and Consciousness." He has published two book chapters in Cátedra editions, edited several monographs, various articles in specialized journals on art and landscape, and participated in conferences, workshops, and seminars. He has curated exhibitions at the Conde Duque Center, the Cervantes Institute in Porto, the Serrano Palace in Ávila, and the Provincial Museum of Albacete. He has served as an advisory member of the Urban Landscape Commission of the Madrid City Council and as a member of the editorial board of the Architecture and Urbanism journal Estoa. He is an evaluator of the ANECA Commission 29 Arte, for state accreditation for access to university teaching staff. His artistic activity emerges from a slow immersion in the landscape, which has led to various exhibitions in Spain and several European cities. He has completed two public sculpture commissions: Outopos, Prosthetic Sculpture and Zigurat in the Parque de las Delicias in Madrid (1996) and El Pilar es la Columna. Sculpture in the Lobby of the Caser Seguros Headquarters Building in Madrid (2002), and directed various audiovisual pieces and performances in urban spaces. I'm currently working "in" and "with" the landscape on the project Derivas. A work in progress of works on paper, which emerge from a slow immersion in the landscape through long walks in the different seasons of the year. They are synthetic and abstract results, obtained from the experience itself. From the observation of changes, of the seasons and of the specific landscape, traveled and experienced at a given moment and felt in an unrepeatable way: Rodalquilar, Deserts, Cabo Roche, Cloud Meter, etc. Professional Activity: Graphic designer, founding member of the Association of Spanish Designers and a member of the Bureau of European Design Associations. His notable work includes the creative direction of various electoral campaigns for the PSOE and the Socialist Youth (Juventudes Socialistas) from 1986 to 1989. A project manager with various architectural firms (1982 to 1995), his notable work includes the international competition for the Transmediterránea station in Barcelona; the Banco Santander headquarters in Madrid, collaborating with Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Hans Hollein; the Green Railway Corridor project in Madrid; and competitions for public housing, offices, and renovations in various Spanish cities, in Porto, and Paris.