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EUGENIO RECUENCO Eugenio Recuenco was born in Madrid in May of 1968, in the middle of student protests that had spread out from Paris. As he himself would say “I heard all that to do, and was in a rush to be born and see what was going on”. He studied fne art, graduating with a degree in painting from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Without space in which to create his large-scale paintings, he began to collaborate with fashion magazines-frst in Spain and later in Paris, where he habitually spent long periods-while waiting to be able to devote himself to painting. Vogue España, Madame Figaro, Wad, Vogue UK, Spoon, Planet, Vanity Fair, Ster, Kult, Twill, GQ and Zink are some of the magazines he’s worked with. It was in Paris that he producer his frst advertising piece for Boucheron. From that moment, many brands would begin to call him to create their images, including Nina Ricci, Diesel, Shanghai Tang, Yves Saint Laurent, Playstation, Custo, Le bon Marché, BSI Lugano, and Pernod Ricard. In 2007 he was invited to create the Lavazza calendar, and from the US he was called to conceive, together with Eric Dover, the set design and staging for the opera, Les Hugueunots, at the Richard B Fisher Center in New York City. Paris became the city that established his rhythm. It is there where he also created his frst advertising spot. Tis time it was for “Nina” by Nina Ricci. Tis newly-opened avenue quickly lead to oportunities with other brands such Loewe, Freixenet, Mango, Codorniú, Chivas Regal, Regione Campania, Vanderbilt and Motorola, among others. In 2008 his video, Essence of Seduction, won the award for best advertisment of the year in Spain and the award for best short flm at the Mexico City International Film Week. From that moment, he continued to create short flms and video clips, such as Rammstein’s, Mein Herz Brennt, for example. He is now preparing his frst full lenght flm. Also his photographs had already been shown at the Reina Sofa Museum in Madrid, the BAC (Barcelona Arte Contemporaneo), Naardeen Photo Festival, FEM (Festival Edicion Madrid), Les Rencontres de Arles, PhotoEspaña, Art Toronto 2007 and the antional Spanish Library; It was once again in Paris where he would have his frst solo exhibit, “Dream and Storm” at the Bertin-Touleblanc gallery. In 2004 he was given the ABC National Photography Award, in 2009 he won Gold and Bronze at the Sol festival, and in 2006 and 2013 his photographs won Gold Lions at the Cannes Lions festival. In 2011 in the ofcial section he projected his flm “88:88” and “Desire” in ASVOFF Fashion Films Festival at CaixaForum in Barcelona. In 2012 he also attended in the ofcial section of the San Francisco International Film Festival Fashion his flm “Pure Beauty” In 2013 is TeNeues who called him to perform his frst solo book “REVUE “ whose release coincided with a solo exhibition at the Camera Work Gallery in Berlin in September 2013. Tat same year his flms “Pure Beauty” and “Air” were projected in the ofcial selection of the Festival of Montreal Fashion Week 2013. In March 2014 his flms “88:88 “ and “Desire” are exhibited in the auditorium of the Museum at FIT in New York in a piece called “Stories” under the “Hispanic - American Fashion Culture” conference organized by Cervantes Institute in New York. In February of this year has retrospective of his work at the Museum KUNST HALLE ROSTOCK in Germany In April 2014 his work had presence in Fotografska, Stockholm. He currently lives behind a camera.