Metralla Rosa
Carla Tofano
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Metralla Rosa is a place where Carla Tofano has inspirational chats with inspirational people in either Spanish, English or Italian. You can also watch the interviews at www.YouTube.com/CarlaTofano where there are subtitles in English, Spanish and Italian available. New episodes are released on the 1st and 15th of every month
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Nov 26, 2023
Ep 49 with Momtaz Begum-Hossain: Journalist & Author
*Journalist | Author*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Having an intuitive, natural and organic relationship with the colours that surround us is considered to be the norm. While satisfying our daily needs by making conscious, deliberate and premeditated use of the wide range of tones and subtleties offered to us as joyful nourishment by the world around us, is the exception. Momtaz Begum-Hossain, our guest for this episode of Metralla Rosa, is a journalist and writer who has turned colour into her religion and, to demonstrate the importance of living her life whilst being fully conscious of how we use the colours that surround us, has published a book that we have received with open arms. Hello Rainbow: Finding Happiness in Colour is an invitation to realise that our daily chromatic choices can turn our love of life on, as well as off.
Whether you are in love with riotous combinations of colour, curious about the physical phenomenon in which light is translated into clear and distinct chromatic tones, a scholar - or a novice - of chromotherapy, or completely oblivious to the interactive role that colour plays in the dynamics of our day to day communication, you will, in this interview, discover that it is possible to instinctively connect to a source of light, life and pure infinite energy, beyond the superficial observations we tend to make about colour. Momtaz has forged her own path when it comes to the discovery of colour and, along the way, she has discovered that not only is there an inner wisdom in her understanding of the colours that surround her, but also a vast ancestral legacy that she has dedicated herself to unearthing and sharing.
‘Hello Rainbow: Finding Happiness in Colour’ is the result of an excavation into the importance that various cultures have placed onto the ethereal powers attributed to colour. It is also an accumulation of years of personal experiences gained in organising walks, talks, group activities, exhibitions and events that have brought together anyone, of any age, who has a love for life, and who is, unsurprisingly, also in love with colour. Discover, in this interview, rituals that help you tap into the magical power of the sun, light and colour as well as how to become a hunter and collector of rainbows. Discover too, the seven fundamental aspects of Hello Hue, the colour theory developed by Momtaz that, from an anti colonialist point of view, challenges the colour theories developed and popularised by a Eurocentric white, male perspective.
And now, enjoy the interview!
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*Related Links:
*Momtaz Begum-Hossain: Website | Amazon | Instagram | Twitter
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Apr 15, 2022
Ep 48 con Juanita Euka: Cantante y compositora
*Cantante | Compositora*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Juanita Euka tiene una presencia poderosa en la escena musical de Londres. Dicen que el gusto está en la mezcla y la suya, su muy peculiar mixtura cultural es una absoluta delicia. Juanita nació en el Congo, y gracias a las faenas diplomáticas de su padre viajó a Madrid siendo bebé y creció en Buenos Aires, Argentina, ciudad en la que vivió desde los dos años y hasta que se mudara a Londres, a los 14. Sobrina de Franco Luambo Makiadi, considerado el rey de la rumba congoleña y uno de los exponentes mas venerados del sonido moderno congoleño, para Juanita la música ha sido siempre un canal de expresión natural en el que convergen sus memorias, sus ancestros, la felicidad del presente, y las promesas de un futuro rozagante de posibilidades. Fue en Argentina que Juanita tuvo su mas significativa epifanía, en la que el canto se le reveló como su gran amor, su mejor talento y y como su principal aspiración vocacional, sin embargo, fue en Londres que Juanita comenzó a descubrir su propio latido musical, convirtiéndose en una de las voces más destacadas de la escena afro latina de la ciudad.
Como vocalista todo comenzó con la agrupación afro peruana Malambo, luego pasó a ser parte fundamental de WARA, y mas recientemente su potente voz estuvo al servicio de dinamizantes proyectos cooperativos como London Afrobeat Collective y Animanz. Su arrolladora voz, su presencia decidida, enérgica y cautivadora, y sus variopintas influencias musicales que atraviesan un registro amplio y afortunado que no muchos cantantes pueden darse el lujo de honrar, hacen de Juanita una cantante difícil de pasar por alto. De hecho, en su recién estrenado primer álbum, Mabanzo, desde la rumba congoleña hasta el tango pasando por la cumbia, la salsa y el bolero coexisten, logrando una perfecta decantación de tantas y tan eclécticas influencias. En 2020 su sencillo ‘Alma Seca’ dió apertura a la tercera temporada de la serie Killing Eve, y a los días de haber sido finalmente lanzado el album al mercado, Elton John compartió en su programa de radio RocketHour el tema ‘Mboka Moko’ — una oda a sus memorias en el Congo.
No hay dos temas iguales en este album lleno de fusión y experimentación, y así como este show, Metralla Rosa, abraza la posibilidad de crear puentes entre el ingles, el español y el italiano, Mabanzo, el album debut de Juanita en solitario, también abraza el multi-lingualismo como parte de su identidad cultural y presenta un delicioso compendio de temas en español, en ingles, en francés y Lingala. En esta entrevista verás a dos hermanas afro descendientes y sudamericanas reír y llorar, embriagarse con sentimientos de revendicación femenina y feminista, y planificar acciones acertivas movidas por el deseo de habitar un mundo mas consciente, congruente y altruista.
¡Y ahora, disfruten la entrevista!
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*Enlaces relacionados
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Juanita Euka: YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Bandcamp | Strut Records
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Apr 1, 2022
Ep 47 con Javier Weyler: Baterista y diseñador de sonido
*Baterista | Diseñador de Sonido*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Baterista de excepción, músico, productor y diseñador de sonidos y comunicador social, Javier Weyler nació en Argentina, sin embargo creció en Venezuela, y fue en la ciudad de Caracas donde comenzó su carrera musical en los 90 con su banda Claroscuro. Después de alcanzar un éxito considerable en la escena rock caraqueña con su agrupación y de graduarse como comunicador social, Javier decidió mudarse a Londres para formarse como ingeniero de sonido. Poco después de entrar a trabajar a un estudio como asistente, se le presentó la oportunidad de mayor relevancia internacional hasta ese momento, la de pasar a formar parte, como baterista, de Stereophonics, una de las agrupaciones más sólidas y respetadas de la escena rock británica.
Junto a Stereophonics, banda que llegó a tener 7 álbumes en la posición numero uno en los billboards en Inglaterra y que le ha abierto giras a agrupaciones legendarias como los Rolling Stones y Oasis, Javier viajó el mundo entre los años 2004 y 2012. Como baterista es certero, agraciado, preciso y poderoso, sin embargo, sus ambiciones artísticas no le han permitido la indulgencia de gozarse únicamente las mieles que ser un instrumentista fuera del montón. Sus búsquedas artísticas le han permitido reinventarse desde múltiples ángulos, perspectivas y facetas de la creación musical. Como compositor, al mando de los botones de una cónsola, frente a una computadora o armado de un par de baquetas, Javier logra moverse siempre como pez en el agua, sobresalir y despertar admiración.
Incansable, estado de gira junto a Stereophonics, compuso y grabó “Lágrima” bajo el pseudónimo de Capitan Melao. Este su primer album en solitario vió luz en 2007, y fue este compendio de canciones de musicalidad poéticas y líricas muy personales, lo que le permitió reencontrarse con el español y colaborar con creadores musicales de la talla de Phil Manzanera, el guitarrista de Roxi Music y Natalia Lafurcade, aùn la voz femenina mas solvente de la escena indie mexicana. Javier no ha parado de crecer como músico y como creador de sonidos desde su llegada a Londres en 2001, de hecho sus clases magistrales de diseño de sonido han sido un éxito en Buenos Aires. Responsable de la banda sonora del film ‘El Yaque’ (2012), también dirigió la banda sonora de ‘Maradona en México’, la serie producida por Netflix (2020). En la actualidad, gerencia junto a un grupo de ingenieros y músicos de Londres, 5dbmedia, un espacio único en su estilo y oferta, creado con la intensión de generar oportunidades comunitarias para la conexión y el encuentro amigable entre músicos.
Javier en esta entrevista nos facilita un vertiginoso recorrido a lo largo de su excitante carrera y sin escatimar en opiniones polémicas acerca de la industria musical, nos ofrece también una refrescante y optimista visión de la vida y la creación.
¡Y ahora, disfruten la entrevista!
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*Enlaces relacionados
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5dB: Website | YouTube
Javier Weyler: YouTube | Instagram
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Mar 1, 2022
Ep 46 con Phaxsi Coca: Músico y Activista Cultural
*Músico | Activista Cultural*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Phaxsi Coca fue bautizada por sus padres como Jeanette Rojas al momento de llegar al mundo en su Bolivia natal. Sin embargo, siendo descendientes de una madre Quechua y de un padre Aymara, no le tomo mucho darse cuenta que ella merecía un nombre que abrazara su identidad como embajadora de la cosmovisión andina. Por ello, tras escuchar el llamado de sus ancestros, decididió bautizarse a si misma con el nombre que sentía apoyaría con mayor coherencia sus búsquedas artísticas y sus travesias hacia la reconstrucción de un pasado ancestral que requería ser reivindicado. Hoy por hoy Jeanette es conocida en el mundo como Phaxsi -que en el idioma aymara significa ‘Madre Luna’, y Coca, en homenaje a la hoja de coca, una planta de la región que es símbolo sagrado tradicional de la cultura de los pueblos milenarios andinos.
Desde muy joven Phaxsi es intérprete de instrumentos de viento tradicionales andinos, tales como los aerófobos de la familia de los Sikus, Quenas, Pinquillos y Tarkas, e incluso yendo en contra de supersticiones populares que mantenían a las mujeres alejadas de estos instrumentos, Phaxsi se especializó en su estudio y constante divulgación a lo largo y ancho del mundo. Fue parte de varias agrupaciones musicales como el Taller Boliviano de Musica Popular Arawi, del grupo de mujeres de música Latinoamericana Warmi y del movimiento cultural de música tradicional Sikuris sin Frontera. En 2002 formó parte del renombrado grupo Bolivia y entre 2003 – 2008 formó parte de instituciones musicales bien establecidas dentro del panorama musical boliviano como la Orquesta Musica de Maestros y Bolivian Jazz, ambos proyectos con estilos muy diferenciados entre sí, que le permitieron consolidar su adaptabilidad como músico invitado, y su evolución y aprendizaje constante como instrumentista de la escena folclórica regional. Sin embargo, el hecho mas trascendental y relevante de su carrera llegó con la creación de la agrupación de mujeres Comunidad Sagrada Coca, de la que fue directora desde su creación en el año 2003 y hasta el 2008. Este agrupación rescató música autóctona Aymara y Quechua con un gran afán investigativo, y replanteó de forma positivamente transgresora el rol de la mujer como intérprete de instrumentos de viento.
Asentada en Londres desde el 2008 y hasta el presente, Phaxsi es hoy por hoy integrante pilar de la agrupación de fusión de sonidos del mundo Lokandes, de la que su esposo, el conocido y carismático Kanti Qena es también integrante esencial. Por otra parte, también junto a su compañero de vida y de aventuras musicales, Kanti, y a su hijo Raymi – quien al momento de escribir este texto tenía solo once años- conforma la agrupación musical ‘Sagrada Familia’. Su vida privada y su vida pública ofrecen un orgánico homenaje al imperio cultural del cual Phaxsi se sabe heredera, mensajera y reina.
¡Y ahora, disfruten la entrevista!
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*Enlaces relacionados*
Phaxsi Coca: Instagram | YouTube
Lokandes: Instagram | YouTube
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Feb 15, 2022
Ep 45 with Julie Bloom: Artist
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Born in Nairobi, the London based artist Julie Bloom grew up between Africa, Asia and Europe – or more specifically between Kenya, Hong Kong, Germany and the United Kingdom – and it is this concealed cultural diversity that can be found in both her work and personality, shaping her decidedly eclectic and modern visual language. Being the daughter of an architect and having been nurtured by such varied urban landscapes throughout her life, Julie explores an artistic language that is heavily influenced by the role architecture plays in the lives of those of us who allow ourselves to inhabited by the cities we inhabit.
Parallel to this, Julie tirelessly develops collections of work created with various media. Her body of work contains an incredibly fertile mix of abstract pop paintings and drawings inspired by the graphic language of geometric shapes, as well as prints and lithographs which she creates in limited editions. With a frankly enviable versatility, Julie also allows herself to flirt with figurative representations of iconic characters from the pop world, as can be seen in her series of urban landscapes inhabited by Marilyn Monroe.
An assorted amalgamation of influences in her work reveals a fascinating contrast between her admiration for the urban landscape and her thirst for nature, which is clearly derived from a life of travel and experiences in different parts of the world. In fact, the fusion of her life with her creative experiences can also be seen in her performances and interactions, in which she carries out an unapologetic and covert dialogue with the urban landscape, showing her work precisely where she wants it to be seen in the time honoured fashion of ‘guerrilla art’. In her work Julie not only reveals herself while hiding, but also plays at transforming herself as she dares to push the limits of art and its institutionalised conventions.
One of Julie’s most recent artistic projects are her fantastic Translations – Interactive experiences in which she creates images during a dynamic real-time exchange with her subjects, giving their words and emotions form and colour. Indeed, in this episode of Metralla Rosa you will watch and see the results of Julie’s ‘Translation’ of Carla’s very own stream of consciousness.
And now, enjoy the interview!
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*Related Links*
Julie Bloom: Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube
Translations: Website | YouTube
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Jan 15, 2022
Ep 44 con Elena Saraceni: Curadora de Arte
*Curadora de Arte*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
La potencialidad multifacética de Elena Saraceni no es azarosa. Aunque nació en Argentina, desde muy temprana edad Elena se vió en la nacesidad de lidiar con un ecosistema tan variopinto, como culturalmente estimulante. De hecho, antes de residenciarse en Londres en 2010, Elena transcurrió su niñez y su adolescencia entre Punta del Esta en Uruguay, Buenos Aires, Paris y Caracas. De hecho, quizás se deba a esta feliz circunstancia marcada por continuos procesos de adaptación y dezplazamiento, que sus apegos idiosincráticos sean de una plasticidad asombrosa. Y quizás también gracias a todos estas fracturas con la ilusoria definición de pertenencia que a la mayoría nos condiciona, desde muy temprana edad Elena resuena vocacionalmente con las múltiples esferas del arte contemporáneo.
Comenzó su carrera en el mundo del arte en el 2015 como Fine Art Consultant y como gerente de espacios de galería. Rápidamente pasó a ocuparse del desarrollo de la presencia digital de galerías en Artsy, una importante plataforma dedicada a la venta de arte. De hecho, tras coordinar el manejo virtual de casi 100 galerías en Europa, India y Estados Unidos, obtuvo una comprensión estratégica de los múltiples aspectos vinculados con el mercado del arte y sus protocolos, convenciones, y manejos políticos tras bastidores, que de otro modo le habría tomado años adquirir. También estuvo involucrada en London Collective brindando asistencias curatoriales privadas a Vortic.art y tuvo la oportunidad de desarrollar iniciativas de naturaleza humanitaria y ecologista dentro de la escena del arte global, como Parley Collective, por la limpieza de los océanos, y Reprieve Colective, por los derechos humanos.
Sin embargo, en materia de curaduría de arte, ningún acierto puede compararse con la satisfacción que para Elena significó concebir y desarrollar Female voices of Latin America: una exhibición virtual que logró convocar, y celebrar, el trabajo de más de 150 mujeres artistas vivas en la región, representadas por más de 60 galerías y museos. Esta ambiciosa exhibición virtual fue inaugurada el Día Internacional de la Mujer, el 8 de marzo del 2021, resultando ser la presentación más grande de artistas femeninas latinoamericanas en la historia. Diecinueve países respondieron a la convocatoria de Female Voices of Latin America, y entre las galerías y museos que participaron se incluyeron el Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) en Colombia, el Museo Tamayo en México y el Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC) en Costa Rica.
La respuesta de la prensa fue decididamente positiva no solo en Latinoamérica si no también desde importantes tribunas de cobertura informativa internacional como The Financial Times y, gracias a este episodio de Metralla Rosa, descubrirás porque Female Voices of Latin America ha sido para Elena la confirmación de que el arte y las visiones altruistas pueden ir de la mano.
¡Y ahora, disfruten la entrevista!
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*Enlaces relacionados*
Elena Saraceni: Instagram
Female Voices of Latin America: Website
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Jul 14, 2021
Ep 43 with Chris Inperspective: DJ, musician & music producer
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
With more than two decades of experience as a music producer and DJ, Chris Inperspective, our latest guest for this episode of Metralla Rosa, is the founder of Inperspective Records, Eloisa Records and Black Junglist Alliance.
Thanks to his ongoing stance against racism and his conviction that black artists must work to reclaim the importance of black culture in the history of the western world, Chris has constantly found himself in a position of being able to create musical experimentation and spaces in which the cultivation of quality and innovation are the only priority. With a successful career as an artist on the London Jungle and Drum’n’Bass scene Chris has, for many years, been an active voice within a movement that was born in the early nineties from the hearts and souls of young people living in primarily black and socially marginalised communities on the streets of the English capital. Culturally, these musical movements were responding to the limitations and anger arising from post Thatcher Britain, a spontaneous musical genre that promoted cultural diversity and social unification through dance. It was a musical scene that, with its priority of rhythm over melody and its acknowledgement of a musicality present within its sequences of accelerated breaks, inadvertently brought people together in their desire to positively destabilise the status quo in more ways than one.
Join us to explore the artistic journey of a DJ who has touched several generations with his music and to see how political and business decisions within major record labels and the music world affect the day to day reality of the international Jungle and Drum’n’Bass scene. In this interview, Chris and Carla discuss, amongst many other things, the lack of representation for black women on the British dance scene, how the necessity for him to self-manage and self-promote led to the creation of the Black Junglist Alliance and how his passion for discovering new and emerging talents has allowed Chris to face the future with optimism and a spring in his step.
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*Related Links*
Chris Inperspective: Instagram
Inperspective Records: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Bandcamp | Soundcloud
Eloisa Records: Instagram | Facebook | Soundcloud | Bandcamp
Black Junglist Alliance: Instagram | Facebook
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Jun 30, 2021
Ep 42 with Adele Brydges: Ceramic artist
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Adele Brydges’ ceramic creations sit perfectly and harmoniously at the crossroads between tradition and innovation. Her style and artistic projections live in a world that hovers between the tranquil inspiration of classical beauty and a vindictive voice that breaks the rules, whilst voluntarily placing itself in the absolute centre of the eye of a hurricane.
Believing that Art can be therapeutic, pleasure can be healing and sex can be sacred, Adele creates dildos and other erotic toys that are eco-friendly and aesthetically refined, allowing you to explore the art of pleasure through creation. And by learning ancient techniques used to create durable, every day objects and applying them to her pieces made for self pleasure, whilst at the same time staying true to her own tastes and sensual preferences, she has elevated the creation of utilitarian ceramic pieces to a new level.
To be welcomed into one of Adele’s East London workshops is to be invited into her innermost sanctuary, an intimate and sacred space, and the generosity implicit in this inclusive and welcoming gesture creates an immediate sense of gratitude and respect. Whether attending couples workshops, mixed sex workshops, or female – and female identifying – only workshops, your experiences will be enormously liberating, revitalising and healing. They will encourage you to go on a journey that reconnects you with creativity and self-pleasure, whilst helping you recognise that both are intrinsically intertwined and that neither of these life experiences should be seen as a final destination or a specific goal. The pleasure of creating and, in turn, using creation as a means of exploring the erotic self, lies in the journey itself – one of constant and continuous exploration and which is, according to Adele, full of seeds that will readily erupt into flower. It is for this reason that Adele’s stunning pieces are such elegant symbols of power, well-being, worth and beauty that will shamelessly open the doors to pleasure.
Discover, in this interview, the connections between her creations, her childhood and her grandmother, what she feels her most successful collaborations have been and where she feels her future and current challenges lie, in the face of the conservative, patriarchal morality.
And now, enjoy the interview!
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*Related Links*
Adele Brydges: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Decorate a Dildo workshops: Instagram | Facebook | Bookings
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Jun 14, 2021
Ep 41 with Sue Dray: Artist, fashion illustrator & art tutor
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
For more than forty years, Sue Dray has been communicating with her art in many capacities and on many levels – starting as an illustrator for pioneering feminist publications such as Spare Rib and The Women’s Press, both now considered cult magazines and historical treasures, archived and faithfully preserved as study material by The British Library.
Throughout the 1980s, Sue illustrated book covers for renowned authors such as Fay Weldon and Margaret Atwood, put her talents to use illustrating cookbooks and magazines such as Gay News and Gai Pied, completed a master’s degree in art that led to her teaching at universities in the United States and produced some of her most personal work, inspired by her two young daughters. She has since drawn live alongside the catwalk during shows by designers such as Pam Hogg, Vivienne Westwood and Zandra Rhodes, illustrated behind the scenes for Andrew Logan‘s Alternative Miss World and appeared drawing backstage during the 2018 film 'Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist'. Her style is a combination of strong lines, painterly textures and intense, contrasting colours. Yet, despite her constant search for evolution and change, these characteristics of her artistic language have remained intact since the beginnings of her prolific career, during the golden eighties.
Today Sue is regularly commissioned by magazines and designers for the drawings and sketches she creates during the unveiling of collections in all the major fashion capitals, throughout fashion season. In 2018 she was Fashion Scout‘s first resident artist for the Spring/Summer collection of London Fashion Week, during which we could see her standing in a sea of surrealism at her elegant easel, a mouth full of paintbrushes, surrounded by throngs of press photographers, all competing with her for the best images from each collection. Following an approach by Apple in 2015, she has also found time to experiment with digital drawing – a medium she has come to appreciate when working under the hectic conditions of fashion shows.
Last but not least, it is impossible to ignore the extent of her teaching experience: Sue has taught in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States and was, for eight years, course leader of the Fashion Illustration Course at The London College of Fashion. She continues to contribute to this renowned institution as a guest lecturer, nurturing future generations of fashion artists with her vibrant teaching style and a faith in the arts that exudes life, spontaneity, authenticity and innovation.
And now, enjoy the interview!
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*Related Links*
Sue Dray: Website | Instagram
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Jun 1, 2021
Ep 40 con Luzmira Zerpa: Músico, cantante y sanadora
*Músico | Cantante | Sanadora*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
No cualquiera puede darse el lujo de tener un oido musical y una voz privilegiados, 21 hermanos, una familia excepcionalmente estimulante, y contar con la fortuna de ser de Lara, probablemente el estado mas prolífico desde el punto de vista musical de toda Venezuela. Originaria de Sanare, un pueblo en las montañas del estado Lara, considerado cuna del Tamunangue – una celebración devocional que incluye música en vivo, canto y baile- gracias a su precoz iniciación musical, Luzmira Zerpa desde muy temprana edad es considera reina del Tamunangue.
Hoy por hoy Luzmira es una cantautora de voz potente, de formidable presencia escénica y de fama y reconocimiento internacional. Le ha dado prácticamente la vuelta al globo terráqueo con su cuatro, y compartiendo su sensacional voz sin mezquindades, ni divismos, ni recelos. El mismísimo Manu Chao la invito a tocar junto a él después de escucharla cantar en el desierto, en un festival en Sahara Occidental, confirmándole que tenía una voz imposible de ignorar.
Con su agrupación Family Atlantica se presentó en un sin numero de escenarios internacionales, y grabó un par de álbumes que fusionan el folclore venezolano con sonidos del mundo europeo y africanos, tradicionales y contemporáneos. Estas grabaciones recibieron una excelente acogida por parte del público y de la crítica especializada.
Luzmira es madre, es hija, es hermana latinoamericana, es una mujer incansable desde el punto de vista artístico, pero sobre todo es músico en mayúsculas. Su interés por las raíces sonoras de su país natal, Venezuela, la han hecho urgar incansablemente en la trascendencia universal de ritmos y sonidos de la Venezuela profunda – como el Tamunangue – y en la importancia de conquistar audiencias globales sin renunciar a su expresión auténtica.
Descubre gracias a este episodio como Luzmira se ha convertido en la reina del folclore venezolano en Europa, y por que viajar de su pueblo natal directo a Londres fue lo mejor que pudo haberle sucedido al público de este lado del Atlántico.
¡Y ahora, disfruten la entrevista!
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*Enlaces relacionados:
*Luzmira Zerpa: Website | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter
Family Atlántica: Soundway Records | YouTube | Bandcamp | Facebook
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May 15, 2021
Ep 39 with Susan Diamond: Artist
*Artist*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Visions of perfectly proportioned giant women, sitting amongst skyscrapers with red nails and fabulous platforms or walking through the night with glam punk hairstyles and faces made up in scandalous colours. Women without ethnicity, holding flowers that are daggers, fiercely dressed or proudly nude – sometimes with penis and testicles. Her painted protagonists are anonymous legends, rock stars and futuristic warriors – all visions of a controversial universe exuding pop art fantasies and Rock and Roll attitudes, whilst inhabiting the pictorial ecosystems that Susan Diamond has created from glimpses reflected back at her in the mirrors through which she lives her life – a life full of risk and adventure.
Susan’s paintings – and subsequent limited edition prints of the paintings – are large format and high…
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May 1, 2021
Ep 38 with Gaël Le Cornec: Actor, writer & director
*Actor | Writer | Director*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
To sit in front of a young woman, full of energy and plans for the future and who has, at the same time, already achieved so much artistically and creatively, is incredibly inspiring. Gaël Le Cornec – our guest for this episode of Metralla Rosa – is a multi award wining actress, a tireless creator of dreams and a storyteller who places the value of good narrative above all else. Gaël creates works that use the immediacy and intimacy of theatre to delve into people’s stories and memories in order to explore themes such as gender, migration, displacement and stereotypes.
Born in the Amazon, in northern Brazil, Gaël is a writer, director and actress who moved to London at a young age, having already qualified with a degree in environmental biology. Once in London she did a masters in cultural…
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Apr 15, 2021
Ep 37 with Cal Jader: DJ, music promoter & events producer
*DJ | Music Promoter | Events Producer*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Latin American music owes a large part of its diffusion, promotion and continuous celebration within London to Callum Simpson. Mostly known as Dj Cal Jader, he has been the driving force behind the emotions and very existence of Movimientos – a project created with two clear and distinctive intentions: To offer spaces for fun, dancing and joyful recreation and to create political resistance out of the cultural reaffirmation of diversity and differences.
Emma Goldman, the well known anarchist and writer, once said ‘If I can’t dance to it, it is not my revolution’ and it is almost as if this has served as the inspiration for Movimientos’ creation of its solid artistic agenda, in which the right to be different is a fundamental part of its fight against the homogenisation of predo…
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Apr 1, 2021
Ep 36 con Jael de la Luz: Historiadora, feminista y escritora
*Historiadora | Feminista | Escritora*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Historiadora, escritora, editora, feminista interseccional, activista cultural y pentecostal disidente, Jael de La Luz es una mujer de un empuje, una convicción ideológica y una capacidad de lucha francamente admirables. Mexicana por convicción además de por nacimiento – Jael nació y creció en las afueras de la Ciudad de México – además de ser una intelectual que fomenta la resistencia del pensamiento y de las ideas, Jael es también una mujer comprometida con las luchas diarias de las comunidades latinoamericanas que se ven obligadas a sobrevivir situaciones puntuales de injusticia social y política, en Londres y el resto del Reino Unido.
Desde la organización sin fines de lucro LAWA, Latin American Women’s Aid, ofrece ayuda y protección a mujeres y niños latinoamerican…
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Mar 15, 2021
Ep 35 con Enriqueta Ahrensburg: Artista plástica
*Artista plástica*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Enriqueta Ahrensburg es la cabal personificación del artista que existe inmerso en el proceso creador y casi totalmente desapegado del resultado que su obra podría generar en el mundo que la co-crea. Es la personificación del artista que respira, vive y produce experiencias visuales consecutivas y continuas, con la única y genuina finalidad de preservar su esencia vital y su sanidad mental, y sin esperar necesariamente el aplauso o la validación de un mercado que no siempre se alinea con su proceso. Estando en un momento histórico en el que todos estamos reconciliándonos más que nunca antes con la existencia como espacio para la evolución y la transformación constante, y no como un destino repleto de certezas, nos pareció justo y necesario conversar con Enriqueta e indagar en su práctica artísti…
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Mar 1, 2021
Ep 34 with Carl Randall: Artist
*Artist*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Carl Randall is an artist who dedicated an important part of his adult life to the practical and theoretical study of the arts, graduating from temples of academia such as the Slade School of Fine Arts and Tokyo University of the Arts, to name but a few and, in doing so, succeeded in developing an exceptionally personal voice which combines his fascination for urban spaces with his interest in those who inhabit them. His paintings usually depict people and places, passersby and locations, all intersecting without merging in a strikingly whimsical way. His ultra-detailed depictions of the world around him are brought to life with a genuine modesty, while the reality he describes with such a clear narrative intention is overwhelmed by his personal and unpredictable creativity.
Within his large canvases both subject and…
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Feb 15, 2021
Ep 33 with Frank Gambino: Artist & Art Tutor
*Artist | Art Tutor *
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Known across London - and now the world, thanks to the rise in popularity of online sessions - for being an artist who is actively involved in the life drawing scene, Frank Gambino is a superstar of portraiture and figurative drawing. And although, as an artist he is energetically expressive, uses large-scale formats and practices constantly and uncompromisingly, Frank is also a creator who greatly values the benefits of anonymity, preferring to pass on to his students what he has learnt through his constant process of trial and error, than to see his work displayed in art galleries and salons.
With a reputation for being a Master of Charcoal, Frank draws almost every day of the week; in his studio, during life drawing sessions throughout London, in colleges and in independent groups - for which he also t…
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Feb 1, 2021
Ep 32 con Gorka Cortázar: Artista digital y programador
*Artista Digital | Programador*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Para nadie es un secreto que el mundo de las artes se ha estado movilizando con mayor determinación de los escenarios tradicionales a los virtuales en los últimos años. Músicos, actores, bailarines, performers, poetas, escritores y artistas plásticos, han comenzado a explorar la infinita potencialidad de la comunicación digital global comprendiendo que esta ofrece nuevas dinámicas expresivas, nuevos lenguajes, nuevos lugares de encuentro y un sin fin de fascinantes nuevas interrogantes. Por esta y muchas otras razones, se hacia primordial darle la bienvenida al 2021 con un artista digital de lujo que pudiera iluminar cosas que aun no vemos claras en este sentido. Gorka Cortázar, nuestro invitado en esta edición de Metralla Rosa, es un experto en la consolidación de visiones a simple vis…
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Jan 14, 2021
Ep 31 con Eliane Correa: Compositora, pianista y productora musical
*Compositora | Pianista | Productora musical*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Eliane es una super estrella de la escena musical de la ciudad de Londres. Llegó a esta gran capital para estudiar etnomusicología y se quedó porque a veces el amor y el odio se dan la mano, y porque lo que amas y lo que te ama terminan siendo dos caras muy simbióticas de una misma moneda. Activa, asertiva, deshinibida, vital y visceral, con su música Eliane amalgama y expresa todas estas cualidades y las expande a su enésima potencia. Sin miedo a señalar los defectos del sistema y sin dudar a la hora de tomar partido para mejorar lo establecido como norma sine qua non, desde muy joven asumió la dirección musical de proyectos ambiciosos y valientes como WARA, En El Aire, y Ely y La Evolución. Proyectos que llevan de distintos modos su estampa personal y que han generado ma…
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Jan 1, 2021
Ep 30 with Zeke Apollyon: High Cardinal of the Global Order of Satan
*High Cardinal of the Global Order of Satan *
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
As the new year begins, it would appear that it is presenting itself to us as a fertile ground in which to seed the ideas and ideals for new mental paradigms and lifestyles. 2020 has, undoubtedly, helped us dismantle all kinds of structures that were previously perceived as being immovable – and it is on their ruins that we have already begun to build possible, alternative and parallel new worlds.
And it is precisely because this fundamental concept has been accepted in to our remote and immediate future that we, at Metralla Rosa, are beginning our new year of interviews with an outstanding and entirely relevant guest. Founding member and High Cardinal of The Global Order of Satan, Zeke Apollyon, joins us in this episode to kick start our year with what is clearly an extraordinar…
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Dec 15, 2020
Ep 29 con J Mom Coco: DJ, productor musical y performer
*DJ | Productor Musical | Performer*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Llegando al final de un año en el que la vida nocturna de las ciudades y del mundo en general sufrió tantas alteraciones y transformaciones, nos parecía esencial conversar con un DJ, performer y productor musical de la talla de Jonatán Mijares, mejor conocido en la escena musical como J Mom Coco.
Coco inició su formación académica en la música a los 3 años, creció en una familia de instrumentistas y compositores aficionados a la disciplina musical, y a la excelencia en su desempeño. De hecho, durante su crecimiento fue parte de una agrupación conformada por su padre y sus hermanos, con la que se presentaban en diversos escenarios públicos y se ganaban el respeto y la admiración de audiencias cada vez menos locales, y para Coco, la música ha sido siempre una forma de expresió…
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Nov 30, 2020
Ep 28 with Yurim Gough: Ceramicist & Artist
*Ceramicist | Artist*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
By the age of 30, Yurim Gough had had an intense and successful 10 year career in the fashion industry. It was a career in which she had become an expert in the design and mass production process of the women’s footwear market, and which had allowed her to move from Seoul to Tokyo with the aim of dedicating herself to developing her own footwear brand. However, the very ambition that had driven her along this upward trajectory in the world of design and fashion, also gave her the ability to walk away from it all and move to England for love, leave Asia for the first time in her life and give herself over completely to the challenge of learning a new language, starting a new life and rediscovering the call of her artistic voice.
As a ceramist Yurim has a style that is impossible to ignore. Her pieces are…
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Nov 1, 2020
Ep 27 con Karlina Veras: Escritora
*Escritora*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
La joven escritora dominicana Karlina Veras, es sobre todo reconocida por su labor como cuentista y por su pasión por la lectura y sus contribuciones en la creación de espontáneas alianzas entre lectores de la lengua española en el Reino Unido y entre lectores de la lengua española y la inglesa en general. Sin embargo, a lo largo de su carrera Karlina ha producido y dirigido cortos cinematográficos y piezas de video arte y ha compuesto piezas musicales clásicas y electrónicas, y todo gracias a su constante necesidad de expresar su amplio y vasto mapa de motivaciones interiores.
Karina llegó originalmente a Londres en el año 2006 para estudiar música, y mientras se formaba como compositora en London Centre of Contemporary Music, Karlina descubrió que su pasión por la lectura y la escritura tomaban cada…
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Oct 14, 2020
Ep 26 with Frederic Aranda: Photographer
*Photographer *
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Frederic Aranda, this episode’s fabulous guest, is a photographer who has perfected the art of creating images that are not only filled with beauty, but are also lucid and elegant. Specialising in portraiture, and with an exceptional talent in the difficult art of photographing large groups, Frederic has spent his career creating iconic images which we discuss, in detail, throughout this interview.
With more than 20 years of experience, he has a photographic style that is serene, clean, diaphanous and gentle, while his cv tells tales of his work on the pages of magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, The Sunday Times, WSJ and Esquire. Frederic was born in the city of Geneva, in Switzerland, but has lived in the United Kingdom since he went to Oxford University, having decided, at a young…
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Sep 30, 2020
Ep 25 con Renata Fernández: Artista plástica
*Artista plástica*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Es como resultado de una compleja concatenación de influencias e inspiraciones que surgen las pinturas, las esculturas y los dibujos que dan cuerpo y sentido a la obra de la artista venezolana Renata Fernández. Y aunque Renata estudió artes plásticas en la ciudad de Caracas, en el Instituto de Arte Universitario Armando Reveron, casi la totalidad de su práctica artística se ha desarrollado en Londres, ciudad en la que vive desde el 2003.
Disciplinada, comprometida con su propio proceso creativo, y consiente de su responsabilidad como principal fuerza propulsora de su propuesta plástica, en relación a sí misma Renata explica: “Yo no me permito bloqueos creativos. No detengo jamás el curso de mi producción plástica bajo ningún pretexto. Ese es el único reglamento que le impongo a mi proceso cr…
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Sep 15, 2020
Ep 24 with Natacha Marro: Shoe Designer
*Shoe Designer *
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Jumping feet first into a world of fantasy is precisely what the fabulous shoe designer, Natacha Marro, does with her creations. Every single one of her designs is conceived with absolute creative freedom and made entirely by hand, whilst still managing to put the needs of her clients above all else.
Born in Nice, on the French Riviera, Natacha moved first to Paris, and then to London – the city in which her irreverent and bombastic creative spirit was not only received by a market thirsty for her innovation and enthusiastic experimentation, but which also provided her with the necessary inspiration to strengthen the independent and visionary brand she dreamed of building.
Natacha Marro is an unstoppable artist, brimming not only with fantastic ideas, but with a passion for indulging the ambitious dreams of…
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Aug 31, 2020
Ep 23 with Tonderai Munyevu: Writer, Actor & Theatre Director
*Writer | Actor | Director*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Tonderai is, in addition to being a writer, director and actor, someone with a frankly formidable capacity for interaction with the world around him. He is fast, receptive, perceptive and warm, whilst at the same time a profound human being who knows what he wants, says what he thinks, expresses his visions eloquently and pursues his desires with a single mindedness, avoiding all distractions. He has the ability to live his life from a place of unquestionable authenticity, whilst at the same time being alert to his surroundings and responding to them with sensitivity and intelligence.
Tonderai Munyevu, this episode’s charming guest, offers us an enlightened stroll along the paths of reflection on issues that are not easy to portray, unless blessed with the wisdom that comes so naturally to him. Un…
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Aug 15, 2020
Ep 22 con Ektor Rodriguez: Artista, diseñador y artesano
*Artista | Diseñador | Artesano*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Conversar con Ektor Rodriguez acerca del surgimiento de su marca de sobrevivencia sensual y acerca de su linea de artículos eroticos, éticamente producidos y orgánicamente concebidos, Morbo by Ektor, fue sumamente estimulante y nos permitió explorar los senderos de lo creativo desde una linea de acción y un punto de partida completamente inusitados y excitantemente inesperados.
Morbo by Ektor es el ejemplo perfecto de como una marca puede, y debe ser, la expresión casi literal de las obseciones vitales de su creador. Ektor vive y crea, crea y vive, desde su casa/estudio en Londres, y si bien a lo largo de su solida carrera ha asistido a renombrados artistas, como Anish Kapoor, materializando sus visiones y transformándolas en objetos palpables de impacto tridimencional, Ektor sin querer…
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Jul 31, 2020
Ep 21 con Lya Reis Guerrero: Baterista, percusionista y surfer
*Baterista | Percusionista | Surfer*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Este episodio es una oda a la acción, y a las infinitas posibilidades de aprendizaje y crecimiento que se alcanzan al perseguir lo que amas de un modo deliberado y consiente.
Lya Reis Guerrero, mejor conocida en las esferas musicales como Lya Drummer, es una una mujer de fuego, una mujer que parece tener escrito en la frente las palabra ‘Vamos, si se puede’. Lya es lo que llaman en ingles ‘a power house’: una guerrera poderosa, con una fuerza vital que le permite moverse con acertividad, y explorar toda la potencialidad presente en las cosas que ama. Baterista, percusionista, diseñadora de sonido, surfista y skater, Lya se entrega a la vida con un entusiasmo contagioso, sin embargo, con esta entrevista descubrimos el lado mas estructurado y organizado de su fogoza personalidad.
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Jul 14, 2020
Ep 20 with Bronwen Murphy: Creator & presenter of Show Love Podcast
*Podcast Creator | Life Coach*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Independent, warm, receptive and open to experiencing life from a positive and consciously empowered perspective, today’s guest, Bronwen, is not only an in demand Floor Manager within the UK television industry and a Cambridge qualified, working Life Coach, she is also the creator of a podcast that we strongly recommend: Show Love Podcast.
This Podcast was born from the need to transform a traumatic personal experience into one of collective learning and, like all projects that come about from a clearly honourable initiative, ‘Show Love’ show has exceeded expectations, on every level. The idea of the podcast was to create a space in which to talk about things that may initially appear uncomfortable but which will, ultimately, bring about liberation, transformation and growth. And it is than…
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Jun 30, 2020
Ep 19 with Armando Alemdar Ara: Artist & art historian
*Artist | Art Historian*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Artists such as Armando Alemdar represent the archetype of the irreplaceable and unrepentant creator so well that it is impossible to imagine him doing anything else in life. For him, visual creation and intellectual reflection on art are inseparable experiences, both coexisting within him and his day-to-day life with unquestionable fluidity and naturalness.
Armando was born and raised in Macedonia, to a family that stimulated his creativity from the beginning, deliberately and unconsciously enriching and strengthening his interest in the arts and culture in thousands of ways. Perhaps for this reason it has proven to be relatively natural for Armando to create a deeply personal visual language, earning him a place on the international contemporary art market. And perhaps it is also for this that Armand…
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Jun 15, 2020
Ep 18 con Efren Prieto: Periodista, acróbata aéreo y yogi
*Periodista | Acróbata Aéreo | Yogi*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Efren Prieto es un comunicador social con vasta experiencia en medios, que atesora incursiones profesionales desde ángulos muy diversos de la estructura organizaciónal mediática. Pero mas allá de su solvente perfil corporativo, Efren es además un entusiasta acróbata de audaces peripecias aéreas, y un generador de contenido digital, independiente e innovador.
Cercano, cálido, generoso, pro activo y curioso, Efren se ha permitido explorar la experiencia artística sin excluir la posibilidad de crecer gerencialmente dentro del marco de las estructuras laborales tradicionales presentes en el mundo empresarial. A Efren le interesan los desafíos, quizás por ello vive en un país que no es su país, en un continente que no es su continente, y quizás por ello se lanzó hace ya un tiemp…
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May 31, 2020
Ep 17 with Tabish Khan: Art Critic, Writer & Speaker
*Art Critic | Writer | Speaker*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Being an Art Critic is a relatively recent profession, linked primarily to the worlds of journalism and written communication. For generations it has been considered almost a literary genre in itself, but thanks to the democratisation of the art market and the rise of digital communication it is no longer enough to be a prolific author in order to become an influential art critic. In our opinion, Tabish Khan is the perfect example of what it means to be an art critic today, with an important voice and dynamic presence within the media, generating information for the consumption of not only the specialised sectors but for the general public as well.
They say that curiosity kills the cat, but it is curiosity that has allowed Tabish to open up to the art world, discovering in the process an inexhau…
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May 14, 2020
Ep 16 with Rob Goodwin: Artist, Designer & Maker
*Artist | Designer | Maker*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Rob Goodwin is an extraordinary artist and a fantastic example of what it means to be born and bred with the belief that having London as your main source of creative inspiration and stylistic reference brings.
Rob began his career as a designer almost by accident, which is perhaps why his pieces are so easy to admire, yet so hard to pigeonhole. His visions are full of both fantasy and epic conspiracies that take you places without allowing you the time to acknowledge the inherent contradictions between his medieval and futuristic visions that create, in turn, unprecedented aesthetic discoveries.
Specialising in unique and inimitable leather pieces with elaborate artisanal detail, his creations are imbued with selfless dedication and a sophisticated attention to detail.
His creations have been wor…
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Apr 30, 2020
Ep 15 con Teresa Guanique: Creadora y Directora de FLAWA
*Directora de FLAWA | Socióloga*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Teresa Guanique, la protagonista de este episodio de Metralla Rosa, es una oda a la latinidad pro-activa, y abocada a la creación de iniciativas urbanas capaces de contrarrestar las hegemonías culturales.
Es la creadora y la directora de FLAWA: Festival of Latin American Women in Arts. Un festival que tuvo lugar por primera vez en Londres en 2019, y que seguirá llevándose a cabo cada año para destacar la labor de mujeres creadoras vinculadas a la música, la poesía, la narrativa, el cine, las artes plásticas y las artes escénicas.
Si hay alguien que conoce bien todos los movimientos culturales que tienen lugar en Londres para crear espacios de integración desde la diáspora, esa es Teresa. Ella representa una suerte de fuerza bisagra gracias a la cual muchas iniciativas se presentan,…
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Apr 14, 2020
Ep 14 with Iluá Hauck da Silva: Artist & art historian
*Visual Artist | Art Historian*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Born in Campinas, Brazil, Iluá lives and creates her works in London, where she has lived for over half of her life, which is precisely why it’s so difficult to decide whether she is a Brazilian artist living in the U.K. or a British artist born accidentally in Brazil.
Iluá is a conceptual artist whose work is predominantly figurative and whose aesthetic visions often present strong connections with anatomy, making use of the human body as an expression of existence made real.
She places the human condition under a magnifying glass, which is probably why her practice speaks of complex semiotic narratives. The many layers of her work lead us towards an understanding and exploration of the faith and symbolism present in both Christianity and the universality of mythological archetypes.
Many…
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Mar 31, 2020
Ep 13 with Trisha Goddard: TV presenter & mental health activist
*TV Presenter | Producer | Mental Health Activist*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Trisha Goddard is a queen and legend of international TV. Her career began in Australia where she quickly became the country’s first black TV presenter, though not without having to face the racial discrimination that came with this well-deserved professional breakthrough.
She began her first major international on screen venture in the UK in 1998 and has since worked on many successful shows, both as a producer and presenter. Trisha now works between the United States, the United Kingdom and, occasionally, Australia.
A journalist, producer, radio and TV presenter, long-distance runner and mother, Trisha worked with Nelson Mandela shortly after giving birth to the eldest of her two daughters. She has published several books, one of them the autobiography As I Am. She surviv…
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Mar 14, 2020
Ep 12 with Dulcie Ball: Artist & entrepreneur
*Artist | Entrepreneur | Author*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Dulcie is the epitome of everything she loves, surrounds herself with, and identifies with. A fervent advocate of the therapeutic power of creativity, Dulcie has an infectious enthusiasm for the art of drawing and, through the various initiatives of her Sketch Appeal brand, she brings her unique perspective to the London drawing scene.
As exciting as a party of mischievous girls, as colourful as a birthday balloon, and as playful and witty as a box of multicoloured crayons, Dulcie is a warm-hearted entrepreneur and an artist with a liberating, refreshing, bubbly and inclusive visual style.
Yet beneath her predominant exterior of joy and optimism, Dulcie possesses, above all, the courage and determination to deliver an offer that makes many happy while overcoming her own vulnerabilities and con…
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Feb 29, 2020
Ep 11 with Antonio Branco & Riccardo T: Performance artists & models
*Performance Artists | Dancers | Models*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Antonio and Riccardo are a pair of artists who explore the human body, the political readings implicit in the erotic and the transgressive possibilities of pain and pleasure throughout their performances, during which reality and fiction are constantly intertwined and challenged.
Creative allies as well as lovers in life, the two have created a visual language that questions social convention, the paradigms of established norms, moral authority and the censoring mechanisms of power.
Their bodies are the ground on which Antonio and Riccardo create, and with them they express their challenge on conservative and stagnant views of art and beauty.
This conversation sees them express their views on their personal and professional experiences with a fascinating fluidity and intelligence. The…
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Feb 14, 2020
Ep 10 with Olly Smith: Wine expert & TV presenter
*Wine expert | TV presenter | Author*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
In this episode Carla had the great honour of chatting, in the privacy of Metralla Rosa’s home, with Olly Smith. Olly is a cherished and respected public figure in the UK, with his popularity stemming from being one of the country’s highest profile, as well as friendliest, most accessible and relaxed wine experts.
Driven by his desire to make wine culture more accessible, Olly has written four excellent books on the subject, presents ‘A Glass With…the podcast that drinks with the stars‘, writes a column in The Mail on Sunday‘s ‘Event Magazine‘ which is read weekly by more than five million people, contributes specialist texts to a wide variety of newspapers and additional publications every year, and is the leading wine expert on BBC1‘s multi-award winning live cookery sh…
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Jan 31, 2020
Ep 09 con Itziar Bilbao Urrutia: Artista y dominatrix
*Artista | Dominatrix | Tarot*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Artista, activista, feminista, pornografa, dominatrix, Melusina moderna y hechicera, Itziar es especialmente un ser humano dotado con una feroz inteligencia, una inquieta sensibilidad social y una inquietante visión de mundo.
Sin comportamientos adoctrinantes o proselitistas, y sin utilizar las armas de la simpatía condescendiente, Itziar tiene una habilidad con la que únicamente las personas que son brutalmente honestas y fieles a sí mismas cuentan. Conquista tu confianza y tu devoción sin mayor esfuerzo y muy a pesar de no estar especialmente interesada en ganarse la aprobación de nadie.
Esta extensa conversación entre Carla e Itziar está llena de visiones fascinantes acerca de la vida al margen de las estructuras de dominación patriarcal y acerca de la creación como una forma de con…
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Jan 14, 2020
Ep 08 with artist Nick Cuthell
*Artist*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Nick Cuthell is a figurative artist from New Zealand with a modern image and a direct and frank manner – yet we could easily imagine him dressed in 19th century fashion walking the streets of London or Florence. This invisible link to the past may be exactly what informs his style of art, which is distinctly realistic and in keeping with the European impressionist and neoclassical portraiture tradition of the 1800s.
His gentle eyes are especially good at capturing genuine refinement and beauty, and for this Nick relies on the traditional painting techniques known as ‘Alla Prima‘, or ‘L’Atelier‘, where students learn directly from maestros.
Nick has a sweet tendency to recreate aesthetic and ethical virtue through his paintings. Like a modern-day gentleman trying to rescue a beautiful painting tradition, h…
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Dec 31, 2019
Ep 07 con Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco: Danzatore, attore e modello
*Attore | Ballerino | Modello*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
In questo episodio di Metralla Rosa, Carla ha il piacere di chiedere a Claudio Insalaco tutto quello che avresti voluto sapere sulla vita di Claudio e non hai mai nemmeno osato immaginare.
Ballerino, attore e modello, aggraziata incarnazione di un moderno Adone mediterraneo, a Claudio non basta essere un irrefrenabile oggetto del desiderio e portatore dell’ispirazione altrui. Basta scambiare le prime parole con quest’uomo affascinante per vedere che accetta il suo ruolo di musa senza complessi perché sa bene chi è, cosa vuole dall’arte e dalla vita e cosa si aspetta dalla sua poliedrica e inarrestabile carriera.
In questa vivace e sfacciata conversazione, scoprirete i suoi successi cinematografici, perché la danza è nelle sue vene, come ha iniziato a posare nudo, quali cose trova eccit…
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Dec 31, 2019
Ep 06 con Silvia Demetilla: Directora editorial
*Directora Editorial | Escritora | Músico *
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Emprendedora, empresaria, soñadora y visionaria, Silvia Demetilla es una mujer que transmite una inmensa calma y serenidad cuando habla, pero que acciona con la tenacidad y la determinación de una legión de soldados kamikaze.
De nacionalidad Argentina y temperamento estoico, Silvia es la fundadora, el motor y el corazón de La Tundra Revista. La única revista cultural en español que circula en su versión impresa en papel en el Reino Unido y España (desde el 2018), – y en el resto del mundo gracias a su versión online – desafiando todos los lugares comunes de lo que se supone está destinado a sobrevivir en el mercado editorial.
Sus publicaciones trimestrales son temáticas. Evitan las referencias fotográficas e ilustran sus artículos con dibujos e ilustraciones de art…
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Dec 14, 2019
Ep 05 con Gledys Ibarra: Actriz y directora de teatro
*Actriz*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Gledys Ibarra, no es una actriz: Gledys es la encarnación de la actuación hecha mujer.
Su pasión por la interpretación es pura y visceral y sin embargo, sus procesos pasan simultáneamente por la elaboración intelectual más minuciosa y profunda posible.
Con al menos 30 telenovelas, una decena de films y una cantidad importante de valiosas puestas en escena principalmente como actriz, pero también como dramaturga y directora, en Venezuela no hay quien no la conozca. Y en el resto del mundo hispanoparlante Gledys es sin duda una referencia cada vez más consolidada y certera.
Famosa por su mirada verde mar, tan profunda como penetrante, Gledys es la encarnación de la feminidad irrefrenable, empoderada e irreverente. Esa que siempre se debate entre sus dos mejores extremos. Diva de la vida y al mismo tiempo per…
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Nov 30, 2019
Ep 04 con Gabriel Moreno: Poeta, músico y cantautor
*Músico | Cantautor | Poeta*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Músico, cantautor, poeta, animal de la vida bohemia y emprendedor de la noche subterránea, Gabriel Moreno también planea convertirse, muy pronto, en escritor de prosa autobiográfica, con la publicación de su primera novela.
Londres le debe a Gabriel la versión Inglesa de Poetry Brothel, y un número interesante de otras alternativas en las que la que, sin solemnidad alguna pero con un interesante dejo de cándida rebeldía, la noctámbula periferia urbana se encuentra con su lado más lírico y existencialista. Se encuentran. Se dan la mano. Se besan.
Gabriel nació y creció en Gibraltar – un trozo de mundo con una identidad divinamente sincrética – y Carla no dejó pasar la oportunidad de hurgar en las polaridades de su propia herencia familiar. Todo con la finalidad de intentar comp…
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Nov 14, 2019
Ep 03 with Oliver Gingrich: Digital artist
*Artist*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
With a keen interest in the emerging and almost omnipresent communion that exists between visual arts and new technologies, Oliver lives and produces the totality of his work in his Notting Hill studio, in London. With a diploma in Visual Arts (Central Saint Martins), a master’s degree in Digital Arts (University of Applied Arts, Vienna) and a doctorate in Media, Oliver manages to intercept, link, and amalgamate an interesting conceptual vision into his creative offering, using an extensive variety of visual resources such as photography, digital art, acrylic painting on canvas and holographic projections.
As part of the Analema Group of artists, Oliver is able to implement projects with investigative thoroughness, causing substantial ripples in digital innovation. Using cutting-edge technology is key to these proje…
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Nov 14, 2019
Ep 02 con l'artista Rosso Emerald Crimson
*Artista Visiva*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Avremmo potuto fare questa intervista in inglese, dopo tutto Rosso vive a Londra da molti anni e dice che si sente a suo agio ad esprimersi sia in inglese che in italiano. Tuttavia, poiché questa artista è originaria dell’Italia meridionale, della bellissima isola di Sicilia, non volevamo perdere l’occasione di conversare con lei nella sua lingua madre. E la scommessa è valsa decisamente la pena. Un’artista dal mondo interiore così vasto e variegato deve una parte importante del suo discorso creativo alla sua memoria, al suo legame con la famiglia e il familiare, e alle rotture che ha attivato come processo di trasformazione ed evoluzione consapevole quando è emigrata dall’Italia.
Ha ottenuto un numero insolito di premi per un’artista della sua età, come il Jackson Open Painting Prize nel 2019…
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Nov 14, 2019
Ep 01 con Daniela Galán L: Artista e historiadora del arte
*Artista Plástica | Historiadora del Arte | Curadora de Arte*
* You can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.
Daniela Galán ha desarrollado en Londres una carrera llena de apuestas relevantes.
Como gestora cultural su gran impulso y motivación ha sido el de trabajar en función de lograr una mayor visibilidad de la obra de relevantes mujeres artistas latinoamericanas en el Reino Unido y Europa. Como artista Daniela ha desarrollado una obra de una gran solidez y contundencia – tanto en su forma plástica como en su contenido – en la que el discurso conceptual se entrelaza constantemente con sus desafiantes visiones acerca de la potencialidad expresiva de la materia.
Alegre, abierta, inquisitiva y despierta a toda clase de dialogo, Daniela es una mujer de acción y una activista plenamente abocada a la defensa de luchas que la atrapan desde el corazón. Y ha sido just…
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