Fernando Castro Flórez. (Plasencia, 1964). Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts of the Autonomous University of Madrid. Art critic of the journal ABC Cultural. Has been member of the Board of Trustees of the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum and in the currently part of the Advisory Committee. Professor in the Master of Culture Contemporary of the Ortega y Gasset-Marañón Foundation, of the Market Master’s Art of the Nebrija University, of the Master of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture of the Autonomous and Complutense Universities of Madrid with the MNCARS, of the Master’s Degree.

Directorate of Cultural Projects of La Fábrica, of the Master of Artistic Professions

of the SUR School of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, etc. He has been a member of the committee writing of the magazines “Creation”, “The path of meaning”, “Sublime” or “Notebooks of the IVAM.”He writes regularly on” Discover Art “,” Capital Art “or” Magazine of West. “He has curated numerous exhibitions (of artists such as Tony Cragg, David Nash, Nacho Criado, Fernando Sinaga, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Anton Patiño, Imi Knoebel, Julian Opie or Bernardí Roig) and has intervened in projects such as the Chilean Triennial, the Curitiba Biennial, the Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador) or the Pavilion of Chile at the Venice Biennale

(2011). He has written books like “Elogio de la pereza”.

Notes for an aesthetics of fatigue (Madrid, 1992), the intimate text. Kafka, Rilke, Pessoa (Madrid, 1993), Nostalgia of the ragpicker and other texts against the culture of show (Cáceres, 2002), Escaramuzas. The art in the demolition time (Murcia, 2003), Fasten Seat Belt. Field notebook by an art critic (Murcia, 2004), Fight Club. Considerations about contemporary art (Pontevedra, 2004), Sainetes. And other outrages of contemporary art (Murcia, 2007), A “truth” public. Considerations on contemporary art (Madrid, 2010), against the

bienalism. Fragmentary chronicles of the strange current artistic map (Madrid, 2012), Shit and catastrophe. Cultural syndromes of contemporary art (Madrid, 2014), Art and politics in the time of the global scam (Valencia, 2014), at the moment of danger. Postcards and souvenirs from the contemporary hyper-aesthetic journey (Murcia, 2015) or Aesthetics a hit like (Murcia, 2016). He has written monographs on Picasso, Miró or Eugenio Fernández Granell.