Alegría Castillo Roses (Córdoba, 1985)

José Antonio Sánchez Piñero (Cádiz, 1975)

Alegría Castillo Roses and José Antonio Sánchez Piñero, both graduates in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, began their artistic partnership in 2009 under the name Alegría y Piñero with the creation of the monument Homenaje a José Val del Omar.This project, based on the idea of sculpture as a camera obscura, as a viewing machine, was the starting point. Since then that have continued to work together on a single shared vision based on experimentation using essentially sculpture-related processes, with devices from the early days of film and photography, creating optical mechanisms that function as a means of producing and interpreting images.

Their research has led them down two development paths that have been rolled out in parallel: on the one hand, creating their own artistic project whose pieces have been selected for and obtained awards in various competitions, most notably the Flora y Fauna exhibition and art conferences such as Scarpia, Distopías desencajadas and DESENCAJA of the I.A.J., to name just a few. On the other hand, their work has also led to teaching workshops and giving seminars on Creación artística y artilugios ópticos (“Artistic creation and optical devices”) where, in addition to continuing their research, they have found a space to share their intuitions and discoveries in this field.