{"id":46154,"date":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/archivos\/46154"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:34:52","slug":"editorial-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/editorial-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: In memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Autor:<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 Alberto L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revista:<\/strong> L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 256<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>La desaparici&oacute;n del historiador de arte Juan Antonio Ram&iacute;rez y del traductor Mario Merlino supone una gran p&eacute;rdida para el &aacute;mbito de la cultura espa&ntilde;ola. Los dos han fallecido repentinamente, Merlino a finales de agosto y Ram&iacute;rez a mediados de septiembre, y ambos a la temprana edad de sesenta y un a&ntilde;os. Asiduos colaboradores de nuestra revista, su p&eacute;rdida nos ha conmocionado tanto en lo intelectual como en lo personal y tardaremos mucho tiempo en asumir su ausencia. En lo personal les echaremos en falta al otro lado del tel&eacute;fono, aunque nos reconfortar&aacute; su gran legado, una obra fruto, en ambos casos, de una trayectoria profesional de gran rigor.<\/p>\n<p>De Juan Antonio Ram&iacute;rez publicamos en este n&uacute;mero de L&aacute;piz la primera parte de un extenso ensayo sobre las relaciones del arte y el dinero bajo el ep&iacute;grafe general de \u00abEl arte no es el capital\u00bb, mientras que reservamos la segunda parte para el n&uacute;mero de noviembre. Ram&iacute;rez siempre prest&oacute; atenci&oacute;n a la escena art&iacute;stica contempor&aacute;nea, aunque nunca cultiv&oacute; la cr&iacute;tica puntual, la noticia o la gacetilla art&iacute;stica, decant&aacute;ndose siempre por el an&aacute;lisis y valoraci&oacute;n de fen&oacute;menos y tendencias. Ese hecho le hac&iacute;a ajeno al traj&iacute;n social de los artistas y los galeristas, e incluso de los cr&iacute;ticos, muchos de los cuales ignoran su relevancia en el &aacute;mbito espa&ntilde;ol del estudio sobre los fen&oacute;menos art&iacute;sticos contempor&aacute;neos, y esto no es m&aacute;s que un reflejo de la vulgarizaci&oacute;n y la incultura que est&aacute; haciendo mella en el mundo del arte de este pa&iacute;s. Es triste ver cu&aacute;ntos desconocen la labor de Ram&iacute;rez, excelente catedr&aacute;tico de Historia del Arte de la Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de Madrid que public&oacute; a lo largo de su carrera m&aacute;s de una treintena de libros, que cultiv&oacute;, adem&aacute;s, la poes&iacute;a y cre&oacute; a \u00abClavelinda Fuster\u00bb, un alter ego con cuyo nombre firm&oacute; punzantes narraciones sobre el arte contempor&aacute;neo y su mundillo. Su independencia de criterio y su compromiso con la ense&ntilde;anza del arte actual le hicieron, por otra parte, un ferviente defensor del derecho de cita visual, algo que le convert&iacute;a en persona non grata ante los responsables de vegap, la agencia encargada de gestionar los derechos de autor de los artistas.<\/p>\n<p>Ese mismo af&aacute;n generoso en lo concerniente a la salvaguarda de los intereses sectoriales caracteriz&oacute; a Mario Merlino, que defendi&oacute; los derechos de sus colegas, los traductores, y fungi&oacute; como presidente de la Secci&oacute;n de Traductores de la Asociaci&oacute;n Colegial de Escritores. Fue un excelente poeta y <em>performer<\/em>, y, sobre todo, un brillante traductor del portugu&eacute;s y del italiano. La n&oacute;mina de libros por &eacute;l traducidos al espa&ntilde;ol es la m&aacute;s prestigiosa de la literatura portuguesa y la calidad de su quehacer hizo que mereciera en 2004 el Premio Nacional de Traducci&oacute;n.<\/p>\n<p>Nacido en Argentina, fue un hombre de vasta cultura, de palabra precisa y gran dominio del lenguaje y ejerci&oacute; de traductor del italiano y del portugu&eacute;s tanto en L&aacute;piz como en NUMEN. Vecino del madrile&ntilde;o barrio de Chueca, le ve&iacute;amos desde nuestras ventanas pasear por la plaza, una imagen que ahora recordamos evocando sus palabra en el libro <em>No hay adverbio que te venga bien<\/em>: \u00abMe gustan las palabras- Me gusta bajar por la ma&ntilde;ana a comprarlas y elegirlas, una a una, como si fueran albaricoques maduros&#8230;\u00bb. Y nos parece escuchar a lo lejos a \u00abClavelinda Fuster\u00bb -que en una &eacute;poca tuvo su estudio tambi&eacute;n en esta zona de Madrid- susurrando aquello que escribi&oacute; en su poemario titulado <em>Bobaladas Babel&iacute;ticas<\/em>, bajo el ep&iacute;grafe <em>Despedida<\/em>: \u00abSobre los montes, \/ l&aacute;grimas, \/ Sobre mis ojos, lluvia\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In memoriam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The passing of art historian Juan Antonio Ram&iacute;rez and translator Mario Merlino is a great loss for Spanish culture. Both died suddenly, Merlino in August and Ram&iacute;rez in mid-September, both only sixty-one years old. Both were frequent contributors to our magazine, and the news has shaken us up personally and intellectually. Getting over their loss will be no easy feat. Personally, we will miss chatting to them on the phone, although their great legacy will live on through their production, the fruit of a very rigorous professional career.<\/p>\n<p>This issue of L&aacute;piz includes the first part of a long essay penned by Juan Antonio Ram&iacute;rez addressing the relationship between art and money, grouped under the general title \u00abArt is not the capital;\u00bb the second part will be published in the magazine&#8217;s November issue. Ram&iacute;rez always paid special attention to the contemporary art scene, although he never worked on specific reviews, news items or for artistic gazettes, and instead favoured the analysis and assessment of phenomena and trends. This fact set him apart from the social hustle and bustle of artists and dealers, and even from critics themselves, many of whom ignored his relevance in the Spanish field devoted to the study of contemporary artistic phenomena. This fact mirrors the severe effect that vulgarisation and ignorance have had on the Spanish art world. It saddens us to see how few people are aware of Ram&iacute;rez&#8217;s work. He was an excellent Art Historian lecturer at Madrid&#8217;s Universidad Aut&oacute;noma and throughout his career he published over thirty books, wrote poetry and created \u00abClavelinda Fuster,\u00bb an alter ego that he used to sign caustic narrations about contemporary art and the world surrounding it. Furthermore, his independent criteria and his commitment with teaching contemporary art made him a fervent champion of the right to use visual quotes. This, obviously, made him <em>persona non grata<\/em> for the directors of vegap, the agency in charge of handling artistic intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Merlino was also known for his generous nature when it came to safeguarding the interests of his sector. Merlino defended the rights of his colleagues, translators, and acted as chair of the Spanish Literary Translators Association. He was an excellent poet and <em>performer<\/em>, and, above all, a brilliant translator who worked with Portuguese and Italian. The list of books he translated into Spanish includes the most prestigious Portuguese literature and his quality merited him the 2004 National Translation Award.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Argentina, he was an incredibly scholarly man, a genuine master of language who always had the precise word on the tip of his tongue. He worked as a translator of Italian and Portuguese both for L&aacute;piz and NUMEN. He lived in the Madrilenian neighbourhood of Chueca and we often saw him strolling around the square. His image comes to mind as we recall his words in the book <em>No hay adverbio que te venga bien <\/em>(No Adverb Suits You): \u00abMe gustan las palabras- Me gusta bajar por la ma&ntilde;ana a comprarlas y elegirlas, una a una, como si fueran albaricoques maduros&#8230;\u00bb (I like words. I like popping down to buy them in the morning and choosing them, one by one, like ripe apricots&#8230;). Far away we can almost hear \u00abClavelinda Fuster\u00bb -who in the past also had a studio in this area of Madrid- whispering the words from her poem book, <em>Bobaladas Babel&iacute;ticas<\/em>, in the section <em>Despedida <\/em>(Farewell): \u00abSobre los montes, \/ l&aacute;grimas, \/ Sobre mis ojos, lluvia (On the hills, \/ tears, \/ On my eyes, rain).\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Translation: Laura F. 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