From the essentials
Art committed to health and children in Africa
The Fundación Recover, Hospitals for Africa and Galería Valart have organized, with the support of the Hospital Universitario Ruber Juan Bravo, this second art exhibition and solidarity auction whose purpose is to improve the health and well-being of children in Africa.
About the exhibition
Under the name "From the essential", the exhibition brought together artists who develop their material research on the basis of elements and colours present in nature, such as wood, metals or natural pigments. The show values the purification of form and is committed to a return to the essential, to the minimum. The rejection of excess and accumulation are the artistic and social concepts that drive this solidarity initiative.
Solidarity Auction
On Tuesday, April 21, one of the most anticipated moments of the event took place: the charity auction, in which the auctioned works were put up for sale. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to health and childhood projects in Africa by Fundación Recover.
You can see Here are the bases of the solidarity auction.
Sale of works
If you are interested in acquiring any of these works, please contact us:
We look forward to hearing from you!
Event details
Dates:
April 21, 22 and 23
Wine cup:
April 21st at 18:00h
Charity auction:
April 21st at 19:00h
Exhibition days and times:
Tuesday 21st April: 9:00h to 19:00h
Wednesday, April 22: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 23: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location:
PONS Foundation.
Calle Serrano, 138 28006 Madrid
Artists
Amaya
Aznar
CHIRRI MORENO
ODNODER
(Pablo Redondo)
Alejandro Caraballo
Hugo
Wirz
Sandra
Krysiak
Laura
Lis
Jose Manuel
Martínez
Federico
Echevarría
Alberto
Guerrero
Amaya Aznar
Title ‘Abrazo’
Year 2026
Technique Photography, Collage
Dimensions 75 x 60 cm
Price 1100 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Cardo’
Year 2026
Technique Photography, Collage
Dimensions 75 x 60 cm
Price 1100 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Capullos’
Year 2021
Technique Photography, Collage
Dimensions 75 x 60 cm
Price 1100 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘La Rama’
Year 2025
Technique Photography, Collage
Dimensions 75 x 60 cm (height x width)
Price 1100 EUROS + VAT
Madrid, 1967
Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA, Ohio Wesleyan University, USA. Master of Fine Arts in Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.
He lived and worked in New York at Sotheby's and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also collaborated with various photographers, including Tom Caravaglia, Josef Astor and Joel Sternfeld. He currently lives in Madrid and collaborates with clients such as Grupo Bertelsmann, Penguin Random House, Galaxia Guttenberg, Teatro Real, Repsol, Coca Cola and ClassPaper, among others.
Publications: El País weekly, El Mundo, La Razón, El Cultural, ABC, Dunia, Marie Claire, Telva and Vogue.
Exhibitions: Retropictures Gallery, New York, Fireland Association for the Visual Arts, Ohio, EFTI, Madrid, Artists Experience, Madrid, Galería Gaudí, Madrid.
Chiri Moreno
Title ‘UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS II’
Technique Recycled bed sheet fabric, mixed technique
Dimensions 103 x 125 cm
Price 3800 EURO + VAT
Title ‘IMPROBABLE’
Technique Ink, pastel and silk threads embroidered on Japanese and cotton paper
Dimensions 54.5 x 53 cm
Price 1100 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘I WILL BE YOUR MEMORY’
Technique Cotton brocade fabric ink, acrylic
Dimensions 48 x 52 cm
Price 1100 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘NARCISO’
Technique Acrylic, oil and crystal on burlap
Dimensions 55 x 70 cm
Price 650 EURO + VAT
Born in Seville on the penultimate day of November 1962.
1996-2010: Head of "Meridiana-Madrid", a gallery-shop selling and exhibiting decorative objects and textiles. She is interested and researches mainly in the textile world.
In 2008 he presented "Ese lunar", his first collection of unique pieces, at Fortuny, 22. Recovered cloths, in this case Manila shawls, and contemporary ones coexist in harmony in each piece, as do the very different textures.
They were followed by other collections - Henna, Mediterráneo, Vuela, Maestranza, Bambú, Manila - following his philosophy of recovering and adding a contemporary touch to the pieces. He began to introduce drawing and painting. Nature is always present.
In 2010 she created her first collection of hand-painted porcelain, "Vuela". Following the line of textile work, she recovers and paints objects creating unique pieces.
Some of this work has been exhibited and sold at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, AA gallery shop, Meridiana, and is in the Zuluaga Foundation, among other collections. Currently, he continues to work in this direction, and incorporates new lines of expression, working on apparently unrecoverable objects.
In 2017, she started embroidering Japanese paper, by hand, with silk and cotton.
Odnoder (Pablo Redondo)
Title ‘ANGELS’
Technique Carved wood and steel cut
Dimensions variables, between 51 and 74 cm
Price between 500 EUROS + VAT and 1500 EUROS per unit, depending on the size
Title ‘WOMEN OF GALILEA’
Technique Metal structure and plasterboard
Dimensions variable measurements, between 43 and 32 cm
Price between 600 and 900 euros + VAT per unit
Title ‘UBUNTUS’
Technique Skate resin
Dimensions 35 x 15 cm
Price 1500 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘UBUNTUS II’
Technique Patinated bronze
Dimensions 47 x 15 cm
Price 7000 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘VIENTOS’
Technique Carved wood
Dimensions 52 x 16 x 17 cm
Price 1800 EUROS + VAT
Pablo Redondo Díez "Odnoder", has developed his sculptor facet for fifteen years, in parallel to his work as an architect in "arquipablos", the architecture studio to which he belongs. With the passage of time the sculptor has been gaining ground and it could be said that today he is fully dedicated to sculpture in a magical workshop in Chinchón.
In his sculptures he systematically seeks simplicity and beauty in the forms and his aim is that the spectator is not left indifferent before his pieces, with that melody thought out with his hands and ready to be caressed with his gaze.
His work moves in the figurative abstraction, of organic inspiration and longs for the maximum expressiveness with the minimum gesture. For him, the basic material and the starting point for all his work is wood, although he likes mixtures of materials such as steel, ceramics, resins, concrete and bronze.
Alejandro Caraballo
Title Transfer (I)
Technique Digital photography processed in high-contrast editing. Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 100% cotton paper 308 g/m².
Year 2016
Dimensions 60 x 60 (paper) 43 x 43 (image)
Limited edition 01/03
Price 500 EUROS + VAT
Title Transfer (III)
Technique Digital photography processed in high-contrast editing. Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 100% cotton paper 308 g/m².
Year 2016
Dimensions 60 x 60 (paper) 43 x 43 (image)
Limited edition 01/03
Price 500 EUROS + VAT
Title Limit
Technique Analog photography with expired film. High-resolution photography on the negative and high-contrast digital editing. Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 100% cotton paper 308 g/m².
Year 2022
Dimensions 100 x 70 (paper) 80 x 53 (image)
Limited edition 01/03
Price 700 EUROS + VAT
Title Disappear
Technique Analog photography with expired film. High-resolution photography on the negative and high-contrast digital editing. Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 100% cotton paper 308 g/m².
Year 2022
Dimensions 100 x 70 (paper) 80 x 53 (image)
Limited edition 01/03
Price 700 EUROS + VAT
Alejandro Caraballo Llorente (1994) is an architect from the Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM-UPM) and a self-taught photographer. After his academic training, he founded the studio CRAC, from where he operates in the field of architecture with a cross-disciplinary approach towards the world of art and philosophy. His work explores the translation of operational tools between criticism and practice, as well as the transfers that arise between the multiple scales encompassed by the architectural project. His projects have been recognized and awarded by international institutions such as EUROPAN, MITMA, COAM and CAPBA, and he has participated as a lecturer at institutions such as the ETSAM, UNIVALLE and the Festival of Architecture in Spanish.
For more than 15 years, he has worked with photography as a tool to generate operational images capable of conveying his interests regarding the dissemination of boundaries and strangeness. In 2022, he founded HIPERFOCAL, from where he helps to build the visual narratives of young architectural studios in the national landscape, such as BIAN, JJ+, Minimo, Meii, MOME, Vistto or Yeyé Estudio, among others. His photographs have been published in international media such as FRAME, AZURE, AD, Manera Magazine or Neo2, and he has curated and participated in exhibitions for the COAM, the Arquitectura Foundation or ARCO 26.
In a convergence of his interests in architecture and image, he has published several texts collected in Capital Reform: Una Generación al detalle (2026), DEARCH #01: Transferencias (2024) or Cuaderno de Proyectos Arquitectónicos #15 (2025). His research “Through the Mirror: Photography and Digital Image as Operational Tools in the Project of Contemporary Architecture” (2024) has been published by the Polytechnic University of Madrid and can be freely consulted in the digital repository.
Hugo Wirz
Title ‘Vegetal Weave I’
Year 2017
Technique Drawing, Chinese ink with a pen
Dimensions 32.5 x 323 cm
Price 550 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Vegetal Weave II’
Year 2017
Technique Drawing, Chinese ink with a pen
Dimensions 32.5 x 23 cm
Price 550 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Expansion’
Year 2008
Technique Drawing, Chinese ink with a pen
Dimensions 21 x 30 cm
Price 600 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Sculpture’
Year 2009
Technique Bronze base made of corten steel
Dimensions 26 x 20 x 9 cm
Price 1200 EUROS + VAT
Brugg, 1948
He was born in Brugg, in the Swiss canton of Aargau. From 1969 to 1996, he combined his work in several architecture studios in Switzerland with long stays in Italy. He lived in Cameroon between 1975 and 1978. He has participated in painting, mosaic and object works.
with Otto Kälin, Albert Siegenthaler, Ilse Weber Gillian White and Eva Wipf between 1972 and 1987. Since 1996 he has lived permanently in Spain, alternating between Madrid and Manzaneque in the south of the province of Toledo. Since 1971 he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. His works are in public and private collections in these countries.
In his work we see the process of seeking to unite geometry with the organic, which is increasingly approaching nature. It goes from seeking to finding. It is the dreams or discoveries in the sciences that awaken his curiosity to create new works, and with them tighten the threads of previous works, creating a web of connections.
Sandra Krysiak
Title ‘PALM SHEET’
Technique Cut in a tilo wood
Dimensions 46 x 46 x 6 cm
Price 2500 EURO + VAT
Title ‘FLOR DE PRIMAVERA’
Technique Canadian cedar
Dimensions 60 x 60 x 8 cm
Price 2500 EURO + VAT
Title ‘SEMMILLA’
Technique Pino
Dimensions 61 x 22 x 16 cm
Price 2500 EURO + VAT
Title ‘VIENTO Y LIBERTAD’
Technique Cut in tropical cedar wood
Dimensions 57 x 35 x 4 cm
Price 2500 EURO + VAT
Argentina
Sandra Krysiak is a sculptor specializing in wood carving, with a career spanning more than three decades exploring the language of organic form. Her work sits at the intersection between nature and emotion, where matter becomes a channel for expressing the essential: the invisible, the psychological, the profoundly human.
Through subtle volumes and fluid lines, her sculptures evoke earth, origin, and transformation. She deliberately eschews color, working exclusively with wood and finishes in natural waxes, respecting the authenticity of the material and enhancing its expressive capacity. Each piece is a silent metaphor that invites introspection and an intimate connection with the viewer.
Formed in Fine Arts in Barcelona and with a solid background in traditional carving, Sandra combines technique, sensitivity and a contemporary perspective that transcends the decorative to delve into the symbolic. In parallel with her artistic production, she develops an intense teaching work, transmitting not only technical knowledge but also a way of understanding sculpture as a vital process and a tool for self-knowledge.
His work does not seek to impose a reading; rather, it aims to open up a space: a place where the material speaks and where the observer recognizes himself or herself.
Laura Lis
Title Ceramic heart
Year 2023
Technique Ceramics
Dimensions 22 x 38 x 20 cm
Price 800 EUROS + VAT
Title Ceramic ovary
Year 2023
Technique Roasted bread
Dimensions 22 x 38 x 20 cm
Price 500 EUROS + VAT
Title Ceramic brain
Year 2023
Technique Roasted bread
Dimensions 22 x 38 x 20 cm
Price 600 EUROS + VAT
Title Ceramic testicles
Year 2023
Technique Roasted bread
Dimensions 22 x 38 x 20 cm
Price 600 EUROS + VAT
La Habana, 1983
Visual artist. His work expands notions related to gender, collective politics, and technologies of power in contemporary societies.
He currently resides and works in Madrid (Spain), where he investigates (more than) symbolic possibilities within spaces that straddle the private and the public, between micropolitics and social policies.
His practice as a visual artist investigates new forms of pictorial, sculptural, video-based and performative presentation.
He has been a resident of El Espacio 23 in Miami. His works are in important private collections in Europe, Latin America and the United States.
Jose Manuel Martínez
Title ‘Caricia’
Year 2024
Technique Resin and glass fiber
Dimensions 60 x 20 x 21 cm
Original work signed 2/7
Price 3000 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘The one who sings his evil scares away’
Year 2023
Technique Resin and glass fiber
Dimensions 26 x 16 x 23 cm
Original work signed 2/7
Price 2300 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Fluidos 3’
Year 2016
Technique Direct ink on paper
Dimensions 38 x 28 cm (height x width)
Unique signed work
Price 300 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Fluidos 4’
Year 2016
Technique Direct ink on paper
Dimensions 38 x 28 cm (height x width)
Unique signed work
Price 300 EUROS + VAT
Sculptor and holder of a BBA degree from Seville. He has carried out numerous public commissions in his native city, including the monument to Alonso Barba (2019), the monument to the Sailor (2012), the monument to the Reader (2009), the monument to the Elderly and the Beautiful (2007), the monument to Football (2006) and the monument to the Farmer (2002), as well as a bust in tribute to José Folgado Blanco (2021) in Tres Cantos (Madrid).
His work can be seen at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona and at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily (MACS) in Catania. He has won the 56th Reina Sofía Prize for Painting and Sculpture (2021) and has received the «Miquel Blay y Fábregas» sculpture medal from the AEPE (Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors).
He has also been a mention of honor at Figurativas 2019 and 2021. He has held numerous group and solo exhibitions in Spain, the USA and Italy. He is currently a professor of anatomy and natural drawing at the Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional (ESDIP) in Madrid. In 2020 he was named «Hijo Predilecto» by the City Council of Lepe, his hometown.
Federico Echevarría
Title ‘Chromatic Geometry III’
Year 2025
Technique Polycarbonate
Dimensions 110 x 105 cm
Price 3600 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Spatial volumes’
Year 2025
Technique Painted wood
Dimensions 123 x 91 x 5 cm
Price 3900 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Transparent geometries’
Year 2025
Technique Metacrilate
Dimensions 60 x 60 x 40 cm
Price 3900 EUROS + VAT
Title ‘Spatial geometries in purple and dark gray’
Year 2024
Technique Painted wood
Dimensions 25x 30x 40 cm
Price 2900 EUROS + VAT
Spanish architect, painter and sculptor whose career is characterized by the interrelation between architecture and the plastic language. Over more than five decades of professional activity, he has developed an artistic and architectural production marked by the search for movement, dynamism and the creation of flexible spatial coordinates present in both his built work and his painting and sculpture.
His artistic vocation has a strong family origin. From childhood he received the influence of his grandfather, the architect José María Sainz Aguirre, as well as of his father Federico Echevarría, his uncle-grandfather Juan Echevarría and his brother Jorge, all of whom were linked to the architecture and the plastic arts of the 20th century. This environment early on shaped his interest in art and his subsequent multidisciplinary creative development.
Parallel to his artistic activity, he has developed an extensive career as an architect. He founded his urban planning and architecture studio in 1970, from which he has directed various projects, ranging from office buildings to rehabilitation of historic buildings.
Historical buildings, with more than two thousand works and international recognition. Their architectural practice is nourished by an artistic sensibility that seeks spatial dynamism and the relationship between form, material and environment.
In the plastic field, his work is structured around geometric abstraction, compositional balance, and experimentation with space. Painting, sculpture, and collage share a similar conceptual approach: creating relationships between architecture and nature, giving meaning to materials, and constructing a structured and dynamic visual language.
Throughout his career, he has presented his work in galleries, fairs, and contemporary art exhibitions, maintaining a constant activity both in the artistic and architectural fields. This dual commitment defines his profile as an interdisciplinary creator, in which architecture influences painting and sculpture, and vice versa, forming a coherent work based on space, geometry, and movement.
Alberto Guerrero
SERIE “JUST ONE ACHIEVEMENT” (2021)
Title Untitled
Year 2021
Technique Cellulose pulp, pigment and latex on canvas
Dimensions 100 x 100 cm
Price 4200 EUROS + VAT
Title Untitled
Year 2021
Technique Cellulose pulp, pigment and latex on canvas
Dimensions 100 x 100 cm
Price 4200 EUROS + VAT
Title Untitled
Year 2021
Technique Cellulose pulp, pigment and latex on canvas
Dimensions 100 x 100 cm
Price 4200 EUROS + VAT
Title Untitled
Year 2021
Technique Cellulose pulp, pigment and latex on canvas
Dimensions 120 x 120 cm
Price 4500 EURO + VAT
Barcelona, 1975
Alberto Guerrero Gil (Barcelona, 1975) is a history of art professor at the University of Valladolid and a painter restorer at the Higher School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets in Madrid.
After eleven years of combining painting with restoration, he has completely abandoned the profession of restorer and has been dedicating himself exclusively to creation for the past 16 years.
A versatile artist technically, Guerrero enjoys both abstraction and figuration equally well, and in recent years he has worked extensively in the field of sacred art.
In his plastic work, he plays with contrasts of color, light, and sometimes texture, trying to reflect that behind every story lies a mystery that only man can intuit and that gives meaning to reality.
He is married, has four children and lives and works in Madrid.
Works to be auctioned
ARTIST: AMAYA AZNAR
TITLE: ‘Red Embrace’
YEAR: 2026
TECHNIQUE: Photography, Collage
DIMENSIONS: 75 x 60 cm
Sales price: 1100 euros
EXIT PRICE: 550 EUROS
ARTIST: CHIRRI MORENO
YEAR: 2026
TITLE: ‘Fruits of Paradise’
TECHNIQUE: Silk and cotton thread embroidered on hand-dyed paper
DIMENSIONS: 38 x 33 cm
Sales price: 1200 euros
OUTGOING PRICE: 600 EUROS
ARTIST: ODNODER (PABLO REDONDO)
TITLE: ‘Woman of Galilee’
YEAR: 2026
TECHNIQUE: Metal structure and plaster
DIMENSIONS: 38 x 7 cm
PRICE FOR SALE: 600 EUROS
OUTGOING PRICE: 300 EUROS
ARTIST: ALEJANDRO CARABALLO
TITLE: ‘Fracture’.
YEAR: 2024
TECHNIQUE: Digital photography processed in high-contrast editing. Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 100% cotton paper 308 g/m². Limited edition 01/03
DIMENSIONS: 50 x 70 cm (paper) 33 x 50 (image)
PRICE FOR SALE: 450 EUROS
OUTGOING PRICE: 225 EUROS
ARTIST: HUGO WIRZ
TITLE:Drawing
YEAR: 2020
TECHNIQUE: Marker with Chinese ink
DIMENSIONS: 35 x 33 cm
Sales price: 950 euros
OUTGOING PRICE: 475 EUROS
ARTIST: SANDRA KRYSIAK
TITLE: ‘Cardo’
TECHNIQUE: Cut in teak wood
DIMENSIONS: 46 x 46 x 6 cm
PRICE FOR SALE: 1800 EUROS
OUTGOING PRICE: 900 EUROS
ARTIST: LAURA LIS
TITLE: Ceramic Scone
YEAR: 2023
TECHNIQUE: Roasted Barbecue
DIMENSIONS: 22 x 38 x 20 cm
PRICE FOR SALE: 500 EUROS
OUTGOING PRICE: 250 EUROS
ARTIST: JOSE MANUEL MARTÍNEZ
TITLE: ‘Prophet’
YEAR: 2025
TECHNIQUE: Direct ink on paper
DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25 cm
Unique signed work
PRICE FOR SALE: 300 EUROS
OUTGOING PRICE: 150 EUROS
ARTIST: FEDERICO ECHEVARRÍA
TITLE: ‘Chromatic Geometry’
YEAR: 2026
TECHNIQUE: Screen printing
DIMENSIONS: 78 x 62.5 cm
PRICE FOR SALE: 480 EUROS
OUTGOING PRICE: 240 EUROS
ARTIST: ALBERTO GUERRERO
TITLE: (Untitled)
YEAR: 2021
TECHNIQUE: Pigment and latex on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 45 x 45 cm
PRICE FOR SALE: 1000 EUROS
OUTGOING PRICE: 500 EUROS
Organisers
Recover Foundation, Hospitals for Africa is a secular, independent and non-profit organisation that has been working in health cooperation in Africa since 2007. Its mission is to strengthen the capacities of the health centres with which it collaborates, as well as their staff, so that, in a sustainable way, they can offer dignified and quality health care to people with few resources in Africa.
Valart Gallery is a unique project that fuses human creativity with the serenity and strength of the natural elements. The space, conceived as a refuge of inspiration and contemplation, is located on the northern cornice of the Vega de Chinchón, seeking a deep connection between art and the environment. Here the natural elements are not only the context, but the very materials and protagonists of the works presented.
Sponsors
This exhibition has been made possible thanks to the support received from the Ruber Juan Bravo University Hospital.
1ª planta, oficina 7, 28015 Madrid
(+34) 91 411 09 68
info@fundacionrecover.org
M-F: 10am-6pm
Calle Hilarión Eslava, 27 bis
1ª planta, oficina 7, 28015 Madrid
Phone: (+34) 91 411 09 68
Email: info@fundacionrecover.org
M-T: 9am-6pm, F: 8am-3pm
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