PUBLIC PROGRAM | ESTE CHARLA | Todo lo que siempre quiso saber sobre el Galerista* (* y tenía miedo de preguntar)
Adela Dubra, Journalist (Uruguay)
in conversation with Renos Xippas, Xippas Galleries (Suiza, Uruguay)
Mario Cristiani, Galleria Continua (Italia)
Jonathon Carroll, Carroll/Fletcher Gallery (UK)
Jorge Castillo, † Galeria Sur (Uruguay)

Jonathon Carroll (UK)
Is founding director of Carroll / Fletcher, a contemporary art gallery that supports artists who use various media to explore socio-political or technological issues. A collector for over 20 years, he decided to install his gallery in 2012. He previously worked in finance and as a merchant from 1986 to 2000. He lives between London and New York.

Jorge Castillo † (Uruguay)
Was the founding director of the SUR Gallery in Punta del Este, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2014. The gallery has specialized in the historical Avant-gardes of the Río de la Plata of the 20s, 30s and 40s, in the School of the South, in Concrete and Abstract Art from the 1960s and emerging artists from the River Plate. Jorge Castillo passed away in 2018.

Mario Cristiani (Italy)
Founded in 1990, together with his friends Maurizio Rigillo and Lorenzo Fiaschi, the Galleria Continua and Associazione Arte Continua. Galleria Continua settled away from the big cities and the ultramodern urban centers, in a small medieval town, San Gimignano, occupying an old cinema.

Renos Xippas (Egypt)
Is founding director of Xippas Galleries. It opens its first gallery in Paris located in the Marais neighborhood, which celebrated 25 years of existence. After more than 40 years of activity in the arts sector, this year 2015, he was appointed Official of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France.

Adela Dubra (Uruguay)
Is a journalist and exercises her trade on radio, television and the press. She wrote the book “De Puertas Abierto” about the history of Galería Latina. In his career he has received distinctions such as the Book Legion (awarded by the Uruguayan Book Chamber), the Bartolomé Hidalgo Revelación, and the Manuel Oribe Award for his career as a cultural journalist.