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Palmira Puig-Giró (Tàrrega, Spain, 1912 - Barcelona, Spain, 1978) was the daughter of a deputy to the Spanish courts, growing up alongside eight brothers in a family with strong cultural and intellectual traditions. She studied commercial expertise and in 1942 she married by proxy Marcel Giró, who had previously emigrated to South America to escape the Franco dictatorship; Palmira traveled to Colombia the same year to meet him. Subsequentelly they moved together to Brazil where she developed an interest in photography eventually joining the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in the 1950s.

Palmira went on to create a body of modernist photography within the FCCB that underscores her female and immigrant perspective during the transition from Pictorialist to modernist photography in the postwar years.

In 1978, after closing the studio, Marcel and Palmira decided to return to Spain where she passed away almost immediately upon arrival. The RocioSantaCruz gallery is actively collaborating with Palmira Puig-Giró's heirs to document and organise her archive that has lain, until now, largely undiscovered.

Desconfiado, c. 1950 Palmira Puig-Giró Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 30 cm

Desolação, c. 1950 Palmira Puig-Giró Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper24 x 40 cm

Palmira Puig-Giró


O Avó, c. 1950 Palmira Puig-Giró Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 24 cm

Folha de Contato, c. 1950 Palmira Puig-Giró & Marcel GiróVintage. Silver gelatin on paper 18 x 24.5 cm


Sin título, c. 1950 Palmira Puig-Giró Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 18 x 40 cm

Folha de Contato, c. 1950 Palmira Puig-Giró & Marcel GiróVintage. Silver gelatin on paper 18 x 24 cm


Marcel Giró (Badalona, Spain, 1913-2011), son of a Catalan industrialist, was the second of six children. He studied at the National School of Badalona and later at the Industrial School of Terrassa, while working at the family factory. Since his youth he was fond of mountain trekking and photography. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he enlisted as a volunteer to defend the Republic. In 1937, he decided to exile first in France, then in Colombia (where he met his wife Palmira Puig) and finally in Brazil. There he turned his photography hobby into a profession and in São Paulo he opened his first studio.

Giró was a leading member of the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante. He was considered a great modernist with special interest in chiaroscuro, abstraction and the search of new forms, in which his simple but powerful compositions predominate. At the end of the ‘70s, after the death of his wife, he left professional photography and returned to Spain settling in his native Catalonia and continuing with personal photographic projects.

The quality and exceptional nature of Marcel Giró’s vintage prints have secured him a place in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Itaú Cultural (São Paulo) and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC, Barcelona).

Abstração, c.1960 Marcel Giró Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 39 x 22 cm

Marcel Giró


Moderno, c. 1960 Marcel Giró Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 30 cm

Textura, c. 1961 Marcel Giró Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 24.5 x 40 cm


Folha de arquivo, c. 1950 Marcel GiróVintage. Silver gelatin on paper 33 x 25 cm (each)


Rubens Teixeira Scavone (Itatiba, Brazil, 1925 - São Paulo, Brazil, 2007) was a writer and a pioneer of science fiction in Brazil. He published articles on art and literature, and he also worked as a lawyer and professor. He was the president of the Academia Paulista de Letras, but above all, he was a great modernist photographer, and a member of Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in the 1950s and 1960s.

Scavone was one of the most outstanding representatives of the so-called Escola Paulista, having frequently participated in several international photography salons. During this time his work was published regularly in catalogs and specialized magazines.

Scavone had an inclination toward abstraction and his work is a result of a thorough investigation into the effects of light, contrasts, geometric lines and forms. His photographs form part of the collection of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP).

The RocioSantaCruz gallery is actively working on the rediscovery of the work of Scavone, collaborating with the estate of the artist in the cataloging and organization of the archive, practically unexplored until now.

O Muro, 1956 -1957 Rubens Teixeira Scavone Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 30 cm

Rubens Teixeira Scavone


Papoula, 1952Rubens Teixeira Scavone Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 37 x 25 cm

Secando ao sol, 1953 Rubens Teixeira Scavone Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 30 x 40 cm

Sergio Vega (Buenos Aires, Argentina, b. 1959), works in various media, including text, photography,

video, sculpture, diorames, miniature models, and installations. His works deal with colonialist theories and socially relevant issues. In his work, color and imagery are presented simultaneously, synchronized as parts of a unified system that sustains them in parallel tensions. Various scenes provide multiple views of the same subject.

Since 1995, Sergio Vega has been working on an interdisciplinary art project called El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo, which is inspired by a book of the same title written in 1650 by Antonio de León Pinelo. Drawing on the burgeoning discipline of Natural History, Pinelo had set out to scientifically prove that the Garden of Eden was in South America. Embracing this idea, Vega has made several research trips to the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil, detailing his adventures in a travel diary and later using this material to create a series of photographs, videos, dioramas and installations that explore how colonial discourses have been constructed in relation to the specific mythology of Paradise.

In addition to his artistic pursuits, Vega is a professor of photography and sculpture at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Between 1991 and 1992, Vega participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, and received his MFA in 1996 from Yale University.

Vega also participated in numerous international exhibitions, among them the upcoming 14th Cuenca

Biennial, the 51st Venice Biennale, the 5th Biennale de Lyon, the 3rd Moscow Biennale, the 2nd

Kwangju Biennale and the 1st Yokohama Triennale. His works have been reviewed in Artforum, Frieze Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, and Time Magazine. Vega currently lives and works in the United States.

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Sergio Vega

Mono azúl (sobre el destino individual), 2018 Sergio VegaCollage inkjet printing, cardboard, wood63 x 49 cm

Paisaje Social (rompecabezas), 2018 Sergio VegaCollage, photography and cardboard 62 x 41 cm



El vértigo de la modernidad (Copán), 2017 Sergio VegaCollage, digital photography, laminated wood, bamboo, PVC144 x 96 cm

Trópicos tristes (Ibirapuera/Cadúveo/sillas), 2016 Sergio VegaCollage, inkjet printing, painted steel wire, pencil 74 x 40 cmEd. 3


Andrés Galeano (Mataró, Spain, b. 1980) holds a Philosophy degree from the University of Barcelona, a Photography diploma from the Freie Fotoschule Stuttgart and a Sculpture/Free Art degree from the Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin. He works with photography, video, installation and performance and has realized exhibitions and performances throughout Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the USA.

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Galeano is a disciplined collector of second-hand photos, be they analogue or digital. He has a large collection of family photos (more than 10,000 analogue photos). He is interested in the amateur use of photography, the democratization and expansion of photographic devices, recycling iconographies, and discovering moments (whether they be Kodak or Google) in which Photography appears to naively reflect upon itself, creating an unexpected metadiscourse that points to Photography’s documental essence, and to its inexorable desire to stop time and to communicate. He is a post-photographer that recombines images that others have taken. As his obsession for the sky reveals, he is interested in the relationship between Photography and divinity, the desire to transcend the moment expressed by photography and its industry. Proof of everything just mentioned can be found in his current projects: Afotos (2015-16), that investigates the concept of a non-photo, Unknown Photographers (2012-2016), that poetically recombines analogue family photos, Image Touché (2012-2016), that analyses the desire of the contemporary digital image to be touched, Google in View (2015), that explores the device of Google and its pretensions of divine omniscience and omnipotence (Godgle), and Al Sol (2015, 2016), a photographic installation that speaks to the essence of photography, reflecting on light as an agent that both enables and destroys the image. Unknown Photographers is a post-photographic project based on montages of analogue found photo album’s pictures and reflecting on the latent desire of every photograph to trascend the instant.

Galeano currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Sky Studies #13 - Unknown PhotographersAndrés Galeano

2018Found photo album’s pictures, C-Prints 92 x 67 cm

Sky Studies #14 - Unknown PhotographersAndrés Galeano 2018Found photo album’s pictures, C-Prints92 x 67 cm

Andrés Galeano


Circular Skies #13 - Unknown PhotographersAndrés Galeano2017 Found photo album´s pictures, C-Prints60 x 60 cm

Circular Skies #17 - Unknown PhotographersAndrés Galeano 2017 Found photo album´s pictures, C-Prints60 x 60 cm

Infinite #2 - Unknown PhotographersAndrés Galeano2018Found photo album’s pictures, C-Prints 102 x 60 cm

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