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First lecture in the series Other Perspectives: Film, Writing and Photography in Twentieth-century Spanish Art, the third series organised in relation to the exhibition Masaveu Collection. Twentieth-Century Spanish Art: From Picasso to Barceló, led by the curator of the show, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco. 

In this talk, Fernando Ramos, a senior lecturer in the Art History Department at the Complutense University of Madrid, will discuss the role of film in the construction of a modern visual culture in Spain during the central decades of the twentieth century.

All lectures take place at 7.15 pm in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis. Tickets (one per person) can be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. One third of the tickets will be available for booking through the website from 7 DAYS before the event. For any queries, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Fernando Ramos has been a senior lecturer in the Art History Department of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) since 2018. His research is situated at the intersection between film and visual studies, with a special focus on the history and theory of European film culture. He has taught at the University of Leipzig (2010–2017) and was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University in Washington DC (2017–2018). He is currently leading one of the work packages of REBOOT (2023–2026), a Horizon Europe project focused on European film competitiveness.

With a PhD from the University of Leipzig (2010), he has taken part in ten research projects, four of them as the lead researcher, and he is the co-director of the UCM group History and Audiovisual Imaginaries. Since 2022 he has been the editor of the magazine Anales de Historia del Arte. The author of three monographs on European film culture and cinephilia, he has also edited several collective volumes and has contributed numerous articles to international academic journals. He has been a Marie Curie Fellow (2015–2017) and in 2020 he obtained the Certificate 13 of the Ministry of Science and Innovation and was assigned professor status in the German university system.