Manuel Álvarez Junco is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Design & Image, Faculty of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid. Previously was Director of that departament. He is currently at charge of General Direction of Complutense Summer Courses at El Escorial. Member of the Jury of the Spain National Design Prize, has published graphic work and held solo exhibitions in the USA, China, Kuwait, Italy, Colombia and Mexico. He has written several articles and books. His last book is El Espejo y el Martillo (Hammer and Mirror), Turpin Ed, Madrid 2017.

"Humor is indeed a daily instrument of real life, of the concrete world. Its direct function is to relativize the abstract, the formal, the "mental exactitude”. Comicality is perhaps the most social of all the spiritual functions aimed at achieving pleasure. Therefore, it is elaborated under the condition that the others understand the proposed game because, if they do not, then it has no reason to exist. Graphic humor fulfills a questioning role of apparent reality, which does not imply that its goal is not one of “truth”. Instead, its role is —and it is not a minor one— a calling to order of a mess of forms in this poorly structured world."

Vídeo | El País Digital | Scoopnest
January 2015

Vídeo | El País | Youtube
Exhibition in Faculty of Psychology. November 2013

Imprescindibles | La 2 de TVE | Mingote: el humor es una cosa muy seria
Emitido el 17 de Junio de 2012

Interview by Angels Barceló | Hora 25 | Cadena Ser Radio
Viernes 9 de enero de 2015

Entrevista IBE TV Television Latinoamericana
July 27th 2016

Exhibition Biblioteca Pública de Cuenca
February 23rd 2017

Entrevista | Hoy por hoy | Cadena Ser Cuenca
20 de febrero de 2017

El mundo que queremos | Interview Peridis-Junco
Conductor: Fernando delgado. Tenerife, noviembre 2017

La aventura del saber | RTVE 2018 (go to minute 33)
Septiembre 2018

 

LINKS ABOUT JUNCO ARTWORK

Triunfo Review, files 1974-75-76 in triunfodigital.com

Premier of book HAMMER & MIRROR, 2018-02-08 BNE, Spain National Library

Have you heard about this awesome book?
January 2018

El espejo y el martillo, de Manuel Á. Junco

Presentación del libro El espejo y el martillo, de Manuel Á. Junco

Madrid Design Festival

La noche de Max Estrella
April, 7th, 2018

Creativity is intelligence having fun (Albert Einstein): Interview to Manuel Álvarez Junco
Lleida, May 2018

El humor. Arte y literatura.
Litoral, art review. Graphic collaboration. ART. 2018.

Los Goliardos

Workshop on Junco´s artwork by six PHd professors
Faculty of Geography and History. Universidad Complutense Madrid. October 3rd-4th 2018

La Universidad para Mayores analiza la obra gráfica de Junco | Cursos El Escorial
3 y 4 de octubre de 2018

Manuel Á. Junco en Tebeosfera