Daniel Garbade

Garbade is one of Spanish expressionists, who turned to Pop art during the Movida madrileña. His stroke is personal and minimalistic. Writer Alvaro Pombo described Garbade's work by coining the term "garbatear".{{Cite book|title=Los dibujos y oleos de Garbade|last=Pombo|first=Alvaro|publisher=Nicolas|year=1988|location=Worldcat|pages=7}} Garbade's portraits are melancholy yet humorous and aim to show mankind at its core. Nobel Prize winner José Saramago once said, "Garbade shows us humanity where it unfolds"{{Cite book|title=Coctel|last=Saramago|first=Jose|publisher=El Wisli|year=1996|isbn=978-84-615-3679-5|location=Biblioteca nacional Spain|pages=11|via=worldcat}} His most well-known portraits include those of Nancy Cunard,{{Cite web|url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1988/10/27/009.html|title=La pintura suiza como un reloj|last=Luca de Tena|first=Catalina|date=1988-10-27|website=ABC de las artes|publisher=ABC Diario|access-date=2016-11-17}} King Juan Carlos I, Rodriguez Zapatero, Kofi Annan and Pedro Almodovar. His image of the naked Pope Benedict XVI attracted attention in 2006 and was removed from his exhibition at the request of the Swiss government.{{Cite news|title=Nadie dira nunca que esta desnudo|last=Alas|first=Leopoldo|date=2006-10-06|work=El Mundo M2|via=El Mundo}}

In 1987, he took part in the publication of poems as co-founder of the Signos Magazine.

On behalf of the Dadaists of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, he designed the gravestone of Mikhail Bakunin at the Bremgarten cemetery, Berne. The City of Toledo in Spain invited Garbade to exhibit his sculptures at the Oratorio de San Felipe Neri in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Daniel Garbade: Selfis del Pasado - Exhibition at Oratorio San Felipe de Neri: Consorcio de Toledo in Toledo |url=https://www.artrabbit.com/events/daniel-garbade-selfis-del-pasado |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=ArtRabbit}}

File:Bakunin Bronze by Garbade.jpg, Bremgarten Cemetery, Berne, Switzerland.]]

Garbade has close ties to South America and Cuba through his family: Garbade's grandmother, Aída, was from Matanzas. Mexico showed his works at the National Museum of Tequila in Jarisco (2021), at the  Museum of the Agave Landscape and Mining (2022) and at the Galerie Kin (1993) in Mexico City. In 2021, Garbade showed his works in the exhibition dedicated to the Bicentennial of the Independence of Peru at the Casa Museo Mario Vargas Llosa in Arequipa (2021). In May 2022, The Ludwig Foundation of Cuba invited the artist to present his works about his origins in Cuba in its Gallery in Havana and in the Visual Arts Center of Matanzas, the Pedro Esquerré Gallery, in two parallel exhibitions.{{Cite web |title=Vest Y Menté en La Habana - Exhibition at Ludwig Foundation of Cuba in Havana |url=https://www.artrabbit.com/events/vest-y-menté-en-la-habana |access-date=2022-06-08 |website=ArtRabbit}}{{Cite web |last=ArtFacts |title=Galería Pedro Esquerré {{!}} Institution |url=https://artfacts.net/institution/galeria-pedro-esquerre/51311 |access-date=2022-06-08 |website=ArtFacts}}

Since 1979, Garbade has worked as a production manager and later as Property master for advertising and feature films at Condor Films, Barney, Tardio & Melsky, Warner Bros, TF1 and The Ladd Company. Garbade as had a hand in films such as "Five Days One Summer" by Fred Zinnemann and "Espion leve toi" by Yves Boisset.{{Cite web|url=http://worldscinema.org/2013/09/yves-boisset-espion-leve-toi-1982/|title=Yves Boisset espion leve toi|website=worldcinema|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924200546/http://worldscinema.org/2013/09/yves-boisset-espion-leve-toi-1982/|archive-date=2016-09-24|url-status=dead}}

An avid fighter for the rights of homosexuals, he worked for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmfAR) and the {{Interlanguage link|Fundación Triángulo|es|Fundación Triángulo|WD=}} in Madrid, where he illustrated texts in various writings such as Orientaciones.{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/triangulo/docs/orientaciones2|title=Hacia una reescritura de la historia|last=Ugarte|first=Javier|date=2000|website=Issuu.com|publisher=Fundacion Triangulo|access-date=2016-11-21}} In the book Cosas de casados, which was later turned into an exhibition, he published his drawings on the subject of homosexuality in Art together with David Hockney and Tom of Finland.{{Cite book|title=Cosas de casados|last=Gimeno|first=Beatriz|publisher=Asociacion Cultural Visible|year=2006|isbn=978-84-611-14542|location=Madrid|pages=37|via=Stanford University Libraries}} In 2022, Garbade was invited by the Embassy of Switzerland in India to give a lecture on The Queer in Art and Real Life with Curator Dr.Alka Pande, Saurabh Kirpal, Advocate and LGBTQ+ activist and Vivek Raj Anand, CEO of Humsafar Trust.{{Cite web |last=Pritam |date=2022-10-15 |title=The Queer in Art and Real Life at the Embassy of Switzerland |url=https://www.timesstoday.com/2022/10/15/the-queer-in-art-and-real-life-at-the-embassy-of-switzerland/ |access-date=2022-10-28 |website=Timess Today|archive-date=2022-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028102820/https://www.timesstoday.com/2022/10/15/the-queer-in-art-and-real-life-at-the-embassy-of-switzerland/ |url-status=dead }}

His wedding (2006) was the first same-sex marriage in Mascaraque, Castilla–La Mancha, Spain

Garbade's exhibition Côctel, with contributions from writers such as Rafael Alberti, Vicente Molina Foix, José Saramago, {{Interlanguage link|Luis Antonio de Villena|es|Luis Antonio de Villena|WD=}}, Jesús Ferrero and Leopoldo Alas, discusses tolerance in the Convent of San Ildefonso (Toledo). The exhibition was supported by the Vice-President of UNESCO and the Swiss Government.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtouAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|title=coctel|last=saramago|first=jose|date=1996|publisher=el wisli|isbn=9788461536795|access-date=2016-11-20}}

Garbade has been a source of inspiration for intercultural cooperation between Switzerland and Spain since 1983. He brought the first Swiss gallery to the ARCO Art fair in 1985, exhibiting artists like Pablo Runyan or Jorge Arxe. He co-operated with Werner Bischof and John Armleder at the Museo Reina Sofia, Circulo de Bellas Artes and other galleries in the Swiss weeks of Madrid in 1988. In 2012 he was invited to the exhibitions Hispano-Suizo{{Cite web|url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/arte-de-ida-y-vuelta/33706648|title=Arte ida y vuelta|last=Carrizo Couto|first=Rodrigo|date=2012-10-16|website=swissinfo|publisher=swissinfo|access-date=2016-11-21}} in Zürich, and in 2014 to Hispano -Suizo Madrid. As curator, he conducted the exhibition Desayuno para Inmigrantes on the immigration of Swiss artists in Spain. In 1989, he helped François Lachenal for the exhibition du Greco a Goya, a homage to the works of art from the Museo del Prado saved during the Spanish Civil War in Geneva. His grandfather Paul Lachenal was involved in the safeguard of the paintings as delegate of the International Committee.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hfuPwx3lq0C&q=paul+lachenal+prado&pg=PA555|title=Arte en tiempos de guerra|last=Bravo|first=Miguel Cabañas|date=2009|publisher=Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press|isbn=9788400089429|language=es}}

• Museo de la Hermandad, Toledo, Spain
• Bienal del Tajo, Toledo, Spain
• Convento of San Ildefonso, Toledo, Spain
• Caja Rural, Retrospectiva, Toledo, Spain
• Gallery Quorum, Madrid, Spain
• {{Interlanguage link|Arco (feria de arte)|es|Arco (feria de arte)|WD=}}, Madrid, Spain
• Gallery Dionis Bennassar, Madrid, Spain
• Peyer Fine Art, Zürich, Switzerland
• Gallery Ziegler, Zürich, Switzerland
• ART Basel, Prints, Galeria Barês, Paris, France
• Galería Barês, Paris, France
• Galeria Arthêmes, Burdeos, France
• Galería Knapp, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Tossan Tossan, Gallery, New York, US
• Gallery Nathan, Zürich, Switzerland
• Stephen Floersheimer, Orselina, Switzerland
• Gallery Kin, Mexico
• Gloria Kirby Collection, Tánger, Morocco
• Kunstszene Luzern, Switzerland
• Caja Rural, Toledo, Retrospectiva, Spain
• Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain
• Kunstsammlung des Bundes, BAK, Switzerland
• Musee de la ville de Geneve, Switzerland
• Madrid Metro, Spain
• Ateneo de Madrid, Spain{{Cite web|url=https://www.ateneodemadrid.com/Agenda/Exposiciones/Daniel-Garbade|title=Daniel Garbade / Exposiciones / Agenda / Inicio - Ateneo de Madrid|website=ateneodemadrid.com|access-date=2019-07-18}}
• Institut des cultures arabes et méditerranéennes, Geneva, Switzerland
• Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South Korea
• National Museum of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico
• Municipal Museum of Alcázar de San Juan, Spain
• Museum La Maison d'Eros, Medinacelli, Spain
• Museum Zapadores Ciudad del Arte, Madrid, Spain

• Alvaro Pombo: Los oleos y dibujos de Garbade. Nicolás Edic., Toledo 1988, {{OCLC|434557179}}
• Giusepe Ungaretti: Nueve poemas inéditos, Madrid 1990 {{ISBN|84-87095-67-4}}
• Leopoldo Alas: Signos11/12. Editor Libertarias, Madrid 1991, {{OCLC|77617403}}
• Daniel Garbade:Encres de chine autor du Fake-book. Knapp,Lausanne 1992,(https://www.worldcat.org/title/daniel-garbade-encres-de-chine-autour-du-fake-book-galerie-knapp-lausanne-16-mai-27-juin-1992/oclc/715285050&referer=brief_results)
• Agustina Bessa Luís:Le Fake-book. Joel Barès, Paris 1992,
• Eduardo Naval, Daniel Garbade:Retrospectiva. Caja Rural, Toledo 1993
• José Saramago, Vicente Molina Foix u.a.: Côctel. El Wisli, Toledo 1996, {{ISBN|978-84-615-3679-5}}
• Daniel Garbade: Pinturas. Editor Miguel Barbaran PI, Madrid 2000, (https://www.worldcat.org/title/daniel-garbade-pinturas-junio-2000-alejandro-arteche-phe00/oclc/795743991&referer=brief_results)
• Daniel Garbade u.a.: Desayuno para Inmigrantes. Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Madrid 2003
• Leopoldo Alas:Hablar desde el trapecio, Editor Libertarias, Madrid 1995, {{ISBN|84-7683-428-4}}
• Juan María Crespo: Aprendemos con las letras.Editor McGraw-Hill, Madrid 2002, {{ISBN|84-481-3600-4}}
• Michael T. Ganz: La petite mort. El Wisli, Madrid 2006, S. 4–5, {{ISBN|978-84-615-3680-1}}
• José Luís Uriondo: La aventura de las matemáticas.Editor McGraw-Hill, Madrid 2002, {{ISBN|84-481-3490-7}}
• José Luís Uriondo: Aprendemos con las matemáticas. Mc Graw Hill, Madrid 2002 {{ISBN|978-84-481-3493-8}}
• Beatriz Gimeno: Cosas de Casados.Editor Asociacion Cultural Visible, Madrid 2006, {{ISBN|978-84-611-1454-2}}
• Daniel Garbade: Reload.Editor El Wisli, Madrid 2011, {{ISBN|978-84-615-3858-4}}
• Leopoldo Alas: La loca aventura de vivir,Editor Odisea, Madrid 2009, {{ISBN|978-84-92609-11-6}}
• Sivasailam Thiagarajan:Interaktive Trainingsmethoden ,Editor Wochenschau Verlag, Dr, Kurt Debus GMBH, Schwalbach am Taunus 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-89974-989-2}},
• Daniel Garbade:Cut , Editor Artzeitmagazine, Zúrich 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-03304705-1}}
• Daniel Garbade: En cama con Greco y Picasso, Toledo 2018, {{ISBN|978-84-09-04267-8}}
• José Infante: Goya on the Beach, Madrid 2019, {{ISBN|978-84-09-09491-2}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/goya-on-the-beach_978-84-09-09491-2|title=Goya On The Beach de 978-84-09-09491-2|website=todostuslibros.com|language=es|access-date=2019-07-18}}
• Daniel Garbade: Armas y Almas, Madrid 2019, {{ISBN|978-84-09-08862-1}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/armas-y-almas_978-84-09-08862-1|title=Armas Y Almas de Garbade Lachenal, Daniel 978-84-09-08862-1|website=todostuslibros.com|language=es|access-date=2019-07-18}}
• Nuria Delgado: Descends au Sud: Al-Andalus, ICAM Geneva 2020,

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