Juan Tamariz

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| name = Juan Tamariz

| image = Juan Tamariz durante su actuación en Puerto del Rosario (cropped).jpg

| caption = Juan Tamariz in a show in Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (12 December 2001)

| birth_name = Juan Tamariz-Martel Negrón

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|10|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Madrid, Spain

| death_date =

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| occupation = Magician

| website = {{URL|https://www.juantamariz.org|juantamariz.org}}

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Juan Tamariz-Martel Negrón (born 18 October 1942) is a Spanish magician.

Tamariz is considered to have pionereed close-up card magic. American stage magician Ricky Jay once said he considered him to be a magician people will remember,{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/12/02/RV32328.DTL&type=printable|title=Master of illusion, collector of oddities|date=2 December 2001|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=25 September 2009 | first=Peter | last=Hartlaub}} and he was referred to as "the greatest and most influential card magician alive" by David Blaine.{{Cite news |last=Haider |first=Shuja |date=2 January 2023 |title=The Man Who Made Spain the Magic Capital of the World |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/magazine/juan-tamariz-magic.html |access-date=6 January 2023 |issn=0362-4331}} Tamariz performed at FISM in 2006 in Stockholm, 2009 in Beijing, China, 2015 in Rimini, Italy and 2018 in Busan, South Korea.[http://www.fism.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=1&pid=96& FISM website]{{failed verification|date=December 2019}}

A celebrity of television and stage in Spain and South America, Tamariz has authored six books translated into English: The Five Points in Magic, The Magic Way, Sonata, Mnemonica, Verbal Magic, and The Magic Rainbow.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}

Career

= Television =

Tamariz appeared regularly on Spanish television over the span of almost 2 decades.

In 1994, he appeared on the NBC special The World’s Greatest Magic.

Screening in theatres in 2024, the documentary [https://www.lostintheshuffle.film/ Lost In The Shuffle] sees Shawn Farquhar explore the centuries old mysteries hidden in a deck of cards, while visiting fellow magicians, including Juan Tamariz, to explore their favourite card tricks.

Books

Monedas, monedas... (y monedas) (1969, CYMYS).
Truki-cartomagia (1970, CYMYS). In collaboration with Ramón Varela
Aprenda Usted Magia (1973, CYMYS).
Magia en el Bar (1975, CYMYS).
Magicolor: (la magia del cambio de color) (1977, CYMYS).
Enciclopedia del forzaje (1980, Self Published — photocopy).
Los Cinco Puntos Mágicos (1982,Editorial Frakson).
Revised (1988, Editorial Frakson).
Revised (2005, Editorial Frakson).
English Version: The Five Points in Magic (2007, Hermetic Press).
Por arte de magia: Historia de los autómatas precedida de la historia de la prestidigitación y manipulación. (1982, Puntual).
La Vía Mágica (1988, Editorial Frakson).
Second Edition, Spanish (2011, Editorial Frakson).
English Version: The Magic Way (2014, Hermetic Press).
Sonata: Música Bruja Vol I (1989, Editorial Frakson).
English Version: Bewitched Music, Vol. 1: Sonata, translation: Donald Lehn, (1991, Editorial Frakson).
Secretos de magia potagia. Volumen 2 de La biblioteca encantada de Juan Tamariz. (1990, Editorial Frakson).
La sangre del turco. Volumen 3 de La biblioteca encantada de Juan Tamariz. (1990, Editorial Frakson).
El Mundo mágico de Tamariz (1991, Ediciones del Prado).
La magia del falso pulgar: (teoría, técnica y práctica) (1992, Producciones Mágicas Tamariz).
Sinfonía en mnemónica mayor: la baraja mnemónica de Tamariz. Volumen 2 de Música bruja (2000, Producciones Mágicas Tamariz)
English Version: Mnemonica (2004, Hermetic Press).
Por arte de verbimagia (2005, Producciones Mágicas Tamariz)
English Version: Verbal Magic (2008, Hermetic Press).
El Arcoiris Mágico (2016, Gema Navarro).
English Version: The Magic Rainbow (2019).

Awards

= Spain =

Second Prize for Comical Magic, in Congreso Mágico Nacional de Zaragoza, 1962.{{Cite web |date=1962 |title=IV CONGRESO MAGICO NACIONAL |url=http://www.spcmn.es/recursos/congresos/IV%20CMN/cronica.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005203202/http://www.spcmn.es/recursos/congresos/IV%20CMN/cronica.pdf |archive-date=5 October 2022 |access-date=7 May 2023 |website=Secretaría Permanente de Congresos Mágicos Nacionales de España |language=es}}
As de Cartomagia (Ace of card magic) in the first magical contest of Madrid, 1968.
Great Prize in the IV Congreso Nacional de Magia de San Sebastián, April 1972.

{{cite news

| title = El gran premio fue otorgado a "TAMARIZ" de Madrid

| pages = 2

| newspaper = El Diario Vasco

| location = Madrid

| date = 2 May 1972

| url = https://w390w.gipuzkoa.net/WAS/CORP/DKPAtzokoPrentsaWEB/buscar.do?amicus=178866&pc=true&lang=es&data=1972-05-02&pagina=2 }}

The Council of Ministers of Spain awarded him the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts), April 2011.

{{cite news

| newspaper = La Moncloa

| title = Acuerdo del Consejo de Ministros de 8 de abril de 2011. Concesión de las Medallas de Oro al mérito de las Bellas Artes 2010

| location = Spain

| date = 24 November 2011 | url = https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/serviciosdeprensa/notasprensa/historico/paginas/mcu/2011/ntmpr241111_entregamedallas.aspx/

}}

The Madrid City Council awarded him the Gold Medal of the city, May 2019.

{{cite news

| publisher = Diario de Madrid

| title = El Ayuntamiento premia a Carmen Linares, Juan Tamariz, 'El Roto' y la Mesa de las Pensiones con la Medalla de Oro de Madrid

| location = Madrid

| date = 15 May 2019

| url = https://diario.madrid.es/blog/notas-de-prensa/el-ayuntamiento-premia-a-carmen-linares-juan-tamariz-el-roto-y-la-mesa-de-las-pensiones-con-la-medalla-de-oro-de-madrid/

}}

= International =

2° Price on Micromagic, with Juan Antón (routine: Los Mancos), FISM Amsterdam XI, 1970.

{{cite news

| publisher = FISM

| title = 1970 Amsterdam XI World Championships

| location = Amsterdam

| date = 1970

| url = https://fism.org/championship-contests/fism-winners/fism-winners-1970-to-1979/

}}

1° Price on Close-up Card, FISM Paris XII 1973.

{{cite news

| publisher = FISM

| title = 1973 Paris XII World Championships

| location = Paris

| date = 1973

| url = https://fism.org/championship-contests/fism-winners/fism-winners-1970-to-1979/

}}

Mention as Magician of the Year, by the Academy of Magical Arts, 1992.

{{cite news

| publisher = AMA

| title = Hall of FAme

| location =

| date = 1992

| url = http://dev.magiccastle.com/hall_of_fame/

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Mention as Performing Fellowship, by the Academy of Magical Arts, 2000.

{{cite news

| publisher = AMA

| title = Hall of FAme

| location =

| date = 2000

| url = http://dev.magiccastle.com/hall_of_fame/

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Special Award on Theory & Philosophy, FISM Beijing XXIV 2009.

{{cite news|publisher = FISM|title = FISM Beijing XXIV World Championships|location = Beijing|date = 2009|url = https://fism.org/championship-contests/fism-winners/fism-winners-2000-to-2009/}}

Mention as Master Fellowship, by the Academy of Magical Arts, 2012.

{{cite news

| publisher = AMA

| title = Hall of FAme

| location =

| date = 2012

| url = http://dev.magiccastle.com/hall_of_fame/

}}

The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (2013){{Cite web|url=https://themagiccircle.co.uk/the-society/our-awards/the-jnm-prize|title=The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize|website=The Magic Circle|language=en-gb|access-date=29 December 2017|archive-date=16 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216091115/https://themagiccircle.co.uk/the-society/our-awards/the-jnm-prize|url-status=dead}}