Hugo Martínez Acuña

Acompañe al Dr. Rafael Lara Martínez en una conversación sobre textos inéditos de Ricardo Aguilar en la Universidad Luterana Salvadoreña en San Salvador. Este evento académico ofrece una oportunidad única para explorar obras literarias poco conocidas en un ambiente universitario. La conversación se realizará el 26 de septiembre de 2026, de 9am a 11am en el Aula 14A. Universidad Luterana, camino de Los Planes de Renderos, Km 3.

Mauricio Linares-Aguilar was born in Ahuachapán, El Salvador in 1966. The artist works in a variety of media, often locally sourced, seeking concrete relationships of color, form, and light that paradoxically suggest the infinite possibilities inherent in our lives. He produces paintings, drawings, printmaking works, photographs, installations and other interdisciplinary oeuvres. Linares-Aguilar has participated in several group exhibitions around the world, and he also has exhibited his work individually nineteen times. He received his Bachelor of Arts, BA at the Applied School of Arts, Jose Matias Delgado University, El Salvador. Then, the Master of Fine Arts, MFA at the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences of the University of Arkansas, USA. He also holds a master degree in Jewelry History and Design, MA from Siena University, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in 2019 from the Fine Arts Department of Complutense of Madrid University, Spain, with his research and thesis focused on water and titled Social Imagination and Water Visual Depiction in Mesoamerica. Linares-Aguilar is a Fulbright Alumni, AECID Ibero-American Creators Residence Program Fellow and FANTEL Talent Fellow. Linares Aguilar is also curator and Fine Arts Appraisal registered by the Superintendence of the Financial System of El Salvador, SSF and affiliated to the Salvadoran Chamber of Valuation, CSV. Also, he is member of the Panamerican Union of Appraisals Associations, UPAV.

Anamarina Avilés is a painter with thirty-seven years of work behind her: seven solo exhibitions and more than a hundred group shows across Central America and the United States. She has worked in painting, sculpture, printmaking and engraving; today she paints in acrylic, oil and watercolour, and mixes techniques in some pieces, including figures cut from wood. Her subject is the stories of women and girls with sweet, nostalgic gazes, surrounded by organic detail. Nature is always in the picture: leaves, flowers, butterflies, birds. She wants each work to carry a spiritual charge of hope and to give off, in strong colour, a positive energy. The aim is to make spaces that feel encouraging, with faith in the future. Her first solo show was at Galería de Arte Saravia in San Salvador in 1995. Since then she has shown at Museo Forma, the Centro Cultural de España, DIVA Art Gallery and the MARTE art competition in El Salvador, and in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the United States, including the Mint Museum in Charlotte.