Metralla Rosa

Artist | Designer | Maker

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Rob Goodwin is an extraordinary artist and a fantastic example of what it means to be born and bred with the belief that having London as your main source of creative inspiration and stylistic reference brings.

Rob began his career as a designer almost by accident, which is perhaps why his pieces are so easy to admire, yet so hard to pigeonhole. His visions are full of both fantasy and epic conspiracies that take you places without allowing you the time to acknowledge the inherent contradictions between his medieval and futuristic visions that create, in turn, unprecedented aesthetic discoveries.

Specialising in unique and inimitable leather pieces with elaborate artisanal detail, his creations are imbued with selfless dedication and a sophisticated attention to detail.

His creations have been worn by celebrities such as Madonna, Rihanna and Angelina Jolie, and have also been exhibited in art galleries, included in editorials of fashion and trend magazines, filmed in international commercials and starred in exquisite theatrical productions.

It is however, thanks to the histrionic nature of his pieces, that Rob has recently started an interesting career as an accessory designer for high-status film productions, and in this conversation Rob tells us in great detail how Hollywood came into his life, how he has survived moments of intense artistic doubt and what it’s like to gallop between Prague and London.

This conversation is an ode to the fragility that exists in the heart of every incorruptible creator. Listen to it in order to reconsider your own doubts and reconnect with the nobility of your own aspirations, ambitions and dreams. It will certainly be worth it.

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Artista | Diseñador | Artesano

Rob Goodwin es un artista extraordinario y un fantástico ejemplo de lo que significa nacer, crecer y creer en Londres como principal fuente de inspiración y como referencia estilística.

Rob inició su carrera como diseñador casi por accidente y quizás por ello sus piezas son fáciles de admirar y difíciles de encasillar. Sus visiones como diseñador están llenas de fantasía, y de conspiraciones épicas que te trajinan sin que tengas tiempo de reaccionar entre lo medieval y lo futurista, creando a su vez descubrimientos estéticos inéditos...for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Rob, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English or Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website. 

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Directora de FLAWA | Socióloga

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Teresa Guanique, la protagonista de este episodio de Metralla Rosa, es una oda a la latinidad pro-activa, y abocada a la creación de iniciativas urbanas capaces de contrarrestar las hegemonías culturales.

Es la creadora y la directora de FLAWA: Festival of Latin American Women in Arts. Un festival que tuvo lugar por primera vez en Londres en 2019, y que seguirá llevándose a cabo cada año para destacar la labor de mujeres creadoras vinculadas a la música, la poesía, la narrativa, el cine, las artes plásticas y las artes escénicas.

Si hay alguien que conoce bien todos los movimientos culturales que tienen lugar en Londres para crear espacios de integración desde la diáspora, esa es Teresa. Ella representa una suerte de fuerza bisagra gracias a la cual muchas iniciativas se presentan, para desafiar todas posible homogeneidad artística y socio cultural.

En esta entrevista hablamos también del femicidio, de su fascinación por la novela gráfica, de la necesidad de defender y proteger la diversidad como un derecho ciudadano no solo del inmigrante sino de todo cuidado del mundo global, y de la relación inherente que existe siempre entre racismo, colonialismo y discriminación de género.

Teresa es una socióloga comprometida, activa y participativa. Una mujer que no solo teoriza acerca de las dinámicas sociales, sino que sobre todo actúa para originar los espacios de encuentro que la sociedad necesita para generar realidades comunitarias alternativas y de gran cohesión multicultural.

Ella baila con grupos de danza folclórica en sus ratos libres, asiste a eventos que celebran la cultura latina a lo largo y ancho de la ciudad, y nos ha regalado a todos – no sin horas de trabajo duro – un festival que celebra a la mujer creadora latinoamericana, ofreciéndole a esta, un espacio de visibilidad sin precedentes en la gran capital londinense.

Y ahora, disfruten la entrevista!

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FLAWA: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

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Director of FLAWA | Sociologist

Teresa Guanique, the protagonist of this episode of Metralla Rosa, is an ode to Latin pro-activity, dedicated to the creation of urban initiatives that are made to counteract cultural hegemonies.

She is the creator and director of FLAWA: Festival of Latin American Women in Arts, a festival that took place for the first time in London in 2019, and which will continue to be held annually, highlighting the work of creative women linked to music, poetry, literature, film, visual arts and theatre.

If there is anyone familiar with all the cultural movements that are creating spaces in London for the reintegration of the diaspora, it is Teresa. She brings together many of these initiatives as they challenge artistic and sociocultural homogeneity...for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Teresa, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English and Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website.

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Visual Artist | Art Historian

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Born in Campinas, Brazil, Iluá lives and creates her works in London, where she has lived for over half of her life, which is precisely why it’s so difficult to decide whether she is a Brazilian artist living in the U.K. or a British artist born accidentally in Brazil.

Iluá is a conceptual artist whose work is predominantly figurative and whose aesthetic visions often present strong connections with anatomy, making use of the human body as an expression of existence made real.

She places the human condition under a magnifying glass, which is probably why her practice speaks of complex semiotic narratives. The many layers of her work lead us towards an understanding and exploration of the faith and symbolism present in both Christianity and the universality of mythological archetypes.

Many of Iluá’s works are three dimensional, and in this interview she explains not only her love of working with glass, but also the pleasure she finds in solving the technical problems she encounters on the journey from the birth of a concept to the materialisation of the piece. Our meandering encounter was as revealing as it was seductive. Her train of thought knows no shortcuts and, after listening to her reflect – with such assertiveness, grace and wisdom – about her art and her life, you will be grateful that she has not skimped on any of the details.

Discover her first artistic memories, the way in which her Neo-Gothic dandyism is entwined within her London life, the communion that exists between her voluptuously-baroque, intellectual nature and the almost minimalist neatness of her work.

Also discover how the destructive aspects of vanity have inspired one of her favourite glass sculptures, how the baroque nature of colonial Brazil gains expression through her stylistic passions, and how her most recent exhibition at the College of Optometrists has allowed her to engage with the martyrdom of Santa Lucia from an unexpected, autobiographical perspective.

If, like us, you believe that there is nothing more fascinating than the indomitable ambition of a cultured, intellectually restless and irreverently sophisticated woman, then this conversation will, undoubtedly, be an elixir for your senses.

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Artista Plástica | Historiadora del Arte
 

Nacida en Campinas, Brazil, Iluá vive y crea su obra en Londres, en donde vive desde más de la mitad de su vida. Razón por la que es difícil decidir si su caso es el de una creadora brasileña viviendo...for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Iluá, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English or Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website. 

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TV Presenter | Producer | Mental Health Activist

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Trisha Goddard is a queen and legend of international TV. Her career began in Australia where she quickly became the country’s first black TV presenter, though not without having to face the racial discrimination that came with this well-deserved professional breakthrough.

She began her first major international on screen venture in the UK in 1998 and has since worked on many successful shows, both as a producer and presenter. Trisha now works between the United States, the United Kingdom and, occasionally, Australia.

A journalist, producer, radio and TV presenter, long-distance runner and mother, Trisha worked with Nelson Mandela shortly after giving birth to the eldest of her two daughters. She has published several books, one of them the autobiography As I Am. She survived aggressive breast cancer and has always been a vocal advocate for outreach programmes that support anxiety, depression and other disorders associated with the mind and nervous system, in order to help fight the stigma that is still attached to mental illness.

Trisha is especially known for her work as a Talk Show host and producer and as soon as you start talking to her you can see exactly why she has been so successful in dealing on all levels with people’s traumas and conflicts. She is an accessible, open, spontaneous and thoughtful woman who immediately establishes empathy with whoever she is with. She also has the gift of easily stepping into another’s shoes, due to a lifetime of having to deal with her own extreme ups and downs.

It was not only a great pleasure to have the opportunity to talk to Trisha Goddard about her personal life and her impressive, multifaceted career, but it also confirmed to us that true stars always share their light without their brightness dimming.

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This episode of Metralla Rosa is dedicated to Linda [a.k.a. Winnie] Goddard (1961-1988) and Anne Deveson (1930-2016)
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Artist | Entrepreneur | Author

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Dulcie is the epitome of everything she loves, surrounds herself with, and identifies with. A fervent advocate of the therapeutic power of creativity, Dulcie has an infectious enthusiasm for the art of drawing and, through the various initiatives of her Sketch Appeal brand, she brings her unique perspective to the London drawing scene.

As exciting as a party of mischievous girls, as colourful as a birthday balloon, and as playful and witty as a box of multicoloured crayons, Dulcie is a warm-hearted entrepreneur and an artist with a liberating, refreshing, bubbly and inclusive visual style.

Yet beneath her predominant exterior of joy and optimism, Dulcie possesses, above all, the courage and determination to deliver an offer that makes many happy while overcoming her own vulnerabilities and constant fears. At the time this interview was recorded, she was working on a draft of her first book of texts and illustrations, the production of an art exhibition on self-portraits and on the acceptance and validation of beauty itself in order to show life that she is ready to take on new challenges.

Sketch Appeal and Sketchy Bitches are a unique addition to London’s creative scene. And because they offer a clearly collaborative, active and cohesive idea of community, these projects are beginning to spread with a growing international force, especially through the social networks.

Find out how you can validate your own creative hurricane – and have fun in the process – by silencing your own self-destructive tendencies and not taking yourself too seriously, in this close encounter with Dulcie.

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Artista | Emprendedor | Autor

Dulcie es en sí misma el epítome de todas las cosas que ama, con las que se rodea y con las que se identifica. Ferviente defensora del poder terapéutico de la creatividad, Dulcie posee un entusiasmo contagioso por el arte de dibujar, y gracias a las distintas iniciativas de su marca Sketch Appeal, le inyecta una estampa única a la escena del dibujo al vivo en la ciudad de Londres.

Vibrante como una fiesta de niñas traviesas, colorida como un globo de cumpleaños, y juguetona e ingeniosa como una cartuchera de creyones de colores, Dulcie es una emprendedora de iniciativas llenas de calidez, y una artista con un expresión plástica liberadora, refrescante, efervescente e incluyente.

Sin embargo, a pesar de su predominante fachada de júbilo y optimismo, Dulcie posee sobre todo la valentía y la determinación necesarias para ser capaz de construir una oferta que hace a muchos feliz...for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Dulcie, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English or Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website. 

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Performance Artists | Dancers | Models

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Antonio and Riccardo are a pair of artists who explore the human body, the political readings implicit in the erotic and the transgressive possibilities of pain and pleasure throughout their performances, during which reality and fiction are constantly intertwined and challenged.

Creative allies as well as lovers in life, the two have created a visual language that questions social convention, the paradigms of established norms, moral authority and the censoring mechanisms of power.

Their bodies are the ground on which Antonio and Riccardo create, and with them they express their challenge on conservative and stagnant views of art and beauty.

This conversation sees them express their views on their personal and professional experiences with a fascinating fluidity and intelligence. They reflect on the sometimes needless and inaccessible hermeticism of modern art, on monogamy, on gender stereotypes, on patriarchy, on the pros and cons of sharing a wardrobe and on the future of London as the capital of the European avant-garde.

Antonio and Riccardo are fabulous on their own, so imagine what they’re like when they get together for a high-voltage conversation. In fact, don’t imagine it: Carla brings them together in this edition of Metralla Rosa so we can all to be seduced by their irreverence.

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Website | Vimeo | Instagram: Antonio Branco & Riccardo T – Antonio Branco – Riccardo T – Todd Lamming

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Artistas de performance | Bailarines | Modelos

Antonio y Riccardo son un dúo de artistas que exploran con su obra performativa, el cuerpo, las lectura políticas implícitas en el hecho erotico y los posibilidades transgresoras del dolor y el placer. Ambos crean puestas en escena donde la realidad y la ficción se entrelazan y se desafían constantemente.

Aliados en la creación y amantes en la realidad, juntos han creado un lenguaje plástico con en el que cuestionan las convenciones sociales, los paradigmas de la normativa establecida, la autoridad moral y los mecanismos de censura del poder.

El cuerpo es el territorio desde el cual Antonio y Riccardo crean, y con el cual se expresan desafiando toda conservadora y anquilosada visión del arte y de la belleza.

En esta conversación ambos develan con fascinante fluidez e inteligencia sus puntos de vista acerca de sus experiencias personales y profesionales. Ambos reflexionan acerca del inaccesible y a veces gratuito hermetismo del arte moderno, la monogamia, los estereotipos de género, el patriarcado, los pro y los contras de compartir guardarropa, y el futuro de Londres como capital de la vanguardia artística europea.

Si Antonio y Riccardo son fabulosos por separado, los imaginas reunidos en una conversación de alto voltaje?...for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Antonio & Riccardo, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English or Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website. 

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Wine expert | TV presenter | Author

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In this episode Carla had the great honour of chatting, in the privacy of Metralla Rosa’s home, with Olly Smith. Olly is a cherished and respected public figure in the UK, with his popularity stemming from being one of the country’s highest profile, as well as friendliest, most accessible and relaxed wine experts.

Driven by his desire to make wine culture more accessible, Olly has written four excellent books on the subject, presents ‘A Glass With…the podcast that drinks with the stars‘, writes a column in The Mail on Sunday‘s ‘Event Magazine‘ which is read weekly by more than five million people, contributes specialist texts to a wide variety of newspapers and additional publications every year, and is the leading wine expert on BBC1‘s multi-award winning live cookery show, Saturday Kitchen!

Olly is a loving family man, a loyal friend and, most definitely, a man full of the joys of life and a passion for his work. His contagious enthusiasm, indelible smile and clearly generous attitude makes him right at home amongst all these demanding personal and professional activities. He is also always ready to accept additional challenges, such as joining us for this episode of Metralla Rosa!

If you want to find out which wine is the most rock and roll or the best aphrodisiac, the trendiest or most environmentally-friendly option, listen to this episode. If, like Carla, you don’t consider yourself an expert but learning stimulates you, you’ll appreciate all the shortcuts Olly offers in just over an hour of interview, that will allow you to start sounding like an expert.

This episode will surprise you as you find out how much an elixir of fermented grapes can have in common with art, life and poetry.

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Website | Podcast: A Glass With… | Book: Fizz

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Artista | Dominatrix | Tarot

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Artista, activista, feminista, pornografa, dominatrix, Melusina moderna y hechicera, Itziar es especialmente un ser humano dotado con una feroz inteligencia, una inquieta sensibilidad social y una inquietante visión de mundo.

Sin comportamientos adoctrinantes o proselitistas, y sin utilizar las armas de la simpatía condescendiente, Itziar tiene una habilidad con la que únicamente las personas que son brutalmente honestas y fieles a sí mismas cuentan. Conquista tu confianza y tu devoción sin mayor esfuerzo y muy a pesar de no estar especialmente interesada en ganarse la aprobación de nadie.

Esta extensa conversación entre Carla e Itziar está llena de visiones fascinantes acerca de la vida al margen de las estructuras de dominación patriarcal y acerca de la creación como una forma de contracultura y subversión política. En esta entrevista exploramos sus ideales, los libros que considera seminales, su opinión acerca de las dinámicas de poder en las relaciones humanas y la importancia de desafiarlas, y su evolución general como artista, como porno videografa y como hechicera moderna.

Si deseas explorar cómo elevar tu entendimiento acerca del orden ‘normal’ de las cosas, escucha esta entrevista. Si deseas escuchar hablar acerca un viaje de estimulación intelectual radical, que ponga en discusión todo aletargamiento moral o conformismo ético, escucha esta entrevista.

Metralla Rosa lo certifica: Itziar Bilbao Urrutia es una diosa y todas sus causas nos tocan de cerca y nos competen!

Y ahora, escuchen la entrevista!

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Itziar Bilbao Urrutia: Instagram | Etsy Tarot Shop
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Artist | Dominatrix | Tarot

Itziar is an artist, activist, feminist, pornographer, dominatrix, a modern Melusine and sorceress. She is a person endowed with a fierce intelligence, a restless sensitivity to social issues and a disquieting view of the world.

Itziar doesn’t need to indoctrinate or proselytise, and neither does she need to use the condescending weapon of sympathy. She has an ability she shares only with people who are uncompromisingly honest and true to themselves – an ability to easily gain your trust and devotion, despite a lack of interest in anyone’s approval.

This extensive conversation between Carla and Itziar is full of fascinating glimpses into what living outside the framework of patriarchal dominance and what creativity as a form of counter-culture and political subversion are like. In this interview we go through her ideology, the books that are seminal for her and her views on power dynamics within human interactions and the importance of challenging them...for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Itziar, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English and Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website.

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Artist

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Nick Cuthell is a figurative artist from New Zealand with a modern image and a direct and frank manner – yet we could easily imagine him dressed in 19th century fashion walking the streets of London or Florence. This invisible link to the past may be exactly what informs his style of art, which is distinctly realistic and in keeping with the European impressionist and neoclassical portraiture tradition of the 1800s.

His gentle eyes are especially good at capturing genuine refinement and beauty, and for this Nick relies on the traditional painting techniques known as ‘Alla Prima‘, or ‘L’Atelier‘, where students learn directly from maestros.

Nick has a sweet tendency to recreate aesthetic and ethical virtue through his paintings. Like a modern-day gentleman trying to rescue a beautiful painting tradition, his very presence calls for serenity, and for a validation of beauty that exists only in what is evoked with purified simplicity and unquestionable dignity.

Nick has been fortunate enough to be able to portray prominent contemporary personalities such as the renowned British actor Ian Mckellen, as well as other actors from the film ‘The Hobbit‘. He was also asked to paint the cast of ‘Waiting for Godot‘ by the Theatre Royal Haymarket. He has portrayed writer Martin Sherman, British/Nigerian actress Gloria Onitiri, and most recently Georgina Beyer, the world’s first openly transgender woman with the rank of mayor and later, member of the New Zealand parliament. However, for obvious reasons, it is his portrait of the current queen, Elizabeth II, commissioned by The New Zealand Portrait Gallery that was the great turning point of his career.

Carla and Nick share a beautiful relationship of mutual cooperation and silent approval for the human and professional, which is why this interview has an aura of friendship pervading everything it touches. This episode of Metralla Rosa is a delightful, gentle walk through the life of a painter that should not be missed.

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Artista

Nick Cuthell es un artista figurativista de origen Neozelandés que aunque tiene una imagen muy contemporánea y un modo de ser muy franco y directo, cualquiera podría fácilmente imaginar ataviado a la usanza del siglo 19th transitando las calles de Londres o Florencia. Y es quizás esta invisible conexión con el pasado lo que define su estilo artístico, claramente realista y apegado...for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Nick, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English and Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website. 

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Attore | Ballerino | Modello

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In questo episodio di Metralla Rosa, Carla ha il piacere di chiedere a Claudio Insalaco tutto quello che avresti voluto sapere sulla vita di Claudio e non hai mai nemmeno osato immaginare.

Ballerino, attore e modello, aggraziata incarnazione di un moderno Adone mediterraneo, a Claudio non basta essere un irrefrenabile oggetto del desiderio e portatore dell’ispirazione altrui. Basta scambiare le prime parole con quest’uomo affascinante per vedere che accetta il suo ruolo di musa senza complessi perché sa bene chi è, cosa vuole dall’arte e dalla vita e cosa si aspetta dalla sua poliedrica e inarrestabile carriera.

In questa vivace e sfacciata conversazione, scoprirete i suoi successi cinematografici, perché la danza è nelle sue vene, come ha iniziato a posare nudo, quali cose trova eccitanti e/o erotiche, e perché vive con un piede in Italia e un altro in Inghilterra.

Caloroso, sincero, genuino, sagace e sempre seducente, Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco vi offrirà, grazie a questa conversazione, una visione fresca della vita, alla quale sarà davvero difficile resistere.

E ora, godetevi l’intervista!

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Actor | Dancer | Model

In this episode of Metralla Rosa, Carla is pleased to ask Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco everything you ever wanted to know about his life but didn’t even dare imagine.

A dancer, actor and model, as well as a graceful incarnation of the modern, Mediterranean Adonis, Giuseppe Claudio is not content with being only an overwhelming object of desire and vessel of another’s inspiration: you need only talk to this bewitching man for a couple of minutes to see that he accepts the role of a muse without the slightest issue, knowing full well who he is, what he wants from art and life, and what he expects from his multifaceted and unstoppable career.

In this lively, mischievous conversation, you will find out about his film successes, why dancing is in his veins, how he began to model naked, what he finds exciting and/or erotic, and why he lives with one foot in Italy and the other in England.

Warm, sincere, genuine, wise and always seductive, Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco will show you his refreshing take on life – one that will truly be hard for you to resist.

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Actor | Bailarín | Modelo

En este episodio de Metralla Rosa Carla se da el gusto de preguntarle a Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco, todo lo que te gustaría saber de su vida y no te has atrevido nisiquiera a imaginar.

Bailarín, actor y modelo, además de ser la agraciada encarnación de un mediterráneo adonis contemporáneo, Giuseppe Claudio no se conforma con ser solo imparable objeto de deseo y recipiente de la inspiración de otros. Basta conversar unos minutos con este hombre encantador para entender....for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Giuseppe Claudio, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English and Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website.

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