JUAN CANTAFIO

With a Degree in Advertising and Social Media Analyst, he has been working over 40 years as professional in the Media and 30 years as a University Professor.

His latest professional activity is focused on creative areas, especially those with production and artistic direction.

He is a magazine collector and curator, and owns the largest Latin-American collection of Magazine Covers, with over four hundred thousand issues named “Arte de Tapa de Revistas – Colección Cantafio” (Magazine Cover Art – Cantafio Collection) (www.coleccioncantafio.com).

He has worked as Creative Director for many advertising agencies for big brand names, and for theater production companies.

He has begun as a TV producer in 1984 for Channel 11 in a show called “Botica de Tango”, hosting Eduardo Bergara Leumann, and then worked for many different TV channels, as well as movie film companies, and nowadays as artistic director of “Cancion Visual”, a video musical clip format which connects and combines music, great performers and visual arts and artists, made specially for audiovisual platforms.

He has created different art exhibitions, also collaborated as a journalist with magazines, and has five books edited as author as well as taken part in other three as co-author.

In the educational field, he has been Associate Professor in many universities (Universidad de Palermo, Universidad de Morón, UAI, Universidad Kennedy, EAN, SAPEM), as well as the Advertising and Communication Career Coordinator.

He is also the Artistic Director and Producer for IDEA2 Espectaculos (Theater, Movie, Radio, Events and TV areas) since 2003. (www.idea2.com.ar)

CHRONOLOGY
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  1. BUENOS AIRES.

JUNGLA HÁBITAT CULTURAL CENTER.

ORGANIZER: IDEA2 ESPECTACULOS

EXHIBITION: “RAINBOW” (40 issues).[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”2022″]BUENOS AIRES.

SAN MARTIN CULTURAL CENTER.

ORGANIZER: CCSM – VISUAL ARTS – IDEA2 ESPECTACULOS.

EXIBITION: “FACES” (100 issues).

[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”2018″]BUENOS AIRES.

CITY OF BUENOS AIRES LEGISLATURE.

ORGANIZER: MANUEL BELGRANO EXHIBITION ROOM.

PUBLIC NEWSPAPER LIBRARY “JOSE HERNANDEZ”.

EXHIBITION: “COVER ART”.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”2018″]BUENOS AIRES.

GASPAR CAFÉ (COURTHOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD).

ORGANIZER: IDEA2 ESPECTACULOS.

EXHIBITION“FACES” (200 issues)[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”2017″]BUENOS AIRES.

GASPAR CAFÉ (DOWNTOWN).

ORGANIZER: IDEA2 ESPECTACULOS.

EXHIBITION: “FACES” (400 issues).[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”2016″]BUENOS AIRES.

GASPAR CAFÉ (PALERMO).

ORGANIZER: IDEA2 ESPECTACULOS.

EXHIBITION: “FACES” (50 issues).[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1995″]BUENOS AIRES.

AUDIOVISUAL ARTS AND COMMUNICATION HOUSE.

EVENT ORGANIZER: S.U.P / O.S.P.P.

EXHIBITIONS:

“THE 80’S JINGLES”

“NATIONAL ADVERTISING CINEMA OLTIMES ADS – PART II”

“HYPER – CREATIVE ADVERSTISEMENTS”

“LP COVER’S”

“VISUAL ARTS AND ADVERTISING”

“HONORING THE 100TH YEARS OF THE BIRTH OF CINEMA”

“CINEMA” (INTERNATIONAL MOVIE POSTERS)

“BODIES” (INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS OF ARTISTIC NUDES POSTERS)[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1994″]BUENOS AIRES.

RECOLETA BUENOS AIRES DESIGN

EXHIBITIONS:

“OLTIME ADVERTISEMENTS”

“THE BEST OF 11TH. ARGENTINEAN CREATIVE ORGANIZATION EXHIBITION”

EVENT ORGANIZERS: ARGENTIEAN CREATIVE ORGANIZATION.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1994″]BUENOS AIRES.

AUDIOVISUAL ARTS AND COMMUNICATION HOUSE

EVENT ORGANIZER: S.U.P / O.S.P.P.

EXHIBITIONS:

“ARGENTINEAN YOUNG CREATIVE TALENTS”

“MAGAZINE’S COVERS DESING”

“NATIONAL ADVERTISING CINEMA OLTIME ADS”[/icon_timeline_item][/icon_timeline]

[icon_timeline][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”BOOKS AS AUTHOR” arrow_position=”bottom”][/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM”]1994. Publisher: Vinciguerra. Content: Research on communication and development in Argentina by Roots Foundation and Prodesco. (various Authors)[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”STRUCTURAL ADVERSTISING DESIGN”]1999.Publisher: 3X. Content: Graphic and Advertising Design. Creativity. A look at advertising design and creativity; structural styles and forms of artistic and commercial messages. Second edition 2002.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”RESEARCH AT UAI (INTERAMERICAN UNIVERSITY) 1998-2001″]2001. UAI. Content: Academic Research on design and creativity. (varios Authors).[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”7th. ANTHOLOGY ON URBAN AND SUBURBAN POETS”]2002. Baobab, sponsored by Undersecretary of Culture of Buenos Aires Province. Content: Poetic Anthology. (various Authors)[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”THE MIRRORS”]2002. Publisher C.I.E.N. Content: Poetic Anthology. (various Authors).[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”INVISIBLE LOVE”]2003. Publisher: 3X. Content: Children theatre play. Includes a musical CD.

A children comedy play about love and friendship, where the roles characterize an astronaut, a ballet dancer and two illusionists, all together in a magic Buenos Aires.

Illustrations of Bernardo Suarez.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”IMAGES CREATIVE STRUCTURE”]2005. Publisher: 3X. Content: Graphic and Advertising Design. Creativity. Design and structural forms of actual advertising messages. Second edition 2007.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”IMAGES CREATIVE STRUCTURE 2″]2005. Publisher: 3X. Content: Graphic and Advertising Design. Creativity. Design and structural forms of actual advertising messages. Second edition 2007.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”INVISIBLE LOVE 2″]2005. Publisher: 3X. Content: Children theatre play.

New adventures and characters in this story of love and friendship between children, having a greater influence as a musical.

Illustrations of Bernardo Suarez.[/icon_timeline_item][/icon_timeline]

[icon_timeline][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”PUBLICATIONS AS A COLLABORATOR” arrow_position=”bottom”][/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”CREATIVON MAGAZINE “]1981-83. Argentinean Creative Circle. Journalistic Collaborator.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”BELGRANO VENDE MAGAZINE”]1982. Showbusiness Journalist. Director: Alejandro Mouzet Miguens.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”NOVEDAD E IMPACTO MAGAZINE”]1982-83. Showbusiness Journalist. Director: Jose Luis González.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”CINE BOLETIN MAGAZINE”]1982-84. Movie Editor and Columnist, covering the Cinema Festivals. Director: Federico Nieves.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”PUBLICATIONS OF THE GENERAL PRESS SECRETARIAT, SAN MARTIN CITY HALL”]1983-85. Journalist. Director: Héctor Primavera, Carlos Mollard.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”HECHOS Y PERSONAJES MAGAZINE”]1983. Jounalistic Collaborator. Director: Liliana Castaño.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”EL PERCHERO MAGAZINE”]1984. Journalistic Collaborator. Directors: Nora Valle and Fabián Barreiro.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”ESTO ES AMERICA MAGAZINE (O.A.S. ISSUE)”]1984.Journalist. Director: Victor Hugo de Brasi.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”BUENOS AIRES NEWSPAPER”]1984-85. Showbusiness Journalist. Director: Victor Hugo de Brasi.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”MEDEA LITERARY MAGAZINE (IBERO AMERICAN EDITION)”]1984-86. Founder and Director.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”TELECABLE MAGAZINE”]1991. Graphic Director.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”VER BIEN MAGAZINE / U.P.C.O.”]1991. Graphic Designer..[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”MERCADO ASEGURADOR MAGAZINE”]1994. Journalistic Collaborator.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”TV Y NOVELAS MAGAZINE”]1994-96.Creative Producer and journalistic collaborator. Publisher: Televisa.

Director: Jorge Lafauci.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”FLASH MAGAZINE “]1996. Journalistic Collaborator. Publisher: Sarmiento.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”TIEMPO PYME MAGAZINE”]2017-22. Journalistic Collaborator. Editor: Raúl de Jesús.[/icon_timeline_item][/icon_timeline]