Other Cinegética Awards 2018
Cinegética also wants to present two very emblematic awards for a life dedicated to nature and hunting. On this occasion, the Tony Sanchez Ariño Award is given to Taxidermia Garoz, and a special award to Mr. Antonio Biosca Carbollel.
To talk about Los Garoz, we go back to 1947, a renowned saga of taxidermists, descendants of Los YĂ©benes, when they began with the noble art of taxidermy in Spain. The founder and creator of the first taxidermy in Los Montes de Toledo was Juan Garoz Pedraza. His son, Juan Garoz Sevilla, second generation of sculptor and taxidermist, took over. He would not only work in the world of taxidermy and skin, but would also stand out with his works in bronze, passionate about sculpture. Among his works: “El garra del JabalĂ” (taxidermy), exhibited at the Museo
of RiofrĂo, “El Ciervo” (bronze sculpture) in Denver (Arizona) and “El Ciervo de la Rotonda de Los YĂ©benes” (bronze sculpture) in his hometown. His sons, Juan JosĂ© Garoz and Juan RamĂłn Garoz, at the end of the 90s would continue with his work being the third generation, working in taxidermy, sculpture and introducing decoration and design, fusing the mixture of the three modalities, which has allowed them to innovate in a more avant-garde taxidermy.
They restored the Natural Science Museum of Madrid in 2008 and created “The Hunting Museum of Los Yébenes”. They currently work and collaborate with several museums, some of them international.
Mr. Antonio Biosca Carbonell, Industrial Engineer. Thanks to music, he made a real friendship with Mr. Roberto Medem Sanjuan, an extraordinary partridge hunter, about whose hunting activity he wrote a three-volume work. After an unfortunate accident with a gun, in which a great friend died, his father did not allow him to have any firearms.
It was after his father's death that he began hunting partridges in drives with the help of Roberto Medem, after he was already 30 years old. For work reasons, he travelled frequently to Africa, without thinking of dedicating himself to big game hunting, but the insistence of friends and his wife did the rest...
He has undertaken 38 safaris and collected a collection of 150 different species from all five continents.
The University of Navarra's Museum of Natural Sciences is where his collection is housed, and he has finally succeeded in turning it into a social destination that allows children, young people and adults to learn about wild animals.
Both awards will be presented at a dinner to be held for this purpose on Saturday 3 March at 9:30 pm at the Meliá Castilla Hotel.