Fernando Valero Delgado

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Fernando Enrique Valero Delgado (born May 6, 1958 in Guayaquil , Ecuador ) is a German-Ecuadorian glaciologist and artist .

Life and Artistic Creation

Fernando Valero Delgado grew up in a poor district of Guayaquil. In 1988 he came to Germany. He has been working at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven since 1992 and was involved in ten expeditions to the polar regions . During an expedition with the Swedish icebreaker "Oden" , he was the first Ecuadorian to reach the North Pole in 1996 . He presents the work of glaciology with simple means. So he published

  • the website "Glaciology for Beginners" (2004),
  • five short films on the subject of "ice cores and climate archive" at the event of the IWF Knowledge and Media "geOmovie - Images from the Earth System" (May 3-5, 2005) and
  • Online games on the subject of glaciology: "Playing and learning with the Superglazi" (2006),

which are united today under the website eiskern.de.

Paul and Napoleon - around the world in one night

This commitment was a contribution to the fact that Valero, as one of the members of the glaciology working group of the AWI under the direction of Heinrich Miller, was awarded the “ Communicator Prize - Science Prize of the Stifterverband” in 2007 . This award honored the outstanding communication of research work on climate development to the public.

Valero invented " Paul and Napoleon ". Together with Anna Wegner, he published the children's books Paul and Napoleon - A Penguin at the North Pole (2009), Paul and Napoleon - Around the World in One Night (2010) and Paul and Napoleon - A journey through time with the Klabautermann (2017). All the illustrations in the books came from his pen. Valero uses many avenues for communicating knowledge about climate change to the public, including children's universities and exhibitions.

In one of these exhibitions he presented his work of collages made of ice. When looking at the collages under polarized light , colored images emerge that are reminiscent of abstract paintings.

Awards

Works

  • with Anna Wegner: Paul and Napoleon - a penguin at the North Pole . 1st edition. Economic development NW, Verl. Für Neue Wiss., Bremerhaven 2009, ISBN 978-3-86509-932-7 .
  • with Anna Wegner: Paul and Napoleon - around the world in one night . 1st edition. Economic development NW, Verl. Für Neue Wiss., Bremerhaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-86918-021-2 .
  • with Anna Wegner: Paul and Napoleon - A journey through time with the Klabautermann . 1st edition. ferval, Verl. for popular science and art., Bremerhaven 2017, ISBN 978-3-9819297-0-6 .
  • with Sepp Kipfstuhl : Facets of the ice . 1st edition. ferval, Verl. for popular science and art., Bremerhaven 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819297-3-7 .
Ice painting, collage

Exhibitions

  • 2010: Exhibition of the original illustrations from the children's book "Paul and Napoleon - a penguin at the North Pole" in the Bremerhaven City Library
  • 2011: Exhibition for children and young people on climate change in the KlimaInsel Juist
  • 2011: Exhibition on the "Fall of the Sea Ice" and Christmas Cinema "Paul and Napoleon" at the Christmas market in Bremerhaven
  • 2012: Exhibition on the topic “Arctic - Europe; climate change and its consequences "
  • 2012: Exhibition "Color and Sound from Ice"
  • 2015: Exhibition "Spectrum - Ice" in the Climate City Office in Bremerhaven
  • 2015: Exhibition "Ice cream can be colorful"
  • 2016: Exhibition "Climate change, what does it have to do with me?"
  • 2016: Exhibition "Original watercolors from children's books - Paul and Napoleon"
  • 2018: Art installation "Luminous Foils + Electronic Music"
  • 2019: Exhibition "Facets of Ice"
  • 2019: Exhibition "KunstRaum / ArtSpace - Old Citizens"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fernando Valero, AWI
  2. ↑ PAGES, page 4
  3. ↑ IMF Knowledge and Media Annual Report 2005-06 ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Eiskern.de
  5. ↑ Communicator Prize 2007
  6. ^ Awarding of the Communicator Prize 2007 in Essen
  7. ↑ Children's Universities
  8. ↑ exhibitions
  9. ↑ a b Color and Sound from Ice ( Memento from August 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Fall of the sea ice
  11. ^ Arctic - Europe; climate change and its consequences
  12. ↑ Spectrum - ice cream, creations from assembled ice cream collages
  13. ↑ Ice cream can be colorful
  14. ↑ Climate change, what does it have to do with me?
  15. ↑ Illustrations of the children's books - Paul and Napoleon
  16. ↑ Luminous foils + electronic music "
  17. ^ Facets of the Ice: Photographs by Sepp Kipfstuhl and Fernando Valero-Delgado
  18. ↑ Ice cream can be colorful and shiny foils; Fernando Valero
personal data
SURNAME Valero Delgado, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valero Delgado, Fernando Enrique; Valero, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Ecuadorian glaciologist and artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Guayaquil , Ecuador