Aurelio Paviato
Aurelio Paviato es uno de los principales magos profesionales de Italia. Ganó el codiciado Primer Premio en Magia de cerca en la prestigiosa conferencia de magos de FISM, compitiendo contra los mejores magos de todo el mundo.
También es miembro desde hace mucho de la exclusiva Escuela Mágica de Madrid. Paviato es una de las caras más familiares de la televisión italiana, habiendo hecho más de ochenta apariciones.
Ha actuado con gran aclamación en el prestigioso Castillo Mágico de Hollywood y ha dado conferencias para magos en Londres, París, Madrid, Vitoria (España), San Sebastián (España), Tamarite de Litera (España) Lisboa, Niza, Estrasburgo, Ginebra, Zúrich, Basilea, Hollywood, St. Louis, Hakone y Kitakiushu (Japón).
Entre sus últimos logros se encuentra un espectáculo teatral, "Storie di un Artigiano di Illusioni" (Cuentos de un artesano de las ilusiones).
The Magic of Ascanio Volume 2 Studies of Card Magic
Etcheverry/Ascanio
This new book by my friend Jesús Etcheverry has brought me a moment of reflection and inspiration. The figure of Ascanio is already a part of the history of our art. His influence has been significant first in Spain and then in the whole world and, along with Tamariz and others, has been a major force in modeling the identity of what is now universally known as the Spanish School.
His thoughts and discussions frequently tackled artistic issues, and his essays had the goal of providing us the necessary tools to value and enrich our work. He offered us his most notable and unquestionable skill: his linguistic competence and his dialectic capacity. A well-read man with a vast cultural perspective, he served magic with his knowledge. He identified, defined, and named countless empirical aspects of magic by codifying them and making them culturally transferable. In the purest Ascanian style, Etcheverry points out to the reader the moments in which precise structures and linguistic strategies are applied, as is the case with Thematic Misdirection. He also highlights and clearly indicates where the Expository Phase, the Magical Effect, and the Proof take place; he even tells us when the Parenthesis of Forgetfulness or the celebrated In-Transit Actions are being used.