In October 2016, Magianegra began its activities. Just a couple of months before I had had my first experience with letterpress in the Caja Baja workshop in Uruguay. Soon after returning, I launched the search for a place of my own. My collector sense and good luck made me find several closed presses, and that is how a process of recovery and preservation started and I became familiar with a whole new artistic language.

From the very first moment Magianegra opened its doors as a public workshop, it allowed many people to make contact with typographical printing, thus prompting a productive exchange with almost 20 people weekly using the facilities to print their own works (whether designers, plastic artists, architects or interested amateurs). In this way Magianegra became a laboratory of graphic experimentation based on movable types.

I have also been fortunate enough to meet craft masters who have taught me many things, like the typographer Walter Uranga. Many musicians also have played here and during the first two years, this place was part of the local music scene and operated as a headquarter for different collective, artistic, cultural and underground collaborations as well.

I personally believe that all the things I have done in my life converges in Magianegra: my path in the Faculty of Arts and artistic inquiries, my time on the radio, my career in Museology, my experience on exhibition design, my love of collecting and of course, comics, album covers and rock and roll as sources of constant inspiration!