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Juan Tamariz

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Juan Tamariz
Juan Tamariz in a show in Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (12 December 2001)
Born	Juan Tamariz-Martel Negrón (1942-10-18) 18 October 1942 (age 81) Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Magician
Website	juantamariz.org

Juan Tamariz-Martel Negrón (born 18 October 1942) is a Spanish magician.

Tamariz is considered to have pionereed close-up card magic. American stage magician Ricky Jay once said he considered him to be a magician people will remember,^[1] and he was referred to as "the greatest and most influential card magician alive" by David Blaine.^[2] Tamariz performed at FISM in 2006 in Stockholm, 2009 in Beijing, China, 2015 in Rimini, Italy and 2018 in Busan, South Korea.^{[3][failed verification]}

A celebrity of television and stage in Spain and South America, Tamariz has authored six books translated into English: The Five Points in Magic, The Magic Way, Sonata, Mnemonica, Verbal Magic, and The Magic Rainbow.^{[citation needed]}

Career[edit]

Television[edit]

Tamariz appeared regularly on Spanish television over the span of almost 2 decades.^[2]

In 1994, he appeared on the NBC special The World’s Greatest Magic.^[2]

Books[edit]

• Monedas, monedas... (y monedas) (1969, CYMYS).
• Truki-cartomagia (1970, CYMYS). In collaboration with Ramón Varela
• Aprenda Usted Magia (1973, CYMYS).
• Magia en el Bar (1975, CYMYS).
• Magicolor: (la magia del cambio de color) (1977, CYMYS).
• Enciclopedia del forzaje (1980, Self Published — photocopy).
• Los Cinco Puntos Mágicos (1982,Editorial Frakson).
  • Revised (1988, Editorial Frakson).
  • Revised (2005, Editorial Frakson).
  • English Version: The Five Points in Magic (2007, Hermetic Press).
• Por arte de magia: Historia de los autómatas precedida de la historia de la prestidigitación y manipulación. (1982, Puntual).
• La Vía Mágica (1988, Editorial Frakson).
  • Second Edition, Spanish (2011, Editorial Frakson).
  • English Version: The Magic Way (2014, Hermetic Press).
• Sonata: Música Bruja Vol I (1989, Editorial Frakson).
  • English Version: Bewitched Music, Vol. 1: Sonata, translation: Donald Lehn, (1991, Editorial Frakson).
• Secretos de magia potagia. Volumen 2 de La biblioteca encantada de Juan Tamariz. (1990, Editorial Frakson).
• La sangre del turco. Volumen 3 de La biblioteca encantada de Juan Tamariz. (1990, Editorial Frakson).
• El Mundo mágico de Tamariz (1991, Ediciones del Prado).
• La magia del falso pulgar: (teoría, técnica y práctica) (1992, Producciones Mágicas Tamariz).
• Sinfonía en mnemónica mayor: la baraja mnemónica de Tamariz. Volumen 2 de Música bruja (2000, Producciones Mágicas Tamariz)
  • English Version: Mnemonica (2004, Hermetic Press).
• Por arte de verbimagia (2005, Producciones Mágicas Tamariz)
  • English Version: Verbal Magic (2008, Hermetic Press).
• El Arcoiris Mágico (2016, Gema Navarro).
  • English Version: The Magic Rainbow (2019).

Awards[edit]

Spain[edit]

• Second Prize for Comical Magic, in Congreso Mágico Nacional de Zaragoza, 1962.^[4]
• As de Cartomagia (Ace of card magic) in the first magical contest of Madrid, 1968.
• Great Prize in the IV Congreso Nacional de Magia de San Sebastián, April 1972.^[5]
• The Council of Ministers of Spain awarded him the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts), April 2011.^[6]
• The Madrid City Council awarded him the Gold Medal of the city, May 2019.^[7]

International[edit]

• 2° Price on Micromagic, with Juan Antón (routine: Los Mancos), FISM Amsterdam XI, 1970.^[8]

• 1° Price on Close-up Card, FISM Paris XII 1973.^[9]

• Mention as Magician of the Year, by the Academy of Magical Arts, 1992.^[10]

• Mention as Performing Fellowship, by the Academy of Magical Arts, 2000.^[11]

• Special Award on Theory & Philosophy, FISM Beijing XXIV 2009.^[12]

• Mention as Master Fellowship, by the Academy of Magical Arts, 2012.^[13]

• The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (2013)^[14]

See also[edit]

• List of magicians

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Juan TamarizatIMDb 

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