I was a guard for about 2 years and 3 months. There was the chance to apply to be in other groups and now I’ve been on the Art Handlers team for 30 years. I have to say I’m really happy.
When I joined the Art Handlers it was headed by José María Adeba and there were two full-time people on the team: José López and Victoriano Moyo. There were two places to be filled which Ángel Campos and I got and then there were almost always one or two support people, normally ex-guards. My finest memories of my career date from that time. Every day I had a new challenge. I saw new works almost every. There was the challenge of taking on work that I hadn’t done before. I remember getting home and talking with real pride and enthusiasm about what I’d learned and seen that day. Group work is totally different to what I’d done before. Being a guard, although obviously you’re part of a team, is rather more solitary. Here in the Art Handlers team there are few individual tasks, almost all of them are group ones even if it’s only two people.
He works at the Museum as a gallery attendant, although he spends most of his professional career working for the Museum's Art Handling Staff.
Interview recorded on June 18, 2018