The artist Juan Petry is also involved in organisation of exhibitions and art shows. He was asked by an international art collector to promote some artworks of an old artist called igor pastamas. this artist was fighting for the republic in the spanish civil war and the collector had some rare art pieces of pastamas from that time.

Petry organized some exhibitions and shows about “Amor en guerras civiles” and he promoted also some of this art works, mostly drawings.

There is only a few literature about Pastamas available and one of the conditions of the selector was, that the curator Juan Petry is not allowed to uncover the name and identity of the swisse collector.