Nationality Spanish | Occupation Art writer | |
 | ||
Website www.alejandradeargos.com/index.php/en/ Similar Alberto Cortina, Fernando Fernández Tapias, Alicia Koplowitz - 7th Marq | ||
Elena Cué (1972) is a Spanish businesswoman, art expert and writer. She publishes articles, and interviews world renown artists for the Spanish newspaper ABC, as well as for the US version of the Huffington Post.
Contents
Elena is the president of the Alberto and Elena Cortina Foundation, dedicated to social works. She manages the foundation together with her husband, the businessman Alberto Cortina.
Relationship with art
Elena founded the web Alejandra de Argos, where she writes articles about art and interviews influential and world renowned artists such as Jeff Koons, the Colombian Fernando Botero or her friend Cai Guo-Qiang, as well as Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa. In addition to the articles in her website, Elena writes for the Spanish newspaper ABC and at the US edition of the Huffington Post. In November 2015 Elena joined the patronage for the Museo Reina Sofía foundation. She is a member of Vivre en couleur of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain.
Charitable Foundation
In 2011 Elena Cué and Alberto Cortina created the Alberto and Elena Cortina Foundation with the stated purpose to promote, create, develop and aid individuals and projects with all kinds of charity and education aims, and with a special focus on children. The foundation started with various projects in parallel. In 2011 it helped the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake by distributing food aid during that year and by reconstructing homes and other infrastructures. The foundation also provides help to woman at risk of Social exclusion, free housing and a soup kitchen. In 2012 the foundation started the invisible kitchen service, through it food and other basic supplies are distributed to families in need at their own homes. Another project promoted Elena's foundation is the "Econosolidario", the only grocery store in Spain where the families designated by social services can use a card that holds points to "buy" the basic products they need.
