Madrid,
Tomorrow, October 17, is the day: the Estampa fair will start its 32nd edition in the fifth pavilion of IFEMA, with the participation of a hundred contemporary art galleries and approximately a thousand national and international artists, including the photographer Alberto García-Alix, guest author. Many of these rooms are repeated, but twenty spaces opened in recent years in our country are added to this event.
In the General Program there will be no shortage of names such as Helga de Alvear (Madrid), Albarrán Bourdais (Madrid), 1MiraMadrid (Madrid), Moisés Pérez de Albéniz (Madrid), Cayón (Madrid/Menorca/Manila), Max Estrella (Madrid), Fernando Pradilla (Madrid), Mayoral (Barcelona), Leyendecker (Tenerife), Álvaro Alcázar (Madrid), ArtNueve (Murcia), Rafael Pérez Hernando (Madrid), Formato Comodo (Madrid), Fernández-Braso (Madrid), T20 (Murcia) , Siboney (Santander), PalmaDotze (Barcelona), Juan Silió (Madrid/ Santander) or Isabel Hurley (Málaga), in addition to more recently created centers, such as Yusto/Giner (Madrid/Marbella), VETA (Madrid), WeCollect ( Madrid), Berlin Gallery (Seville), Arniches 26 (Madrid), Conhorabuena Espacio (Madrid), Artizar (Tenerife), Lariot Collective (London), Untitled Art Contemporani (Andorra), Victor Lope (Barcelona), Gärna (Madrid) or 3 Punts (Barcelona). Among the galleries specialized in photography, Blanca Berlin (Madrid), Valid Foto (Barcelona) and Spazio Nuovo (Rome) will visit IFEMA, whose works will complete the project that García-Alix will exhibit, also present at the Albarrán stand: a series of photographs specially created for the occasion.
They will respond to his usual aesthetic, between elegance and rawness, and also to his most frequent thematic sources: his life experiences and the Madrid Movida, with the cultural push of this stage and its setbacks. Those who want to learn more about his work and the current moment in his career can attend the conference he will offer on October 20 at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, coinciding with the last day of the Fair: Absence as a stimulus.
Lorena Martínez de Corral will curate the section Projectswhich will turn its gaze to artists who contributed and continue to contribute innovative visions on painting: it will bring together Ponce + Robles (Madrid), Rocío Santa Cruz (Barcelona), F2 Galería (Madrid), The Ryder Projects (Madrid) and Twin Gallery (Madrid) ). Javier Utray, Javier Ruíz, Lúa Coderch, Patricia Domínguez, Teresa Gancedo and Carlos Franco are his chosen ones.
Estampa will give us the opportunity to reflect on the experience of landscape and its representation by Hamish Fulton and Bleda y Rosa (in 1 Mira Madrid); to meet young painters who have made color the center of their production, such as Bruno Ollé, Emeca and Maru Quiñonero (in Alzueta); to delve into the figures in constant metamorphosis of Daniel Verbis (Daniel Cuevas Gallery) and the plots of José Pedro Croft (Helga de Alvear); to contemplate the light games of Alberto Reguera (Galería Fernández-Braso); or to learn about the latest sculptural developments by Nora Aurrekoetxea or Núria Fuster (Juan Silió) and the recent acrylics by Elvira Amor, a certain departure from her previous production (Moisés Pérez de Albéniz). Rafael Pérez Hernando will bring José Guerrero into dialogue with the simplicity of motifs and chromatic vividness of Christina Zimpel and in the space of We Collect, peculiar flags by Tito Pérez Mora will refer to the desires for renewal of broad layers of the American population.
On the other hand, the Estampa activities program will host the series of conferences America round tripin which the writers Carlos Granés and Enrique Andrés Ruiz will moderate two tables in which intellectuals and writers such as Sergio Ramírez, Cervantes Prize in 2017, or Pilar Reyes, editorial director of Penguin Random House, will participate, in addition to the exhibition “Cruce de gazes ”, articulated based on pieces selected by Lorena Martínez de Corral from the collections Otazu, Brillembourg, 360 degrees, Collegium, Ana Helena and Eduardo Pires and Franz Ruz, all of them belonging to Latin American citizens who currently reside in Spain.
Likewise, and within the framework of the Colecciona Forums, the artist Teresa Gancedo and the director of the Tàpies Foundation, Imma Prieto, will talk about women artists linked to post-war surrealism and Emilio Bordoli will present his book Emilio Bordoli. Life of a collectortogether with Eva Ruiz, in charge of the international buyers program at Estampa.
As usual, the Fair will award a good number of acquisition prizes, training scholarships and artistic residencies: the awards will be the Comunidad de Madrid/Estampa Collection, the Studiolo Collection, the Navacerrada Collection, the Campocerrado Foundation (accompanied by a residency), the Kells, Aldebarán Collection, Abadía Retuerta Collection, La Escalera, Palibex Collection, Cervezas Alhambra and the Best Estampa Stand Award 2024, among others.
This year, the Advisory Committee for this exhibition was made up of the curators Lorena Martínez de Corral and Alicia Ventura and the collectors Luis Caballero, Candela Álvarez Soldevilla (Studiolo Collection), Fernando Panizo (Tasman Projects), Juan Antonio Trujillo (OTR Collection ), Manuel Navacerrada (Navacerrada Collection), César Jiménez and Lola Martínez (Casa de Indias Collection), Borja Fernández Cobaleda (Campocerrado Foundation) and the brothers María and Victorino Rosón Díez-Feijo (Aldebarán Collection), together with the critic and curator Enrique Andrés Ruiz.
