Madrid,
Arcomadrid opens today, in the usual Pavilions 7 and 9 of IFEMA, the doors of its 44th edition, which will last until March 9 and has as a guest, again, to a geographical area: the Amazon, contemplated as a cause that concerns globally and whose preservation transcends particular interests and national borders (in parallel, the Lázaro Galdiano, the Lázaro Galdiano. Centrocentro, the House of America, the Botanical Garden and the CCCB). The first purpose of this fair is to boost the Spanish market for contemporary art, but among its corridors, in addition to occasions for purchase, there will be for discovery and reflection.
The number of participating galleries will be similar to that of previous appointments: 214 rooms arriving from 36 countries; Most of them make up the general program, to which the curated sections are added: Wametisé: Ideas for an amazofuturismowith fifteen galleries; Opening. New gallerieswith eighteen, and Profiles | Latin American artwith a dozen (this section was called last year Never the same).
Approximately one third of the stands are occupied by Spanish galleries; Among them, Marlborough will not be found for the first time, while Helga de Alvear, after the recent death of its founder, will occupy a smaller space with a collective of its represented, but there is no lack of some reasons to celebrate: the anniversaries of Rafael Ortiz (four decades of journey) and José de la Mano and T20 (two, where appropriate). Likewise, more than 32% of the participating international galleries will be Latin American: 46 of 11 countries, mostly Brazilians and Argentines: the fair led by Maribel López wants to claim its position as a reference for the creation of that region in Europe.
They will not be missing in IFEMA 1 Mira Madrid, Alarcón Criado, Atm, Elba Benítez, Elvira González, Carrerasmugica, Luis Advance Valencia, Nordés, Projectesd, Sabrina Amrani or T20; Also those recently settled in Spain Carlier | Gebauer or Mai 36. Regarding international galleries, they are premiered in Massimo Minini and Francesca Minini, Casas Riegner, Dépendance, Gomide & Co, Plan B, Luciana Brito, Bernier/Eliades, Raquel Arnaud, Sylvia Kouvali or Waddington Custot and will repeat, among others, Thaddaeus Ropac, Jocelyn Wolff, Chantal Crousel, Ruth Benzacar, Peter Kilchmann, Dogtin, NeugerriSchneider, Esther Schipper, Thomas Schulte, Capitain Petzel, Max Hetzler, Mendes Wood DM, Nicolai Wallner, Fortes D’Aloria & Gabriel and Kalfayan Galleries.
The painting will be, one more year, the discipline reigns as a safe value, and the abstracts its monarchs: Angel Huete highlights in Nordés, Álvaro Negro in F2, Secondino Hernández in Ehrhardt Flórez (also in Alcalá 31), the clean geometries of Palazuelo in Fernández-Brazo, the color and light mergers of Prudencio Irazabal in pelaires or two artisans of the color Moisés Pérez de Albéniz: Nico Munuera and Elvira Amor.
Those interested in the sculptural environment will find their site between the walls of Alarcón Criado, which will gather pieces of Cristina Mejías, Alegría and Piñero, Pedro G. Romero or Mercedes Pimiento; Lygia Clark’s metal bugs await us in Baró and the great formats of José Dávila in Albarran Bourdais. Aiweiwei and Miquel Barceló will enter dialogue in the space of Elvira González. Although the new media are still minority, Max Estrella (with Daniel Canogar and his sculpture of LED screens), Luis Adelantado (with projects by Ana Esteve Reig and Alex Reynolds that use artificial intelligence) or The Ryder (with the cyberfeminism of Suzanne Treister) continue to bet on them.
The technique that, year after year, earns land in arc and in the exhibitions of our galleries is textile art. They have decided for him 1Miramadrid (Teresa Lanceta), Carliergebauer (Leonor Serrano Rivas), Prats Nogueras Blanchard (Mercedes Azpilicueta) or HESSIE (Marc Doménech).
The prominence of the Amazon comes from the hand of the aforementioned Wametisé program: ideas for a amazofuturismo, who have commissioned Denilson Baniwa and María Wills, with the collaboration of the Institute for Postnatural Studies; This section includes works by artists who investigate in new modes hybrid existence between human, plant, physical and metaphysical bodies. Among the authors convened we can mention Carlos Jacanamijoy, with Almine Rech, who returns to Arco after his absence since 1999; Naine Terena and Coletivo Mahku, with Carmo Johnson Projects; Dhiani Pa’saro, Duhigó and Paulo Desana, with Manaus Amazônia; Galleries these last unpublished in IFEMA. We will also contemplate Claudia Andujar creations, with Vermelho; Carlos Motta, with Mor Charpentier; Chonon Bensho and Brus Rubio, with Livia Benavides and Map Theater, with Rolf Art, all of them that will also have spaces in the general program.
As to Openingemerging, national and international rooms, which groups have been selected by Cristina Anglada and Anissa Touati: they repeat Artbeat, Blue Velvet, Eins Gallery, Fermay and remote spaces, and Callirrhoë, the boy, Brigitte Mulholland and Reservoir are premiered.
Finally, galleries within Profiles | Latin American artunder the commissioner of José Esparza Chong Cuy, they will host presentations of an artist floor: they will be Barbara Sánchez Kane, with Kurimanzutto; Dan Lie with Barbara Wien; Chaveli sifre with embassy; Mariela Scafati with floating island; Jota Mombaça with Martins & Montero; Ofelia Rodríguez, with Vision Institute; and Rembucacani with crisis. These galleries offer their proposals twice: they also integrate Wametisé: Ideas for an amazofuturismo.
They will not be the only individual projects in Arco 2025, because thirty -two rooms of the general program will also host them: Among its protagonists, Etel Adnan –Lelong-, Katinka Bock -meyer Riegger-, Rocío García -The Apartment-, Karlos Gil -Francisco Fino-, Jonathan Hammer -f2 Gallery-, Pablo Helguera -Espacio minimum-, HESSIE -MARC Domènech-, Luz Lizarazo -casa Riegner-, Manuel M. Romero -Artnueve-, Ana Mendieta -Prats Nogueras Blanchard-, Toni Schmale –Krinzinger- or Julia Spínola -Ehrhardt Flórez-.
On the other hand, Artslibris will return to Arcomadrid with more than eighty editors from twenty countries and, one more year, those interested in undertaking collector activity will be able to resort to First Collectors By Banco Santander Foundation, a free service of advice in the purchase of works that has already advised seven hundred potential buyers in their fifteen years of validity. To experienced buyers, the classic International Collector Program and the Special Guests, which will bring about 400 collectors and 200 professionals, are directed. The arrival in Madrid of Patrons and members of institutions such as the Amis du Center Pompidou, Adiaf and El Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Reina Sofía Museum, the University of Navarra Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Mtecco and the Contemporary Art Center de Geneva, the Museum Smak de Gante, Phileas -The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art of Vienna, the Malba de Buenos Aires, The Bass Museum of Art of Miami, the Mali de Lima, Saikalis Bay Foundation of Milan, the Molaa of Long Beach, the Musée National of Monaco, the Macba and the Joan Miró Foundation of Barcelona, the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Meadows Museum of Dallas or the Triennale de Milan. They will safely make the Reina Sofía Museum, is Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, the Community of Madrid, the Junta de Andalucía, the María José Jove Foundation Center, the Sorigué Foundation and the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, among other institutions.
