ARCO & Art Madrid Top the List in 2013

Strategy after strategy, the February art fairs in Madrid have gone stronger as successful events, regardless of the well-known crisis. The dynamic and far-reaching ARCO, coupled with Art Madrid –the latter is especially coveted in the Spanish circuit- promise to be once again up to par with the world demands and standards.

In ARCOmadrid (Feb. 13-17) dozens of galleries from thirty-something countries and over 150 art professionals will be attending. The Turkish embassy in Spain, featuring ten exhibition spaces handpicked by curators Vasif Kortun and Lara Fresko, together with parallel exhibits across the city, will be standouts. Other side activities will bring together renowned experts. Those are the cases of OPENING: Young Galleries and Solo Projects: Focus Latin America. Once again the fair will have the Solo Objects program whereby there’ll be selected pieces of museum-like sizes.

The collateral presentations will have the opening of three private collections: the Cisneros Collection at the Queen Sofia National Museum and Center; the Cranford Collection at the Santander Bank Foundation, and the Casa de Alba Collection at CentroCentro.

For its part, Art Madrid will be coming around on that same date, this time up at its new venue at the Ático de la Estación de Chamartín. Due to changes in the art market and more especially in the gallery format, the fair organizers have come up with a new smaller-size model for barely 40 galleries, yet featuring a double-that-amount format in the month of November. The main attraction will be the Off Land program, curated by art critic Javier Rubio Nomblot and focusing on a unique argument. Next to the main exhibit, the One Project program will once again put its smart money on the younger breed of artists that rely on unconventional and new means and formats.

Source: Press release