Art Madrid'19: the most international edition

More than 40 galleries and almost 200 artists from 14 countries in Europe, America, Asia and Africa will participate in the 14th edition of Art Madrid, the most international of the contemporary art fair in Madrid, which returns to its usual venue in the Crystal Gallery of CentroCentro Cibeles, from February 27 to March 3, 2019.

This year, the organizers say, the fair reaffirms its commitment to the most contemporary creative panorama, highlighting the increasingly international character, the greater contemporaryity of the artistic selections and the high participation of young artists.

There are ten galleries participating for the first time, while others like the ones from Madrid Kreisler, Marita Segovia, BAT Alberto Cornejo, Fucking Art Gallery, Hispánica Contemporánea (also based in Mexico D.F.) and Jorge Alcolea. From Asturias return those directed by Aurora Vigil-Escalera (Gijón), Bea Villamarín (Gijón) and Arancha Osoro (Oviedo), and from Galicia, Luisa Pita (Santiago de Compostela) and Moret Art (A Coruña). 

Also from the north of the peninsula are Galería Espiral (Noja, Cantabria), Rodrigo Juarranz (Aranda de Duero, Burgos) and MH Art Gallery (Bilbao), including the addition of Kur Art Gallery (Guipúzcoa). While from Valencia will arrive the new proposals of Alba Cabrera Gallery and Shiras Gallery, as well as those of the galleries 3 Punts, Miquel Alzueta and Zielinsky, from Barcelona.

In addition, the Galería Cornión (Gijón) and Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo (Valencia), which also has representation in the One Project program, premiere at the Galería de Cristal.

Among the foreign galleries participating in the General Program, the Portuguese Art Lounge (Lisbon), Paulo Nunes-Arte Contemporânea (Vila Franca de Xira) and the new incorporation of the São Mamede Gallery (Lisbon / Oporto) stand out. They also return the German Schmalfuss (Berlin) and Robert Drees (Hannover), the French Norty Mécénat (Carrières-sur-Seine), the Taiwanese Yiri Arts (Taipei) and the Cuban Collage Habana (Havana).

Also attending for the first time the French Galerie Barrou Planquart (Paris), the American Lola & Unicorn (New York), the South African Oda Gallery (Franschhoek) and the Peruvian art collective O-Art Project (Lima).

For its part, the One Project curated program, designed to support and promote young artists whose careers are in an initial or intermediate state, is renewed with the incorporation of the critic and curator Nerea Ubieto, who brings an unpublished proposal starring only women artists.

Under the title "Fictions, masks and landscapes: color as a backdrop" (Ficciones, máscaras y paisajes: el color como telón de fondo), the unpublished works of 7 women artists are collected, highlighting again the international presence. This choice, as Ubieto says, is based "on the urgency of equilibrate a balance that remains very unstable and breaking a spear in all of us favor".

As the curator explains, they are works that invite us to "build our own universes, such as the landscapes of Rüta Vadlugaité (Contour Art Gallery, Vilna), the abstract and gestural of Virginia Rivas (DDR Art Gallery, Madrid), the collage of Mara Caffarone (Granada Gallery, Comuna, Argentina), or the indomitable flexibility of the paintings of Nuria Mora (About Art, Lugo) ".

The other names that complete the single One Project shows are Sofía Echeverri (Flux Zone, Mexico City), Manuela Eichner (RV Cultura e Arte, Salvador) and Alejandra Atarés (Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona).

Important Latin American presence

Within the growing international participation, this year a unique perspective of the Latin American art scene is presented: Galería Zielinsky will bring Joaquín Lalanne, Eduardo Marco, Yamadú Canosa and Juan Fielitz. While Kreisler repeats with Liliana Golubinsky and Miki (Guillermo Gutiérrez), and incorporates the geometric sculptures of the Venezuelan Juan Gerstl.

Also, and coinciding with the election of Peru as a guest country to ARCO 2019, stand out the proposals of the collective O-Art Project, with an interesting selection of works by seven Peruvian artists who stand out for their "hybrid and vindictive character".

This is evidenced by the works of Carolina Bazo and Alessandra Rebagliati, focused on the reconfiguration of the stereotypes associated with women or the power exercised by patriarchy and capitalist logic in our daily work; the installations of metallic fibers and the transparencies of Cristina Colichón; the pieces by Gianna Pollarolo, in which she works on concepts such as energy, mysticism or the origins of the collective imagination; and the polivisión of the audiovisual impact of Rocío Gómez.

Also outstanding is the pictorial proposal of Collage Habana, entirely Cuban, formed by the new works of the young people Andy Llanes Bultó, Roldán Lauzán, Daniel R. Collazo and Ernesto Rancaño.

Finally, Art Madrid'19 returns as one of the most important events of the Madrid Art Week, an occasion that Arte por Excelencias, once again a media partner of the fair, will take advantage of the opportunity to approach the excellent panorama of contemporary creation.