More than two hundred galleries from 30 countries will gather at the 38th edition of ARCOmadrid, the International Contemporary Art Fair organized by IFEMA, to be held in the Spanish capital, between February 27 and March 3, with Peru as the guest country.
To the 165 galleries that make up the General Program, those of the curated sections are added: "Peru in ARCO", with a selection of 23 artists from 15 galleries; "Diálogos", with 13 and "Opening", with 21; 40% of them, with programs focused on the presentation of one or two artists, which according to its organizers, reinforces ARCOmadrid as a "space for knowledge of the work of artists from different generations and countries."
With the collaboration of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and selected by Agustín Pérez Rubio (curator of the Berlin 2020 Biennial) and Catalina Lozano (researcher and associate curator of the Jumex Museum, Mexico City), the DIÁLOGOS of this year will bring again works of two artists with an interrelation specially conceived for the fair.
The participating galleries will be Abra Caracas (Venezuela), Andersen's (Copenhagen, Denmark), Annet Gelink (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Chertludde (Berlin, Germany), Dvir (Tel Aviv, Israel / Brussels, Belgium), Vision Institute (Bogotá, Colombia), Luisa Strina (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Martin Janda (Vienna, Austria), Miguel Nabinho (Lisbon, Portugal), Patricia Ready (Santiago de Chile), PPOW (New York, United States), Ultraviolet Projects (Guatemala) and La Acacia (Havana, Cuba); The latter will bring the Cuban Marta María Pérez and Liset Castillo.
For its part, the 21 OPENING galleries have been selected by the Brazilian Tiago de Abreu Pinto and the Italian Ilaria Gianni, a program that continues to bring new artists and scenes to the Fair. These are national and international galleries with a history of a maximum of seven years, among which this time there is no Cuban, because the traditional "The apartment" has already made the leap to the General Program, demonstrating the importance of this project to maintain the presence of young galleries in events of this category.
Peru at ARCO
The contemporary art of Peru will be the main protagonist of ARCOmadrid 2019, which has been chosen as the guest country for the quality of its artists, of which we will see a score, represented by galleries from different countries, with the emphasis on the importance of artist and its origin over other geographical limitations.
The selection made by Sharon Lerner, curator of contemporary art at the Lima Museum of Art, aims to disseminate the work of Peruvian plastic artists from the last century to the present, and will bring together the most international generation of artists from that country, many of them who are under fifty and have developed a good part of their career abroad.
Names such as Fernando Bryce, Teresa Burga, Sandra Gamarra, Miguel Aguirre, Antonio Páucar, Herbert Rodríguez, Elena Damiani, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, José Vera Matos, Carlos Runcie Tanaka and Rita Ponce de León, are joined by other creators present in other sections of the Fair, such as Daniel Jacoby, Daniela Ortiz and Lúa Coderch.
The Peruvian art scene will also be reflected in the conversations of the Peru Forum, organized by Miguel A. López -director and chief curator of TEOR/éTica and Lado V, San José / Lima, who will talk about "the particularities of Peruvian contemporary art, and the cultural and social challenges that it faces, but also about the past, the present and the future of contemporary art on a global level ".
In addition, there will be several exhibitions throughout the city, coordinated by art journalist and independent curator Fietta Jarque, who will offer a vision of the different facets of the plastic culture of that Latin American country.
There will also be an institutional pavilion of the Peruvian State, which will try to reflect "the importance of the artist and its origin in the era of globalization", a space destined to new technologies, with video and environmental-experimental sound, proposed by the General Commissioner Jorge Villacorta, the architect Paulo Dam, and the electronic engineer Kiko Mayorga, who take as a conceptual and schematic reference the Amazonian maloca, a meeting and knowledge center in the towns of this important river.
His presence at ARCOmadrid will be completed with the delivery of an outstanding prize, as is the award of the 'A' collection Prizes, awarded by the ARCO Foundation, to the Committee of Contemporary Acquisitions of MALI, for his important work of support to the Museum in the enrichment of his permanent collection of contemporary art and the dissemination of Peruvian art.
Collecting
Arco also promotes the collection, with different initiatives, among which #mecomprounaobra (in which the public can acquire works of less than 2,019 euros), the free advisory service during the Fair First Collectors by Fundación Banco Santander, in addition to the program Young Collectors, which will bring some thirty young international collectors to Madrid.
The classic International Buyers Program and the special guests program will also take part, in which 300 collectors and 200 professionals from more than 40 countries will participate, as well as the presence of patron collectors and members of museums such as Triennale di Milano; MAMCO; Chelsea Art Group; Jeu de Paume; CAAC Mali; Meadows Foundation; New Museum of Art; Parasol Unit; PIA; The Power Plant; The Museum of the Neighborhood; High Museum of Art Atlanta.
In the same way, the virtual platform Artsy.net will offer one more year the opportunity to explore the Fair and the works present in it through its website and the Artsy App.
Institutional prizes will also be presented again, among which the VII Audemars Piguet Prize for the production of a work of art at ARCOmadrid stand out (this year the Italian artist Andrea Galvani has won it, presented by the Peruvian Revolver gallery); the XII edition of the Illy SustainArt Prize, which recognizes the work of Latin American artists born since 1970, from coffee producing countries; the III Alhambra Beer Award for Emerging Art; the XIV BEEP Electronic Art Award or the 2nd Han Nefkens Foundation ARCO prize for the production of a video art work.
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