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Drawing Room Madrid bets on collecting
05February
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Drawing Room Madrid bets on collecting

The fourth edition of DRAWING ROOM MADRID, which will take place from February 27 to March 3 at the Palacio de Santa Bárbara, will place the main focus on this occasion in the collection of drawing and work on paper. This new appointment will place in dialogue the contemporary creation with the palatial architecture of this central venue, and will bring together a score of galleries from Belgium, Argentina, Japan, Portugal and Spain, selected by a committee of experts.

Around forty artists, with a high presence of women, constitutes a new and exciting panorama of the transgenerational practice of international contemporary drawing. "Drawing Room proves that the practice of current drawing is very active and hybrid and that it mixes with other disciplines, in this sense the proposal of Drawing Room is a faithful reflect of the current state of this practice" said Mónica Álvarez Careaga, director of the fair.

Among the new additions to galleries are Yoko Uhoda Gallery, from Liege (Belgium), Granada, Buenos Aires (Argentina), and the Spanish Artizar, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Carbonería, from Huesca, La Casa Amarilla, from Zaragoza, and Ogami Press, of Madrid. Three Portuguese galleries, which participated in the Lisbon edition of Drawing Room, held last October in the Portuguese capital, will also be present in Madrid: Fonseca Macedo Arte Contemporânea, by Ponta Delgada, Monumental and Módulo, both from Lisbon.

Of the participating galleries, six will present individual projects by their artists: Clara Sánchez Sala (ATM + Addaya) Luna Bengoechea (Lucía Mendoza Gallery) Edgar Plans (Granada Gallery) Rubén Tortosa (Set Gallery) José Loureiro (Fonseca Macedo Arte Contemporânea) and Mizuho Koyama (Kitai Gallery).

One of the novelties of this fourth edition is the premiere of its own program of collectors, coordinated with the participating galleries. Thus, different actions will be carried out to promote the collection of contemporary drawing, among which the private and guided visits stand out, at the Guillaume Bruère exhibitions; Drawings in the museum, in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, by Amparo López, curator of the exhibition, and curator of the museum and Ignacio Uriarte X, Y, Z, in the ABC Museum, guided by the artist himself. The program is completed with tours of the fair in the company of the director, one of which will take place before the professional opening of the fair, and a breakfast at the fair's headquarters, only for VIP guests.

A fair in two venues

In 2018 DRAWING ROOM has continued to consolidate its positioning as a commercial platform for contemporary drawing within the Iberian Peninsula. After the good results of the first three editions in Madrid and the great acceptance of the Portuguese artistic context of the edition of DRAWING ROOM LISBOA last October, the fair grows unfolding in two annual events: one in Madrid, in February and another in Lisbon, in October.

Both calls will gather a total of forty galleries. Thanks to this growth, the fair has built over these years an important network that already connects more than 90 art galleries from 18 different countries and more than 240 artists around the practice of contemporary drawing, its diffusion, valuation and marketing. DRAWING ROOM thus becomes a reference fair in this sector of the art market that constituted in 2017 24% of sales.

New Talent Drawing Room Award / El Corte Inglés and publication 'Paperwork'

In addition, on the occasion of DRAWING ROOM MADRID, institutions, companies and private entities will once again support artistic creation. This year the New Talent Drawing Room / El Corte Inglés Prize is inaugurated, destined to support the development of an artist's career in the transition from young creator to professional. Endowed with € 2,000, the Prize will distinguish an artist born after 1980, with a work represented at the fair that shows a new approach to contemporary drawing.

The fourth edition also has the latest issue of Paperwork, Notebooks Drawing Room, the publication dedicated to contemporary drawing that publishes the fair with the vocation to serve as an observatory of the practice of drawing in contemporary artists. This new volume is conceived as an exquisite corpse, composed of the work of 25 Portuguese artists selected by the Portuguese curator María do Mar Fazenda.

Selection of projects and curatorial committee

The selection of artists continues to be one of the hallmarks of DRAWING ROOM, the fair led by the curator and cultural producer Mónica Álvarez Careaga, which projects a powerful focus on drawing during the week of ARCO Madrid, enabling a close approach to the work of art and the artists. DRAWING ROOM is a fair of galleries, but the quality of the artistic projects presented is decisive to participate.

For this the festival has the invaluable help of a Curatorial Committee composed of Elsy Lahner, curator of contemporary art at Albertina Museum (Vienna), Inmaculada Corcho, director Museo ABC (Madrid), the commissioners Mercedes Estarellas (Mallorca), Simona Gavioli ( Bologna) and Susana Sanz (Beijing), the artistic consultancy Ivânia de Mendonça Gallo (Lisbon) and the gallery owner of Santander Juan González de Riancho. To them joins in this edition the Madrid collector Bárbara de Rueda.

The proposal of DRAWING ROOM for the most important week of the Spanish art market has 40 artists among which stand out: Alberto Corazon, Almudena Lobera, Altea Grau, Ana Romaozinho, Barbara Assis Pacheco, Beatriz Ros, Begoña Morea Roy, Clara Sánchez Sala , Cristina Ramírez, Daniel Verbis, Edgar Plans, Fernando Martín Godoy, Hans Lemmen, Irene González, Javier Aquilué, Joao Gomes Gago, John Franzen, José Loureiro, Kirsten Hutsch, Lourenço de Castro, Luna Bengoechea, Marco Alom, Marco Moreira, Mark Hosking, Marta Barrenechea, Mizuho Koyama, Nuria Riaza, Pablo Captain of the River, Paula Sanz Caballero, Pedro Calhau, Pedro Luis Cembranos, Pierre Ardouvin, Rubén Tortosa, Sara Quintero, Sergio Porlan, Sergio Sanz, Simón Zabell, Teo González and Victoria Maldonado.

In the fourth edition of DRAWING ROOM Madrid will be revealed the dialogue that arises between the new generations of artists who have adopted the drawing as their own medium and the already established masters, who have managed to endow it with an indisputable autonomy and a universal language of its own.

DRAWING ROOM MADRID is a pioneering event in the valuation and commercialization of drawing in our country and the only Iberian fair specializing in contemporary drawing, constituting a unique opportunity to discover to the public the richness of this transgenerational practice.