By Jose Luis Dueñas
ARTE LISBOA, the Portuguese Contemporary Art Fair, closes the doors of its 9th edition at Lisbon’s Parque das Nações with the satisfaction of a pretty-well done work, after having welcomed a significant amount of visitors during its five days.
The event annually gathers over 20,000 spectators and is recognized as the first national art exhibition in Portugal. This time, it counted on exhibitors for Germany, Hungary, Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Mozambique, and especially Spain, what consolidates the Iberian market of contemporary art.
From Spain, Alba Cabrera and pazYcomedias, two Valencian exhibition spaces, participated with works of emerging creators and acclaimed masters. pazYcomedias surprised with the photography of a young representative of the genre, Raul Belinches, Kribi Herel’s surrealism, Albert Corbi’s loosening architecture, Ana Valens’ evocating power of objects and Portuguese Nuno Gomes’ figurative and reflexive painting. On the other hand, Alba Cabrera deepened into the world of sculpture and its continuity by artist Jacinto Moros; intimist simplicity, dramatic, poetic and spontaneous on the images of young Cuban artist Gonzalo Diaz Sosa; and the metaphysic aesthetics and, therefore, debtor of authors such as Magritte and De Chirico on the paintings of the always notable Andres Rabago, also known as El Roto.
ARTE LISBOA, to be held next year at the Park of Nations, also represents a meeting site for critic mediation with the organization of debate cycles in which expert analysts and people promoting international contemporary art exchange experiences with those who are interested in developing and obtaining knowledge. All of it takes place in a privileged place: the magic city of Lisbon.
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