In 2026, Art Madrid will celebrate its 21st edition, further consolidating its position as a leading contemporary art fair in Spain. From 4 to 8 March, the fair will bring together thirty-five national and international galleries at the Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles.
Joao, what motivations actually drove you into the realm of the fine arts?
Drawing was a natural drive since I was a child, I think like in any other person… However, that motivational start has always been a need to do, to express through the…
When someone has the privilege of seeing as a sequence the work of Sandra Ramos, on a disk with neat images, you get the impression of having entered with Alice in her journey through the unreal wonderland. Sandra is always present there, just like…
The vast possibilities opened up by the
Internet from its start to date in terms of connectivity, simultaneity of actions and massive consumption of different topics and knowledge, have also entailed a new recognition in the cultural and artistic…
During the second half of the 19th century it began to take shape in the Dominican Republic. It was a national art form that though mainly expressed through pictorial art, counted on an essential exponent in the field of sculpture: Abelardo…
If there’s an esthetic expression that arouses amazement and suspicions virtually all around the planet, coupled with digressions, surprises and imitations –especially in the field of arts– that’s abstraction. What started up a hundred years ago in…
When the gender theories are unknown, when no reading has been made, the joke seems to be the perfect way out. Feminism is more about lesbians with pent-up feelings, the interpretation of queer has to do with unresolved Oedipus characters, or the…
The first thing that strikes the attention is the way it is marketed, dangling from strings that display dozens or hundreds of pamphlets. That’s where the name stems from: literature on string. Heiress of the most remote oral tradition and both the…
Since early 2010, Art by Excelencias has worked hard to beef up its stance worldwide and strengthen its distribution channels with foundations, art galleries, museums, academic centers and institutions dealing with the contemporary arts. With…
“Exhibitions are stages of different insights and imply a true construction of senses”. With this statement, Maria Jose Herrera1 began the presentation of an important compilation (Exhibitions of Argentinean Art 1956-2006. The convergence of…
Twenty years have gone by since Julio Le Parc had been in Havana last; his relationship was quite aloof, yet unforgotten. Many trips from the 1960 to the late 80 had turned him into a reference –and a friend– within the Cuban artistic framework of…
The Clouds in an Unchanging Sky exhibit in Madrid’s Casa de America takes a peek at the city of Bogota from two different views: Spanish photographer Ricky Davila and Colombian poet Dufay Bustamante. Two views that melt into one solid lyrical breath…
For a better understanding of Alejandra Alarcon’s work, the 34-year-old talented artist, it must be said that she was born in Cochabamba, a city of Bolivia where family is a strong and highly-valued institution. Life there is peaceful and many…
Forty years after its construction, the housing project known worldwide as Habitat 67 keeps its freshness and avant-garde character, something that can be said of only handful of structures built around the globe as part of the architectural utopias…
Critics are like dogs barking at the wheels of a bicycle.
Marcel Duchamp
A “lateral genealogy” about the prejudices, preventions and grudges of “the concept artists” could be built, focusing on the painting art of the late 20th century and the…
