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Art Madrid '26: 21 years of contemporary art

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.

LATIN AMERICAN ART WEBSITES

As we’ve been presenting in previous issues, the Internet has become a promotional space of choice for countless cultural projects and institution, art events and to showcase the works of renowned artists.

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The Latin Types

The Latin Types Biennial got its big break in Buenos Aires back by the hand of outstanding Argentine designer Ruben Fontana. The event became the showcase for a number of creators and trends in such specific and fascinating field of graphic…

ARTURO KEMCHS

ARTURO KEMCHS DAVILA (Mexico City, 1958), cartoonist and comics writer who has seen his drawings published in countless printed periodicals from a number of countries.

He chaired the Mexican Cartoonist Society and the Iberian-…

Picasso´s First

As I was getting set to broach the new article for this section, an event that struck my attention came to pass. What’s more, it was exciting enough to make me change the subject, or at least put off the article for another issue.…

Has Contemporary Art Died, Like a Label Twist?

(...) In principle, it’s crystal-clear that the contemporary cannot be mixed up with the modern or the coeval. There are coeval products that break free from contemporary sensitivity. The contemporary implies a certain selection, a field…

Language, word and city in VÄLPARAÍSO INterVENCIONES

(...) VÄLPARAÍSO INterVENCIONES represented a type of art less submitted to the show, to the institution of art and cultural industry; one closer to the citizenship, to the social plot; making crosses between the city…

Damasceno’s Contemplative Thinking

People talk a lot about the globalized world. Fully convinced or not of such assertion. As a consequence, the terms “international music”, “international food”, “international chef” and, of course, “…

From the screen to the “layers” in painting, or how to talk quicker about our delays

(...) Cordero started to work in October 2009 on nine paintings of the same size, all of them different from each other, taking as reference classical genres of the history of painting: portrait, landscape, still life, abstraction, etc. There…

Abela III, Walking the rope without safety nets

(...) Abela belongs to a breed of lucid artists, those for whom intuitive representation is not enough –which it is indeed– and who are equally interested in how and why the act of communicating comes through.

He cut…

The sidelong look. Visions of our Latin American neighborhood

Based on a minimum registration of seven Mexican artists’ recent work, the factors fostering the different ways of perceiving, interpreting and reinterpreting art are explored here. Every gesture brings a world up, every action entails…

Landscape thinking

While delving into the history of 19th century’s Cuban painting, one of the most significant dates of all is January 1981. The Volume 1 exhibition –organized and curated by a group of young artists– was heralding a…

Luis Camnitzer: The Hand Holding the Horizon

Since his youth age in South America Luis Camnitzer started to amass a precious work that he has generously spread by himself, and sometimes with the help of others, across the eastern coast of North America, several Latin American metropolises…

Unfinished Stories at Columpio Gallery

The artist starts off on the use of simple elements, like paper (made of polyester) and pens, alongside an assortment of minimal and ambiguous narrations meant to pique spectators by sparking both curiosity and bewilderment. The texts attached…

Two Cuban Artists at IVAM

The ongoing month of September is bringing two exhibitions from a couple of Cuban fine artists to the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM). Immutabilitas by sculptor Jose Villa (Santiago de Cuba, 1950), recipient of the…