Art Madrid'24 – Alex Katz This Is Now in Guggenheim Bilbao

 

Portraits of women and landscapes, are the favorite genres of the artist Alex Katz (Brooklyn, 1927), who visited Bilbao last time in 2012 with the exhibition "Smiles". Now, entitled "Alex Katz: This is Now", a solo exhibition shows the way to understand the landscape of one of the most outstanding contemporary artists in American art.

 

 

This Is Now are 35 large works with which Katz wants to represent things, spaces, as they are, as he sees them and feels them. "Rather than representing images of a faithful manner, Katz interested capture the instant of perception. It's like an explosive flash before the picture is focused, it is what he calls 'the present time', "explained from the museum.

 

 

The exhibition shows the different stages (covering the last 25 years of the painter) in which the artist has cultivated the genre of landscape, from the eighties creations to his late paintings of monumental landscapes made today. Paintings with powerful mass of color, full of poetry, works that invite us to reflect on the perception and awareness "about the relationship between art and nature, and the notion of the sublime in our time," he explained at the Guggenheim.

 

 

 

Katz recent landscapes are the pinnacle of his refined style, with descriptive and clean lines, in which the potential of contemporary art is to capture the grandeur embodied in the present. Her landscapes speak of the condition of being in an environment of constant movement and confluence of images, also about the inability to focus attention on the life and circumstances and seek to define a pictorial space that forces us to perceive detail, the relationship between art and nature.

Organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, you can enjoy "Alex Katz: This is Now" until February 7, 2016.

 

If you are a contemporary art gallery and would like to be part of Art Madrid'25, you can now apply to participate!

The 20th edition of Art Madrid will take place from 5 to 9 March 2025 in the Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles. This privileged location, good communications and the quality of the project have always been guarantees of success for an event that reaches 20,000 visitors in each edition.

Art Madrid has been held during the capital's Art Week for the last twenty years, consolidating itself as an interdisciplinary fair of new artistic trends, in which nearly 40 national and international galleries participate, working with painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, installation and digital art of recent production.

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Art Madrid carries out a series of programs designed by curators, consultants and cultural experts with the fundamental objective of encouraging collecting, promoting cultural dialogue and making the most recent trends in art accessible to the general public. These initiatives are always focused on the constant improvement of the visitor's experience at our event, always seeking to enrich their interaction with contemporary art.

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PROGRAMS

Gallery Program

Art Madrid's Gallery Program is the heart of the fair. In each edition of Art Madrid, the program consists of around 40 national and international exhibitors.

Parallel Activities Program

The Parallel Program of Art Madrid'25 will have as its main axis the concept of the Territory City. The public space, the city and the territory will serve as a link to the artistic practices that take place in the "imagined spaces" and revitalize the cultural geography of Madrid.

Collecting Program

Art Madrid offers a specialized consulting service for galleries and the public interested in acquiring works of art.

Support Program for New Entries

Through a specific communication package, new entries to the fair will be presented and given special visibility.

Activities

The program will include a series of activities that will take place throughout the month of February and during Madrid Art Week at the Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles. Likewise, the parallel program will maintain the 2nd edition of the Open Booth, the Performance Cycle, Lecturas: Curated Walktrhoughs by Art Madrid, and the Interviews Section curated by Art Madrid.

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AWARDS

Best Booth Award

Award that will be articulated around the gallery with the best booth set up at the fair.

New Entry Award

Award will be given to the newly incorporated gallery with the best booth setup and exhibition proposal at the fair.

Emerging Artist Award

Our sponsors, as part of their line of action to promote contemporary art, will offer a prize to one of the revelation artists participating in the fair.

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Our support for art and culture extends throughout the year and responds to a global vision in which constancy and commitment to the galleries are essential to achieve our objectives of disseminating contemporary art within and beyond our borders; to create new audiences and interest in art and culture in all sectors of society; to strengthen and promote artists, especially young talent; to value art and culture as essential elements of social development; and to create spaces for cultural visibility and communication that are accessible, open and dynamic.



Relevant information

Applications for the 20th edition of Art Madrid'25 can be sent to the following e-mail address: info@art-madrid.com until October 7, 2024