Art Madrid'23 – Art Madrid 15 tenth anniversary of the Contemporary Art Fair

Art Madrid celebrates 10 years sharing the best of contemporary and emerging art with professionals and all the public. Art Madrid'15 will be held from February 25 to March 1, 2015, in the Gallery Glass of CentroCentro Cibeles to transform, once again, the heart of Madrid in a cultural and artistic hotbed during Madrid Arts Week.

Nowadays, bring up any kind of cultural project is a real challenge, so celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Contemporary Art Fair Art Madrid is more than a joy, is the confirmation that something is being done right. 
 
Art Madrid'15 starts its preparations with more enthusiasm than ever, with the energy from the success of the last edition of the show - in which we premiered team and headquarters, and in which we gathered about 20,000 people in the Galería de Cristal of CentroCentro Cibeles - and with an eye put on the future to get that our February edition has more and better galleries and more and better proposals to respond to a public increasingly critic and sensitive to the art world.

Art Madrid'15 Art will feature about 50 national and international galleries working with painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and video art of the twentieth century onwards and they will be involved in two different programs: the General Program, designed to national and international galleries national specialized in contemporary and emerging art, not to mention some references to the historical avant-garde; and ONE Project program, a curated selection for the promotion of unpublished, multidisciplinary and specific projects.

We want an Art Madrid as a realistic, dynamic, handy and cozy fair to galleries, to their clients, collectors and art lovers; and a fair that gives to the public all about contemporary art, from different perspectives. To do this, we will have an activities program that will include exhibitions, workshops, performances, panel discussions and workshops for children, among other proposed activities.
 
Art Madrid'15 bet again for teamwork and collaboration with various institutions and cultural agents of our city, as they were Casa de America, OxfamIntermon or Korea Cultural House last year... In this ocasion, we will create links and synergies to make the tenth anniversary of the fair something unforgettable. 
 
Come and celebrate with us: share art, share culture.
 

 

In the year 2020 in the heart of Barcelona a wandering gallery was born, the same one that in February 2021 would debut at Art Madrid with an exhibition proposal focused on contemporary portraits; with this subject matter it would manage to create a powerful dialogue between artwork and audience and make the seal Inéditad remain in the history of the event that contained it.

Jean Carlos Puerto. Protección. Oil and copper leaf on wood. 60 x 48. 2021. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Since that first time and until today, the wandering gallery has managed to build projects on otherness, has repositioned in the spotlight the discourses on the LGTBIQ+ collective, has consolidated a group of artists who share its principles of resilience and empathy and the best thing is that it continues to bet from the professionalism and commitment to give voice to the difference.

Claudio Petit-Laurent.. El Joven de la Perla. Oil on wood. 30 x 30 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Inéditad Gallery, thanks to its founder Luis López, its collaborators and the infinite possibilities manifested in the works of the artists it represents, is a gallery that has demonstrated its capacity and courage to stimulate the sensibility of the public through art and seduce a generation that moves between the glass window and the analogical story. Inéditad is a nomadic gallery that has gathered around it a community of artists and has moved the context with exhibition projects that think about LGTBIQ+ art without prejudices.

Pepa Salas Vilar. Las marcas del arcoiris. Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 cm. 2022. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Pride and Prejudice was inaugurated. An exhibition that brings together the works of sixteen artists: Abel Carrillo, Alex Domènech, Carlos Enfedaque, Silvia Flechoso, Jamalajama, Daniel Jaén, Claudio Petit-Laurent, Jean Carlos Puerto, Fernando Romero, Pablo Rodríguez, Pepa Salas Vilar, Jack Smith, Pablo Sola, Bran Sólo, Elia Tomás and Utürüo. Painting, illustration, photography and digital art are the manifestations that bring into dialogue around fifty neatly threaded pieces, in a discursive line that discusses such a latent phenomenon as discrimination. To achieve this, the artists invited to the exhibition question themselves whether: Does discrimination exist within the LGTBIQ+ collective?

Pride and Prejudice Official Poster. Image courtesy of the gallery.

With approaches on and from the body, the proposal invites to celebrate diversity, proposes to question and self-question the prejudices and attitudes of society against the collective. Pride and Prejudice is a space for dialogue about the constructs imposed on us by society. It is also an oasis in which to deconstruct with tolerance and respect the subjectivities that sometimes prevent us from approaching the production of the participating artists, simply because "the beautiful" does not fit in an androgynous body. The subjugation of stereotypes are pressed with determination to find the beauty of diversity in other palpable facets of reality.

Pablo Sola. All men are dogs. Photography. 2014. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Throughout these three years Inéditad has stimulated the vindictive projection towards bad practices, has questioned estates around the LGTBIQ+ body and the most admirable thing, is that these capacities have resurfaced around the dialogue and the visual narrative of the stories that are told from the visual: Artworks that are people, art that is, per se, humanity. Overcome impositions and accept what is different in order to continue fighting against homophobia, biphobia, lesbophobia or transphobia and defend the equal rights that all the acronyms of the collective deserve in our community.

That's Pride and Prejudice: One creature, the happiest in the world. And maybe other projects and other people have said it - or felt it - before, but none so fairly.

Silvia Flechoso. Hola, soy maricón. Oil on canvas. 73 x 54 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

From June 8th until June 22nd you can visit Pride and Prejudice. Carrer de Palau núm. 4. Canal Gallery space. Barcelona.