Art Madrid\'15 new selection committe in its tenth edition.
Sep 5, 2014
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The Contemporary Art Fair Art Madrid, which will celebrate its tenth edition from February 25 to March 1, 2015, in the Galería de Cristal of CentroCentro Cibeles, premieres its Selection Committee. A select group of professionals from different branches of the world of Art will be responsible for shaping the General Program of Art Madrid’15 art fair, through a rigorous selection process among national and international galleries.
Art Madrid’15 account for the first time with a committee composed of experts in gallerism, curating, art collectors and art fairs consultancy, in order to develop a more diverse and international program.
The Selection Committee, composed by five renowned professionals will analyze the applications in a first meeting scheduled for September 9 at the Fundació Fran Daurel in Montjuic (Barcelona). A few days later, they will announce the definitive list of the participating galleries, about 50 in the next edition of the fair.
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Members of the Selection Comittee of Art Madrid’15
Mr. Ángel Samblancat / Ms. Silvia Lindner / Mr. Javier López Vélez
Mr. Ricardo Tenreiro da Cruz / Mr. Carlos Delgado Mayordomo
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Mr. ÁNGEL SAMBLANCAT
Director of Editorial and Polígrafa Graphic&Print Art Gallery (Barcelona) for 40 years and member of the Direction Bureau in Joan Prats Art Gallery Barcelona) since its founding. Jury Member for the Triennial of Graphic Art in Grenchen (Switzerland) and a member of the Selection Committee for international Contemporary Art Fairs as Art Chicago (Illinois), Art Miami (Florida), Art Los Angeles (California), ARCO (Madrid ), Art Cologne (Germany), Art Basel (Switzerland), ArtBo - Bogota (Colombia) and Art Basel / Miami Beach (Florida).
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Ms. SILVIA LINDNER
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country and, since 2007, Director of the Museo Würth La Rioja. Between 1997 and 2007, Technical and Coordinator in the Department of Conservation in Guggenheim Museum Bilbao she worked also for private companies as AENA Foundation, Horizón Project II (EEC and Cantabria Regional Council). She has participated as a speaker at various seminars and roundtables, and has served on juries of international significance as the Velázquez Prize (2010).
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Mr. JAVIER LÓPEZ VÉLEZ
Since 1994, he is the artistic director of 3 Punts Art Gallery, based in Barcelona and Berlin. Expert in Technical Drawing Projects and with studies in Sociology, he has been independent curator in various institutional exhibitions in
Barcelona, Hospitalet and Andorra. Under his direction, the gallery organizes seven to eight individual exhibitions per year, with a clear evolution towards new artistic languages and where the work of curating and selecting art-works and artists is impeccable. As a gallery owner, participates in art fairs and events inside and outside our borders for nearly two decades.
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Mr. RICARDO TENREIRO DA CRUZ
Director of ArtLounge Art Gallery in Lisbon (Portugal). While he was in London, at an International Business school, he discovered the taste for painting and the power of art as a key factor in the increase of culture of the cities. Since
these days, he is usual visitor in galleries and art fairs in order to find new artists that are worth bringing to Portugal. Nowadays, he is member of the Chamber of Commerce of Portugal- Singapore and he develops commercial and artistic relations between these countries.
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Mr. CARLOS DELGADO MAYORDOMO
BA in Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Coordinator of exhibition projects of the International Fund for the Arts Foundation / FiArt, responsible for exhibitions in Culture Department of the City of Las Rozas (Madrid). Writer in Xtrart, on-line art magazine and professor of Contemporary art and Culture in Aularte. Since 2008, he is freelance curator for museums and institutions in Spain and Latin America. Has developed, among others, Ciria’s exhibition “Rare paintings” (2008), “Agustí Centelles: Case report” (2009), “Synergies. Contemporary Latin American art in Spain”, “Storymakers” (2013) and “David Trullo. Fauxtographies” (2013). Curator of the ONE PROJECT program in Art Madrid.
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