Art Madrid'23 – ArtLima Art Fair 2016

 

 

From 21 to April 2, Lima becomes one of the powerhouses of Latin American contemporary art with ArtLima fair, international art fair and undisputed platform of artists who, as ArtBo (Colombia), arteBA (Argentina) or Cha.ACO (Mexico) serves to promote and publicize the main figures of contemporary and emerging regional art to collectors around the world.

 
 

 

ArtLima, The International Art Fair of Lima, is an attractive platform that involves a careful selection of national and foreign galleries and is complete with a schedule full of activities and presence of curators and cultural agents most interesting. Thus, it has positioned itself as the most important business platform of the Peruvian cultural industry -in the framework of the visual arts-, promoting access to art and culture, which otherwise would be impossible to achieve.

 

     

 

This year, the Spanish presence in ArtLima is bigger with the participation of 14 galleries: seven of them are in the curated secction CAPMadrid-City Art Projects, which will reveal the artistic creation of Madrid - Camera Oscura (Madrid) Moses Perez de Albeniz (Madrid), Pilar Serra (Madrid), NF Gallery (Madrid), Ponce + Robles (Madrid), Twin Gallery (Madrid) and Rosa Santos (Valencia) - and the other seven involve on the Main Section - Casado Santapau (Madrid), Espacio Valverde (Madrid), Gallery Xavier Fiol (Palma de Mallorca), MadridXFProyectos (Madrid), Fernando Pradilla (Madrid) and ATM Gallery (Gijon) - and the Pioneers Section - Espacio Mínimo (Madrid) -.

 

 

The art fair organizes, as every year, activities and actions that promote and activate the acquisition of works of art in various sectors of the public and thus present: First Choice program and Matching Funds program. In parallel, ArtLima raises its cultural and educational program in collaboration with renowned international cultural agents, museums, galleries, public spaces, artist studios ... In its VIP PROGRAM, aware of the attractiveness of the city of Lima, "City of cultures" mixing of Pre-Columbian, colonial, republican, modern and contemporary, the ArtLima fair offers an exclusive program for foreign visitors and collectors based on its rich cultural and culinary offerings, not to mention personalized business advice and proposals to present at the fair.

 

 

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.