Art Madrid'23 – Estampa International Art Fair in Matadero Madrid

 

 

This edition of the fair is overturned in the reconstruction of Spanish art market and the promotion of private collectors with a commitment to art and creation through the acquisition work. This commitment is reflected, above all, in initiatives such as the Collect Forum, the program of guided tours Led by a collector (with the 9915 Association and the Banco Santander Foundation), the visit to the RAC Collection by Carlos Rosón, the Collection DKV in the ABC Museum, all activities that are part of the program for Collectors, one of the fair's cornerstones.

 

Fotografía de Irene Cruz. En Estampa con Galería BAT Alberto Cornejo.

 

For Estampa 2015, the advisor committee, formed largely by collectors, has selected a total of 70 exhibitors for the General Program:
 
Adora Calvo (Salamanca), Aina Novack / AAC (Madrid), AC Gallery Art & Science (Madrid), ATM Contemporary (Gijon), Alvaro Alcazar (Madrid), Guillermina Caicoya (Oviedo), ArtNueve (Murcia), Astarte (Madrid), Base 9 (Madrid), Bat (Madrid), Espacio Bernal (Madrid), Cave Canem (Sevilla), Canen (Castellón), Cayon (Madrid), Espacio Photo (Madrid), Fonseca Macedo (Azores Islands), Fucking Art (Madrid) Aurora Vigil - Escalera Art Gallery (Gijon), Galeria Alba Cabrera (Valencia), Gema Llamazares (Gijon), Graça Brandao (Lisbon), Invaliden 1 (Berlin), Jose de la Mano (Madrid), Juan Silió (Santander) Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid), Maior (Palma de Mallorca), Marita Segovia (Madrid), MDA (Helsingborg, Sweden), Moisés Pérez de Albéniz (Madrid), Miguel Marcos (Barcelona), Original Graphic (Madrid) Recent Work (Barcelona), Ogami Press (Madrid), Pelaires (Palma de Mallorca), Photosai Gallery (Madrid), Pilar Serra (Madrid), Rafael Hernando Perez (Madrid), Rodrigo Juarranz (Aranda de Duero), Set Espai d'art ( Valencia), Siboney (Santander), Sicart (Barcelona), Taller del Prado (Madrid), Tasneem Gallery (Barcelona), Twin Gallery (Madrid), Xavier Fiol (Palma de Mallorca) and Yusto / Giner (Marbella).

 

Obra de Elena Fernández Prada. En Estampa con La New Gallery.

 

MAPA program, curated by Guillermo Espinosa, is dedicated to new practices and ways of understanding painting by new generations of artists and it is composed by the galleries: Addaya Centre d'Art Contemporany (Palma de Mallorca), Galería Alegría (Madrid ), Ángeles Baños (Badajoz), Espacio Líquido (Gijon), Espacio Valverde (Madrid), Fran Reus (Palma de Mallorca), Jose de la Fuente (Santander), The Great (Valladolid), La New Gallery (Madrid), Louis 21 (Madrid / Palma de Mallorca) and The Goma (Madrid).

 

 

Juan Uslé.


Peru is the guest country this year, with a selection of Peruvian artists linked to the drawing and curated by Carlo Trivelli.  As guest artist, artist of renown who designs the image of the fair each year, Estampa has chosen Juan Uslé (Santander, 1954), National Arts Award, currently residing in New York and whose work has hanged of prestigious spaces such as the MACBA, the IVAM, the Saatchi Gallery, the Serralves Museum, the Documenta in Kassel, the Ludwig Museum in Vienna, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen or Es Baluard of Palma de Mallorca.

 

Obra de Juan Uslé.

 

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.