Art Madrid'23 – 4th edition and a new succes for the fRIEZE NY ART FAIR

Randall's Island Park in Manhattan (NY) has recalled the attention and looks of the great collectors, dealers and art lovers around the world in the fourth edition of the Frieze Art Fair.

 
From 14 to 17 May, the huge marquee feature FRIEZE brought together more than 180 contemporary art galleries worldwide including the Spanish participated Elba Benítez (Madrid), Espaivisor (Valencia) and Four Crossing (Madrid / Guadalajara-Mexico).
 
NY FRIEZE has galleries with an eye to the future of art, a dynamic and emerging art embodied in more than 1,000 international artists in addition to the Frieze Projects program, devoted to proposals designed especially for the show, and Frieze Talks, the program panel discussions and lectures at the fair.
 
The fair, twinned with Frieze London, also includes Frame section dedicated to presenting emerging artists in solo galleries. Frieze is also one of the few fairs that focus on contemporary art and living artists, gallery owners consider something very interesting to revalue its products, as Jeff Burch, the director of the New York gallery PACE explains.
 
"We come here because it is one of the few fairs that teach young art, sold for $ 10,000, and yet very established artists, who could sell their pieces for $ 5 million," said Burch.
 
 
The contemporary approach to FRIEZE out in proposals such as the Spanish gallery Crossing Four and original flower vases designed in two dimensions by Mexican Milena Muzquiz that relies on direct action with the audience you are invited to buy flowers as if a florist is involved.
 
The big news which includes the 2015 edition of the fair is the introduction of "Spotlight", a new section for solo presentations of art of the twentieth century, under the leadership of Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, mimics one of the most applauded his efforts same name on the other side of the Atlantic.
 

 

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.