Art Madrid'23 – La New Fair launches it\'s second edition for emerging artists

La New Gallery, Madrid gallery, hand in hand with the curator and blogger Semiramis Gonzalez has announced the second edition of La New Fair, an event to publicize and promote the work of younger artists, many of them recent graduates and have not yet entered the commercial circuit and are not represented by any gallery. Fresh Alternatives to the coolest art.
Taking advantage of the pull for the general public and collectors that represents the Madrid Art Week, with all the art galleries showing their best ideas and a trail of curious art aficionados and touring the various districts and various art fairs in the capital (Arch, Art Madrid, Justman,...) born - a year ago- La New Fair, a proposal which, according to the words of his coordinator and curator Semiramis González, "follows the line of Only opening. Noticias, eventos y amigos, a project curated by Tania Pardo and Guillermo Espinosa in La New Gallery, where for a few hours paid tribute to Walter Hopps through an exhibition open to those who wanted to participate. "In the end, it was an exhibition, but also a party and lA New Fair reflects this spirit to promote the talent of emerging artists who have not yet joined the gallery circuit, trade shows, market ...
The first call was a success, with over 300 applications or Spanish artists living in Spain, as individuals or as groups, with photography, mixed media, site-specifics, ... and so repeated the call for the second edition to be held during 19 and 20 February 2015. La New Fair provides an opportunity for artists to present their proposals in a professional environment, so they can contact the main cultural actors, audiences, critics, curators, press, collectors, galleries, museums, art centers,...
 
As explained on its website, the program is aimed at artists who are not in the commercial circuit's galleries and have no representation but yet have high-quality projects that deserve to be exposed, giving the opportunity to experience participation in this particular contemporary art fair. To Semiramis, "is a young generation but is leaving the skin in a very interesting and profound projects. They deserve our respect and desire to learn more. "
Basic information about the current call:
 
- It is essential that the artist is not represented by any gallery.
- All media and artistic disciplines are allowed provided that they can adapt to the gallery space.
- The prices of the works shall be solely determined by the artist.
- The project will be received until the day January 16, 2015.
 
The full announcement can be downloaded at the following link:
http://meetinarts.com/call/13858
 
Adriana M. Berges, Alberto Marcos Barbados, David Gonzalez-Carpio, David Ortega, Edurne Herran, Felix Coll, Joo Eun Bae: Among the 300 dossiers received in the last edition, 25, 25 artists who continue to take their first big break was selected Jorge Flores, Jorge Manes, José Carlos Naranjo Coto Kela, Martín Blázquez, Miren Pastor, Nauzet Mayor, Baena Nuria Oliver Behmann, Plastic Guajiras, Pol parrhesia Rigoberto Camacho, Rocio Guerrero, Santi Xander, Santiago Gómez Racing, Sebas Cabero Simon Arrebola and Xavi Garcia.

 

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.