Art Madrid'23 – Apertura starts the art season

 

3 days, 45 galleries and 50 artists participates in APERTURA, the official start of the art season in the capital, from 10 to 12 September.

 

 

 

For art lovers and for ARTE_MADRID, the Association of Art Galleries of Madrid, APERTURA is "the great event of contemporary art of Autumn" with over 50 artists from 45 galleries and participation of large institutions like the Museum Reina Sofia, Thyssen Museum and the Fundación Telefónica.

 

 

 

 

In its sixth edition, APERTURA gathers works of masters such as Yves Klein and Josef Albers, with groundbreaking proposals like those of Karen Knorr, Tomas Vu or Rirkrit Tiravanija. But the big bet of the start of the season is undoubtedly the Spanish contemporary art work from the emerging scene to the more consolidated. So, names like Santiago Ydañez, Santiago Giralda or Yann Leto, live on this days with Gordillo or Pablo Picasso.

 

 

 

These days, the galleries have special schedules, as well as guided tours, meetings with artists and collectors, performances... turning the city into a large museum with all contemporary art disciplines: painting, photography, sculpture... APERTURA has two objectives: to bring the public to contemporary creation and to be a meeting point for the sector.

 

 

 

GALLERIES AND ARTISTS

Álvaro Alcázar (PETER KRAUSKOPF) / Arnés & Röpke (ALEKSANDAR DURAVCEVIC) / Astarté (OLALLA GÓMEZ) / Bacelos (MANUEL EIRÍS) / Bat – Alberto Cornejo (MARC QUINTANA) / Benveniste Contemporary (EDUARDO STUPÍA) / Blanca Berlín (FLOR GARDUÑO) / Blanca Soto Arte (LUIS QUINTERO) / Cámara Oscura (EXPOSICIÓN COLECTIVA) / Casado Santapau (ALEXANDRE ARRECHEA) / Cayón (YVES KLEIN) / Elba Benítez (EXPOSICIÓN COLECTIVA) / Elvira González (SOL LEWITT) / Espacio Valverde (LUIS VASSALLO) / F2 (JOSÉ GUERRERO) / Fernández-Braso SOLEDAD SEVILLA) / Fernando Pradilla (GERMÁN GÓMEZ) / Formatocomodo (SAMUEL LABADIE) / Freijo Gallery (ALAIN ARIASMISSON) / Guillermo de Osma (PABLO PICASSO) / Heinrich Ehrhardt (OTTO ZITKO) / Helga de Alvear ELMGREEN & DRAGSET / Javier López (ALEX KATZ *) / José de la Mano (LUGÁN) / Juana de Aizpuru (PHILIPP FRÖHLICH) / La Caja Negra (MATHIAS GOERITZ) / La New Gallery (SANTIAGO YDÁÑEZ) / Leandro Navarro JUAN CARLOS SAVATER / Maisterravalbuena (ANTONIO BALLESTER MORENO) / Marlborough (LUIS GORDILLO) / Marta Cervera (LEONOR SERRANO RIVAS) / Max Estrella (EUGENIO AMPUDIA) / Michel Soskine, inc. (HORST JANSSEN) / Moisés Pérez de Albéniz (SANTIAGO GIRALDA) / N F Galería (RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA – TOMAS VU) / NoguerasBlanchard (ALAIN BILTEREYST) / Parra & Romero (PALOMA POLO) / Pilar Serra (JOSEF ALBERS) / Ponce + Robles (AGGTELEK) / Rafael Pérez Hernando (SABINE FINKENAUER) / Sabrina Amrani (UBIK) / Slowtrack (KAREN KNORR) / The Goma (ANA SANTOS) / Travesía Cuatro (GONZALO LEBRIJA) / Utopia Parkway (ALBERTO PINA)
 

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.