Art Madrid'23 – Starts the third edition of Art Lima Contemporary Art Fair

It has become the most important event of the Peruvian contemporary art and the engine of his nascent market, Art Lima celebrates its third edition between 23 and 26 April at the School of Army War Peru (ESGE), a space dedicated to the tradition that opens to the latest trends in artistic creation.

 

We want to educate people, remind them, for example, that art was in his life before writing, we drew when we were children and the formal education it is moving apart from this field of magic, dreams and creativity." With these words, a real statement of intent by Laura Fernández, creative director of Art Lima, starts the third edition of the most important contemporary art fair in Peru.

 
In this issue are involved 58 galleries from 16 countries in 6 distinct sections such as "Principal", with 41 galleries of long career from different cities of the world and selected by the evaluation committee of the fair; "Solo Show Contemporary Art", with 8 artists with a new and unique approach to the fair; "Solo Show Photography", curated by Christian Bendayán under the slogan Amazonismos; "Cabinets", consists of 5 installative proposals and performances; "Project Rooms", curated by the Spanish Octavio Zaya and "Platform" with 10 emerging galleries, with a maximum of four years of management .. Art Lima, according to your organization, is already "a show that works as the most important catalyst of the Creative industry of Peru ".
 

Fotografía del Programa Solo Show Fotografía - Aamazonismos.

 

With artists and galleries from Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, United States, France, Israel, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela, included the presence of a large representation of Spanish galleries as Fernando Pradilla (Madrid), Space Valverde (Madrid), 6más1 (Madrid), Married Santapau (Madrid), Ponce + Robles (Madrid), Xavier Fiol (Palma de Mallorca), Imaginart (Barcelona), Poligrafa Graphic Work (Barcelona), T20 (Murcia) and Trinta (Santiago de Compostela), at the Principal Program and Cervantes6-Art Space (Madrid) in the Platform section.
 
In parallel to the fair, there are many activities as the conference program entitled "Art Lima Spekas" directed by the Spanish gallerist Eva Ruiz and focused on collecting and museums highlights.
 
 
Obra del peruano José Tola.

 

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.