Art Madrid'23 – Plom Gallery in Art Madrid\'15

Now that the fair has just passed and this needed stage to do balance and analysis of achievements and mistakes of this 10th edition starts, from Art Madrid we remain with the fabulous sensation of having counted on an exceptional collaborator: La Plom Gallery. Thank to this gallery we could offer a kids' workshop to complete our parallel activities program.

 

This workshop obeys to the genuine idea and initiative of La Plom gallery, art gallery placed in Barcelona, and with hardly a year of trajectory, that shares with us this spirit that seeks to involve the children and make them take part of art world since the first beginning. La Plom has wanted to apply a new perspective to contemporary art ant to explore the communicative possibilities and the learning capability that kids have throughout activities, workshops and samples with which starting to stimulate their interest and pleasure for plastic disciplines. As its manager, Martha Zimmermann, points out in the presentation text of this space, it is about making profit out of "the power of art like an educational and an human development tool for children, that stimulates the creativity, the imagination, the effort culture and the self-confidence".

 

And for doing so, La Plom develops activities in which "real art" is made, because the proposed activities are addressed by active artists with pedagogical education, which allows them to approach the kids to the techniques they use in a dynamic and funny way to learn playing. Besides, La Plom highly believes in the education in art and the need of publishing the works and their creators in order to improve the interest in the sector and to encourage since the childhood the "little size" collectionism.

 

For Art Madrid, La Plom has organised the workshop "Drawing with machines", led by the artists Gonzalo Elvira, performative and multidisciplinary artist, and Rafa Castañer, illustrator, with the collaboration of the educators Anamusma and Kae Newcomb. During the workshop, the kids had the opportunity of knowing new creative techniques: drawing on a disk, the infinite drawing roll and the manufacture of projectable slides. The activity has place in the resting area of CentroCentro Cibeles the Saturday, 28th of February, and the Sunday, 1st of March, while the art fair was being developed, so the children could visit it after with their parents.

We would like to thank Martha and La Plom for her artistic project and for having brought this workshop that families have so much enjoyed.

 

 

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.