Art Madrid'23 – Entrefotos phtotography fair helds it\'s XVI edition in La Casa del Reloj (Matadero Madrid)

The slogan with which this fair defines itself immediately reveals the intention of the organizers. This is an event that promotes the encounter and dialogue as equals between buyer-visitor and photographer-artist. The idea is to create a forum for direct communication, "without intermediaries", where the artist, omnipresent beside his work, has the opportunity to explain their work and the spirit of his creations, and the visitor has the opportunity to see face to face the artist hand, his/her intimate and personal universe.

 

The idea began 16 years ago, when the founders of the initiative detected a lack of more open and communicative proposals in the Spanish market. The enhancement of the photo seemed to require not only a recognition by the public, but also to promote discussion and exchange circles to reflect on this technique and contribute to generate a constructive discourse in dialogue with the visitor. And so, in 1998, Luis Baylon, José María Díaz-Maroto, Evaristo Delgado and Pasquale Caprile, at the study of the latter, in Madrid, decided to create EntreFotos. This enthusiastic quartet tried to emulate in our country the photography encounters that were spreading through Europe, and publicize the author photography. Today, after 16 years of uninterrupted call, the show continues to respond to the original idea with which was born.

 

EntreFotos is a gathering of four days devoted to photography and its creators, where all the curious, passionate, unbelievers and skeptics are welcome. Purchase invitations and other indecent proposals will be accepted. This edition features the participation of 35 artists, selected by an independent committee: Beroiz Pérez de la Rada, Alberto Espinosa, Andreas Strobel, Angelica Sole De La Llave, Carlos Regueira, Cristina Esteban Briones, Elena García Guerrero, Gert Voor in't Holt, Iris Encina, Jesus Botaro, Jorge Flores, Julian Ochoa, José Luis López Moral, José Luis Núñez, Juanma Vidal, Juan Sande, Laura Len, María Antonia García de la Vega, Oscar Rivilla, Ariza Pedro Gonzalez, Pepe Huelves, Pilar Pequeño, Ramon Fernandez Rafer Barcia, Rebecca Lebron, Rubén García, Soledad Pulgar, Tino Garcia, Valme de Toledo, Masaur, Maite Sánchez Urueña, Labandeira Jesús Gómez, Xavier Mollà i Revert and Zdenek Tusek. In addition, the exhibition offer is completed with a program of activities which foresees book signings, awards and the chance to see live the process of photographic portrait of the artist's hand Xavier Gómez.

Another point of reference in EntreFotos is the fair's prize in recognition of a career that each year awards to an author of reference. This time the winner is José Luis Mur who is also a photographer, was a founder of Fotocasión mid 70s, in the wake of Madrid, establishment landmark dedicated to the world of photography and is now one of the largest devoted to this discipline in Europe shops.
 
EntreFotos opens this Thursday, November 27th, at 18:30 and will be open until Sunday 30 at the Sala La Lonja de la Casa del Reloj of Matadero Madrid.
 
More information:
Programme (http://www.entrefotosferia.com/#!programa/c1543)
 

 

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.