Art Madrid'24 – Punto gallery in Art Madrid\'15

Directed by Jose Antonio Agrait, the second generation of the Agrait family, PUNTO gallery takes hard its international interest and organizes exhibitions curating working for the constant renewal of artistic proposals by promoting emerging artists working closely with museums, galleries, public and private institutions. 
Artists participating in Art Madrid'15: Julio Le Parc, Carmen Calvo, Valerio Adami, Juan Genovés, Victor Vasarely, José María Labra, Equipo Realidad, Natividad Navalón and José María Yturralde.

Equipo Realidad (http://www.art-madrid.com/artista-participante-am15/equipo-realidad), formed by Joan Cardells and Jorge Ballester, was born in Valencia in 1966, in the context of the Franco developmentalism, and voluntarily was dissolved ten years later. Equipo Realidad joins the critical figuration, which develops a painting with strong political and appropriation of images from everyday reality and history of art. Through serial works, the team analyzed the social transformation of the sixties, marked by expanding technology, consumerism and takeoff mass media. Your making critical position, demystifying the consumer society, underlies the treatment of iconographic symbols through the values that always have a double and ironic reading evidenced in works like 86 misses in swimsuit.

Equipo Realidad said: "What interests us is not reality, but his image", and therefore, taken as reference for his works images from magazines, advertisements and catalogs. They have been defined as a "radical painters that while denying authorship postulate teamwork, social criticism and political commitment", which cost them an absence of critical and without it, they had great difficulty in selling their pictures. Currently the work of Reality Team arouses great interest for both collectors and gallery owners, due to historical and political values associated with it, the same that caused the dissolution of the team in 1976.
 
 
Jose Maria Yturralde. (Valencia, 1942. BA and PhD in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia. Professor of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Valencia. In the mid-sixties went through a stage of experimentation in the "material informalism", from which evolved into geometric abstraction and the "Op Art" that characterizes him, in which the influences of Vasarely and the Italian specialists and constructivism are detected .
 
In 1966 he worked at the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca, founded by the painter Fernando Zobel. At this time he started working in monochrome with synthetic materials. In 1967 he was a founding member of the Prior Art Group, led by Aguilera Cerni, and began to make Kinetic Art; This interest in technology was accentuated by participating in seminars center Calculating the Complutense University of Madrid, who introduced him to work with computers.
In 1975 he moved to Massachusetts (USA) where he researched and taught at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies. In the eighties, after further the kinetic direction with his "flying structures", he returned to the plane with an attitude that, while remaining constructively rigorous, is more poetic, because of the interplay of colors and instability of the compositions . Currently he is director of the Painting Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

 

If you are a contemporary art gallery and would like to be part of Art Madrid'25, you can now apply to participate!

The 20th edition of Art Madrid will take place from 5 to 9 March 2025 in the Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles. This privileged location, good communications and the quality of the project have always been guarantees of success for an event that reaches 20,000 visitors in each edition.

Art Madrid has been held during the capital's Art Week for the last twenty years, consolidating itself as an interdisciplinary fair of new artistic trends, in which nearly 40 national and international galleries participate, working with painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, installation and digital art of recent production.

Partial view of Art Madrid'24. Contemporary Art Fair. 19th edition, 2024

Art Madrid carries out a series of programs designed by curators, consultants and cultural experts with the fundamental objective of encouraging collecting, promoting cultural dialogue and making the most recent trends in art accessible to the general public. These initiatives are always focused on the constant improvement of the visitor's experience at our event, always seeking to enrich their interaction with contemporary art.

Partial view of Art Madrid'24. Contemporary Art Fair. 19th edition, 2024

PROGRAMS

Gallery Program

Art Madrid's Gallery Program is the heart of the fair. In each edition of Art Madrid, the program consists of around 40 national and international exhibitors.

Parallel Activities Program

The Parallel Program of Art Madrid'25 will have as its main axis the concept of the Territory City. The public space, the city and the territory will serve as a link to the artistic practices that take place in the "imagined spaces" and revitalize the cultural geography of Madrid.

Collecting Program

Art Madrid offers a specialized consulting service for galleries and the public interested in acquiring works of art.

Support Program for New Entries

Through a specific communication package, new entries to the fair will be presented and given special visibility.

Activities

The program will include a series of activities that will take place throughout the month of February and during Madrid Art Week at the Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles. Likewise, the parallel program will maintain the 2nd edition of the Open Booth, the Performance Cycle, Lecturas: Curated Walktrhoughs by Art Madrid, and the Interviews Section curated by Art Madrid.

Partial view of Art Madrid'24. Contemporary Art Fair. 19th edition, 2024

AWARDS

Best Booth Award

Award that will be articulated around the gallery with the best booth set up at the fair.

New Entry Award

Award will be given to the newly incorporated gallery with the best booth setup and exhibition proposal at the fair.

Emerging Artist Award

Our sponsors, as part of their line of action to promote contemporary art, will offer a prize to one of the revelation artists participating in the fair.

Partial view of Art Madrid'24. Contemporary Art Fair. 19th edition, 2024

Our support for art and culture extends throughout the year and responds to a global vision in which constancy and commitment to the galleries are essential to achieve our objectives of disseminating contemporary art within and beyond our borders; to create new audiences and interest in art and culture in all sectors of society; to strengthen and promote artists, especially young talent; to value art and culture as essential elements of social development; and to create spaces for cultural visibility and communication that are accessible, open and dynamic.



Relevant information

Applications for the 20th edition of Art Madrid'25 can be sent to the following e-mail address: info@art-madrid.com until October 7, 2024