Madrid, February 26 (EFE) .- After years very hard by the effects of the crisis on the art market, ARCOmadrid 2015 has regained strength and optimism, something that Felipe and Letizia kings could see today during his inaugural tour the most important fair of contemporary art in Spain, which celebrates 34 editions.
As they were doing as Princes of Asturias continuously since 2009, Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia went back to ARCO, this time as kings, to ratify his presence his commitment to contemporary art, artists and gallery owners.
Colombia is the guest this year’s fair, which opened for business yesterday and tomorrow will be accessible to the general public until it closed on Sunday in a ceremony with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.
Therefore, especially kings stopped at some Colombian galleries that have chosen to become known in Spain in a fair with international and Latin American vocation.
Almost time and as devoted to know a representation of the exhibits in the 218 participating galleries from 29 countries, including 47 Latin American, and talked with many of the artists who explained their work and thanked them for their interest.
As the Colombian Adriana Marmorek, whose delicate work “Quote Garden of Delights” attracted wide attention Letizia.
This is a flower blown glass, whose shape is taken from the famous painting of the Bosco, and containing a transparent capsule in which continuous two sheets of gold leaf, driven by a breath of air move.
The artist told the queen Bogotá its manufacturing process and told him he intended to show the “fragility of love” with the movement of the golden plates.
The kings also rested on several points of the show, and gallery in New York settled Colombian Leon Tovar, before a wooden box painted white fellow Colombian Eduardo Ramirez.
The US ambassador in Spain, James Costs, greeted them in the expositor, with great anticipation of visitors in a day now reserved for professionals. EFE
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