Argentina will show between the 22nd and 26th of February, its present art in the Contemporary Art fair of Madrid (ARCO) and will turn the Spanish capital into a succession of cultural events, in a process that it wants to pursue in the future to abandon “the idea nostalgic of itself.”
The argentinean minister of Culture, Pablo Avelluto, presented today, together with the director of ARCO, Carlos Urroz, the international trade fair which this year reaches its thirty-sixth edition, with about two hundred galleries from twenty-seven countries, among which Argentina is the special guest on this occasion.
Galleries of Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Chile and Panama will also be present at this fair which, according to forecasts, will be visited by some 100,000 people and was officially inaugurated on February 23 by Philip VI and the argentine president, Mauricio Macri, in the framework of his State visit to Spain.
of The total galleries present the forty percent are foreign, and among them, 41 from Latin american countries.
A show that had more request than space available, a “show of confidence” in the words of Carlos Urroz, who noted that there are 164 galleries in the official part, while dozens more will be in alternative spaces.
Examples of painting, sculpture, installations, photography, video, new media, drawing and printmaking, will be admired and commented upon by visitors interested in the contemporary.
It keeps “Opening”, dedicated to the projects of emerging artists and is presented “Dialogues”, for artists to establish a relationship between their respective works, at the time that for the first time there will be mounts of virtual reality.
The desire to open the art market to new stakeholders made to repeat “Arts libris”, which diffuses the edition contemporary artist’s books, while the show will be peppered with debates and conferences.
in The same way that in other editions in Brazil and Colombia were the protagonists of ARC, this time it will be Argentina, who will be present with a dozen galleries, each of which will display the work of one or two artists at most.
“I don’t like to talk about landing the argentine because it seems like an invasion and it’s not because in Madrid we are at home,” said Avelluto, who noted that, apart from the presence in the ARC between 22 and 26 February, the Spanish capital will host in the months that followed a festival of theatre, workshops, literary, a film season and a series of concerts of popular music.
To the minister Avelluto “is a gathering of friends who have moved away a bit and back to the same table”, in an allusion to the improvement of relations between Spain and Argentina after some years of coldness.
The goal at ARC is to show that, as Borges said, “to be argentine is to be universal”, according to the minister, who enumerated the characteristics of the art you will see in Madrid.
it Is a art irreverent but with rigor, diverse, border, which looks to the body and sexuality, according to Pablo Avelluto, for whom all of these elements create a “magma” that surfaces in the works.
Inés Katzenstein is the curator of the twelve galleries with twenty-three argentine artists of the overall program, while seventeen other venues of Madrid will be shown the work of other creators argentine.
Argentina will also feature a pavilion of their own, an institutional space that will host an artistic programming and cultural, and which will be inaugurated by Mauricio Macri.
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