ARTISTS
ARCO Madrid 2010
17 Feb, 2010 - 21 Feb, 2010
ARCOmadrid gets the 2010 season of the international circuit off to a start, against an economic backdrop that is beginning to see tentative signs of recovery in the art market. According to the experts, one can already detect greater signs of optimism than one might have expected. As the ArtTactic consultants reported in their latest survey on confidence in the art market, while in December 2008 there was a sharp decline of 81%, at the current moment 么the drop in the contemporary art market looks like ending before initially forecast枚. According to the consultants, this change could materialise in the next two years.
Without abandoning the moderate and measured approach it adopted last year, ARCOmadrid_ 2010 will face the challenges of the moment and give collectors and other players a chance to discover the best new art from Spain and worldwide. Together with the galleries exhibiting in the core General Programme, the art fair also lends a spotlight to groundbreaking art in its various programmes: Solo Projects, Expanded Box, CinemaLoop and Performing ARCO. These curated sections feature projects coming from around thirty different countries, while also reinforcing the fair as a showcase for the best and most cutting-edge contemporary art.
Los Angeles, 21st century metropolis
Besides, in 2010, for the very first time, ARCOmadrid脝s special invited guest is the US city of Los Angeles, one of the art world脝s most exciting capitals. This is the beginning of a number of editions of the fair that will bring to Madrid the very best of what脝s happening in contemporary art worldwide, focusing not only on countries as it has done up until now, but also on the world脝s major regions or urban centres. With a selection of 17 galleries, curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles, the visiting public can see the latest art being created in one of the world脝s great cities. 么As a city for art, Los Angeles has been defined many ways, sometimes underscoring one particular generation or group, a specific style or look, one school or another枚, the curators explained. In point of truth, and as we will see at ARCOmadrid_ 2010, 么this 21st century metropolis has an artistic culture with a huge cross-generational wealth, largely thanks to its influential position over the last few decades, its network of private art school and academies, as well as the art departments in public and private universities枚.
The public will be given an overview in the Panorama: Los Angeles section with a sample of artists and galleries who will be showing 么a huge variety of works in terms of technique, genre and leaning枚, as the curators point out. Works created by 么artists coming from different generations, backgrounds and fame枚 in a selection that is primarily looking for 么vitality in all its forms and trying to be as faithful as possible to the idea of offering a panorama of the city枚, despite the fact that L.A. 么constantly surprises us and that it is impossible to come up with any totalising viewpoint枚, explained Kuramitsu and Miles.
Without abandoning the moderate and measured approach it adopted last year, ARCOmadrid_ 2010 will face the challenges of the moment and give collectors and other players a chance to discover the best new art from Spain and worldwide. Together with the galleries exhibiting in the core General Programme, the art fair also lends a spotlight to groundbreaking art in its various programmes: Solo Projects, Expanded Box, CinemaLoop and Performing ARCO. These curated sections feature projects coming from around thirty different countries, while also reinforcing the fair as a showcase for the best and most cutting-edge contemporary art.
Los Angeles, 21st century metropolis
Besides, in 2010, for the very first time, ARCOmadrid脝s special invited guest is the US city of Los Angeles, one of the art world脝s most exciting capitals. This is the beginning of a number of editions of the fair that will bring to Madrid the very best of what脝s happening in contemporary art worldwide, focusing not only on countries as it has done up until now, but also on the world脝s major regions or urban centres. With a selection of 17 galleries, curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles, the visiting public can see the latest art being created in one of the world脝s great cities. 么As a city for art, Los Angeles has been defined many ways, sometimes underscoring one particular generation or group, a specific style or look, one school or another枚, the curators explained. In point of truth, and as we will see at ARCOmadrid_ 2010, 么this 21st century metropolis has an artistic culture with a huge cross-generational wealth, largely thanks to its influential position over the last few decades, its network of private art school and academies, as well as the art departments in public and private universities枚.
The public will be given an overview in the Panorama: Los Angeles section with a sample of artists and galleries who will be showing 么a huge variety of works in terms of technique, genre and leaning枚, as the curators point out. Works created by 么artists coming from different generations, backgrounds and fame枚 in a selection that is primarily looking for 么vitality in all its forms and trying to be as faithful as possible to the idea of offering a panorama of the city枚, despite the fact that L.A. 么constantly surprises us and that it is impossible to come up with any totalising viewpoint枚, explained Kuramitsu and Miles.
ARCOmadrid gets the 2010 season of the international circuit off to a start, against an economic backdrop that is beginning to see tentative signs of recovery in the art market. According to the experts, one can already detect greater signs of optimism than one might have expected. As the ArtTactic consultants reported in their latest survey on confidence in the art market, while in December 2008 there was a sharp decline of 81%, at the current moment 么the drop in the contemporary art market looks like ending before initially forecast枚. According to the consultants, this change could materialise in the next two years.
Without abandoning the moderate and measured approach it adopted last year, ARCOmadrid_ 2010 will face the challenges of the moment and give collectors and other players a chance to discover the best new art from Spain and worldwide. Together with the galleries exhibiting in the core General Programme, the art fair also lends a spotlight to groundbreaking art in its various programmes: Solo Projects, Expanded Box, CinemaLoop and Performing ARCO. These curated sections feature projects coming from around thirty different countries, while also reinforcing the fair as a showcase for the best and most cutting-edge contemporary art.
Los Angeles, 21st century metropolis
Besides, in 2010, for the very first time, ARCOmadrid脝s special invited guest is the US city of Los Angeles, one of the art world脝s most exciting capitals. This is the beginning of a number of editions of the fair that will bring to Madrid the very best of what脝s happening in contemporary art worldwide, focusing not only on countries as it has done up until now, but also on the world脝s major regions or urban centres. With a selection of 17 galleries, curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles, the visiting public can see the latest art being created in one of the world脝s great cities. 么As a city for art, Los Angeles has been defined many ways, sometimes underscoring one particular generation or group, a specific style or look, one school or another枚, the curators explained. In point of truth, and as we will see at ARCOmadrid_ 2010, 么this 21st century metropolis has an artistic culture with a huge cross-generational wealth, largely thanks to its influential position over the last few decades, its network of private art school and academies, as well as the art departments in public and private universities枚.
The public will be given an overview in the Panorama: Los Angeles section with a sample of artists and galleries who will be showing 么a huge variety of works in terms of technique, genre and leaning枚, as the curators point out. Works created by 么artists coming from different generations, backgrounds and fame枚 in a selection that is primarily looking for 么vitality in all its forms and trying to be as faithful as possible to the idea of offering a panorama of the city枚, despite the fact that L.A. 么constantly surprises us and that it is impossible to come up with any totalising viewpoint枚, explained Kuramitsu and Miles.
Without abandoning the moderate and measured approach it adopted last year, ARCOmadrid_ 2010 will face the challenges of the moment and give collectors and other players a chance to discover the best new art from Spain and worldwide. Together with the galleries exhibiting in the core General Programme, the art fair also lends a spotlight to groundbreaking art in its various programmes: Solo Projects, Expanded Box, CinemaLoop and Performing ARCO. These curated sections feature projects coming from around thirty different countries, while also reinforcing the fair as a showcase for the best and most cutting-edge contemporary art.
Los Angeles, 21st century metropolis
Besides, in 2010, for the very first time, ARCOmadrid脝s special invited guest is the US city of Los Angeles, one of the art world脝s most exciting capitals. This is the beginning of a number of editions of the fair that will bring to Madrid the very best of what脝s happening in contemporary art worldwide, focusing not only on countries as it has done up until now, but also on the world脝s major regions or urban centres. With a selection of 17 galleries, curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles, the visiting public can see the latest art being created in one of the world脝s great cities. 么As a city for art, Los Angeles has been defined many ways, sometimes underscoring one particular generation or group, a specific style or look, one school or another枚, the curators explained. In point of truth, and as we will see at ARCOmadrid_ 2010, 么this 21st century metropolis has an artistic culture with a huge cross-generational wealth, largely thanks to its influential position over the last few decades, its network of private art school and academies, as well as the art departments in public and private universities枚.
The public will be given an overview in the Panorama: Los Angeles section with a sample of artists and galleries who will be showing 么a huge variety of works in terms of technique, genre and leaning枚, as the curators point out. Works created by 么artists coming from different generations, backgrounds and fame枚 in a selection that is primarily looking for 么vitality in all its forms and trying to be as faithful as possible to the idea of offering a panorama of the city枚, despite the fact that L.A. 么constantly surprises us and that it is impossible to come up with any totalising viewpoint枚, explained Kuramitsu and Miles.
Artists on show
Exhibitors
CAIS Gallery, Hong Kong
Central | Hong Kong
Jorge Mara La Ruche
Buenos Aires | Argentina
Arario Gallery, Seoul
Jongro-gu | Seoul | South Korea
Hilger NEXT
Vienna | Austria
Galerie Ernst Hilger (Dorotheergasse)
Vienna | Austria
Ad Hoc Art
Williamsburg | New York | USA
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