All about the Argentine presence in the great art week in Madrid

Until Sunday 9th, twelve galleries are participating in the ARCO, UVNT and JustMad fairs, as well as presenting themselves in an exhibition at Casa de América, during the busiest days of the year in the Spanish capital
Madrid is experiencing the most important art week of the year, with the development of ARCOmadrid, its traditional art fair that is celebrating its 44th edition; UVNT, an event that is holding its ninth edition, and JustMad, which is in its 16th edition, in which 12 Argentine galleries will participate, as well as an exhibition with national participation at Casa de Américas.
The starting point was the presentation of the International Patronage Award to the Argentine businessman and collector Eduardo F. Costantini, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and continues until March 9, when a program will be developed to promote his visual arts, as has already happened in Mexico and Miami, in an initiative carried out in a partnership between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Culture; the Embassy of Argentina in Spain; the Argentine Agency for Investment and International Trade; the Secretariat of Culture of the Nation, Meridiano, Argentine Chamber of Contemporary Art Galleries, and the arteba Foundation.

The initiative, they reported, “seeks to consolidate the international projection of Argentine contemporary art, with strategic activities aimed at collectors, curators, critics and international buyers” based on a series of activities designed to maximize the impact of the national presence, among which networking meetings, exclusive guided tours for potential buyers and positioning actions on key platforms of the sector stand out.
Among the galleries associated with Meridiano and those that are not, participation is through Del Infinito, Herlitzka & Co, Nora Fisch, Rolf Art, Ruth Benzacar, W-galería, Isla Flotante, in ARCOmadrid; NN and Valerie’s Factory, in UVNT, and Julia Baitalá, Azur and Valk Gallery, which is presented in conjunction with the Skiascope project, in JustMad.

ARCOmadrid, in which 214 galleries from 36 countries participate in IFEMA, will have the Amazon as its thematic axis, under the title “Wametisé: ideas for an Amazonian futurism”, in a program curated by Denilson Baniwa and María Wills, in collaboration with the Institute for Postnatural Studies, in which new forms of creation will be explored that integrate human, vegetal, physical and metaphysical elements.
The Recoleta gallery presents a selection of pieces from Teatro Proletario de Cámara, by the Argentine writer and visual artist Osvaldo Lamborghini, created during his exile in Barcelona in the 1980s, composed of more than 500 pages that brought together manuscripts, drawings, collages, paintings and unclassifiable graphic experiments, many of them made on precarious supports, such as “squared sheets of school notebooks.”

Brother of the writer Leónidas Lamborghini, Osvaldo posthumously became a figure of literature and contemporary art, since during his lifetime, when he only published three books, his works circulated in a “clandestine, countercultural way, in photocopies or from hand to hand.”

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