Madrid: a brief itinerary departing from ARCO
Umbigo travelled to the Spanish capital for ARCOmadrid, where it participated in the art magazines and publications section for the eighth consecutive year....
Umbigo travelled to the Spanis...
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Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend 2024
September brings the return of the exhibition season and the buzzing sensation of a cultural metropolis sweeps through the streets of Madrid. Warm summer days are still on the horizon as I make my way across the city to experience the 15th edition of the...
September brings the return of...
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Between oceans, the flows of ARCOmadrid 2024
On Sunday 10 March, the 43rd ARCOmadrid, Southern Europe's most traditional contemporary art fair, shut its doors. For an edition honouring the Caribbean - after having devoted itself to the Mediterranean in 2023 - 205 galleries travelled from 36 countries to the Spanish capital, the...
On Sunday 10 March, the 43rd A...
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Iberian pride: a Madrileño tour
Madrid is certainly one of Europe's most attractive cities today, particularly as regards cultural life: as Maribel López, the charismatic director of the ARCO Fair, said on the event's opening day....
Madrid is certainly one of Eur...
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Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend 2023
The 14th edition of Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend took place between September 14 and 17, opening the city's exhibition season with an event that brought together the 56 galleries of Arte Madrid (Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries of Madrid), together with museums and...
The 14th edition of Apertura M...
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Emotional Landscapes by Ragnar Kjartansson at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum
I saw Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibition a week ago. I don’t usually write a review so long after seeing an exhibition. But circumstances dictate this. I’m afraid I can’t capture the momentary excitement when writing about a good exhibition one has just seen - this exercise...
I saw Ragnar Kjartansson’s e...
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Lo demás, yo mismo, by Fernando Clemente
Art is a porous construction, which absorbs the environment that transforms it and shapes it, in a relationship between artist, mediator and observer. And in this porosity, and its inner layers and strata, there is an intellectual and intuitive content that dissects the whole relationship...
Art is a porous construction, ...
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Evanescent but active: the space-producing painting
Ao refletir sobre Sfumato – o projeto pictórico elaborado por Rui Macedo para a Tabacalera[1], em Madrid –, um pintor e uma célebre série dos seus trabalhos assaltaram desde logo o meu pensamento. Esse pintor é o norte-americano Jasper Johns. A série ficou conhecida por...
Ao refletir sobre Sfumato – ...
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Interview: Alvaro Urbano
Intervening on the Hexagon Pavillion designed by José Antonio Corrales and Ramón Vázquez Molezún, Alvaro Urbano both explores notions dreams & memory and reanimates Spanish histories in the construction of his own dreamscape: The Awakening [El Despertar]. The space exists within a kind of stasis...
Intervening on the Hexagon Pav...
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JUSTMAD 2020
With the participation of 50 exhibition spaces and galleries from eight different countries, helmed by artistic director, Semíramis González, JUSTMAD, now in its eleventh edition, sets itself upon the themes of sustainability, the environment and feminism. The theme of Feminism is central to this year´s...
With the participation of 50 e...
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