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Galeria Oliva Arauna

  • Miguel Rio Branco, T-Baguettes Basket, 2007, Cibachrome, € 11.500

Galeria Joana Prats

  • Perejaume, Installation 235 x 100, 1963, €35.000
  • Juliao Sarmento, White Dot Beast 2011, Bild, 195 x 200

Galerie Zink

  • Marcel van Eden, Drawing, 9 Ex., €22.800
  • Marcel van Eden, large Drawing, €18.000

Galeria Helga de Alvear

  • Elena Asis, 2010 without Title, 8piece floorwork, €50.000
  • Ettore Spalletti, „Il colore e l’argento“, yellow, €35.000

Mai 36

  • Pedro Cabrita Reis, Painting aluminium sandcasting, €6.500

Ivorypress

  • Anish Kapoor: Sketch book, Sketch book and Sculptures, Ex. 25: €102,000
  • Ai Wei Wei, Water Melon, 90 Ex., €50.000
  • Matthias Schaller, Tullio, c-print, 2 Ex., €14.000
  • Dionisio Gonzalez, Photography, Coca Cola Foundation

Georg Kargl

  • Gabi Trinkaus, The return of the red lip, printed matter, fabric, €15.400

Galerie Bärbel Grässlin und Heinrich Erhardt

  • works to the Rubell Collection worth €500.000
  • works by Imi Knoebel

ARCO 2012 Preview

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ARCO opens in Madrid this week. Here’s a preview of some of the work with details about the artists, galleries and stands in this pdf: ARCO 2012

Romanian Art Debuts on International Stage at ARCO

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Two Romanian galleries will make their country’s debut at ARCO next week in Madrid:

  • The Ivan Gallery, operated since 2006, in Bucharest will present work by artists such as Michael Olos, Cristian Opris,Dragos Badita, Dan Hammer, Sandor Bartha and Szabolcs Veres.
  • Plan B will present works by artists such as Adrian Ghenie, Ciprian Muresan, Navid Nuur (Dutch artist of Iranian origin) and Serban Savu. Started by Mihai Pop and Adrian Ghenie, Plan B gallery opened in September 2005 in Cluj-Napoca and works as a production space for contemporary art and also as an area of ​​research for Romanian art from the past 50 years.

Two Romanian art galleries to take part in ARCOmadrid this February (Romanian Business Insider)

VernissageTV: XL Gallery (ARCO)

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VernissageTV had a closer look at one of the Russian galleries, XL Galleryfrom Moscow. We met with the assistant director, Sergei Khripun. In this video interview, Sergei Khripun talks about the history and program of the gallery, the focus on Russian artists, the importance of art fairs for the gallery, the collectors, the situation of contemporary art in Russia and ARCO Madrid. At ARCO, XL Gallery presented works by Chernyshev & Shulgin, Anna Jermolaewa, Oleg Kulik, Igor Makarevich, Sergei Shekhovtsov, Igor Moukhin, and Bluesoup Group.

Full Interview Here

ARCO Sales

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The Art Newspaper’s Nicholas Smirnoff records some sales from the 197 galleries (29% of the Spanish) at ARCO in Madrid:

  • Galerie Lelong: a 2010 painted collage by Jane Hammond for €27,000 and a 2008 drawing by Jaume Plensa for €45,000
  • Helga de Alvear: a Giacometti-inspired sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset L’Homme qui ne Marche Plus from 2009 for €55,000 to a Belgium collector and a black-and-white photograph by Santiago Sierra for €25,000 to the Spanish Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson in Asturias.
  • Marlborough Gallery: a painting by Manolo Valdés for €268,000 and one by RB Kitaj for €197,500, both to European collectors.

Georgina Adam puts a few more sales in her Financial Times column:

  • Soledad Lorenzo reported at least six sales on the first morning and a reserve on Tapiès’ “Escala, Espaca” (2005), priced at €324,000
  • Lelong sold a couple of works on the first day, a butterfly-encrusted canvas by Jane Hammond (€27,000) and a work by Jaime Plensa (€45,000)
  • Edward Tyler Nahem quickly found a buyer for one of four Antonio Sauras from a private collection (priced at $120,000-$250,000).

Optimism Returns to Madrid’s ARCO (The Art Newspaper)

The Art Market: Return of the Boomers (Financial Times)

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