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Agence France Presse gets some vague sales results from ARCO:
“Sales forecasts were not only met, they were exceeded,” Luis Eduardo Cortes, the director of the sprawling IFEMA exhibition centre in Madrid which hosted the five-day fair. […] One of the works which did find a buyer was a controversial sculpture by Spanish artist Eugenio Merino which depicted a three men dressed in black — a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew — praying on top of one another.Continue Reading
ARCO Director Lourdes Fernández in conversation with Stefan Kobel at ARCO 2010. This is an excerpt of the interview. The full-length version is available on our HD page.
The LA Times explains how an American city filled the place normally held by the culture of a country at ARCO in Madrid:
“Los Angeles is holding a spot that has been previously reserved for entire nations this year because it’s a very complete contemporary art hub,” said “Panorama” co-curator Christopher Miles. “It has everything covered: the creation, distribution and critical discussion of art. And people here are very eager to see what Los Angeles has to offer.” Organizers say the fair’s massing of L.A. art constitutes the largest and most comprehensive collection ever to be shown outside Southern California. Continue Reading
ARCO opens tomorrow. The New York Times’s In Transit travel blog is running a short look at Just Madrid, a new satellite fair to the 29-year-old classic Spanish art fair:
But the sheer size of ARCO has posed a problem for emerging artists and galleries who could get lost on so crowded a stage or simply can’t afford the steep entrance fees. Just Madrid, a new fair at a smaller scale, hopes to rectify the situation. […]
The well-known independent curator Virginia Torrente who heads up Just Madrid hopes the fair will spark a revival of Spain’s contemporary art scene, which she believes has languished over the past 15 years. “We have only ourselves to blame,” she said. “We have not been as professional as other European countries. Young Spanish artists have had to go abroad for recognition. There’s room for a smaller satellite fair, which until this point didn’t exist in Spain.”Continue Reading
