Ana Mendieta. 1973 – Weather Balloon, Feathered Balloon
CentroCentro, a space of the Culture, Tourism and Sports Area, will host the exhibition PANORAMA MADRID 01-Vision of artistic news (March 25 – August 29), a new appointment with contemporary art that is born with an annual vocation. This exhibition of exhibitions brings together a selection of ten of the most outstanding proposals that could be seen in the art galleries of Madrid throughout 2020. It can be visited on the 1st floor of CentroCentro, with free admission.
The delegate of the Area of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Andrea Levy, has visited the exhibition accompanied by the artistic director of CentroCentro, Giulietta Zanmatti Speranza, and has encouraged “all Madrilenians to take advantage of the opportunity to participate in the first edition of this new appointment with contemporary art. CentroCentro is becoming a reference cultural space in the city of Madrid, with an enviable location on the Prado-Recoletos axis, where there are great cultural enclaves “
Support for galleries and dissemination of contemporary art
One of the lines of work of the new CentroCentro program is aimed at the dissemination of contemporary art. In this context, PANORAMA MADRID, which has among its objectives to offer a plural balance and show a map of the art scene of the moment, bringing it closer to all audiences. Each year, a specialized jury will select the ten exhibition projects that it considers to be the most outstanding from among those scheduled throughout the season in the art galleries of Madrid. The project recovers the idea of Hall of 16 which took place in Madrid in the 80s and 90s and which defined a space that served as a showcase for both national and international contemporary creation.
“From CentroCentro, a public institution, we understand the need to support and claim the value and great work, sometimes invisible, that is done from the galleries”, explains the project director, Giulietta Zanmatti Speranza. “These, which tend to go unnoticed by a non-specialized public, carry out a work, in parallel to the merely commercial, of support and promotion of their artists; They show us the latest works by creators who represent, seek and promote their national and international recognition and favor their being part of large and small collections. With PANORAMA MADRID We want to activate a space where different agents of contemporary creation meet, thus establishing a meeting point and dialogue between the Madrid cultural fabric and the public; we aspire to be a reference, a habit for the visitor who, thanks to this initiative, will have the opportunity to get closer to contemporary art from the privileged location of CentroCentro ”.
PANORAMA MADRID 01
The exhibition is not only special because it opens this cycle, but also because of the very particular circumstances of 2020, which have made it necessary, more than ever, to retake some projects that could only be visited for a short period of time or even that did not arrive. to be inaugurated.
All the selected exhibitions have one element in common: they are individual projects. They show the latest works by artists such as Tamara Arroyo, June Crespo, Isaac Julien, Juan Luis Moraza, Cristina Lucas or Ana Santos through different formats, from the installation to the sculptural, through painting or video creation. Others bring us closer to trajectories and contextualized works in the 20th century, such as Ana Mendieta, Aurèlia Muñoz (with pieces from 1970 to 1985), Elena Asins (with works from 1971 to 1995) and Óscar Domínguez (with paintings from 1948 to 1952 ).
The PANORAMA MADRID 01 jury has been made up of five critics from the specialized press: Bea Espejo, Luisa Espino, Marta Gómez, Laura Revuelta and Rocío de la Villa.
Selected exhibitions:
Tamara Arroyo. Pure street. NF Gallery / Nieves Fernández
Elena Asins. Works from 1971 to 1995. Elvira González Gallery
June Crespo. I go, yes. Heinrich Ehrhard Gallery
Óscar Domínguez. The triple stroke. 1948-1952. Guillermo de Osma Gallery
Isaac Julien. Lina Bo Bardi-A wonderful mess. Helga de Alvear Gallery
Cristina Lucas. Subjects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear. Galería Albarrán Bourdais
Ana Mendieta. Tropic-Ana. Nogueras Blanchard Gallery
Juan Luis Moraza. Tripalium. Minimum Gallery Space
Aurèlia Muñoz. Texture, tension, space [1970-1985]. Jose de la Mano Gallery
Ana Santos. Summer. The Goma Gallery. /
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