The Jorge Alcolea Gallery, by the director of the present, additionally presents ‘Mauvaise Année’, the smallest work of the surrealist painterThe assembly, which is now in its sixth version, welcomes the proposals of as much as 15 galleries From February 22 to 26, greater than 300 works will likely be proven of nice masters of the avant-garde and fashionable artwork
These days greater than ever Madrid breathes Art. February says goodbye with as much as 8 gala’s the place you’ll be able to see and purchase works by artists of various tendencies. And within the so-called Art Week, the Salón de Arte Moderno (SAM) stands out increasingly strongly.
The assembly, which is now in its sixth version, welcomes the proposals of as much as 15 galleries led by Jorge Alcolea, director of the honest. From February 22 to 26, they’ll present greater than 300 works belonging to nice masters of the avant-garde and fashionable artwork.
Works that may be seen on the Carlos de Antwerp Foundation, a big house that’s good for appreciating a treasure that’s troublesome to indicate (due to its huge measurement) introduced exactly by the Jorge Alcolea Gallery, from the director of the present: “I’ve recovered the stage that made Salvador Dalí in 1939 commissioned for the ballet Bacchanal. It has huge dimensions, as huge because the Teatro Real. What we’re displaying here’s a third of what it’s as a result of not all the things suits, however we present the piece in a conceptual method, even with the field it got here in.”
Dalí’s practically eighteen-meter-high surroundings isn’t totally accepted as it’s unfeasible, however SAM guests can have the chance to study this side of the multifaceted creator, by completely different pictures and codecs tailored from the work.
Question: Is this essentially the most particular piece of the SAM?
Answer: Inside the Hall there are lots of particular items and for all sorts of pockets. We have works from 2,000 euros to Dalí’s stage, which is the costliest piece value two million euros. We even have an important gallery proprietor who has introduced 13 different drawings by Dalí as effectively.
Ask. In addition to the Mauvaise Année’ (19379), one of many smallest works by the grasp of surrealism and which is offered for the primary time in Spain.
Answer: It is curious, sure, as a result of we have now what we consider to be the most important piece painted by Dalí, along with the smallest piece, which is the Mauvaise Année’, from the 12 months 37, a postcard-sized oil portray. We current two completely completely different variations of Dalí, however each with the artist’s identification and stamp.
Salvador Dalí, Mauvaise Année (1937) niusdiario.es
The reality is that the SAM proposal doesn’t disappoint, it consists of greater than 300 works by the nice masters of the avant-garde and fashionable artwork akin to Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Eduardo Chillida, Ray Smith, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, Equipo Crónica, Grupo El Paso, Luis Feito, Martín Chirino, Rafael Canogar, but in addition Paul Jenkins, Matías Krahn, Xavier Mascaró, Lita Cabellut and Manuel Viola.
Q. The SAM opens on the twenty second along with ARCO and different artwork conferences in Madrid, there are lots of proposals in the identical week. Is there room for everybody?
R. It is going on a bit like in Miami that within the artwork week there are as much as 20 completely different gala’s round an important ones. I believe that is very optimistic as a result of as an alternative of adapting completely different calls, individuals know that these are the dates the place you need to be.
Q. Therefore, it implies that Madrid is consolidating itself as an artwork house.
A. What we nonetheless want is for necessary worldwide collectors to return, to return see the proposals we have now and purchase. But all the things will work out.
Q. And inside this framework, the SAM is already in its sixth version, more and more consolidated as a benchmark.
R. Yes, we’re 15 galleries however we don’t need to develop far more, we want to proceed being an Art Hall than a Fair.
Q. But this time it has been opened to different artists, now you might be presenting works of contemporary and modern artwork
R. This 12 months we have now tried to be inclusive, open the doorways in order that gallery homeowners who’ve fashionable and modern works can convey them. We needed to provide the choice for each rising and established modern artists to hold their works subsequent to basic, historic avant-garde artists akin to Tàpies, Picasso, or subsequent to a Barceló. There are already established artists who’ve risen rather a lot like Calleja, or Lita Cabellut however there are additionally different extra unknown ones who’re additionally
Q. What has been the factors for admitting works of latest artwork?
A. The criterion is to just accept what the taking part galleries inform us. We will convey galleries of acknowledged status which were working for years and that assure the works they create. They make the choice themselves.
Q. From what you commented, it may be deduced that the galleries themselves have requested to broaden.
R. We have trusted your standards, within the galleries that convey fashionable and still have modern.
Q. How are you going to distinguish them from Standarte, the brand new honest that begins this 12 months with fashionable and modern artwork and opens on the identical dates?
R. The necessary factor is that Madrid places on a gala and there are as much as eight gala’s and sure, they coincide a bit however there’s a marketplace for everybody.
Q. Also, the SAM arrived with the bombing of Dalí’s works.
R. We will proceed to do the method of bringing an important work. We have already got a challenge for subsequent 12 months that we are going to have a piece that’s equally necessary or with the extent of Dalí.
Q. But they’re exhausting to promote
R. We have three establishments and a non-public one too, who is aware of.
R. Are you telling me that there’s a chance that we are able to see Dalí’s stage once more in a theater?
A. My dream could be that it might be seen on the Teatro Real or on the Liceo, with the Dalí libretto, the unique clothes by Cocó and the items by Wagner (Tannhäuser). It could be magnificent.
This February 21, the Salón de Arte Moderno will start to indicate their works throughout Madrid Art Week, proposals from famend areas akin to Galería Pilares, Astarloa, Galería Helarea, Galería Beatriz Bálgoma, Gothsland Galeria d’Art, ART LAB, Casa Zóbel, Salazar y Bermúdez, Jorge Alcolea Gallery, Sala Nonell, Espacio Lobo and Galería Theotokópoulus, anticipate to exceed the greater than 10,000 visits they’d within the earlier version.