With more than 200 original works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró or Banksyamong others, the I Edition of the Standarte Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art It will arrive in Madrid between February 22 and 26, coinciding with the celebration of ARCO 2023, with the aim of making the city the venue for a great artistic event in the style of London Art Week.
“The idea is to perpetuate the fair and that the project can grow until it becomes a great art week, where all styles coexist. Next year, Standarte wants to invite foreign galleries to come and exhibit and thus attract an international public”, explains Mercè Camps, organizer of the event and CEO of the Catalan gallery Art Camps, to EFE.
Standarte seeks to “expand the cultural offer” and take advantage of the pull of the International Contemporary Art Fair ARCOwhich this year celebrates its 43rd editionfrom which “satellite fairs” focused on this artistic field have emerged.
In the I Edition of Standarte 16 galleries from Madrid, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Galicia and Castilla-La Mancha participate, which will present more than 200 original works by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Banksy, Miquel Barceló, Jaume Plensa, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies, Antonio López and Manolo Valdés, all of them documented and catalogued.
The fair, according to its organizers, is aimed at collectors and institutions, but also art lovers, and its claim is “to differentiate itself by the quality of the exhibited worksboth in painting and sculpture, engraving or drawing”.
Among the pieces that will be exhibited are: Dalí’s “Homage to Duchamp”; “La pierre philosophale”, by Miró; an unpublished work of a view of Tomelloso, by Antonio López; “No War”, by Banksy, or an oil on canvas by Óscar Domínguez, which was exhibited at Le Salon de Mai in Paris the same year it was held, in 1996.
The place chosen for the celebration of the first edition of Standarte is the headquarters of the Diario Madrid Foundation, located at number 14 Calle Larra, a modernist building linked since its inauguration in 1908 to the world of journalism since, throughout its history, it has housed magazines such as Nuevo Mundo and La Esfera or newspapers such as El Sol, La Voz, Arriba and Marca.
The building that housed the work ofe journalists, intellectuals and politicians, from Mariano de Cavia to Ortega y Gasset or Ramón J. Sender, During the penultimate week of February, it will give way to works by the great names of contemporary art in Standarte, whose organizers intend to “repeat” if the fair is finally established in Madrid.