This year the Reina Sofía Museum has purchased 26 works by 18 artists from ARCO, for a global value of approximately 400,000 euros. Last year he acquired 16 works for 370,000 euros. The State has bought work from 12 female artists (there is a group of two women) and 6 male artists, in a year in which criticism has rained down on ARCO and the Ministry of Culture for the relaxation in the effort to achieve equality of gender in the art market.
ARCO looks at the Mediterranean but ignores its dead, so as not to do “poornography”
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The artists are mostly Spanish (12) compared to four Europeans and two from the rest of the world (Argentina and Uruguay). They are also mostly living artists (14) compared to four already deceased.
By Cecilia Bengolea (Buenos Aires, 1979), her video Shelly Belly Inna Real Life (2020)
The Argentinian artist living in Paris, investigates the practice of choreography and merges this discipline with video and sculpture.
Excerpt from Cecilia Bengolea, Shelly Belly inna Real Life, 2020 from Andréhn Schiptjenko on Vimeo.
By Gabriela Bettini (Madrid, 1977), His Oils Mariposa (2021), Herbal (2021), Alaska brown bear (2020) y Mule deer (2020)
Spanish visual artist of Argentine origin. From a review of the history of the representation of landscape and nature through painting, she observes how this medium and museums have been able to promulgate a hegemonic and exotic thought.
De Cabello / Carceller, duo formed by Helena Cabello (Paris, France 1963) and Ana Carceller (Madrid, 1964), their installation for double projection A voice for Erauso. Epilogue for a trans time (2021-2022)
Both artists have been working together since 1992, developing an interdisciplinary work that uses different means of expression – installation, performancevideo, writing, drawing…– with the intention of questioning the hegemonic modes of representation in visual practices and proposing critical alternatives.
By Lucía C. Pino (Valencia, 1977), her work WAO thermoformed polymorphic plastic, textile, polyester resin and iron (2022)
He investigates sculpture as a procedure and as a program through different artistic media.
By Diego del Pozo Barriuso (Valladolid, 1974), his video ear hate (2021)
He works in varied artistic fields: expanded sculpture, queer art, artistic collaborative practices, art and work, politics and affective economics.
By Ana Esteve Reig (Spain, 1986), her single-channel video Fancams (2023) and his two-channel video installation Fancams (2023)
His work focuses on video, becoming his artistic medium par excellence through which he observes the construction of social archetypes and human behavior.
By Anaïs Florin (Cannes, France, currently residing in Valencia), her photograph Offer adequate protection (2020)
He works mainly in the field of practices in context, paying special interest to the stories, memories and struggles associated with territorial transformations. His work, which orbits around the archive, uses the recent history of Valencia as a vehicle to reflect on the idea of community and the city as a place of past, present and future encounters.
From Marisa González (Bilbao, 1943), her Violence woman. From the series The Download (1975-77)
One of the pioneering artists in the application of new reproduction and communication technologies in artistic creation.
By Ana Jotta (Lisbon, Portugal, 1946), her acrylic and marker pen on screen September Song #5 (2022)
Cheerfully borrowing her sources of inspiration from art history, film, poetry, popular and vernacular arts, comics, and children’s books, Ana Jotta constructs an idiosyncratic world whose mode of operation It’s about skirting the rules.
By Lea Lublin (Brest, Poland, 1929 – Paris, France, 1999), her acrylic Interrogations sur l’art, 1974. Neuenkirchen, Germany (1974)
Plastic artist of Polish origin raised in Argentina. Highly influenced by psychoanalysis and the second wave of feminism, her work revolves around issues related to femininity in relation to the biological and the construction of identity and motherhood.
By Karlos Martínez (Durango, 1982), his five elements of lamb nappa and metal zippers Black Patterns (Columnas) (2021)
Artist and cultural manager who investigates, through sculpture, the role that certain imaginaries, fetishes, signs and symbols play in the construction of alternative communities to the hegemonic social forms.
Of Assumption Mills (Aranda de Duero, 1979), its ceramics How much river up there! (2021)
Spanish researcher and visual artist strongly influenced by methods from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. She lives and works between Spain and Egypt.
By Jaume Sans (Sitges, 1914-1987, Barcelona), su Preparatory drawing for the work ‘The trumpet benefactor’ (1932-1935)
A key figure in Catalan surrealism, as well as its transition to the beginnings of industrial design. Through painting he expressed himself with a predilection for organic forms. As a result of the Spanish civil war, Jaume Sans began to develop the design of his own furniture. Since then, the artist has dedicated himself to industrial design.
De Rosa Torres (Valencia, 1948), her acrylic painting on clay, cardboard and cane Pots (1973) y Snake (1972)
Spanish painter and engraver of recognized trajectory and extensive career. From her artistic beginnings, together with Equipo Crónica, she was marked by a highly recognized and personal style with a certain inclination towards natural-themed pop art.
By Joaquín Torres-García (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1874-1949), his Cash (circa 1927-28)
Painter, sculptor and creator of toys, in addition to an enormous literary production, the result of his theoretical, teaching and informative facet, he was a great disseminator of art and theoretician of constructivism. He arrived in Barcelona at the age of 17 when his father, a Catalan who emigrated to America, decided to return. Torres-García’s career took place during the first half of the 20th century in different cities and countries (Uruguay, Barcelona, Paris and Madrid), although it was in Barcelona where he received his artistic training and where he soon stood out as one of the promoters of Noucentisme. movement that defended a return to classicism and the Mediterranean tradition.
By Damián Ucieda (A Coruña, 1980), his installation of 36 framed photographs and a book black path (2017-2022)
From 2017 to 2022, he has developed a photographic project that delves into the relationship between oil and the city of A Coruña.
De Javier Utray (Madrid 1945-Madrid 2008) su collage Fantamarceliano Pantheon (1977) and his photographic print on baryta paper Action Rrose Sélavy (1977)
He was a multifaceted figure who addressed the fields of architecture, writing, music, as well as plastic and performative arts. At the end of the 70s, he had a notable influence on the Spanish art scene, being one of the theorists of the so-called New Madrid Figuration.