ARTEMADRID is pleased to present APERTURA, the 2010-2011 season’s opening. A joint vernissage of the best galleries in Madrid that will take place from the 16th to the 18th of September. The event embraces a varied activity program that includes visits to the galleries, discussion tables and special visits to the Museo del Prado and to the Reina Sofia Museum.
APERTURA is a unique occasion to bring together collectors, professionals, artists and art lovers. It will no doubt become a major date in the art year calendar.
Calendar
Friday, September 10
11:00
Official presentation of APERTURA ARTEMADRID 2010 with the attendance of the Mayor of Madrid (Palacio de Cibeles).
Thursday, September 16
18:00 – 22:00
Joint vernissage of the participating galleries:
Álvaro Alcázar – Simon Edmondson
Ángel Romero – Ignacio Iglesias Mayo
Antonio Machón – Antonio Saura
Arnés & Röpke – Max Neumann
Astarté – Cristina Silván
Bat-Alberto cornejo – Abigail Aguirre
Benveniste Contemporary – Sean Mackaoui
Blanca Soto Arte – PSJM.
Casado Santapau – Ian Monroe
Cayón – El Palazuelo último
Distrito 4 – José Damasceno
Egam – Pedro Morales Elipe
Elba Benítez – Mario García Torres, Peter Nadin, Roman Ondak y Mungo Thomson. Huis Clos (a Project curated by Magali Arriola in collaboration with galería proyectos Monclova. México DF)
Elvira González – Alexander Calder
Espacio Mínimo – Karolina Zdunek
Evelyn Botella – Joan Sastre
Fernando Pradilla – Germán Gómez
Formato Cómodo – Ingrid Buchwald
Fúcares – Elger Esser
Guillermo de Osma – Victor Brauner
Heinrich Ehrhardt – Stefan Müller
Helga de Alvear – Helena Almeida
Javier López-Mário Sequeira -Todd James
Joan Gaspar – Cirilo Martínez Novillo
José Robles – Tamara Arroyo
Juana de Aizpuru – Sol Lewitt
La Caja Negra – Jan Hendrix
La Fábrica Galería – Richard Billingham
Leandro Navarro – Joaquin Risueño
Magda Bellotti – Eliana Perinat
Marlborough – Clara Carvajal, Soledad Córdoba, Concha García, Anna Malagrida and Amparo Sard.
Marta Cervera – José Lerma
Max Estrella – Pablo Valbuena
Michel Soskine, inc – Humberto Rivas
Moriarty – Darya Von Berner
Ms – Colectiva. Las fronteras
Nieves Fernández – Jordi Teixidor
Oliva Arauna – Zwelethu Mthethwa
Parra & Romero – Philippe Decrauzat
Pepe Cobo y Cia – Face to Face: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pepe Espaliú, Diango Hernández, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Nauman, Thomas Ruff, Ann-Sofi Sidén and Céline van Balen
Rafael Pérez Hernando – Luis Vioque
Raquel Ponce – Colectiva
Soledad Lorenzo – Txomin Badiola
Travesía Cuatro – John Isaacs
Utopia Parkway – Fernando Martín-Godoy
Friday, September 17
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
18:00*
Visit to the exhibitions.
19:00 – 21:00
“Madrid Talks”: Round table with the participation of major international and Spanish collectors where we will discuss the contributions and influences of collectors in the development of art.
*21:00 – 23:00
Cocktails on the terrace of the Museum.
Saturday, September 18
10:00 – 14:00
Brunch at the galleries
*20:15
Private visit to the exhibition “Turner and the Masters” at Museo del Prado.
*21:00
Cocktails at Museo del Prado.
* With invitation only
For general information, please contact Victoria Solano at apertura [at] artemadrid.com www.artemadrid.com For press enquiries, please contact Silvia Pérez Crespo at spcrespo [at] mahala.org or by phone at + 34 91 142 93 64 ext. 4
More information about Madrid:
Few cities in the world can claim three of the most important art museums in the world; all located less than a ten minute walk from one another. The space bordered by the Prado Museum (Velázquez, Goya and El Greco), the Reina Sofía National Museum and Art Centre (Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Dalí, Tàpies and Antonio López), and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Gothic and the European Renaissance up to Hopper, Bacon and Freud) is known as the Paseo del Arte (the Art Promenade).
As well as the major museums, the Art Walk, stretching from north to south along the Paseo de la Castellana, is home to important exhibition halls, foundations and institutes, which play a fundamental part in the country’s cultural life. Caixaforum, Matadero Madrid, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Casa Encendida, Foundation BBVA, Foundation Mapfre and Círculo de Bellas Artes are just some of the most important ones.
Madrid also boasts an impressive programme of exhibitions:
-Turner and the Masters (until September 19. Prado Museum): From the Tate Britain in London and the Gran Palais in Paris, this exhibition illustrates the influence that the Renaissance and Baroque masters such as Tiziano, Rubens and Rembrandt had on Turner’s work.
-Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence (until October 10. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum): This exhibition allows us to learn about Florence during the Quattrocento. This is a journey back in time, to discover the customs, religion and interpretation which the first Renaissance brought to the classical world. Works by Botticelli, Verrocchio, Pollaiuolo, Filippo and Filippino Lippi…
-A Passion for Renoir (1841-1919). The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute Collection (October 19 to February 6. Prado Museum): This exhibition covers all the genres cultivated by this artist: portrait, female figure, nudes, landscapes, still life and flowers.
-New Realisms: 1957-1962 (until October 4. Reina Sofía Museum): The exhibition attempts to explain the dissemination of conceptual practices within the context of American and European art between 1957 and 1962.
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