We announce our participation in ART MADRID 2019.

Art Madrid celebrates its 14th edition from February 27 to March 3, 2019, at the Galería de Cristal in CentroCentro Cibeles (c/ Montalbán, 1), with the participation of more than 40 national and international galleries that will exhibit the works of nearly 200 artists, both emerging and established.

With a significant foreign presence, reaching 40% this year and reaffirming the confidence placed in the fair by the international community, 26 national and 16 international exhibitors from 13 countries, from Spain to Germany, France, Portugal, Lithuania, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, South Africa and Taiwan, will be present, including the addition of 10 new galleries.

Once again this year, Art Madrid also presents the ONE PROJECT program.

The project, designed to support and promote young artists whose careers are at an early or intermediate stage, is embodied in a collective show-only format. This year, one of the program's major innovations is the addition of Nerea Ubieto, a critic and curator who will present a project curated exclusively by women artists. This choice, as Ubieto states, is based "on the urgency of balancing a scale that remains very unbalanced and making a point in favor of all of us."

Desiderare con l'anima I, by Pepa Salas Under the title "Fictions, Masks, and Landscapes: Color as a Background," the exhibition features previously unpublished works by seven artists, once again highlighting their international presence. As the curator explains, these works invite us to construct our own universes, such as the landscapes by Rüta Vadlugaité (with Contour Art Gallery, Vilnius), characterized by sweeping lines and emphatic forms, characteristic of a marked personality. These works also demonstrate a profound interest in large splashes of color within a limited palette, something she undoubtedly shares with the more abstract and gestural Virginia Rivas (DDR Art Gallery, Madrid), an artist who invites us to explore perhaps more intimate places, but still possible even within the framework of a fair.

Mara Caffarone's (Granada Gallery, Comuna) landscapes, collages that reflect on the limits of perception, can also be heard and felt in other ways; while the playful element and indomitable flexibility of Nuria Mora's (About Art, Lugo) paintings transcend any medium through cumulative layers. Likewise, Sofía Echeverri (Flux Zone, Mexico City) works with landscapes, in her case using black and white narratives that are updated and transcended through the contrast created by the introduction of color.

On the other hand, the subversive masks of Manuela Eichner (RV Cultura e Arte, Salvador) are presented, with which the artist reinterprets feminine models and myths linked to popular wisdom; themes she shares with Alejandra Atarés (Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona) but which, in her work, are posed through the repetition and combination of patterns, strategies through which color spreads, contaminates environments, and connects the seven proposals in a wave of freshness and vigor.

The GENERAL PROGRAM sees the return of a large number of national galleries, including Madrid-based Kreisler, Marita Segovia, BAT Alberto Cornejo, Fucking Art Gallery, Hispánica Contemporánea (also based in Mexico City), Jorge Alcolea, and Montsequi. Returning from Asturias are galleries directed by Aurora Vigil-Escalera (Gijón), Bea Villamarín (Gijón), and Arancha Osoro (Oviedo), while returning from Galicia are Luisa Pita (Santiago de Compostela) and Moret Art (A Coruña).

Also returning from the north of the Iberian Peninsula are Galería Espiral (Noja, Cantabria), Rodrigo Juarranz (Aranda de Duero, Burgos), and MH Art Gallery (Bilbao), with the addition of Kur Art Gallery (Guipúzcoa). New offerings from Alba Cabrera Gallery and Shiras Gallery return from Valencia, as do galleries 3 Punts, Miquel Alzueta, and Zielinsky from Barcelona. Also making their debut at the Galería de Cristal are Galería Cornión (Gijón) and Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo (Barcelona), a gallery also represented in the One Project program. Among the participation of foreign galleries in the General Program, the Portuguese representation stands out with Art Lounge (Lisbon), Paulo Nunes-Arte Contemporânea (Vila Franca de Xira), and the new addition of Galeria São Mamede (Lisbon/Porto). Also participating for the first time are the French Galerie Barrou Planquart (Paris), the American Lola & Unicorn (New York), the South African Oda Gallery (Franschhoek), and the Peruvian art collective O-Art Project (Lima). The renewed selections from the German Schmalfuss (Berlin) and Robert Drees (Hanover), the French Norty Mécénat (Carrières-sur-Seine), the Taiwanese Yiri Arts (Taipei), and the Cuban Collage Habana (Havana) are returning.

We look forward to seeing you at our stand at ART MADRID 2019.

DDR ART GALLERY