Questa settimana è di scena l’arte contemporanea spagnola, del nord della Spagna, in Cantabria si svolge la 20ma edizione di ArteSantander, fiera d’arte seconda per grandezza solo ad ARCO Madrid . Una fiera d’arte, radicata nel territorio che quest’anno ha scelto la formula della mostra personale per ogni stand e ha sfoltito le presenze di espositori autoctoni a favore di partecipazioni estere. All’edizione 2011 partecipano quarantacinque gallerie selezionate in maggioranza spagnole ma con presenze europee e non. La fiera spagnola sarà aperta dal 20 al 24 luglio 2011.

In coincidenza col ventennale di ArteSantander la manifestazione si rinnova con un nuovo progetto e un nuovo formato più curato. L’obiettivo è trovare una esposizione più efficace trasformando la fiera in una sorta di festival della ricerca artistica contemporanea.

Anche quest’anno, grazie al rinnovo di accordo tra gli spazi pubblici e con la città di Santander, si rinnova l’appuntamento nato nel 2004 con il programma artistico “Visiones Urbanas“, che porta le mostre d’arte nelle strade, vicino a tutta la gente. Con il valore aggiunto che in questa edizionbe vedrà in primo piano gli artisti stranieri, provenienti dalle gallerie polacche selezionate, a loro verranno messe a disposizione aree urbane per esporre i loro interventi artistici.

L’attività di Artesantander si colloca nei numerosi eventi culturali che animano Santander. Anche la fiera sostiene la candidatura della città spagnola a diventare capitale europea della cultura Santander European Capital of Culture 2016.

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A NEW CONCEPT OF ART FAIR ADAPTED TO THE NEW TIMES

In reaching its twentieth edition and based on criteria of flexibility, dynamism, accessibility and, at the same time, with a more selective about the choice of galleries, artists and works exhibited at the Fair, a new born with the intention ARTESANTANDER that this formula is a reference for everyone from now on.

A NEW FORMAT less dense, more direct and more profitable

This new format, designed under the parameters of a more precise, clear and pure exhibition space, aims to show the content in a more efficient, profitable and understandable permeable, adapting the Fair, in addition to the specific needs of the moment in its usual public optimizing the most fundamental thing: the material resources and economic virtual available. The new ARTESANTANDER, coinciding with its 20 anniversary, there’s actually a fair concept less dense, more manageable and visible and at the same time, tighter and coincides with the current requirements. In short, ARTESANTANDER becomes a Festival of Projects, a fair more specialized, in which nothing is lacking but in which nothing about … a hybrid between traditional and advanced in the art in its pure state becomes the protagonist.

A MORE COMPLETE SELECTION OF WORKS. A WATCH FOR NEW TALENT.

The selection criterion becomes even more exhaustive. Each gallery, which will have charge of the stand, shall, within the Festival called Projects, a program based on the artists he represents: either with a single artist-One Man Show, “along with a group or several artists. In all cases the proposal will be developed in a curated stand to be judged by the selection committee of the fair. The Committee is therefore based on the quality of proposals and their compliance with the ARTESANTANDER features that extend the invitation to the final gallery at the event.

On the other hand, keeps the program from collectors but will now take a different approach. We encourage the presence of heads of museums, art centers and libraries with the intention that, thanks to the Festival of Projects, the Fair will become a kind of observatory of young talent and, therefore, the ideal place to attract new talent … a “hotbed” of artists available to the heads of contemporary art, nationally and internationally.

Similarly, maintaining the successful formula Urban Visions, the art on the street, as a publicity stunt of the fair ‘abroad and, in turn, as a cultural reference to excellence in summer, already familiar to citizens who pass by the city of Santander on the dates of the fair.

A clearest ROOM: UNIFICATION OF EXHIBITION SPACE

ARTESANTANDER be conducted specifically on the top floor of the enclosure, a plant that has no columns so its open space character will contribute significantly to the accessibility and clarity of content presented. The Fair will have 45 stands, each about 24 m2, seven of which will be aimed in the same area, Cantabrian galleries.

ELENCO ESPOSITORI 2011

3+1 Arte, Lisboa. www.3m1arte.com
AJG, Sevilla. www.ajggallery.com
Alarcón Criado, Sevilla. www.fullart.net
Alonso Vidal, Barcelona. www.alonsovidal.com
Angeles Baños, Badajoz. www.galeriaangelesb.com
Antimuseo, Madrid. www.antimuseo.org
Art Nueve, Murcia. www.artnueve.com
Arteko, San Sebastián. www.artekogaleria.com
Aural, Alicante. www.auralgaleria.com
Base-Alpha Gallery, Bélgica. www.basealphagallery.com
Cànem, Castellón. www.galeriacanem.com
Caracol, Valladolid. www.galeriacaracol.es
Collectiva, Berlín. www.collectivagallery.com
Columpio, Madrid. www.columpiomadrid.com
CTS Creative Thiftshop, Nueva York. www.creativethriftshop.com
Del Sol St., Santander. www.delsolst.com
Demolden video Project, Santander. www.demolden.com
Enrique Guerrero, México. www.galeriaenriqueguerrero.com
Espacio Creativo Alexandra, Santander. espaciocreativoalexandra.blogspot.com
Espacio Líquido, Gijón. www.espacioliquido.net
Espacio Minimo, Madrid. www.espaciominimo.es
Espiral, Meruelo-Cantabria. www.galeriaespiral.es
José Robles, Madrid. www.galeriajoserobles.com
Juan Silió, Santander. www.juansilio.com
Lola Orato, Oviedo. www.lolaorato.es
Magda Bellotti, Madrid. www.magdabellotti.com
Maisterravalbuena, Madrid. www.maisterravalbuena.com
Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas. www.manuelojeda.com
María Llanos, Cáceres. www.galeriamariallanos.com
Mito, Barcelona. www.mitobcn.com
Nuble, Santander. www.galerianuble.com
Nueve ochenta, Colombia. www.nueveochenta.com
Paz y Comedias, Valencia. www.pazycomedias.com
Pedro Cera, Lisboa-Portugal.www.pedrocera.com
Pedro Torres, Logroño. www.galeriapedrotorres.com
Pilar Serra, Madrid. www.pilarserra.com
PM8 Galería, Vigo. www.pm8galeria.com
Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla. www.galeriarafaelortiz.com
Raquel Ponce, Madrid. www.galeriaraquelponce.es
Saro León, Las Palmas. www.galeriasaroleon.es
Siboney, Santander. www.galeriasiboney.com
Sicart, Villafranca del Penedés, Barcelona. www.galeriasicart.com
Tatiana Kourochkina, Barcelona. www.tkgaleriadart.com
Vértice, Oviedo. www.galeriavertice.com
Vierter Stock, Berlín. www.vierterstock-berlin.com

URBAN VISIONS 2011S´escapen III. Critòfol Pons. Vierter Stock Galerie. Alemania

Organizers: XX International Fair of Contemporary Art ARTESANTANDER.
Collaborators URCASA PROINSA and UTE Parking Santander

True to its annual meeting, Urban Vision will take place during the days before and during the Fair in the streets of Santander. Born as a projection of the Fair itself outside its scope of development and with the aim of bringing contemporary art part of it exposed to citizens and visitors from the city in summer, the program develops, in this issue in some of the most iconic and busy urban fabric of the capital of Cantabria. With true vocation to join the urban center of the Cantabrian capital, but enhancing it without changing, colorful and striking images, his original vocation to serve as a showcase of galleries and artists in the sample and also as a ad reminiscent of the event, continue in full force.

In the 2011 edition, Urban Vision continues collaboration with hookers, and UTE PROINSA Parking Santander, and as a novelty, has become a participant also to their own galleries in an open proposal to them. This is beneficial to the program itself because they have made every effort to please especially for pedestrians, as it has always surprised by the proposals selected. ARTESANTANDER Special thanks to the galleries present their participation in the program essential for development of the event.

This edition will be three locations chosen for development proposals: the Cachava Square, Paseo de Castelar Square Lantern or Alfonso XIII. Three landmarks and high traffic of Santander, compared to its famous bay, perfect to accommodate them interesting proposals selected.

In the Plaza de las Cachavas and using the usual large output shelters underground parking and access to the central square in front of the Ferry will be present: Brighton sell what? 14, 2010 LUIS VELOSO, courtesy of the gallery VERTEX, originally held in Fuji Crystal Archive on dibond; The Glorius flight of Rile Lesov, 2010 from IRINA NOVARESE, courtesy of the gallery Canem, originally done in mixed media with drawing, photography, video and book, and finally, in the twilight Scale X, 2011, acrylic on wood GREGORIO GONZALEZ, courtesy of the gallery CLOUDY.
In the emblematic Paseo de Castelar, facing the marina of Puerto Chico, find, also in the shelters and out of underground parking, the work of three artists and galleries digital photography CRISTINA van den Eynde, Untitled 2011, courtesy of Spiral Gallery, photography by Xosé Figuraciones Artiaga, 2009, courtesy of the gallery SNAIL, and the reproduction of oil on canvas entitled MONTALVO ANTONIO Geroglíflicos of Last Things, 2011, courtesy of the gallery minimal space.
Finally, and reinforcing the vital presence of Urban Vision in the summer of Santander, in the Lantern Square, opposite the Post Office building in the city, and expressed thanks to the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Government of Cantabria, displays a replica of the C-print on laminated Eelco Dibond BRAND Heuvels, 2006, owned by the Ministry itself and acquired in the 2007 edition of the Fair Artesantander.

CASTELAR
1. CARMEN VAN DEN EYNDE

Meruelo Spiral Gallery presents the work of Carmen Van den Eynde. The work of this artist comes after a painstaking process of cultivation and processing of plant species that were later reflected in his works. Thus, the garden is the place to begin the creative process, is to cultivate certain species and then work with them, making up wreaths and still lifes, comparing concepts and visions among the artistic and botanist and, in turn, reinterpreting modes model construction and poetic painting of flowers is extrapolated to the field after a thorough photographic and observational analytical process.

2. XOSÉ ARTIAGA
Before photographer painter, an artist Artiaga always anxious to capture as a result offers a lot of work with restrained emotion. Each work has a background made deeper and seems to use his work to explain the present. These images are presented as a confession, but without renouncing to reinterpretation and revision of the past and, therefore, with a clear component romantic. Plasmador is a secret, perfect knowledge of that which remains is, after all, the image.

3. MONTALVO ANTONIO

Madrid Minimum Space presents the work of Antonio Montalvo. The project’s starting point by Valdés Leal between 1671 and 1672, consisting of paint for the Hospital de la Caridad in Seville a couple of paintings known as the hieroglyphics of the late, prodigious research on the topic painting of vanitas. The two paintings are the hieroglyphics are Finis Mundi Glory (the end of the world’s glory) and In ICTU Oculi (in the blink of an eye). Hieroglyphics Valdes Leal, filled with melodramatic theatricality and moralizing with a clear intention, make this a true living way of relentless human condition, the imprisonment of the soul in the body and the siting of the human being between birth and death, in a fallen world where the reign of appearances and deception and that only leaves the door of death. The intent of the proposal is to reflect on the aftermath as a medium and material, but also as a historically established system of conventions in a particular language. Using the conceptual and aesthetic significance of the paintings by Valdés Leal theme of his work, the project will revolve around a sequential structure consists of three canvases triptych Baroque mode, where the central panel is usually the largest and is flanked by two slightly smaller related works. The hieroglyphs of the end result a kind of storyboard and truncated, as the units of an altarpiece, play with conventional narrative logic. Thus the project aims to visually reconstruct the eschatological study on the “ultimate realities” professed by Christianity and therefore on the hopes they hold, but who narrate experience, reinterpreting elements of Christian eschatology, intentionally causes a feeling of artificiality, fiction.

CACHAVAS
1. LUIS VELOSO
Resident in London and born in Alicante, is essentially a photographer and, specifically, a photojournalist, underlying aspect to see his work strongly. His two appearances in the contemporary art scene, Iluminosis Without fuel and have a common denominator: the decadent architecture of recent construction by the economic crisis or, in the case of service stations, abandoned by being left out map. His work, usually at night, convey a sense of haunting beauty due to the use of a very special light and cared for as well as some employmentbased shades of black and white and shades of blue.

2. IRINA NOVARESE
The theoretical process in the work of multidisciplinary artist Irina Novarese, has strong ties to the visual and tangible through the use of a wide range of media including include videos, installations, photography, writing and drawings. In the summer of 2007 the artist was in Belgrade for an artist residency and during a visit to the cemetery I met Milka Groblje Janszoon, an old lady who was traveling in Australia with his son Vladimir. They were there to meet the hometown of Lesov Rile, Vladimir’s father and fellow Milka until his disappearance on April 3, 1964 in the F5 tornado air of Wichita Falls, Texas. Rile Lesov was one of the seven people who died in that tornado. The Glorius fligth of Rile Lesov is an installation consisting of different media texts, drawings, video … From the objet trouvé material and idea. The concept of work circulates around the plausibility of the narrative and the type of information that we need to believe the narrator. From a series of photographs he had found in Belgrade and I was reading a book in which a chapter was devoted to the phenomenon of the torrents of air, the artist associated with these elements and began looking for information on tornadoes and tornado chasers . The idea was to write a story about the man who figured in the photograph, which, probably, for its look Hollywoodian, needed someone to be at any price “special.”

3. GREGORIO GONZALEZ
Inserted between the light and shade, sheltered from the abyss and blindness, fire and ice, the darkness is the short space between the dawn and dusk, the opposing forces that contain vital circadian cycle. The gray scales, which people in some way the shadows are a reminder that you should not compress the reality or the experiences in planes or intentionally basic categories and short-haul. It is highly recommended at a time imposing the single thought, do not ignore the wide range of ideas and nuances that make our existence. Because of speed, apparently uniformly accelerated, we are having forgotten as an antidote to the avalanche of data that seals us the ability to absorb, reflect and think. The paintings presented are made with a measured and thoughtful use of gray tones in between, adjacent are built with the intention of expressing the idea that you can get in and out of silence, noise, light, of the shadow without thus released unarmed. This penumbra is the area in passing from the contemplation of the consciousness that progresses to either opposing horizons and shapes, inexorably, the territory in which decisions are made. The gloom is never still and always, always comes to light.

LAMPS
1. Eelco Brand
Dutch artist who essentially used the video to express themselves. Part of a pictorial database based on the nature, to put their works after moving in a subtle and slow as a sort of mobile paint more than just video images. Deep knowledge of the technique, play the “what it looks like instead of what it looks like it is.” Fragments is a creator of landscapes or scenes without narration, apparently without any action, in which it moves is the nature: flowers, trees, birds, clouds … who are the protagonists and what finally brings us to the concept of moving painting.

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