18/9/2013
Summa
Matadero, Madrid
The art fair promotes a new contemporary fair that meets the demands of a new wave of collectors, eager to know the new values of art and to contribute to the change in the relationships and practices of acquiring art and dealing with galleries.
Art Fairs responds to the need of creating a new contemporary art fair during the month of September, coinciding with the start of Madrid galleries and museums season, and positioning itself at the beginning of the art fairs’ season. Furthermore, September is a month full of proposals and events in the luxury goods field, and until this moment, lacked of an important European fair. SUMMA intends to contribute with freshness and dynamism to the Spanish scene.
SUMMA promotes a new contemporary fair that meets the demands of a new wave of collectors, eager to know the new values of art and to contribute to the change in the relationships and practices of acquiring art pieces and dealing with galleries The fair delves into new media, technology and photography.
SUMMA intends to introduce new international talents to an audience initiated in art from all over the world who will make Madrid the conclave for contemporary art, with a fair that seeks both commercial and artistic success.
A international selection committee will be responsible for setting up a General Program through a rigorous selection of international galleries The novelties are introduced through the section named Up devoted to young emerging art galleries with pioneer contemporary artists. A photography section MadridFoto.
Two independent curators, Agustín Pérez Rubio, former director of MUSAC Museum, and Alexia Tala, Artistic Director at Plataforma Atacama, will comission the Transversal and Emerging Transversal programs respectively, by invitation only to the project rooms that will be extended along each of the sections that form SUMMA.
Each of the sections that make up the fair, will give the show an apparent uniformity and balance that hides in its background a wide spectrum of varied proposals, promoting the needed synergies to produce a fair with the effervescence, dynamism and possibilities that our time calls for.
Opening Thursday 19th: 20 h
Dates & Opening Hours
Professional viewing
Thursday 19th, 12 a 16 h
Friday 20th , noon a 13 h
Open to the public
Thursday 19th from 15 to 21h
Friday 20th , from 13 to 21 h
Saturday 21st , from 12 to 21 h
Sunday 22nd from 11 to 20h.
Ticket prices: 15 € General Admission; 10 € Students/Seniors with valid ID