18/2/2014
The Emerging Art Fair JUSTMAD
COAM, Madrid
A new platform for emerging art, a series of unprecedented artworks sharing the particularity of have been created during an art residence in Spain.
From 19 - 23 February 2014 Madrid will hold the 5th edition of The Emerging Art Fair JUSTMAD. Within JUSTMAD framework the Chilean curator Andrea Pacheco has created and coordinated the JUST RESIDENCE programme which launches a series of unprecedented artworks sharing the particularity of have been created during an art residence in Spain.
The invitation to join this project has been extented to a young southamerican internationally projected group of artists represented by emerging galleries and other artistic production sites, whose management includes artists' commercial representation:
Alejandro Leonhardt (Chile, 1985) – Galería Local Arte Contemporáneo – Santiago, Chile. Liliana Zapata (Bolivia, 1984) – Nube / Kiosko Galería –Santa Cruz de la Sierra – Bolivia.Darling López Salinas (Nicaragua, ) – Adrede – Espira –Managua, Nicaragua. Martín Calcagno (Argentina, 1976) – Panal 361 – BuenosAires,Argentina.
Under Just Residence programme, MARTIN CALCAGNO ( Buenos Aires, 1976) has carried out his artistic residency in PACA_ Proyectos Artisticos Casa Antonino from 17 January to 11 February 2014. As a result of his experience, Martin presents at JUSTMAD some works closely linked to the space and history of the place ( an Asturian hamlet) experimenting with materials like wood or lead, developing topics previously approached by the artist such as nature, daily life, dreamlike or romanticism.
PACA_Proyectos Artisticos Casa Antonino was born in 2013 as an artist run space, created and headed by the Asturian artist Virginia Lopez who has came back to her hometown ,Gijón, after 14 years living in Italy. Virginia's cultural project PACA is defined as a space of training and continuous artistic creation, which offers international artistic residences in a traditional farmhouse in Trubia, a rural area located in Gijón ( Asturias, north of Spain.)
Martin's first collaboration lays the foundation for future activities that will be developed in PACA : artistic residences, temporary exhibition, educational activities, seminars, workshops ( particularly focused on the site-specific practice on contemporary arts) as well as open spaces for collaboration. In addition, Paca_ will give particular attention to the study of the rural environment in which is located, due to its great yet unknown landscapes, economy and culture resulting from the proximity to urban and industrially developed areas.
Opening 18 feb h18.00-22.00
19-22 feb: 13-22
23 feb: 11-22
Admission: 5 euros