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Loop Fair 2012
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29/5/2012

Loop Fair 2012

Hotel Catalonia, Barcelona

The tenth edition showcases the latest ideas in international video art as chosen by a select set of local, national and international galleries: 46 galleries from 13 countries. From 30 May the first ever 'Screen Forum Pro' aims to open up a space for professionals to explore their interests, concerns and challenges in the field of video art production today.


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From 17 May to 2 June 2012, Barcelona holds its annual video art festival. Now in its tenth edition, this event attracts numerous professionals from the world of art, including representatives of leading museums, artists and galleries worldwide, as well as audiences eager to discover the latest trends in video art.

For 17 days, video art will invade over 150 spaces in Barcelona during the tenth edition of LOOP Fair, the tenth edition of SCREEN Festival and the first ever SCREEN Forum Pro, this year’s new addition.

From 31 May to 2 June, Barcelona welcomes the tenth edition of LOOP Fair, Europe’s leading video art fair and one of the top video art events worldwide. Aimed at video art professionals and audiences keen to discover the latest trends in this field, the fair will be held once again in the rooms at the Catalonia Ramblas Hotel in Barcelona. LOOP Fair will showcase the latest ideas in international video art as chosen by a select set of local, national and international galleries invited by an international committee made up of collectors Isabelle Lemaître and Marc and Josée Gensollen and gallery director Christopher Grimes, and chaired by Jean-­‐Conrad Lemaître.

A total of 46 galleries from 13 countries from all over the world will once again make LOOP Fair a benchmark for industry professionals and the perfect platform for presenting premieres, with a total of 23 world premieres (more than doubling last year’s premieres from 10 to 23).

This year’s latest addition is a Curated Section. For LOOP 2012, critic and curator Paula Alzugaray has brought together a selection of Latin American galleries and artists to explore the continent’s artistic and cultural characteristics, with a strong showing by São Paulo galleries.

This year more than ever, LOOP Fair will be an unmissable event for anyone and everyone eager to find out about, see and purchase the latest video productions. Set up in 2003 as the first fair dedicated exclusively to video art, LOOP is now the simplest and most effective promotional fair in the industry, with over 5000 visitors and 200 professionals.

On Thursday 31 May, LOOP Fair will open just for professionals, but on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 June it will open to the public as well. Pro Forum will be held in parallel to the fair in the same hotel space and offer a wide range of programmes and activities.

LOOP Fair forms part of the tenth edition of SCREEN Festival, Barcelona’s video art and moving image festival held from 17 May to 2 June. The festival will offer 17 days of close contact with audiovisual creative practices including the brightest ideas and latest developments. This broad specialist platform for exploring, promoting and marketing video art will bring numerous industry professionals to Barcelona, involve over 200 organisations in the city (including galleries, museums and civic centres, amongst others) and present over 1000 video art pieces by 500 artists from 40 countries in 150 spaces throughout the city.

Year after year, different organisations have forged closer ties with SCREEN by programming and curating video art screenings across the city, creating an active community network and helping make the festival the top video art event with the most extensive programme and most spaces in the whole of Europe – a benchmark on the international artistic calendar.

During these two and a half weeks, video art can be seen at the main screening spaces in the city, such as museums, art centres and galleries, as well as less conventional venues such as bookstores, shops, libraries, hotels and restaurants, thanks to citySCREEN (the Festival’s Off programme), which aims to bring video art to all audiences. SCREEN Festival also includes a carefully selected University Programme and miniSCREEN, the Festival’s children’s section.

Bearing in mind the current precarious economic and cultural context, the 2012 edition asks What is the current state of video art production? Who is producing what and how? What criteria are they following? This series of questions reveals the need to explore the present and above all the future of artists’ video and film production. As a result, this year’s leitmotif will be the question WHAT ABOUT PRODUCTION?

And trying to answer this question is a new addition this year, the first SCREEN Forum PRO, a professional forum held from 30 May to 2 June that aims to open up a space for professionals to explore their interests, concerns and challenges in the field of video art production today. This professional conference will bring together over 25 leading agents in the field of art and audiovisual production in order to identify the challenges ahead and sketch out possible future paths by discussing participants’ own experience. Pro Forum will be held in parallel to the fair at the Catalonia Ramblas Hotel from 30 May to 2 June.

Image: SCREEN 2012 · Destricted · Adriana Varejão · Psinoe

The complete programme for LOOP Fair, SCREEN Festival and SCREEN Forum Pro at: www.screen-barcelona.com

Media, PR and Press contact:
SCREEN 2012 | LOOP Fair 2012
Gustavo Sánchez PR & PRESS
Sandra Costa | Marta Suriol
T +34 933 103 888 | T +34 934 125 479
press@screen-barcelona.com
www.gustavosanchez.eu

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