22/5/2007
Loop Festival and Fair
Different venues, Barcelona
The Fair and Festival are complemented with a programme of conferences and presentations that are intended to reflect the main issues in a discipline as young as video art: The Loop Fair is held on the last three days of the Festival and brings together artists, gallery owners, collectors, critics, museum directors and lovers of video art at an excellent venue for the exchange of experiences and impressions on video creation. 60-100 venues, 500 artists for afestical. 45 international galleries for the first Fair devoted exclusively to video art.
The place for videoart lovers
LOOP is an annual meeting point for video art professionals that has a Festival + Fair + Panels format. It is a project led by Emilio Alvarez, Carlos Durán and Llucià Homs.
LOOP FESTIVAL is an exhibition of the recent work of over 500 artists at a wide range of venues in the centre of Barcelona.
LOOP FAIR is the first fair of video art at which 45 galleries and distributors will exhibit their latest work.
LOOP PANELS bring together distinguished artists, collectors and museum and festival coordinators, and directors so that they may discuss different aspects of conservation, collecting, distribution and new trends in video art.
A discipline that is still young and not very well-established required its present status and possible steps for the future to be defined. Hence, the foundation of LOOP in 2003.
LOOP is intended to provide a space with an international impact at which to bring together the sector’s different agents. It is a reference point at which to enter into debate, come into contact with new creations, and develop new strategies for the future based on the aspects involved in the discipline.
LOOP has been established to become a world benchmark and an active platform of dissemination, creation and management for all video art lovers.
LOOP is held in the city of Barcelona in the spring and features a twelve-day Festival and three days of Fair and Panels.
FESTIVAL
60-100 venues ranging from museums to shops. The Festival will be held for twelve days at different Barcelona venues: It will fill the city with video art works and proposals and broadcast them to the city’s public and visitors.
500 artists. The Festival is intended to prompt video art programmes in a range of institutions, organisations, galleries, civic centres and art galleries and different shopping establishments in the city. It is also, meanwhile, a platform to promote young artists and emerging proposals.
50 organised programmes, 18 schools, 18 international festivals. The Festival features programmes especially selected by international curators. Schools and festivals involved in teaching and publicising video art are also an important part of the LOOP Festival, where a selection of their best works are on show.
FAIR
31 May to 2 June 2007
The first Fair devoted exclusively to video art. An essential meeting point for professionals and anyone interested in video art. The LOOP Fair will be held on the last three days of the Festival and will bring together artists, gallery owners, collectors, critics, museum directors and lovers of video art at an excellent venue for the exchange of experiences and impressions on video creation.
5 international galleries will present the new work of one of their artists in the hotel’s rooms.
The LOOP 2007 Fair is providing galleries with the chance to present new videos by both up-and-coming and acclaimed artists. Participation is by invitation. The Invitation Committee comprises Anita Beckers, (Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt am Main), Jean-Conrad Lemaitre (Collector, London) and Rolf Hoff (Collector, Oslo).
LOOP: THE VIDEO ART FAIR '07
Hotel Catalonia Ramblas Pelayo, 28
08001 Barcelona
VERNISSAGE
Thursday, May 31 19:30h
OPENING DAYS
Thursday, May 31
noon to 7:30 pm
Professional and Press Preview
(by special invitation only)
Friday, June 1
4 to 9 pm
General admission
Saturday, June 2
4 to 9 pm
General admission
Different venues
Barcelona