They are called peripheral art fairs: Art Santander, Art / Salamanca, renewed Atlantic Area, Vigo, Valencia.Art and, of course, South Forum, in Cáceres, although the concept of "the periphery" becomes very relative, given the important role in cultural terms, developed from these remote territories.
artistic militancy. In short, we are talking about contemporary art fairs "small" often call a dozen galleries in small cities with a plus-attractive additional tourism, and capable of capitalizing on the media attention a few days.
objectives beyond the commercial, we must not forget bienalístico character, used for many start to see art, to contemplate, and for these many, over time, educate their taste, " select "arising be buyers, and who knows if they decide to finally be collectors. There are structural elements that identify them as we see, but I am convinced that all have been designed under a model that has a lot of adventure and "militancy" artistic. And what if there is art?
Pictures to remember. Ten issues go far, and South Forum image that comes to mind is in the form of art experience. In the beginning I referred to it as "the necessary salutary" I needed to move our art scene. I also remember my amazement at the beautiful campus of galleries from Latin America, happy for the great opportunity offered us to meet them. Even some activities that were not easily digestible for the public, like that thing about 'Garbage Art', curated by Fernando Castro, came in handy to "remove cobwebs," there is nothing. Nor can I forget an exhibition at the Historical Archives Cáceres which housed a selection of photographs from the Collection Helga de Alvear, and the edition in which he participated Montserrat Soto with a beautiful work in the tank at the Museum of Cáceres, or that other in which we visited several historic buildings Cáceres squatters 'by artists such as Cildo Meireles, and Jose Pedro Aballí Ignasi Croft. Everyone who has visited South Forum will have had a similar experience.
MVM, MEIAC, MACE ... But live in the present, aware of the proposals of the X edition of Southern Forum, which brings us 19 galleries. Proposals to extend to the various exhibition spaces in our region, and take the opportunity to remember, and the exhibitions' The rotten machine Aka the toothless 1999-2004 'and' South. Literary and artistic relations between Portugal and Spain (1890-1936) 'in Extremadura and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art (MEIAC) from Badajoz, the shows' concepts', articulated from a selection of funds from the Museum Vostell Malpartida; or 'Jogos de Espelho' in the MACE-Museum of Contemporary Art in Elvas.
live together, die alone
Mixed media on paper
30 x 40 cm
Mixed media on paper
30 x 40 cm
