BAD + 2024

BAD + 2024

Álvaro Alcázar Gallery is once again participating in the new edition of the BAD+ fair in Bordeaux, France. For this occasion, the gallery is presenting a stand featuring the works of various national and international artists.

Sculptures by David Nash, Pim Palsgraaf, and José Cháfer will be accompanied by paintings created by Antonio Murado, Simon Edmondson, Ariel Cabrera, Rebeca Plana, and Rubén Tortosa, among others. With this assembly of works, diverse themes such as nature, leisure, and abstraction will bring life to a stand filled with color.

Nash’s natural elements are cohesively integrated with Cháfer’s ash wood sculpture, whose curves evoke the grooves traced in Wolfgang Flad’s painting. Regarding the paintings, Antonio Murado’s ethereal flowers composed of glazes connect with Simon Edmondson’s transparencies. Edmondson has presented two paintings that pay homage to studios—spaces of introspection and expressiveness for the artist. This is not the only conceptual idea of the stand. With enormous sculptures reflecting on the decay of the modern world, Pim Palsgraaf brings urban ruins to life, creating a contrast between the human and the purity of nature. On the other hand, Rebeca Plana and Rubén Tortosa also explore the conceptual with their work “Debe/haber,” in which language collaborates with abstraction to re-signify concepts. This idea aligns with the work represented by Ariel Cabrera, who transforms reality through a historical and cultural prism to recreate everyday spaces from a new perspective.

In short, our proposal brings together the work of different artists to highlight the expressive and symbolic capacity of each one. The sum of the parts makes our stand a collection of ideas that converge in a visual dialogue, inviting the viewer to explore the multiple layers of meaning present in each work.

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BAD + 20242024-05-31T17:13:57+00:00

ARCO 2023

ARCO 2023

Madrid,  february, 2023

The Álvaro Alcázar gallery participates, once again since its foundation in 2006, at the new edition of the ARCO fair. On this occasion, the proposal revolves around a central work, “The Best Horse in the World”, painted by Eduardo Arroyo in 1965 and which winks at the present day, due to the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II of England. It is an impressing equestrian portrait through which Arroyo enacts, with the great irony that characterizes him, as an old-fashioned court painter, ridiculing who has exercised dominion over the British people. The painter also makes fun of the propagandistic function of art, which has tried to picture political leaders throughout history.

The other pieces exhibited are all based on the tonalities of this main work. This year, the gallery has decided to give special prominence to sculpture, a strong presence category in this exhibition. These works range from small format, as in the case of Kepa Garraza, who has converted in three dimensions one of his famous “demonstrators”, or Mari Puri Hierro, who once again displays the “Blue Bilbao” in a bronze sculpture. Another bronze sculpture is the monumental one by David Nash, one of the most relevant protagonists of British Land Art. The intense red and the verticality of the figure stand out against the horizontality and sinuosity of the work of José Cháfer, who has made for this occasion a unique piece in solid birch wood. Another sculptor, Juan Garaizabal, experiments new techniques in “Fenêtre D’Ainay”, a window fragment inspired by the above-mentioned French château. Lastly, the work of Andreu Alfaro, one of the great sculptors of the second half of the 20th century and precursor of Spanish minimalism, is the finishing touch to the list of artists presented by the gallery in this edition.

Along with the sculptures, the stand is dotted with numerous paintings, mostly in small format.  This year the great new feature is the Cuban painter Ariel Cabrera, whose work can be admired during the monographic exhibition that the gallery is going to dedicate to him at the end of March. Cabrera is joined by another figurative painter, José Luis Serzo, an excellent illustrator, who presents an erotic drawing on a metal plate. Guillem Nadal, usually attached to abstraction, also joins figuration with a panel from his Miralls series, representing a skull. The very opposite happens for Simon Edmondson, who has chosen on this occasion to move his painting to abstraction and opt for an intense chromatic range. Rafael Canogar, meanwhile, presents an acrylic on methacrylate in black and white, typical of the artist’s last period. The color blue is the common feature between the work of the Valencian artist Rebeca Plana and the German Peter Krauskopf, the first by using expressive brushstrokes and the second by focusing on the process and materiality of the painting. Another great artist, Nacho Criado, a pioneer in Spanish conceptual art, makes his particular tribute to Rothko. Finally, two highly acclaimed artists, Luis Canelo and Antonio Murado, focus on organic paintings.

In parallel to the stand, the gallery presents a Solo Project by Cristina Babiloni, whose work centers on the theme of the sea, a clear reference to the theme chosen by ARCO for this year’s edition. For Babiloni, painting is a way of expressing her concern for the degradation of the oceans by human action. The seabed is a constant in his production, as it can be seen in the works presented.

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ARCO 20232023-03-31T10:54:13+00:00

ESTAMPA 2022

 13th – 16th October 2022

Stand #5C03

Alvaro Alcazar gallery is once again participating in the Estampa Fair, held in Madrid from 13th to 16th October. For this edition, 17 artworks have been selected and will be located at stand #5C03.

Among the artists present are Cristina Babiloni, who through her painting Zale (2020) immerses us in her oceanic world full of life, Peter Krauskopf, with his abstract artwork in which he shows his mastery of light and colour, Guillem Nadal, who makes us follow with the eyes those hypnotic grooves with which he recreates the landscapes of the mind, José Luis Serzo, with a select choice from his series Las Tentaciones de Courbet, Kepa Garraza, who makes us reflect on the representation of the Power in occidental culture, Mari Puri Herrero, who invites us to enter her dreamlike world in which nature predominates, and the british artist Simon Edmondson, with his River Dream (2018-2022), through which, with his expressionist language, he takes us back to a nostalgic past.

There will also be sculptures by the artists Nacho Criado, with his minimalist piece Homenaje a Rothko (1970), José Cháfer with his famous wooden sculptures through which he tries to reach a point of balance and movement, and Juan Garaizabal, with his duo of sculptures À moi (2022) and À toi (2022) in which the different materials mastered by the artist are fused. 

The guest artists are Andrei Roiter, who uses found and discarded objects to create poetic paintings full of meaning, Matthew Benedict, an artist who moves within realist figuration and who on this occasion brings us his iconic Witch Hazel (2007) and, finally, Jorge Barbi, whose sculptural pieces have been conceived through objects found in the countryside.

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ESTAMPA 20222022-10-14T09:43:34+00:00

BAD + Bordeaux 2022

7 – 10 of July 2022

Booth # R+1 36 Hangar 4

Álvaro Alcázar Gallery participates in the first edition of the BAD + Bordeaux Fair, from 7 to 10 July in Bordeaux. On this occasion, artists represented by the Gallery will be present at Stand R+1 36, combining small and large sizes.

In the sculptural field, Spanish artists such as Jose Cháfer, Mari Puri Herrero and Juan Garaizabal will be in the exhibition. There will also be the painting of the German Peter Krauskopf with his “overpainting” pieces and the great representative of Spanish art Rafael Canogar, with his works on methacrylate.

Finally, there will be two works by Eduardo Arroyo with his unmistakable fly and a painting with his characteristic literary inspiration.

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BAD + Bordeaux 20222022-07-07T09:07:19+00:00

ARCO 2020

Stand 7C03

En esta edición de ARCOMadrid, la Galería Álvaro Alcázar ha decidido presentar un Stand cuyo tema principal es el tiempo. El lema de ARCO de este año es: It’s a matter of time y nosotros hemos querido aferrarnos a esa idea.

Por un lado, hemos pensado en presentar las obras más inéditas de nuestros artistas reflejando así el tiempo como evolución artística. Tendremos obras inéditas de Eduardo Arroyo, cuya obra es una de las últimas que ha pintado, Antonio Murado, Peter Krauskopf, Mari Puri Herrero y Simon Edmonson. También presentaremos dos obras de Kepa Garraza y Bosco Sodi que reflejan la exposición que tendremos en la Galería durante ARCO. Incluso presentamos en primicia una de las últimas obras de Rafael Canogar como representación de sus últimos trabajos realizados sobre metacrilato. 

Por otro lado, hemos pensado en el tiempo finito que nos acecha diariamente con la crisis del cambio climático. Una de las entradas al stand tiene una torre de reloj escultura monumental realizada por Juan Garaizabal que nos recuerda como nos estamos quedando sin tiempo y es necesario intervenir. Entrar por esa puerta nos permite visualizar un conjunto de obras que rodean una instalación del artista Miguel Sbastida que revela las arqueologías climáticas. Todo esto acompañado de obras de artistas tan naturalistas y orgánicas como las de Guillem Nadal, Luis Canelo y Cristina Babiloni. En el centro de nuestro Stand encontraremos una mesa de centro y dos sillas de nogal americano realizadas por Franck Buschmann Bella.

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ARCO 20202021-11-25T09:52:41+00:00