For this new edition of ARCOmadrid, galeria SENDA once again builds a narrative between the different artists that fill the walls of our stand with stories. With a very varied proposal, our mission this year is to dialogue between the different figures, both emerging and consolidated, who show in Madrid their most personal creations.

This year, ARYZ joins our booth for the first time, and we have the pleasure of exhibiting his work Los autónomos on our exterior wall. Following this piece, the artist began to create his latest series, Vestigio, where he creates a bidirectional conversation with paintings, sculptures and baroque photographs that catch his attention. Joining the canvas and paper, Cuban-born American ANTHONY GOICOLEA, known for his own visual language, explores the socio-cultural, economic and political context of his life experience as a Cuban, gay and Catholic in the deep south of the country. Color and fluorine, as always, come from the hand of New Yorker PETER HALLEY, whose largest work to date has been exhibited in our gallery at ARCO. That work, approximately five meters wide, plays in consonance with four smaller format pieces, which remain a clear reference to his iconic cells and prisons that evoke the experience of urban life. Accompanying Halley’s color, YAGO HORTAL‘s creations revisit the capital. The textural sensations that the artist generates with his lively brushstrokes have led him to explore new ways of approaching his work, and that is why for this edition of ARCO we will present his most recent project. The drawings of Chilean SANDRA VÁSQUEZ DE LA HORRA will be in charge of evoking a fictitious and obscure world influenced by common themes such as religion, sex, pop culture or death, providing the viewer with a carnal and psychological vision of these issues. Finally, and also on paper, ROBERT WILSON‘s preparatory sketches for his stage production of the opera Der Messias at the Gran Teatre del Liceu will be exhibited in Madrid. These drawings, which capture currents of energy, move away from realism to represent the essence of the theatrical work conceived by the artist.

The discipline of sculpture will be represented by several artists, very different from each other, so they will show a rich range of techniques and materials. The polychrome wood pieces of the German STEPHAN BALKENHOL join our stand, to reflect a contrast between the roughness of the chiseled wood and the neatness of the final form. The oneiric dreams of GONZALO GUZMÁN sculpted in stainless steel will forge a metallic set of menhirs and stelae that will show the purest idiosyncrasy of the artist. Finally, our stand will be crowned by the sculptural work of the famous JAUME PLENSA, of whom we currently have an exhibition in our space at 32 Trafalgar Street in Barcelona. With Murmuri, a Catalan word that means “whisper” and that gives its name to the exhibition, Plensa plays with the use of different materials such as alabaster, Murano glass and bronze to give form to that which is intangible.

Photography also has a special place in our stand. First, XAVI BOU presents his project Fluctus in a curated space at the fair, which shows the fleeting moment of birds taking off from a zenithal point of view. Bou, who focuses his artistic work on capturing the invisible patterns of the flight of these animals, aims with his works to generate empathy and social awareness, reminding us that each living being is unique and essential in each of our ecosystems. On the other hand, and following the common thread of the fight against misinformation about climate change, six of the works of JORDI BERNADÓ‘s project Last & Lost will be in Madrid. This project is a photographic examination of loss and finitude in the context of the climate crisis, which reflects on the need for a shared commitment to nature and sustainability, and proposes new hopeful ways of seeing the world. To conclude with this artistic discipline, the series Escaparates by ANNA MALAGRIDA will have its place at the fair, coinciding also with the exhibition that the Fundació Tàpies is preparing for the artist.

To conclude our proposal for this forty-fourth edition of ARCOmadrid, we will be exhibiting one of the most current installations by Cuban artist GLENDA LEÓN. With Murmurs of the Earth, Leon aims to materialize the energy in its different magnitudes, thanks to the technique of glazed clay and her spirit of wanting to visually show the shared balance of the objects that surround us in our daily lives.