ARCOmadrid 2013

ARCOmadrid AWARDS

Once again, ARCOmadrid has been the backdrop chosen to present a number of awards and prizes conceived to stimulate art creation, collecting and the work by young art practitioners.

For the sixteenth year running, the Friends of ARCO Association presented the “A” Awards for Collecting in the following categories:
Private Collecting Award: Mr Victorino Rosón
Corporate Collecting Award: Fundación Banco Santander
International Collecting Award: Mr Han Nefkens

The awards were presented on February 15th at the Forum Auditorium. With this recognition, the Association seeks to acknowledge and give a boost to both Spanish and international collections. Encouraging the work of national and international collectors has been one of the main goals of the Association since its creation in 1987.

 

Eager to continue expanding its sponsorship of art in electronic format, BEEP, in collaboration with ARCOmadrid, has convened the seventh edition of the ARCOmadrid / BEEP AWARD FOR E-ART. The award was presented on February 17th to Marcela Armas and her work Máquina Estella, shown by the Mexican gallery ARRÓNIZ.
The handing over of the award, attended by Andréu Rodríguez, managing director of BEEP, and Carlos Urroz, director of ARCOmadrid, took place in ARRÓNIZ’s stand at the fair, lined up in the curated programme Solo Projects: Focus Latin America.
The aim behind this award is to promote the production, research and exhibition of art linked to new technologies, or e-art. Ultimately, it seeks to boost artistic creation linked to technology, and encourage communication between technology manufacturers/creators and creative artists.

 

EFTI – Escuela de Fotografía organized a contest between his students and the winners have been the official photographers of ARCOmadrid 2013.
Winners:

• Luis Alda and Miguel Rojo
• Oliver Roma
• eDsanca
• David Schäfer

Special project of photographer Man Fa in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute

 

Following on from the previous edition, Heineken® and the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo de la Comunidad de Madrid organised the 2nd Heineken®-CA2M Award, which involves the acquisition by Heineken of a work of art shown at ARCOmadrid and its subsequent donation to the CA2M’s permanent collection. The winning work was the installation The Body in Crisis (Distance, Repetition, and Representation), by the Dutch artist Falke Pisano, represented by ELLEN DE BRUIJNE PROJECTS’ gallery, that took part in ARCOmadrid in Focus The Netherlands’ programme.

 

illycaffè was also present at ARCOmadrid with the fifth illy Sustain Art Award, which aims to recognise and further the career of young, up-and-coming artists from coffee-producing countries.
The jury, formed by Agustín Pérez Rubio (MUSAC), Carlo Bach (illycaffè) and Marcelo Mattos Araujo (Pinacoteca Sao Paulo), awarded the prize to Minimal Secret, a work by the Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa shown in the gallery ISABEL ANINAT at ARCOmadrid.

 

The ARCO Community of Madrid Award for Young Artists, created in 2004, seeks to recognise young creators by giving an award to the best plastic art work exhibited at ARCOmadrid produced by artists under 40. As in previous years, the Community of Madrid has acquired the awarded work and has included it in its Contemporary Art Collection. Once again, the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo held the award presentation, where Canadian artist Marcel Dzama and his work Rebellion lay in her way – presented by HELGA DE ALVEAR at ARCOmadrid – received the recognition.

 

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