Drawing Room Art Fair

DRAWING ROOM MADRID CELEBRATES ITS FOURTH EDITION AT PALACIO SANTA BÁRBARA, FROM 27 FEBRUARY TO 3 MARCH 2019.

About Drawing Room

Drawing Room is a fair devoted to the dissemination and assessment of contemporary drawing, which has already been complemented with the organisation of a parallel event in Lisbon in October.

During these four years the fair has helped to highlight the work of a network of over 70 galleries including that of Patrick Heide in London, Martin Mertens in Berlin, Martin Kudlek in Cologne, ADN in Barcelona, Miguel Nabinho in Lisbon, Silvestre in Madrid, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger in Paris, A01 in Naples, and Rafael Ortiz in Seville. Over 200 artists from all facets of the discipline of drawing have also taken part in Drawing Room, which has paid special attention to various artistic traditions such as Italian classicism, Chinese landscape painting, and Japanese ink. Among them the following stand out: Abdelkader Benchamma, Ana Jotta, Edith Kollath, Ericailcane, Eva Lootz, Gamaliel Rodríguez, Javier Arce, Javier Calleja, Jesús Zurita, José Miguel Pereñíguez, Károly Keserü, Klaas Vanhee, Lei Ziren, Marta Roberti, Miquel Mont, Navid Azimi Sajadi, Nicola Toffolini, Paco Guillén, Pedro A.H. Paixão, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Reiko Tsunashima, and William Ludwig Lutgens.

The Curatorial Committee of Drawing Room is made up of personalities such as Elsy Lahner, the curator of La Albertina in Vienna, and Inmaculada Corcho, the director of the ABC Museum in Madrid. Drawing Room aims to become an Iberian observatory of international contemporary drawing led its director Mónica Álvarez Careaga. This mission includes the publishing of the Papeleo magazine and the organising of congresses of international experts.

Drawing Room Madrid 2019

The fourth edition of Drawing Room Madrid will take place from 27 February to 3 March at the magnificent Palacio Santa Bárbara, which is an excellent location as it is right in the centre of contemporary art in the capital.

For four days, visitors will be able to discover the proposals of the 20 participating galleries from Belgium, Argentina, Japan, Portugal and Spain. Among the new additions are Yoko Uhoda Gallery, from Liège (Belgium), Granada, from Buenos Aires (Argentina), and the Spanish Artizar, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Carbonería, from Huesca, La Casa Amarilla, from Zaragoza, and Ogami Press, from Madrid. Three Portuguese galleries, which participated in the Lisbon edition of Drawing Room, are also coming to Madrid: Fonseca Macedo Arte Contemporânea, by Ponta Delgada, Monumental and Módulo, both from Lisbon.

The galleries that will repeat their participation in Drawing Room will be ATM Galería + Addaya Art from Gijón (Asturias) and Alaró (Mallorca), Art Nueve, from Murcia, Lucía Mendoza and Silvestre from Madrid; Siboney, from Santander; Yusto/Giner, from Marbella; Pepita Lumier and Set Espai d'Art and the japanese Kitai.

A total of 40 artists, half of whom are women, will show their work in this fourth edition: Alberto Corazón, Almudena Lobera, Altea Grau, Ana Romãozinho, Bárbara Assis Pacheco, Beatriz Ros, Begoña Morea Roy, Clara Sánchez Sala, Cristina Ramírez, Daniel Verbis, Edgar Plans, Fernando Martín Godoy, Hans Lemmen, Irene González, Javier Aquilué, João Gomes Gago, John Franzen, José Loureiro, Kirsten Hutsch, Lourenço de Castro, Luna Bengoechea, Marco Alom, Marco Moreira, Mark Hosking, Marta Barrenechea, Mizuho Koyama, Nuria Riaza, Pablo Capitán del Río, Paula Sanz Caballero, Pedro Calhau, Pedro Luis Cembranos , Pierre Ardouvin, Rubén Tortosa, Sara Quintero, Sergio Porlán, Sergio Sanz, Simon Zabell, Teo González and Victoria Maldonado.

Thanks to all of them the vision of a transgenerational and constantly evolving practice is still increasing, which allows the visitors to continue exchanging ideas and thinking of the important impact that contemporary drawing is experiencing in the current artistic panorama.