Interviews

Located on the border between La Latina and Embajadores neighbourhoods, inside a 60’s trade complex, El Chico is one of the main spaces of the emerging scene that is occupying Madrid’s centre. Space is just a general and practical nomenclature. Founder and director Javier Aparicio (Mexico 1985) explains that the limits of this project are not that important, but if we insist on defining it: "El Chico is, for now, a Podcast with a space," he explains. "The podcast has become an approximation tool for visitors.”

The Brazilian artist Regina Silveira has a long career in which she tries to explore different notions of reality through her work with lights, shadows and distortions. In her five decades of artistic work, she has dealt with themes and explored media that tie in with her idea. "I choose the medium that best solves my intentions, and then I look for the skills and technical resources to make the work feasible, focusing on being a non-specialist in any medium." The artist exhibited in Europe and the American continent, much of her work is in public collections such as the Reina Sofía museum.

Alexia Tala is curator of the 22nd Bienal de Arte Paiz that is taking place in Guatemala until June 7. The Biennial of Arte Paiz Guatemala is the most important in the country and the oldest in Latin America.

In the context of Andreani Foundation's new space in the neighbourhood of La Boca, its director, María Rosa Andreani, talks about the first year of cultural management, the details of the building designed by Clorindo Testa and the future projections that the foundation proposes for the Argentine contemporary art scene.

The founder and director of Art Advisory Services, Sofía Urbina, launches an intensive course to learn about contemporary art and its market, and the investment possibilities offered by the art industry today.

    In the midst of the health and economic crisis that has hit the world and the art industry, Silvia Ortiz opens her gallery to us to talk about the work of Travesía Cuatro during the pandemic, the new ways of conceiving the gallery as a result of it, her vision of collecting in Spain and Latin America, and the possibilities that the historic moment that we have had to experience offers a space like this one.

Weeks ahead of the st_age (digital exhibition programme developed by the TBA21 Foundation) Season 2 we take a brief look at the foundation's working model and talk to Carlos Urroz, director since 2018, about the types of projects they carry out and their relationship with contemporary art in Latin America.

David Díaz, the Museum's Information Systems Coordinator, tells us about the details of the Kandinsky 360º project and the work being done by the Guggenheim-Bilbao in relation to new technologies. "In the last three years we have understood that digital transformation is one of the main tools for the museum’s strategic plan," he explains. "Since then, we have started to implement all kinds of technologies to think of new ways of bringing exhibitions closer to the public. When the pandemic broke out, we were already prepared".

The Galería Elba Benítez was founded in 1990. Located on the ground floor of a 19^th century building the space is already an emblem of the Madrid art circuit. On the way to its 31^st birthday, it is one of the must-visits for contemporary art collectors.

The exhibition was conceived and realised during the pandemic, which is why María Fernanda Carlos relates this state of time to one of suspension. The artist describes this pandemic state "between what was and what will be," calling it that "grey space." Making a common thread, María Fernanda Carlos reveals to the audience a relationship of ideas of what it means to be in that space between worlds in which we can find ourselves.

In 2018, at only 28 years of age, the National Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo (MNAV) held a solo exhibition of her work Y todos los otros, where she reconstructs her family’s Jewish past, explores the construction of Polish identity after World War II emigration and, ultimately, creates a historical archive of a generation through printmaking, textile art and animation. Since 2015 she has been living in Europe: first she lived in Belgium, where she enjoyed a residency in the Frans Masereel Centrum’s program, and now she is in Spain, where she arrived to be part of Casa Velázquez’s residency program and where she remains.