ARCO MADRİD

ARCO Madrid is in Istanbul !  They arranged a  biennual  brunch at  X Restaurant-IKSV. Managing director  Carlos Urroz Arancibia and Commercial Management and Curated Programmes director Maribel Lopez told us Arco Madrid. The ARCO Foundation Collection currently owns 251 works by 197 artists, acquired from 128 galleries.

In 1987, IFEMA and ARCOmadrid jointly created the ARCO Foundation, a non-profit organization whose holdings are used for the promotion of contemporary art. The ARCO Foundation started the collection with works acquired during the art fair, with the aim of contributing to the development and promotion of Spanish and international contemporary art, and the divulgation of its collection via scheduled exhibitions and theoretical events. Throughout its twenty-one years of existence, the Foundation"s objective has been two-fold: on the one hand, to serve as an example to other institutions in terms of acquiring works at ARCOmadrid and, on the other, to encourage international contemporary art collecting and to drive the market based on the ARCOmadrid fair.

Here are some art events  from Madrid  for Art-Lovers  :

ARCOmadrid
Feria de Madrid
15-19 Feb
Collectors and art galleries meet at one of the world"s most important contemporary art fairs. This year"s guest country is the Netherlands.

MADRIDFOTO
Feria de Madrid
3-6 May
An international fair specialising in contemporary photography for private, corporate and institutional collections.

AUTUMN FESTIVAL IN SPRING
Madrid theatres
May-Jun
Madrid"s major theatre festival fills the capital with a variety of productions by national and international companies over the course of two months.

SUMA FLAMENCA
Various venues
Jun
The internationally acclaimed festival brings together all the big names in flamenco, a quintessential Spanish genre.

PHOTOESPAÑA
Various cultural venues
Jun-Jul
The vast photography festival hosts dozens of exhibitions throughout the city over the course of two months.