Intimate Spaces for Interaction
Initiatives involving memory and identity, presented at the fourth edition of Hybrid Art Fair, the international fair for contemporary art.
Admiral (2020)Boreal Projects
A large number of initiatives at the fourth edition of Hybrid Art Fair opted to present projects based on memory and the collection of objects, offered to the viewer with significant sentimentality.
These submissions use their own intimate, poetic style. The style is reflected in the exhibited creations, framed within the intimacy of the hotel bedrooms where the fair is held.
These initiatives are: César Sastre Gallery, Seville (Spain); Almacén, Tel Aviv-Jaffa (Israel); Admiral Contemporary Art, Malaga (Spain); Atelier Art Gallery, Algeciras (Spain); and Beletage Art Space, Zürich (Switzerland).
César Sastre Gallery
A fusion of publishing house and art gallery in the very heart of Seville, César Sastre Gallery is a meeting place for poets, writers, and artists. It hosts exhibitions, book launches, and talks on the subject of contemporary art.
The suburban (2019) by Abel GarcíaBoreal Projects
El suburbano (The Suburban), Abel García.
César Sastre Gallery presents the work of five artists at Hybrid Art Fair, all working with painting and new figuration.
The first three are young painters redesigning objects, the sensory image of reality, to transform, destroy, and modify their appearance, and thus reveal a new sense of reality.
They can be found at Galería César Sastre.
Photo-trouvée I by Concha GavilánBoreal Projects
Foto encontrado (Found Photo), Concha Gavilán.
S/T by Lucía TelloBoreal Projects
Untitled, Lucía Tello.
Lucía Tello works within a dreamlike, altered reality, distorted by reflections from the water, glints from a mirror, or refractions of light from glass objects, and always searching for something beyond the surface.
Of course, the abstract trend has not been exhausted, but new figuration is still popular, and there is always room for new trends.
Boxer by Jabi MachadoBoreal Projects
Boxeador (Boxer), Jabi Machado.
A posthumous homage to the artist Jabi Machado through his paintings.
Jabi Machado bounds through realism that goes beyond sensory images, perhaps to unreal and ironic worlds. His work is an ode to freedom, to creative joy, to laborious spontaneity, and to good humor. He continues to laugh in the afterlife, through the mirrors in his paintings.
Almacén
Almacén is an art gallery and cultural center conceived as an expression of its location, in an attempt to function as a space for organic interaction between neighborhood residents and guests. The term "Almacén" comes from the Arabic word “Almachsen,” which means store or storage space, deriving the Hebrew word “Machsan.”
Earings (2018) by Rani SassonBoreal Projects
Pendants, Rani Sasson.
The project exhibited at Hybrid Art Fair, “An Unknown Object," comprises a group of works centering around the visual alienation of objects, portraying them as artworks incongruous with the exhibition space.
Learn more at their web page: Almacén.
Trunk (2018) by Rani SassonBoreal Projects
Trunk, Rani Sasson.
The pieces themselves provoke feelings of unfamiliarity and disorder, by using formal expression, materials, and textures that switch from the figurative to the abstract, from the visual to the ambiguous.
Untitled1 (2017) by Shade TwafraBoreal Projects
Untitled, Shade Twafra.
Hybrid Art Fair is held in a hotel. These artists use the hotel bedroom as a space for action, a common and familiar place to all, but alien to art, in the same way that the works are alien to each other.
The exhibition poses questions about identity and belonging, and creates a new space.
Untitled2 (2017) by Shade TwafraBoreal Projects
Untitled, Shade Twafra.
Pini Ezra and Shade Twafra evoke a sensation of memories and foggy landscapes with pieces that include black and smoke.
Rani Sasson creates enigmatic objects in carbonized and broken forms; fossils or star residue that surely landed from another world.
Admiral Contemporary Art
Admiral Contemporary Art is a project covering cultural management, commissions, art dealers, art production, exhibition space management, and international cooperation. Admiral Art, based in Malaga, is presenting at the fair a project commissioned by Sara Sarabia entitled "Behind the Portrait. Cartography of the Being."
Untitled (2019) by Silvia LermoBoreal Projects
Untitled, Silvia Lermo.
This will be the fourth time that Admiral has participated in the event held at the Petit Palace Santa Bárbara during Madrid's Art Week.
Their web page can be found at: Admiral contemporary art
Love and death (2019) by Silvia LermoBoreal Projects
Love and Death, Silvia Lermo.
The artists presented as part of this initiative use portraits as a resource to convey other forms of being and seeing.
Trust yourself (2019) by Irene MalaBoreal Projects
Tras el retrato (Behind the Portrait) , Irene Mala.
Portraiture is more than just a genre. The portrait artist transcends a person's face, expressions of personality, and background, to bring the subject closer to the viewer.
Saint Águeda (2019) by Cristina VelaBoreal Projects
Santa Águeda, Cristina Vela.
The perspective of the portrait travels across a range of meanings, from the person themselves to their surroundings: area, neighborhood, strangeness, surface, and iconography.
Immaculate (2019) by Cristina VelaBoreal Projects
Inmaculada (Immaculate) , Cristina Vela.
Cristina Vela, with her delicate pen and graphite, takes the viewer on a beautiful journey through feminine sexuality.
In her imaginary world, she mixes sexuality with sensuality, religion, and tortured saints…
…with undergarments as a fetish or a relic. The viewer is shown women with white skin, protruding bones, piercings all over their bodies, tattoos, blindfolds and panties, an apple, and a snake.
Atelier Art Gallery
Atelier Art Gallery has been located in Algeciras since 1997. It is the continuation of Antonio Camba Gallery (Palma, Majorca) and A+A Gallery (Argentina), both of which were dedicated to promoting contemporary art.
Untitled (2016) by Almudena MoraBoreal Projects
Untitled, Almudena Mora.
At Hybrid Art Fair, the gallery presents five artists with distinct and unique styles. Poetic and intimate styles. Compromised expressions.
They can be found at Galería Art Atelier.
Made in Algeciras 40-1 (2019) by Antonio CambaBoreal Projects
Made in Algeciras 40-1, Antonio Camba.
Four of them have been represented by the gallery since they started, while the Swiss artist Patria Pillet came on board this year. They have all created their own, intimate style.
Beletage Art Space
Beletage Art Space was founded in 2018 by the art historian Jeannette Weiss. A hybrid space created with passion and dedicated to experimentation, mediation, and the promotion of young artists. Their work forms part of a temporary “Gesamtkunstwerk” (complete work of art).
Universal Kopffüssler (2019) by Marc ElsenerBoreal Projects
Universal Kopffüssler, Marc Elsener.
Beletage Art Space presents at the fair a platform for young Swiss artists, in an installation especially designed for the occasion.
Learn more: Beletage Art Space.
Marc Elsener is a master of the small format. In his work, he often paints the smallest elements using a fish spine.
Untitled (2019) by Inigo GheyselinckBoreal Projects
Untitled, Inigo Gheyselinck.
Swiss history and tradition is combined with a contemporary approach in the work of Inigo Gheyselinck.
This exhibit was created in collaboration with Boreal Project for Hybrid Art Fair.. The international fair of contemporary art celebrated its fourth edition in the Hotel Petit Palace Santa Barbara, Madrid, from February 28 to March 1, 2020.
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