ArtsLibris
ARCOmadrid - 2023

15:00
REVISTA Ñ – DIARIO CLARÍN
Starring: Diego Bianchi y Matilde Sánchez.
Los cyborgs vienen marchando.
We are visited by an artist who collects the remnants of our post-industrial age and shoots them with irony – and not without aggression – at the Anthropocene.

15:30 REVISTA Ñ – DIARIO CLARÍN
Starring: Tomás Saraceno y Matilde Sánchez.
Construcciones en altura.
Are we moving towards an art that synthesises and materialises knowledge?

16:00 EINA EDIT
Presents: New publications by Regina Jiménez, Lola Lasurt, Andreu Balius and Asier Mendizábal.
Starring: Regina Jiménez, Lola Lasurt, Jo Milne, Javier Fernández, Manuel Cirauqui.
This presentation will focus on the motivation behind the EINA Edit project, recently launched within the framework of experimental pedagogy and creative community. On the other hand, the event will serve to unpack, in the company of some of the collaborating artists, the concepts underlying their productions within the framework of contemporary graphic practices.

17:00 CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ
Presents: Artifex Liber by Alba Lorente Hernández and Grand pas de Deux, Linea d’Argento and Midi la lune by Manu Blázquez.
Starring: Alba Lorente Hernández, Manu Blázquez and Fabienne Aguado, artistic director of Casa de Velázquez.
Alba Lorente Hernández’s artist’s book ARTIFEX LIBER reveals the destructive methods used to create her pieces, while her publication LOS CUADERNOS DE hides the contents of the original notebooks with the aim of transforming them into works of art.

 18:00 DIONISIO CAÑAS
Performance show.

18.30    ANTÓN LAMAZARES
Presents: Poemario, Tú: Sí que sabes corazón.
This collection of poems, published by Sala Gaspar, launches the new Pocket collection.
Starring: Antón Lamazares and Moishan Gaspar.

19:00 CONSONNI
Presents: Posmo.
With: Iván de la Nuez and Marta Peirano.
How can you leave the country if you are dead, what kind of sick mind is capable of making such a joke, how can you legally “come back to life”? Once you are dead, what else can happen to you?

15:00
REVISTA Ñ – DIARIO CLARÍN
Presents: Galería Diego Obligado.  Diego Obligado Art Gallery
Starring: Andrea Ostera and Matilde Sánchez.
Pesquisa de un enigma técnico.
Andrea Ostera has spent years investigating how the vagaries and dizzying evolution of images cause photography to mutate; she also presents works from Plantas, his latest series.  Is it a dogma to recycle and reuse?

16:00
EACHEVE
Presents: 101 Arte Contemporáneo Ecuador Vol. I.
Starring: Eliana Hidalgo, Eacheve’s director, and Karina Skvirsky.
This publication reviews the most comprehensive overview of current artistic practices in Ecuador.

16:30 EACHEVE
Presents: Hasta que se vea.
Starring: Pepe Hanze.
Pepe Hanze’s visual photographic essay combines two passions: that of a so-called amateur photographer and that of the people of Guayaquil who go out every weekend to play street football.

17:00
TBA21 | THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA ART CONTEMPORARY
Presents: Promover la abundancia, entre el aceite y el agua. – Presentation of Futuros abundantes.
Starring: Daniela Zyman, curator and co-editor, in conversation with the artists Laia Estruch, Regina de Miguel and Asunción Molinos Gordo.
Presentation of the new publication Futuros Abundantes (Turner, 2023), which presents the reflections collected in the exhibition of the same name, which is on show at the C3A, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, until the 5th of March.

18:00 BASQUE. ART.
Presents: General presentation of the BASQUE.ART. project – Catalogue of publications supported by the Visual and Plastic Arts Department of the Basque Government.

19:00 ARTSY
Presents: The rise of the digital art market: the most groundbreaking trends
Starring: Amada Maxwell, Artsy’s Associate Director of Global New Business

12:00
FONTANAR EDICIONES
Presents: Cuadernos de cal / Realidades sin nombre.
Starring: Paco López, Javier Rubio Nomblot, Tomás Paredes, Antonio Sánchez García, Santiago Rodríguez del Hoyo and Manolo Oyonarte.
Singular artist’s books produced by SRH from 1989 to the present and published by Fontanar Ediciones since 2015. / An artist’s journey towards what is proper to art.

13:00
VILLANUEVA EDITORES
Presents: Arte Contemporáneo de Venezuela Vol. 2.
Starring: Francisco Raúl Villanueva. 

14:00
REVISTA Ñ – DIARIO CLARÍN
Presents: Galería Hache. Hache Art Gallery.
Starring: Florencia Bohtlingk.
Primera mirada con lo ya aprendido.
On an equal footing with its human inhabitants, the plant kingdom is woven into Bohtlingk’s large canvases, contributing to the labyrinth of references. Is it a return to romanticism after conceptualism?

15:00
ÁNGELA BONADIES & JUAN JOSÉ OLAVARRÍA
Presents: En las entrañas de la bestia.
Starring: Yayo Aznar Almazán, Miguel Ángel G. Hernández and Ángela Bonadies.
In a dreamy search for an answer to the chaos that dominates life in the socialist Bolivarian Republic of the 21st century, A and J take us on an adventure through the entrails of the hierarchical and criminal beast. We walk through prison cells, through the dens of the “caudillo”: an elusive figure who represents the authoritarian and chauvinistic power characteristic of a violent heroic culture.

15.30 h
SAGRARIO BERTI
Presents: Fotografía Impresa en Venezuela.
Starring: Sagrario Berti.
The object of study is the inventory of books and printed matter illustrated with photographs published in Venezuela from 1945 to the present day. The research thus seeks to trace the history of the book illustrated with photographs and that of the photobook in the country, by interpreting the links between image, text, graphic composition and publisher; in other words, the coexistence of these disciplines in books.

16:00
INSTANTES GRÁFICOS
Presents: Presentation of the Instantes Gráficos School of Artist Book and the general and individual publications of 2022 and 2023.
Starring: Carla Rey.

17:00
EDITORIAL ELVIRA
Presents: Caosmos / A mirada Atlántica.
Starring: Alberto Avendaño, Antón Patiño, Manuel Rivas and Javier Romero.
Antón Patiño perfectly defines the amphibious reality of Galicia through dozens of references that have built our identity from literature, painting and the audiovisual world.

18:00
EXIT
Presents: Arte Sonoro: una indisciplina. 

Starring: José Iges, José Jiménez and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández.

Analysis, clarification, history, voices and silences of the not-so-short history of sound art. A clarifying, undisciplined, essential book for approaching, understanding and enjoying sound art today, by José Iges, art and part of the subject.

19:00
CENDEAC
Presents: Habitar la imagen. Fotografía doméstica y poética de la resistencia en la posguerra by Mónica Alonso.
Starring: Mónica Alonso and Yayo Aznar.
Habilitar la imagen examines the production and use of images – mainly domestic photographs – during the Franco regime, with a particular focus on the Republican community. It analyses hundreds of domestic photographs from personal archives and oral histories.

12:00
HEADS TAKE AWAY
Presents: Rápido REM.
Starring: Miguel Leache.
Behind their eyes, journeys, problems, colours, conversations are formed without any apparent sense. A brain reaction that has not yet been described makes the announcement of the station at which the traveller is to get off without a start. It doesn’t always work, and sometimes you can see someone waking up, trying to make out the landscape through which the metro is already travelling in full daylight, far from its destination.

13:00
FUNDACIÓN MARÍA JOSÉ JOVE
Presents: Cuentos mestizos by Mercedes Azpilicueta.
Starring: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Manuel Segade and Susana González.
Cuentos mestizos reviews the artistic trajectory of Mercedes Azpilicueta from 2015 to the present. Her practice is based on research processes that explore the affective qualities and political dimension of communication through the body, voice and language.

14:00
CENDEAC
Presents: Contra la publicidad. Arte y apropiación publicitaria en España en el siglo XXI by Ana García Alarcón.
Starring: Ana García Alarcón, Rogelio López Cuenca, Elo Vega, Jaime Brihuega and Noaz.
The book takes as its starting point the relationship between the art-advertising binomial and analyses it within the framework of contemporary Spanish art.

15:00
EDITORIAL ELVIRA
Presents: Bueno, Carallo, Bueno.
Starring: José Freixanes, Javier Romero and Alberto Avendaño.
The interventions/translations in Japanese function as another element of plastic communication. The double version (Galician/Spanish) gives the reader the opportunity to expand the aesthetic and textual experience.

16:00
BASQUE. ART. Lecture series
Presents: Presentation of the publications supported by the Visual and Plastic Arts Department of the Basque Government and included in the BASQUE.ART catalogue.
Starring: Artists responsible for these publications.

12:00
FONTANAR EDICIONES
Presents: Versos cruzados by Luis Moro.
Starring: Miguel Cereceda, Tomás Paredes, Antonio Sánchez and Luis Moro.
A bridge between art and literature, an intercontinental crossroads that confirms the priceless heritage of the word in poetry and the printed line on paper.

13:00
EDITORIAL ELVIRA
Presents: The centenary of Carlos Oroza
Starring: Antón Patiño, Antón Lamazares, Menchu Lamas and Javier Romero.
Colloquium on the poet’s figure, work and close relationship with art.

14:00
EL DISPARATE
Presents: El Disparate.
Starring: Ignacio Navas.
Presentation of the books published by El Disparate.