ARCO arrived in Lisbon. “We can not return to fail!” – Daily News – Lisbon

The International Contemporary Art Fair has chosen Portugal as their first experience outside Spain. Open doors on the 25

“The ARCOlisboa and Portugal have a great artistic potential. I think you are not aware of the amount of artists [Portuguese] that are way out there,” says the DN Carlos Urroz, director of ARCO, the International Contemporary Art Fair for the first time in 35 years of history, out of Spain, choosing Lisbon as the first satellite.

we were at the presentation conference ARCOlisboa that opens on June 25 and 26-29, will open to the public more than the doors of the National Cordage, which will be the 45 galleries from eight different countries (18 of them Portuguese). In fact, it is also the Portuguese art that shows the public and about one hundred collectors, curators or directors of international institutions. So Urroz – which until now knew as director of ARCOmadrid – declared before an audience of journalists, gallerists and collectors that “this will be an opportunity for the internationalization of Portuguese art”

Next to Urroz. , yesterday morning at São Luiz Theatre in Lisbon, were gallerist Cristina Guerra, organizing committee member of ARCOlisboa, and the president of EGEAC (Company Equipment and Cultural Animation Management, Lisbon) Joana Gomes Cardoso. War, whose gallery will be present at Cordage, spoke in his incisive and synthetic tone. “The contemporary art fairs begin and end badly in Portugal. With the organization of ARCO desire to be different, and that has continued,” he said, expressing hope that “we can get into that wave,” and that ARCOlisboa bring changes. These include changes in the current law of patronage, the strength of Portugal – and Iberia – within the global art market, and in the presence of contemporary art in Portuguese museums – “foreigners only have a place to see: the galleries. “

” the ARC is an amazing organization, “also noted the gallerist, throwing the challenge:” I hope you are aware that we can not return to fail “! Urroz, in turn, seems safe in the initiative this year, which has a budget of one million euros, together with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Municipality of Lisbon and, among others, the EGEAC.

“we are confident to announce the ARCOlisboa 2017, although we have to make an assessment” at the end of this first edition, he explained the director of ARCOlisboa.

the program is vast, but you can not lose the thread. Similar to what happens in ArcoMadrid, galleries selected for the fair will have a featured artist. Thus, and for everything else you blindly, you can know that we will find Carlos Nogueira works at the stand of gallery 3 + 1, as Lawrence Weiner at Cristina Guerra. The duo João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, for example, will be highlighted in Graça Brandão gallery; as well as, to name one among 45, Vasco Araújo will be in Horrach Moya.

The ARC also will be forums that think the institutions, collectors and other art scene. So you can hear Suzanne Cotter, director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Pedro Gadanho, director of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) – which will open doors in October – or Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of London’s Serpentine Gallery.

Out of Cordage, there are exhibitions to visit in the Berardo Collection Museum or galleries as Chiado 8. it is the highlight for artists such as Francisco Tropa or João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, to help the case of collector José Lima, who owns one of the most important art collections in Portugal, which hiperbolizando or not, yesterday said: “. I think this is the first step to internationalize the Portuguese art”