The show – which opened at 17:00 for middle professionals, and opens to the public on Thursday – will be until Sunday, a showcase of Portuguese and foreign contemporary art, a total of 45 galleries, 18 Portuguese, installed in Cordoaria National.
“Expectations are very high because the Portuguese gallery owners have had good results in ArcoMadrid. On the other hand, we expect the ARCOLisboa come to stay and is not just a one-off experience,” said Lusa the gallerist Alda Galsterer.
Belo-Galester Gallery, Lisbon, chose to bring to the fair as featured artist Mozambican Mario Macilau, and yet Peter Calapez and Pedro Sousa Vieira.
“Our market is so rich, so dynamic and so diverse, and is developing again. In the years of crisis, the market contracted, institutions stopped buying now returned to be a certain recovery,” said the gallerist.
For Alda Galsterer, it would be good that the fair marked the annual calendar of contemporary art in Lisbon: “It’s a good opportunity to confront us with our international peers, other gallery owners and curators.”
The public believes that will come in abundance, because it was his experience in gender fairs in Portugal: “Go come by many people in the middle, professionals but the general public will also appear, because people have a natural curiosity “.
In the same vein, João Esteves de Oliveira, with gallery in its own name in ARCOLisboa, believes that the event will be “excellent”.
“Fortunately ARCO resumed fairs of contemporary art in Lisbon, which has not happened for about four years. It frankly good expectations in terms of public, of course, and sales, by what I saw, the fair is good, is strong, and I have no doubt it will run very well in this aspect “, considered, told Lusa.
Pedro Cabrita Reis is the featured artist in the gallery João Esteves de Oliveira, which also features, among others, works by José Pedro Croft, Sofia Areal, Julião Sarmento, Miguel White, architect drawings Álvaro Siza Vieira, and modernist Sonia Delaunay ( 1885-1979).
. “The fair held for several years in the FIL [International Fair of Lisbon] was losing prestige, and many galleries are no longer interested, so faded This project is carried out by IFEMA – Feria de Madrid, with the prestige and the international name that has, and there is every reason to believe that this resumption of contemporary art fairs is done with the best possible name, “he added.
For the gallerist, are in this first edition of ARCOLisboa “prestigious galleries, foreign, and those that have, in Portugal”.
Asked about the situation of the contemporary art market in Portugal, the gallerist assessed that “is like all” others.
“They are not exactly anemic, but are not full force. They are waiting for an event like this to know a momentum that has long lacked” he said.
With organization of the responsibility of the Institución Ferial de Madrid (IFEMA – Feria de Madrid), organizer of ArcoMadrid that made in February 35 years of existence, ARCOLisboa opens today for professionals and, on Thursday, to the general public.
The event will be a meeting place for gallery owners, artists, collectors, curators, besides the public interested in contemporary art, and will be open from 12:00 to 20:00, and until 18:00 on Sunday.
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