LOGROÑO / SANTANDER, 14 (EUROPA PRESS)
Fourteen galleries, two of them Portugal and Colombia, have been selected to take part in the IV Edition of ‘SCULTO International Contemporary Sculpture Fair’, which will take place in Logroño from October 7 to 10.
It is a fair recognized by the Observatory of Culture in Spain as within the ‘TOP 100’ in a classification in which the Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen Bornemisza Museums appear in first position.
The fact is more relevant if one considers that of the 300 art fairs that are held annually in Spain, only two appear in the ‘TOP 100’: ARCO and SCULTO.
SCULTO is an initiative promoted since its inception in 2017 by the Riojan gallery owner Enrique Martínez Glera, the Valencian sculptor Beatriz Carbonell Ferrer and the Navarrese journalist José María Esteban Ibáñez, and has the sponsorship of different institutions, among which the Government of La Rioja through the promotion company ‘La Rioja 360º Avanza’.
The Riojan sculptor José Carlos Balanza will participate in SCULTO represented by the Galería Espiral de Noja (Cantabria), directed by Manuel Sáenz-Messia.
The selected galleries represent about thirty artists with a total of more than 150 works, which will remain during the days of the Fair – between October 7 and 10 – on the second floor of the Plaza de Abastos in the Riojan capital. , a very sculptural building that will not interrupt your commercial service for the sale of vegetables and meat from La Rioja.
The Galleries come from different Spanish cities, as do the artists: Emilio Gañán, from the Pradilla-Fernández Gallery; Matilde Olivera, Miguel Bañuls, Odnoder and Thomás Benech from the Primavera 9 Gallery; Iván Baizán from the Juca Claret Gallery; Carmen Mora and Nicolás Camino, from the Valverde Gallery, all of them from Madrid; Kiko Miyares, from the Arancha Osoro Gallery, in Oviedo; José Luis Serzo, from the Admiral Partners Gallery, Malaga-Seville; Pablo Maojo, from the Cornión Gallery, in Gijón; Dora Salazar and Pilar Soberón, from the Vanguardia Gallery.
Also Teresa Esteban and José Carlos Balanza, from the Spiral Gallery of Noja (Cantabria); Isidro López Aparicio, from the Fúcares Gallery, from Almagro (Ciudad Real); Juan E. Correa, from the Manuel Ojeda Gallery in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Dora Salazar and Pilar Soberón, from the Vanguardia Gallery, Bilbao; Cristina Ghetti, Miguel Bañuls and Almudena Torró, from the Santamaca Gallery, Alicante-Valencia; They are complemented by Joao Castro Silva, Carlos Andrade, Xavier Cuíñas and Lúcia David from the Trema Arte Gallery in Lisbon and Aurora Cañero from the Bogotá Museum Gallery.
The selection has been carried out by the three SCULTO curators: the former president of the Institute of Contemporary Art of Spain (IAC) Isabel Durán, the curator of Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma and the former director and curator of ARTIUM Museo Vasco of Contemporary Art Daniel Castillejo.