Beaux Arts, Miami, Mauro Arbiza, Reencarnation, 2007

MADRID, SPAIN.-Art Madrid 08 will receive 80 galleries, 59 Spanish and 21 international. There will be artworks from Mapplethorpe, Warhol, Tàpies, Barceló, Plensa, Miró, Palazuelo, Carmen Calvo , Julian Opie, Chirino or Mel Ramos, among others.

After last year's economic success and high-level turnout of visitors, Art Madrid 08 will have 4.500 square meters of exhibition space, 20% more than last year's. Art Madrid consolidates as the second art contemporary Spanish fair, so much for exhibition space as for the numner of galleries

The fair will receive 80 galleries, most of them Spanish (59). Of the 21 international galleries, 6 are from Latin America, 4 from North America, 10 from other European countries and 1 from Korea .

The international galleries come from 12 different countries other than Spain : Argentina , Brazil , Canada , Colombia , Cuba , France , Germany , Korea , Nederlands , Portugal , Slovenia and the United States .

The eighty galleries will show pieces from more than 650 spanish and internacional artists, among them Mapplethorpe, Warhol, Barceló, Miró, Julian Opie, Palazuelo, Plensa, Carmen Calvo , Chirino, Mel Ramos, Alberto Reguera, Pedro Lozano , RGF+DDT, Pep Bofill or Armando Mariño.

Among the european, stands out the presence of five important portuguese galleries (António Prates, Art Lounge, Cordeiros, Perve y Sao Mamede), besides, the german ones Thomas Levy and Michael Schmalfuss, the slovenian Lazar Vujic, the french Lina Davidov and the dutch Katuin.

From Latin America comes the Argentinian galleries Ángel Guido Art Project and Arte privado, the colombian El Museo-Fernando Pradilla, the Cuban Galiano and Servando and the brazilian Toulouse . The tour North American galleries (Beaux Arts and Preciado Fine Art, from Miami ; Praxis, from New York and Trazos Gallery, from Canada ), also will bring Latin American artists to the fair.  (courtesy www.artdaily.com)

Ángel Guido, Argentina, Marcelo Villegas, Untitled, 150 x 210. Acrilic on canvas, 2007