The Catalan Maribel Lopez will co-lead with Carlos Urroz the next edition of Arco, feria in which it was working as a commercial director and programme commissioners since 2011. With this appointment Ifema, the organiser of the contemporary art fair of Spain’s most important, you want to ease the change in direction after Urroz should shew his desire “to undertake new projects”, once the editing of 2019, which will be held in Madrid from 27 February to 3 march, and where Peru will be the country invited. “The first thing I want to achieve is to keep the things that now work so well in the Arc. The fair has good health, but we can not think that everything is done and we must remain alert to the changes that each day you experience the art market”, commented this Tuesday, Maribel López (Barcelona, 1972), after you have made public your appointment.
The intention of Lopez, an art historian from the University of Barcelona, is to delve into a trend that has worked in the past editions: to maintain the number of participating galleries between the 200 and 210 and to limit the number of artists in each space. “It has been shown that it is better to delve into the work of one or two artists, that the public reacts better. There are already sections, such as Opening and Dialogues, in which only shows the work of two creators; and many galleries in the general programme have been adding to this trend”, says the new co-director of Arc whose career began in 1999 at the Gallery Estrany-de la Mota in Barcelona; to pass, in 2007, to address Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin.
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“a Bow is, above all, a meeting place for Betticket collectors and curators with artists and gallery owners and we need to continue to be so,” says Lopez, who has also been the founder of two equipment curator: Creatures (1994-2000, in Barcelona) and The Office (2007-2010, in Berlin). His first connection with the computer of the show was in 2011 as head of the section Opening, the program that brings together the galleries more young people of the fair.
According to Ifema, the appointment of Maribel Lopez means an endorsement of the project developed by Urroz over the last decade. “We are committed to internal talent and the excellence of the people working in our organization, recognizing its merits and the passion that they put in the performance of their activity. We are convinced that this model of transition in the direction of Arc provides all the guarantees of success for a continuation of the strong momentum that has been experienced in the project led by Carlos Urroz in recent years,” he says through a press release Eduardo Lopez-Doors, general director of Ifema.
“it Has been an honor to work for more than a decade and a half, first as commercial director and subsequently as director of the fair, this project is so important to the culture and contemporary art in our country. I appreciate the support I have received from all public and private entities. With the edition of 2019 I’m closing a cycle professional and personal from the belief that the periodic renewal of the front of the large cultural institutions is very convenient to give way to new approaches and perspectives”, says Carlos Urroz in the same press release.
