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Swab Barcelona 2012!
Swab
Barcelona 2012, International Contemporary Art Fair
presents its fifth edition that will take place between
23rd and 26th May 2012. The aim of SWAB
Barcelona is to offer an insight into the latest trends
in contemporary art through a careful selection of the
exhibiting galleries.
The galleries
participating in SWAB Barcelona are a benchmark for the
emerging art: contemporary art by young artists, most of them
born since the 70's. This type of art, which you hardly find
in museums, has its place of expression in the galleries. Swab
Barcelona 2012 intends to have more participation than ever,
up to 70 galleries from 18 countries and ads to its agenda new
activities within and outside the fair.
©
Aaron Johnson
I Dreamed I
Painted Flowers All Over Your Naked Body, and in that Dream I
Awoke from Dreaming, My Eyes Opened to See the Flowers Rot,
Turning First Putrid, then Burst Your Flesh into
Flame
(Acrylic on polyester
knit mesh)
185x117cm,
2010
Courtesy of Galería MiTO,
Barcelona
What we
offer:
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A venue in the heart
of the city of Barcelona, with a new access that will create
a multidisciplinary space with different activities through
the support of various companies with which we are
developing new collaborations.
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5 different Programs
for Galleries: General Program, Art Projects (Curated by
A*DESK team), American Galleries, Chinese Art Centres and
MYFAF (For galleries with no more than 2 years of
existence).
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more than 15,000
international visitors
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the opportunity to
make new contacts and to improve international
networking
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A successful
Collectors Program that gather together international
collectors
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The Swab Off
Program, with activities, performances and exhibitions
during the entire exhibition season, from September 2011 to
July 2012, in collaboration with renowned Foundations and
Art Institutions.
© John
Jodzio
Pioneer on
Fire
Sharpie pen, acrylic,
watercolour, graphite and collage on arches paper
114,5 x 152,5cm,
2005
Courtesy of Fred LTD
Gallery, London
Swab
Barcelona 2012, now open to application, will return
to Pabellón 2 in Fira Barcelona with a new access, through
Plaza Universo, where we will present several
artistic activities such as performance and installations, as
well as a music Festival organized by Razzmatazz
Barcelona.
Through the
collaboration with Preview Berlin: The emerging Art
Fair, Swab Barcelona has a selection of 5 galleries
specially selected by the Director’s of the Fair. Similarly,
Swab ensures the presence in Berlin of some Spanish galleries
selected by our Committee.
Swab Barcelona is
proud to announce a new collaboration with the Contemporary
Art Fair of Sao Paulo, SP-Arte. Throughout
this collaboration, Swab will count with the participation of
4 galleries from Brasil selected by the Director of
Sp-Arte, Fernanda Feitosa, as well as a group
of Brazilian collectors specially invited to Swab Barcelona
2012.
Another highlight
is the collaboration that has Swab Barcelona with some
international renowned curators, such as some Italian
Curators, which ensures the presence of 4 Italian
galleries in the Fair, as well as American
Curators that will bring to Swab a selection of
American Galleries. Furthermore, we are working on
collaboration with a Chinese Art Centre that
will bring some contemporary Art Galleries from China to Swab
Barcelona.
SWAB Barcelona will
also have in this fifth edition, a space dedicated to
Art Projects, curated by a renowned
Independent Institute of Criticism and Contemporary Art in the
world of Catalan culture,
A-Desk.
These
collaborations ensure the international character and quality
of the Fair, and help promote artistic initiatives born in
Barcelona, at the international level.
© Kate
Gilmore
Pot, Kettle,
Black
Photography, Ed.5+2
P/A
126 x 150cm,
2010
Courtesy of Galería
MaisterraValbuena, Madrid
Furthermore, SWAB
Barcelona wants to continue with the initiative of
MYFAF (My First Art Fair), a space for 4
galleries with less than two years of experience who will be
selected by our committee and will have the opportunity to
participate in its first International Art Fair without any
cost.
Moreover, Swab
Barcelona will present again its Collectors
Program that will include exclusive visits to private
collections in the city as well as a selection of interesting
activities, trying to strengthen the relationship between
collectors and gallery owners.
In addition, Swab
Barcelona will have its usual Swab Drawing
Prize, and will present two new awards, a prize for
the Best Gallery of Swab Barcelona 2012 by
Banco Sabadell Foundation and an award for a
Young Artist of Swab 2012. To give more
emphasis to this award, Swab has also created Talking
Artists a program based on the presentation of 10
young artists (born after 1980) from the galleries in Swab
Barcelona 2012 that will be selected by five young curators.
These artists will participate in several debates, talking
about both their work and the emergent contemporary art
today.
© William Marc
Zanghi
A poetic
meal
Paint on
Canvas
140x170cm,
2010
Courtesy of Bonelli
Arte Contemporánea, Mantua
Swab Barcelona
confirms the continuity of the Swab Off
Program, with activities, performances and
exhibitions during the entire exhibition season, from
September 2011 to July 2012, in collaboration with some
national institutions and some Art and Design Schools, among
others.
Furthermore, we
would like to highlight the committed side of Swab Barcelona,
organizing activities in collaboration with the
Casal dels Infants del Raval and
other initiatives with the Foundation Against AIDS
Lluita contra la Sida, a collaboration that
started last year and that will continue this year with
Toyz by FLS, collecting funds for
the Foundation through the sale of some Toyz customized by
young artists.
Swab Barcelona has
become one of the official Fairs of the city of Barcelona and
is beginning to prepare its fifth edition with more energy
than ever!
The online
application for Swab Barcelona 2012, opened until
22nd of December 2011, can be accessed by
clicking here.
© Miguel
Aguirre
Winnenden (De la
serie Haging the War Home)
Oil and collage on
paper
32x46cm,
2010
Courtesy of Galería
Ana Vilaseco & Espacio Líquido.
For more information,
please visit our website: www.swab.es
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