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ARCO45: The Future, for Now


As ARCO marks its 45th edition, the fair remains one of Europe’s most distinctive art-world gatherings: international in scope, yet unmistakably rooted in Madrid’s particular cultural rhythm. ARCO45: The Future, for Now is a fair that has evolved from a post-transition cultural project into a confident global platform, while retaining the conversational, collector-focused atmosphere that continues to set it apart.

Text by Jo Vickery

ARCO was founded in 1982 by the Spanish gallerist Juana de Aizpuru, before TEFAF and long before Frieze. If Art Basel, established a decade earlier, emerged as a gallery-driven international market fair, ARCO developed not only as a marketplace but also as a cultural project bound up with Spain’s post-dictatorship modernisation. In its early years, it introduced contemporary art to a new generation of Spanish collectors; later, as globalisation gathered pace, it evolved into a more international platform, particularly for galleries and collectors from South America. Today, almost two thirds of the galleries participating in ARCO are international, and nearly 30% of those come from South America. It is, in many ways, a remarkable success story for the Spanish art market, especially given that Spain continues to impose some of the highest taxes in Europe on art sales and imports.

ARCO has always had a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere. It is a true collectors’ fair: slower-paced, with time for unhurried conversations with artists, gallerists and curators. Yet the works on display are generally well chosen, with a strong showing of mid-career and emerging artists punctuated by international staples — among them large-scale sculptures by Jaume Plensa and Eduardo Chillida, one of which, Chillida’s Leku III (1976), was acquired by the Masaveu Foundation, as well as an outstanding still life by Giorgio Morandi from 1956, unusually large in scale, with an asking price of €3 million.

Among the works that particularly caught my attention were the textile pieces by the Portuguese octogenarian Helena Lapas at Paula Capata’s stand, their organic colours drawn from nature. For something entirely different in the same medium, Galerie Poggi was showing a thought-provoking and quintessentially text-based textile work by the Azerbaijani artist Babi Badalov (b. 1959), Your Left is my Right, in which the letter R is written in reverse, so that it points left rather than right. At the same gallery, the main focus was on the Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan, including works previously shown by Voloshyn at Paris Basel last autumn, as well as a painting of a fallen white horse that, here in Madrid, inevitably carried loud local echoes of Picasso’s Guernica. Also engaging directly with the current war was a series of recent works by Sergei Bratkov: dark, minimalist paintings bearing provocative, fractured texts from his Important Words series, produced in 2024 and shown that same year at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg.

It was a special treat to visit the fair together with our close friends, Cuban artists Frank Mujica and Levi Orta, who are visiting Madrid this week. Artists always look at art with different eyes, focussing often more on technical elements and finding different and thought provoking parallels which bring deeper reflections in our face paced world.

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