Spain Passion
Journal
Essays, exhibitions, artist focus and curatorial reflections from the Spain Passion network.
Thanks for break my mind
I value exhibitions that interrupt habit and compel a deeper form of attention. The most meaningful encounters with art are those that ask the viewer to suspend noise, certainty and ready-made judgement, and to adjust perception in order to meet the work…
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How to Analyze a Contemporary Artwork Without Being Fooled
An artwork begins to become true when it can lose its external defenses and still keep standing in front of the viewer. To analyze a contemporary artwork is not simply to say whether you like it. Taste may be honest as a…
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Everything Ends in the Sea
Manu Iranzo · MARTE Castellón Surrounded by hundreds of works demanding attention, Manu Iranzo’s drawings appeared almost in silence. A lot of white. A contained image. A quiet presence that did not fully reveal itself from a distance. You had to come closer. And as you…
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The Scorpion Sting Hidden in Flowers
Sonsoles Massiá · Brutal Beauty Some works captivate from the very first moment, and that is precisely why one should distrust them for a second. Beauty can be an easy trap. It can remain on the surface, in ornament, in the pleasant…
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Where Do You Come From? What Do You Want? Where Are You Going?
Notes Towards an Honest Curatorial Practice within Spain Passion Most contemporary discourse around art revolves around context, market structures, ideology, aesthetics, or institutional validation. All of these can provide meaningful layers of interpretation, yet they often orbit around something more essential. Before…
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This is a Call for Artists
Let us be clear from the beginning. Spanish artists have produced work of the highest order for centuries. This is not a romantic claim, Its a historical fact. Spain has given the world painters, sculptors, schools, materials, images, wounds, symbols and forms…
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Working with Spain-Passion: collaborating with Spanish artists
Spain-Passion is a cultural partner for international galleries wishing to work with Spanish contemporary artists. We select artists, document available works and create safe, transparent conditions for exhibitions, loans and sales.
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For patrons, collectors and companies
Art gives a place something that decoration cannot give. A hotel, a company, a private home or an institution can be well designed and still feel empty. Contemporary art changes that. It brings presence, intelligence, risk, beauty, conversation and aura. But good…
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