AYYO, the acronym of Arquitectura y “Yo” [Architecture and “I”], is the title of the work that Juan Carlos Bracho has donated to the Museo CA2M community as consideration for his 2020 show, curated by Armando Montesinos, at Sala Alcalá 31 of the Autonomous Community of Madrid.
Marking the beginning of the exhibition season at Madrid galleries, the Regional Government has awarded the 2025 Apertura Prize to the art collective Los Torreznos (Rafael Lamata and Jaime Vallaure) for their work Las opiniones [Opinions] (2025), currently on display at the Freijo gallery. The work will be purchased by the Regional Government and will enter the collection of the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles.
The ARCO Community of Madrid Award for Young Artists was established in 2004 to recognize the best work of visual art (including painting, drawing, comics, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, photography, installations, and any other artistic medium, with no restrictions on subject matter or technique) created by artists under the age of 40. Eligible works must be presented at the corresponding edition of the ARCO Fair and have a sale price not exceeding €35,000.
The world of Miki Leal is a world of jazz, cinema, the American lifestyle and sport, as well as his family world, his domestic environment and within it his personal belongings.
Part of a group of figurative women painters like Esther Boix and Isabel Villar, Carmen Pagés’s work reflects openly on social injustices and how power is wielded over the least fortunate in today’s societies.
The ARCO Community of Madrid Award for Young Artists was created in 2004 to recognise the best work of art (including painting, drawing, comic, engraving, sculpture, mixed media, photography, installation and any other medium of artistic expression, without any limitations on either the theme or the technique) made by artists no older than 40, whose sale price does not exceed €35,000, and which has been exhibited in the corresponding edition of the ARCO Fair. The Community of Madrid acquires the award-winning work, which becomes part of CA2M’s Contemporary Art Collection.
Many of Ángela de la Cruz’s paintings are presented as extended bodies with clear physicality as she twists the canvases, scratches the fabric or manipulates the supports. This makes each of her works a container of stories where paint takes on a physical and spatial presence.
Linz Diary, by the artist Emily Jacir, is a series of colour photographs taken in 2003 to capture the artist’s action which consisted of walking around a fountain in Linz Square, in Austria.
Eva Fàbregas envisions interaction with art through sensorial experience. Her sculptures, made of soft, ethereal materials like fabric and air, often include sound and beckon us to draw closer through the senses, to discover them through touch, generating an intimacy in which affect can flow.
Ixone Sádaba questions the meaning of images and what photography can do now that it has lost its status as an instrument to document reality. Her artistic practice is inspired by Foucault’s thesis about truth as a historical construct and by the distinction between objects and things that Heidegger proposed, which states that an object turns into a thing when it can no longer be used for the purpose it is customarily given.