Colombia is the guest of honor of the 34th International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCO 2015. The Embassy of Colombia in Spain, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, have decided to accept the invitation to show what is happening with contemporary art in Colombia.
"The invitation to Colombia as the guest of honor of ARCOmadrid2015 is a recognition and great international visibility for the Colombian contemporary art," said the Ambassador of Colombia in Spain, Fernando Carrillo Flórez. "I invite you to visit especially the more than 20 exhibitions spanning the last five generations of Colombian artists. It will be two and a half months of Colombian art in Madrid with the active participation of artists, curators, critics, galleries, museums, independent spaces, arts and publishing institutions in the arts field "
For Carolina Ponce de León, the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, invitation to be the guest of ARCO 2015, "represents the most significant participation of the Colombian art abroad throughout its history".
"The scale of the event, the diversity of artistic proposals, generational mix of artists, and their simultaneous display at prestigious cultural and artistic institutions of Madrid is an unprecedented opportunity to experience the complexity, richness and vitality of the current Colombian art" says Ponce de León.
For Jaime Cerón Silva, Colombian curator "it is undeniably the presence of Colombian artists in exhibitions, residencies or arts publications of the most diverse places in the world, and no longer a subject to cultural stereotypes but there is genuine interest in situations involving their work."