The Gabarron Foundation – Carriage House Center for the Arts is pleased to invite you to visit us  at The Armory Show art fair, which is celebrating in New York from March 3rd to 7th, 2010. Our institution will be present at the Armory Show 2010 (Pier 94, booth 1509) and develop parallel events included in the VIP program of the art fair. Our booth’s exhibition is based on the significance of public art for our institution and an ever increasing volume of developed projects over the last years.The artists we will show are: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Cristobal Gabarron and Dennis Oppenheim.

The Gabarron Foundation – Carriage House Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition SPAIN IN THE CITY, as part of our program for The Armory Show 2010. In addition to the booth which we will have in Armory Show, our wish is to take advantage of this excellent opportunity in order to promote the works of young Spanish artists based in New York.  The opening reception is included in the Armory VIP Program, and it will open only for RSVP card holders. The exhibition will open to the public on March 5th, 2010. Participating artists: Pedro Barbeito (1969, La Coruña, Galicia); Itziar Barrio (1976, Bilbao, Pais Vasco); Anton Cabaleiro (1977, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia); Juanli Carrión (1982, Yecla, Murcia); Jacobo Castellano (1976, Jaen, Andalucia); Hugo Fontela (1986, Grado, Asturias); Javier Martín de Frutos (1979, Madrid-Castilla León);  y Verónica Peña (1980, Zamora, Castilla-León).

During the art fair, The Gabarron Foundation has organized different events which are included in the Armory Show VIP Program. These events have limited availability and the access is open only to VIP card holders. The scheduled events are a private tour to the Carriage House Center for the Arts (March 4th, 11am-1pm), a private opening to “Spain in the City” exhibition (March 4th, 6-8pm), and visit to the artists’ studios, Christo and Jeanne-Claude (March 5th at 4.30pm, and March 6th at 4pm), and Dennis Oppenheim (March 6th at noon).

In the next edition of The Armory Show Spanish galleries and institutions will be present in the art fair: Galeria Senda, Galeria Pilar Parra & Romero, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Galeria Nogueras Blanchard and The Gabarron Foundation. The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.

Marta Minujín is a prominent voice of the Argentine neo-avant-garde art scene of the 1960s and 70s, with a brilliant international career that helped define the discussion about media, performance, and participation. Minujín is often mentioned as one of the pioneers of happenings. Marta Minujín’s Minucode (1968), originally commissioned by the Center for Inter-American Relations (now Americas Society), explored social codes in four groups of leading figures in the arts, business, fashion, and politics in New York through a series of cocktail parties/happenings. Deeply interested in Marshall McLuhan’s theories about the mass media, Minujín created an electronic environment with footage and light and sound shows produced during the happenings.

Phantom Sightings is the first exhibition to focus on the work of Chicano artists since the mid-1990s with a strong conceptual dimension. It features some 100 works in all contemporary media, and includes video, performance, and installation art by 27 artists and collectives. El Museo, the final venue for this event, is the only place to see it on the East Coast. Curated by Howard Fox, LACMA; Rita Gonzales, LACMA; and Chon Noriega, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Chicano Studies Research Center of the University of California, Los Angeles.

With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation—and one of the last to come of age in the twentieth century. Orozco resists confinement to a single medium, roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, and painting. From one project to the next, he deliberately blurs the boundaries between the art object and the everyday environment, instead situating his contributions in a place that merges "art" and "reality," whether in exquisite drawings made on airplane boarding passes or in sculptures made from recovered trash.- The Moma

Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions. Exhibition co-produced by Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo (ConsejerÌa de Cultura, Junta de AndalucÌa). This exhibition in two parts features such artists as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Brassaï, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesc Catalá Roca, Inge Morath, Martin Parr, Man Ray, and Miguel Rio Branco.

Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions.This exhibition in two parts features such artists as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Brassaï, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesc Catalá Roca, Inge Morath, Martin Parr, Man Ray, and Miguel Rio Branco.

Commissioned by Dia, Dominique Gonzalez-Foersterís latest project offers an annex to the world renowned research library at the Hispanic Society of America.
Titled chronotopes & dioramas, it expands and updates the historic collection with a range of twentieth century literature by some forty authors, whose texts will be installed in a trio of dioramas by reference to their place of origin in one of three distinct geographical regions: the desert, the tropics and the North Atlantic.

For centuries, pilgrims traveling the Camino de Santiago have enjoyed and enriched the cultural legacy of Spain's largest geographical region, Castilla y León. In addition to multimedia explorations of the Aqueduct of Segovia, La Colegiata de Toro, and La Cartuja de Miraflores, this engaging celebration of the major monuments of Castilla y León features a replication of the famed figure of Santiago el Mayor (St. James the Greater), originally sculpted by Gil de Siloé for the Tomb of the Juan II of Castile and Isabel of Portugal at La Cartuja de Miraflores, and now a part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The World Monuments Fund is proud, on the occasion of the 2010 Holy Year of St. James, to unveil this important work at Queen Sofía Spanish Institute.

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, organized by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design,  will feature renderings of these visionary projects in a salon-style installation that will emphasize the rich and diverse range of the proposals received. One of the artists participating is Marti Guixe, Spanish designe. Among the many works in the exhibition are projects by artists like Anish Kapoor, Sarah Morris, Doris Salcedo, Lawrence Weiner, and Rachel Whiteread; designers such as Fernando and Humberto Campana, Joris Laarman Studio, and Studio Job; and architects such as Álvaro Siza Vieira Arquitecto, or BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group).

One of the artists participating in the show is Maria Jose Royuela.In her exquisitely crafted paintings, Royuela brings to the viewer a direct connection with the intricate reality of natural aspects often overlooked; the lichens on a rock, the moss in broken earth and spindly grasses whose heads leave spectral shadows on the finely textured surface.Royuela currently lives and works in Elorrio, Spain. In her own words, her mission is to “convince others that life is simpler, yet more interesting, than what we persist in thinking.”

"Wanderings", a retrospective of the work of Argentine artist Mirta Kupferminc, including prints, artist books, sculpture, video and mural installation. Fast gaining recognition as a major Latin American exponent of visual arts, she explores the link between the culture of European immigrants and their newly found home in the Americas.

Size Does Matter, curated by basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal, includes works from international artists exploring the myriad ways that scale affects the perception of contemporary art.The exhibition includes works from the Spanish artist Juan Muñoz. Artists have readily utilized the element of size. Large and small objects require different approaches, elicit unique responses from their viewer, and reflect the varying purposes in which works of art were meant to serve.

Some of the works shown are unique images. Modotti only took photographs during her seven tumultuous years in Mexico, from 1923-1930. It is estimated that her artistic legacy is limited to six hundred photographs, the majority of which are now in museum collections.