What to See at Urvanity? Top Booths at Madrid's First Urban Art Fair

Located in Brussels, the Galerie Martine Ehmer is specialized in Contemporary and Urban Art. It presents both emerging and established contemporary artists with diverse and multicultural profiles, working in a range of media going from figurative and abstract painting to photography, sculpture and video. A regular at national and international art fairs, the gallery has prepared some interesting projects for the Urvanity Art Fair. The highlights include a very large-scale piece by Jef Aerosol that will be presented in the middle of the fair with great visibility, and a monumental fresco that the French artist L’Atlas will paint in the center of Madrid.

Featured images: Galerie Martine Ehmer.

Located in the historic center of Barcelona, Fousion Gallery is dedicated to presenting and promoting local and international art and artist through exhibitions, various events, and international art fairs. For the Urvanity Art Fair, the gallery will feature a fine selection of works by prestigious international artists, including Miss Van, SheOne, Will Barras, who will be presenting works that are part of a set of 26 images which make up the letters of the alphabet, Peca, who is preparing a special large-scale sculptural pieces, Mono Cieza, Bruno Pontiroli, who will be presenting his series La Ventre du Table, and Juan Jose Surace. Miss Van has made a brand new series especially for the occasion of the fair, and she will personally attend the event and participate in the conference on Saturday around 1pm as part of the fair’s side program.

Featured images: Fousion Gallery; SheOne – Jupiter J, 76 x 66 cm, spray paint on framed canvas; Miss Van – Blooming Muse 2, oil on canvas, 2017, 50 x 61 cm. Will Barras – Love, water color and Indian ink on 425gsm saucers waterford hot press paper, 2017, 76 x 56 cm; SheOne – Jupiter J, 76 x 66 cm, spray paint on framed canvasAll images courtesy of Fousion Gallery.

A unique and internationally renowned gallery space that focuses on Public Art, OPEN WALLS Gallery has a strong passion for further developing the terms and ideologies of the movement, as well as an in-depth knowledge of every artist they represent. Since dealing street art and graffiti within a gallery context can be conceptually challenging, the gallery particularly pays attention on the kind of works and medium they present. For the Urvanity Art Fair, the gallery will present works by OX, Vermibus, and Jordan Seiler. Each photo of Jordan Seiler contains a digital trigger, and the hidden content within the image can be discovered with Public Ad Campaign app.

Featured images: Open Walls Gallery; OX – La Contrainte. All images courtesy of Open Walls Gallery.

Located in Valencia, Plastic Murs is a dynamic space dedicated to showing new contemporary art as an expression of popular culture today. For the occasion of the Urvanity Art Fair, the gallery will present the work of artists Jessica Hess, SatOne, Nelio and PichiAvo. One of the largest and most impressive works of their booth will certainly be a piece by PichiAvo titled Urban Warrior.

Featured images: Plastic Murs Gallery; SatOne – Open Window; PichiAvo – Urban Warrior; Nelio – Abstract Alphabet 15; Jessica Hess -Underpass I. All images courtesy of Plastic Murs.

Swinton and Grant from Madrid was conceived as a meeting point for artists working in different disciplines who develop the most radical and new codes. It is a singular space and a residence program suitable for different uses and artistic projects focused in both national and international markets. For the Urvanity Art Fair, the gallery will feature works by the Mexican artist Edgar Flores SANER, such as Marchanta from 2016, Guyan el protector from 2015, Ravi el protector from 2015, Amantes eternos from 2015 and Cronos devorando 43 angeles from 2015; works by Mario Mankey, such as Lobby or not lobby from 2016, About ribs about heels 2 from 2016, Entropy from 2017, and This is not the apocalypse from 2017; and works by the American artist Robert Hardgrave, such as Stewards from 2015, Manray from 2016, and Manray 2 from 2016.

Featured images: Swinton Gallery; SANER – Marchanta, 2016; Robert Hardgrave, 2015; Mario Mankey – Lobby or not lobby, 2016. All images courtesy of Swinton Gallery.

Founded in 2008 in Milan by Matteo Donini, aka The Don, The Don Gallery aims to make Italy understand the real value of the art coming from the streets and learn the real history of graffiti. It organizes art exibitions that explore and deepen the new artistic movements derived from the subculture of the young communities in the last thirty years. For the occasion of Urvanity Art fair, the gallery will be presenting works by old school masters Doze Green and BO130 and the outsider artist Solomostry.

Featured images: The Don Gallery; Solomostry, 2017; Solomostry, 2017; Doze Green. All images courtesy of The Don Gallery.

Founded in Vigo in Spain, Mambo Gallery is a dynamic online platform of exhibition and sale of art which involves a big number of Galician artists. Not having a fixed exhibition space, the gallery hosts show all around the country, presenting new ways of understanding the gallery of the artist’s works. The Urvanity is the gallery’s first participation in an international art fair and will be bringing artworks by Isaac Cordal, Pelucas, Liqen and Javier Aquilera. Some of the highlights include Fake Banksy by Javier Aguilera, an ironic and stunning sculpture about artists and their egos, Egolatriz by Liqen, a medium size painting that shows the risks of being an artist nowdays, and Babel by Isaac Cordal, a great concrete sculpture and an iconic artwork of the artist.

Featured images: Mambo Gallery; Liqen – Yoga Brain, 2014; Javier Aguilera – Street Rider, 2016. All images courtesy of Mambo Gallery.