CAN (Contemporary Art Now) Closes With Applause And Sales Success

At 18h on the evening of Sunday, July 17, a spontaneous applause resounded in the fairgrounds of Ibiza. With this gesture, gallery owners, collectors and people celebrated the achievement of the initial edition of the worldwide art honest CAN, Modern day Art Now. For five days, 36 galleries from 13 nations collected on the island of Ibiza.

They arrived from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, the United States, Lebanon, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Uk, Belgium and Spain. The inauguration was attended by the president of the Consell d’Eivissa, Vicent Marí. FECOEV has received 5,000 visitors all through these times, highlighting the presence of around 250 intercontinental collectors, 40 of them invited by the fair, in just its Collectors Application, who have arrive to Ibiza from Asia, America and Europe.

On the previous day, the taking part galleries verified the excellent level of gross sales as perfectly as the creative high quality of the honest. Eighty percent of the performs exhibited have been obtained. “In some scenarios, even the initially day, some of the gallerists told us that they experienced bought the overall stand,” explained Sergio Sancho, director and founder of CAN. This is the scenario of the galleries WOAW (Hong Kong), Cob Gallery (London), Johansson Projects (Oakland, United States), Afternoon Gallery (Seoul), Approach X (Milan). And he adds, “the very best evidence of the very good reception of the honest is that in Ibiza there is already talk that, coinciding with CAN, an art week will adhere to.

We have had the support of community administrations, but also of the regional cultural cloth. Our objective is to bolster these associations. We are open up to collaborate and that future yr there could be a lot more parallel functions close to the fair”. This year’s Collectors’ Method provided visits to the Museum of Present-day Artwork (MACE), the Micus Area, the Ses Dotze Naus basis and the Ladio workshop.

The support for expertise has also been a protagonist in the honest, so the OD Inns chain has participated with two acquisition awards, a single for the artist Navot Miller (represented by 1969 Gallery of New York) and yet another one for Juan de la Morenilla (represented by the Veta gallery of Madrid). For its component, the Bassat Collection has opted for Manuel M. Romero (represented by Artnueve of Murcia) and Russel Tyler (represented by GAA Gallery, Provincetown, United States).

Amongst the most sought-after performs offered at the honest, Stickymonger (WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong), Javi Calleja and Kenichi Tamai (Nanzuka, Tokyo) stand out. Currently being a curated reasonable-by the critic and curator Sasha Bogojev – has authorized to exhibit the most recent art and projecting a pattern exactly where painting and a new figuration have been the protagonists. “My private favorite issue about this good was probable the basic frame of mind at the fairground, the relaxed, nearly camaraderie attitude amongst the good crew and the galleries and the artists, which I assume resulted in a welcoming ambiance that the people could with any luck , recognize.” Bogojev highlights of this first version.

The honest has had the assist of brands this sort of as Gucci -which has lent its experimental room Gucci VAULT with the exhibition The Up coming 100 A long time of Gucci by NFT works-, Blancpain, Organics by RedBull, Vilebrequin, Barceló Imperial, Lucas Fox, Glenfiddich or the collaboration, as the official hotel of Ocean Drive Lodge Talamanca.

CAN, Modern day Artwork Now, is by now doing work on its 2nd version, to be held in mid-July 2023. “Most taking part galleries want to repeat despite the fact that they will have to wait to be invited by the curator. Also, in the course of these times, a lot of global galleries have been in contact displaying their wish to participate in pursuing editions,” suggests Sancho.

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