Pandarosa Creature Comforts

27.06.2008 - 14.08.2009
Pandarosa (or The Pandas as they are often referred to) are the brainchild behind Ariel Aguilera & Andrea Benyi. Originally hailing from Chile and Hungary, they joined forces in Melbourne & are currently based in Berlin. Their work expands a wide range of approaches, including figurative illustration, abstract dreamscapes, bold iconic designs, detailed hand-drawn lines, nature inspired organic forms & pattern based imagery. They inhabit the middle ground between the worlds of art and design and they have done illustration work for magazines such as Frame or Icon, designs for clients such as Volkswagen or Adidas and art shows in galleries in Melbourne, Hamburg, Berlin, Tokyo or Los Angeles. This is their first show in Madrid and under the title “Creature Comforts” they play with various geometric & pattern elements. By using their decorative features repetitively they've build a new collection of works on paper depicting various 'images within images', thus telling a series of fragmented stories along the way. These rigid components alongside their signature abstract organic forms present the artists exploring new paths in their creative journey. While influences like nature & the changing of the seasons are still evident in their work, there is now a more 'figurative' approach & a focus on narrative storytelling within their pieces.

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®ocho in Subaquatica

25.04.2008 -21.06.2009
Subaquatica has selected a mix of old friends and newly found collaborating artists portraying a wide scope of the different kind of art that makes us tick. Coming from cities as diverse as Berlin, São Paulo, Lille, Vigo and Madrid. All the artists will be showing original work on paper in small format, the kind of art pieces Subaquatica likes best for its space. It will be the 7th of the OCHO group exhibitions series scheduled to take place this year, in different cities around the world. More than 150 artists are part of this ®artspace network world group show, that runs through world class galleries until August 2009.

Artwork by: Nano4814, Therese Vandling, Ezba, Juju’s Delivery, Remed, Fefe Talavera, Deno JR, 3ttman and Nuria Mora.

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Kayu in Subaquatica

14.02.2008 - 19.04.2009
Kayu is a japanese artist living in Spain since 2006 and whose presence in Madrid has surprisingly been quite unoticed despite her participation in different projects and winning several art contests. Kayu paints and draws mainly animals and abstract forms with pastel and acryllic on paper. Her work is fresh, almost childish, and was worthy of a constant flow of comissions in Japan from book publishers, magazines, etc... Recently Kayu has put together a team of creative individuals for her brand Kayu-en and Subaquatica is where she will be presenting the brand for the first time with some of the products and the original artwork that she has created as inspiration for this first line of articles.

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Momo 1000

18.12.2008 - 08.02.2009
MOMO will bring 1000 variations of his "MOMO Maker" series, silkscreened in a new small size, and display them in a giant mass. The "MOMO Maker" series began a year ago as an joke to see if a computer could create MOMO's artwork for him. And its worked very well. The bulk of prints are wheatpasted in public spaces, sometimes with invented equipment to reach new urban spaces. The online system discovers 174,720 possibilities, of those, the serigraph will produce 1500, & we'll exhibit just 1000.

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Grafika A Collection of prints by the artists of Beautiful Losers

15.11.2008 - 12.12.2008
With the ocassion of the arrival of the successful and now already legendary "Beautiful Losers" to Madrid, and in collaboration with Contemporanea, we'll be hosting an exhibition with a selection of prints and objects by the artists participating in "Beautiful Losers": Thomas Campbell, Henry Chalfant, Larry Clark, Cynthia Connolly, Cheryl Dunn, Brian Donnelly (KAWS), Shepard Fairey (OBEY), Glen E. Friedman, Evan Hecox, Wes Humpston, Jo Jackson, Todd James, Andy Jenkins, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Ari Marcopoulos, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Mike Mills, Raymond Pettibon, Stephen Powers, Terry Richardson, Clare E. Rojas, Rostarr, Ed Templeton y Tobin Yelland.

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Fefe Talavera Beware

20.09.2008 - 09.11.2008
Fefe Talavera and the beasts from her inner self are coming to town! Fefe is an artist from São Paulo that shares the raw creative energy and freedom of the new generation of urban artists coming from the streets of the Brazillian megapolis. Her career as an artist has taken her to galleries and art fairs and events around the globe: Moscow, Buenos Aires, New York, Seville, Berlin, Los Angeles, Mexico DF, Vienna, Amsterdam... and she has recently been featured in magazines and websites for her succesful show in Amsterdam in collaboration with the legendary NY artist and Graffiti pioneer Doze Green. This will be her first solo show in Spain.

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