After its success in London, the lntersticio gallery opens its doors at 31 Alcantara Street. A new space that hosts in this first exhibition a cast of 10 young artists and designers who deserve to be known.
lntersticio has opened its doors in Madrid. After its opening in London, the gallery opens a new space in the capital. For its premiere they have brought together 10 young European artists and designers: Josefina Anjou, Nora Aurrekoetxea, Lucía Bayón, Isabella Benshimol, Julia Creuheras, Diego Delas, Andrés Izquierdo, Maren Karlson, Paul Maheke, and Johanna Odersky. A constellation that draws the emerging cultural panorama of the city. A gallery that is here to stay.
For this occasion the directors Sol Abaurrea, Ana Coronel de Palma and Cristina Herraíz Peleteiro propose to us to reflect on hope -Un claro del bosque- they have named it. “A meeting place where shedding the skin, remodeling the void, listening to each other. A space to be reborn as a collective.” In fact, what you breathe there is the energy of three young people who have bravely decided to enter the gallery. From here I congratulate you.
The careful space of the Intersticio gallery takes us to the Mediterranean, the white and cream color offers us light and warmth. Everything is carefully displayed and chosen, suddenly I travel to Berlin. There is something northern about the whole site. And the yellow staircase brings me back here, to Madrid. At the inauguration everyone congratulates the curatorship. You can see pride and emotion in their faces. There is talent, definitely. Madrid wakes up with a new gallery and that produces satisfaction.
“The access is presented as accidental, frontal, at night or day, it is a surprise, a future.” This is how the directors explain the entrance to the Intersticio gallery to us. From there on the right hand side, we find the design by Andrés Izquierdo. A table with chairs that want to melt into the floor; On it the stalagmites, to our surprise, are lit with fire: it is also a candle.
In the center of the gallery we find Isabella Benshimol’s piece, Salmonella Superbugs, a 120cm long form composed of transparent polyester resin, 18k gold release agent, baby teeth and T-shirt. Later, Julia Creuheras’s kinetic objects appear: hypnotic. Catalan’s poetry, along with her knowledge of Arduino, give the pieces a technological spirit.
Lucía Bayón’s pieces appear delicately before our eyes. The femininity of the Madrileña offers us self-confident pieces that take us to a distant and primary past and a resounding but unknown future. On the walls we see the wonderful paintings of Josefina Anjou, the magical paintings of Maren Karlson, the watercolor of Johanna Ordersky and the hanging chains of Nora Aurrekoetxea. It’s worth seeing.
In the new lntersticio gallery in Madrid, things are already happening that everyone should go see. A kind of space that sneaks through the sometimes-clogged interstices of our city. I encourage you to go and discover it with your own eyes.
Claro del bosque
March 13 – May 22
Photographs by Pablo Gómez-Ogando
Galería lntersticio
Cl Alcántara, n° 31. Madrid
+ www.interstic.io
