Inspiring Spanish Female Artists from the ESTAMPA Art Fair
The Art Büro founder Gabby spent last week attending the FIRST real-life art fair in Spain since 2019! The ESTAMPA contemporary art fair in Madrid celebrates the Spanish art market, with curated artwork from galleries across Spain.
Held in the Spanish capital every autumn for the past 27 years, ESTAMPA is absolutely the place to be for art lovers, curators and collectors of contemporary art collections in Spain.
Check out our behind the scenes reel of what Gabby got up to at the Art Fair here (with lots of our favourites saved to story highlights).
Our top 3 female discoveries from The Art Büro’s Trip to Madrid:
Anita Suárez de Lezo
Anita Suárez de Lezo has a background in the business of fashion, having studied design at Parsons school in New York, followed by a Masters in Graphic Design which sparked her passion for Fine Art. Her work is influenced by fashion, architecture and oriental minimalism. Her show-stopping geometric pieces echo origami with their angular planes and the vivid colours reflect the artist’s optimism. Beginning with sketches which are outlined digitally, each piece is assembled by hand. In her bold use of colour and abstract forms we can definitely see influences of Bridget Riley, Sol LeWitt and Mark Rothko or Josef Albers.
Mercedes Lara
Based in the Spanish capital, Mercedes Lara studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. She has shown her work at art fairs, solo and group exhibitions from London, New York and Miami to Japan. Mercedes looks at space and time through her lyrical, abstract work which captures the spirit of nature.
Her latest pieces echo topography and the lines of map making, using rich textures and materials. Her use of thread (for its fragility and connection to the passing of time) also relates to handcrafting and the everyday jobs and work of women through history. She also creates beautiful sculptures refracting coloured light.
Elvira Amor
Originally from Madrid, Elvira Amor graduated in Fine Arts from the Castilla-La Mancha University and is known for her beautiful abstract paintings on canvas using bright and pastel pigments.
Throughout her body of work, the artist recreates and repeats forms in continuum, applying contrasting colours until the work when seen together reads almost like a musical structure.
Who are some of your favourite women artists in Spain at the moment? We’d love to know.
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