That queen’s hug to the daughter of the German gallery owner Helga de Alvear and ‘the moment Tamara Falcó’

Bustle, races through the halls of Pavilion 7, with the mobile in one hand and the computer in the other. Gallery Va, Gallery comes. Arc is a world in itself. One of the most anticipated moments of the visit of Felipe VI and Letizia to this most important contemporary art fair of the year has been the tribute to the gallery owner Helga de Alvear, who died on February 3 at the age of 88. The German collector maintained a very good relationship with Don Felipe and Mrs. Letizia. Passionate from Spain, from Cáceres, where she founded her homonym, and Arco Museum, Helga used to receive the kings in her IFEMA space every year. This has been our tour of IFEMA, in Madrid, this Wednesday, March 5.

What have Felipe VI and Letizia seen in Arco?

There have been two sections that we were going to go or yes. The Amazon, the Earth and Humanity in the Wametisé program, which looks at the peoples of the Alto Río Negro del Amazonas. Amazofuturismo focuses on the need to protect forests, rivers and land in the face of overexploitation of resources. A call to the awareness of environmental emergency and sustainability. Latin American profiles/art, with a tour of Bogotá, in Riegner Casas; and in Mexico City, with the Kurimanzutto gallery.

Tamara Falcó

Also opening. New galleries has lived its great moment. At this meeting point of the young national and international gallery we have encountered Tamara Falcó and Iñigo Onieva. The Marquesa de Griñón, with her mouth open to see dozens of cameras approach, has released a “come, that come!”. He referred, of course, the kings, not to the press. In front of the galleries of El Chico, Madrid, and Hatch, from Paris, we have seen the queen greet. In the delegation was the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, with a straight -legged pants look with matching fajín and American jacket combined with nuclear white blouse. The president smiled a lot.

The kings journey through the media stands has started in one of the fixed, the country, which houses the work of Jaume Plensa between dreams V3.0. Doña Letizia really like to visit newspaper spaces. Together with ABC and the world, the confidential.

Felipe VI and Letizia has also stopped at the Miró Foundation, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Speaking of Miró, we must highlight Leandro Navarro, who brings us a 1976 mirror of 1.6 million euros (Tête aux trois cheveux devant la lne). Also from Miró, Night, 1953 that Lelong exhibits.

And what have you given to talk this year?

We have seen the dishwasher with the faces of Trump, Meloni and Musk prints in dishes, the work of Eugenio Merino who is entitled to face washing. A reflection on the ultra -right and international neoliberalism that is quoted at 25,000 euros. The debate has also lit the work of Ramón Mateos, who points a figure: 7.291 in reference to the greatest deceased in Madrid residences in the worst of the Covid pandemic. The work is exhibited at the Freijo Gallery stand.