According to the first list of acquisitions published today by the ARCOmadrid organization, the Museo Nacional Rainha Sofia “strengthens the collection” with purchases of “26 works by 18 artists”, including Ana Jotta, represented by the galleries present at the fair, in a choice made “with the advice” of curators Fernanda Brenner and Andrea Bellini.

According to the Galeria Miguel Nabinho, which represents the artist, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid has chosen two works from the “September Song” series, comprising around ten different paintings, exhibited for the first time last year in Lisbon. .

Images posted on the gallery’s Instagram indicate that the Spanish museum’s choice fell on “September Song #5” and “September Song #7”, two acrylic and felt-tip paintings on a projection screen, with dimensions between 101 and 170 centimeters, through which a composition on Japanese-inspired umbrellas/umbrellas is organized, in a possible diptych in color and black and white.

The values ​​of this acquisition have not been disclosed but, according to the organization of the Madrid Art Fair, the amount invested by the Museo Rainha Sofia in this edition of ARCO amounts to almost 400 thousand euros, also involving pieces by artists such as Cecilia Bengolea, Gabriela Bettini, Diego Del Pozo, Ana Esteve Reig, Lea Lublin, Jaume Sans, Rosa Torres and Joaquín Torres-García.

With the “26 works by 18 artists” acquired, the Queen Sofia Museum is the entity that makes the largest volume of purchases made after the first day of opening of the fair to the public, ahead of the ARCO Foundation (six works) and the International Council of the ARCO Foundation (three), the Ayuntamiento de Madrid (six), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (one) and the Helga de Alvear Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art de Cáceres (three), who opted for the historic Fernand Léger (1881-1955).

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, according to a statement from the ARCO organization, has acquired four works by four contemporary artists: Jumana Manna, Nicole Miller, Daniel Otero Torres and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra.

Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946, where she lives and works. He studied at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon and at the School of Visual Arts and Architecture of the Abbaye de la Cambre, in Brussels.

She began her artistic career as an actress (1969-1980), but her activity ended up focusing on the visual arts, especially since the mid-1980s, having participated in international exhibitions in Madrid, Brussels, Johannesburg , Barcelona, ​​among other cities.

In 2005 he organized a retrospective at the Museum of Serralves, with special emphasis on the personal exhibitions “A Conclusion of Precedent”, at Culturgest, in 2015, and “Bónus”, in 2017, in a temporary extension of the Museum of Art , Architecture and Technology (MAAT), in Lisbon.

She was honored with the International Association of Art Critics Prize, in the field of Visual Arts, in 2014, and won the EDP Foundation Grand Prize for Art in 2013.

He is represented in public and private collections of entities such as Fundação EDP, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Fundação de Serralves and Fundação ARCO Espanha.

The 42nd edition of ARCOmadrid runs until Sunday and this year returned to pre-pandemic participation levels, with 211 galleries from 36 countries, including 17 from Portugal.

ARCOmadrid, an initiative with a double character, both a commercial space and a cultural space, dedicated the first two days exclusively to professionals and opened its doors this afternoon to the general public.