Babelia, the cultural supplement of EL PAÍS, has received the GAC award, organized by the Association of Art Galleries of Catalonia and the Art Barcelona association, for the best media. According to Pilar Parcerisas, president of the jury, the award is given to a supplement that is “rigorous in its chronicles and interviews, and aware of the mediation that a widely available medium can exert in the artistic context.” The ceremony was held at the MACBA within the framework of the Nit del Galerisme, which this year celebrates its seventeenth edition, and was attended by authorities such as the Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga and the Councilor for Culture and Industries, Xavier Marcé .
The GAC Awards They are made up of two types of distinctions. On the one hand, two honorary awards, chosen by the two entities that organize the awards, celebrate the careers of an artist and gallerist, while the other nine are proposed by a jury made up of the critic Juan Bufill, the artist Gino Rubert, and the commissioners Àlex Mitrani and Natàlia Chocarro. Next to Babelia, the careers of the artist Jordi Pericot and the gallery owner Miguel Marco have been awarded. Also the programming of the galleries Mayoral, A|34, Artur Ramon Art, Palmadotze i RocioSantaCruz, the exhibition Miró-Picasso; the Banc Sabadell Art Collection; and the critic Eudald Camps.
According to Benito Padillapresident of the GAC, these awards serve to vindicate the contribution of galleries as artistic and committed spaces: “When you think of art galleries you think of commercial spaces, but it is important to vindicate the role they played as coercive energy against the Franco regime , allowing society to tune in to the avant-garde, latest trends and, therefore, to freedom.”
Jordi Amat and Álex Vicente, respectively coordinator of Babelia and responsible for the art pages, received the award from Chocarro in a relaxed event, agilely led by Laura Sangrà, and in which everyone promised not to make speeches but everyone ended up taking advantage of the moment to claim the galleries as a vehicle for transmitting culture, the lack of economic support for art or the importance of historical memory.
In the words of Sangrà, as spokesman for the jury, although in Babelia “Literature occupies a prominent space, reviews, with exceptional critical character, the stage, plastic, musical and cinematographic billboard of the moment, with the help of internationally renowned specialists in a combinatorial art of communicating vessels that radiates with its own light.” Both Sangrà and Amat recalled the thirty-three years that the supplement has been published: “Since the first issue in October 1991, art has been present,” said Amat. He added that “Babelia It is a supplement that is thought from Madrid and Barcelona, but also from all of Europe.” And the jury considered it “a reference edition in the Spanish language throughout the world.” For his part, Vicente pointed out that work in culture is always collective, and he named and thanked the design, editing and criticism team of Babelia.
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