What's New?
Two new halls and the Ephemeral Museum are just some of the novelties included in this year's edition of the Madrid print fair.

ESTAMPA, the Salón Internacional del Grabado y las Ediciones de Arte Contemporáneo, headed up by Isabel Pérez Morgade, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and brings together in its customary Casa del Campo venue some of Europe's most interesting and innovative editions of serial art, presented by both Spanish and international galleries. As always, the fair's offering is oriented towards affordable art.

Spanish Artist Alexanco Creates Fair's Image
As is the custom in ESTAMPA, the image of this year's fair has been created by a well-known artist, José Luis Alexanco. Alexanco will also enjoy a space in the fair to exhibit his latest digital creations.

This tenth edition of the fair will occupy Pavillion XI, as well as the adjoining convention space. This constitutes an increment in total area up to 11.000 square meters.

Again this year a section dedicated to innovation, Tentaciones de ESTAMPA, will feature artwork created with the help of new technologies. This edition will bring its "Temptations" closer than ever to its public of art lovers, as some of the work shown will literally surround visitors to the fair's leisure areas. Each of these zones constitutes a passageway where the public will take a voyage into the interior of the works.

The Artium Museum
Another novelty this year--and then on a permanent basis in successive editions--will be an invitation to a new museum, either Spanish or international, which includes a section dedicated to contemporary graphic art. By this invitation, the participating museum will enjoy an ideal presentation to the Spanish fine-art-print community. This year's featured museum is the Artium Museum of Vitoria.

One of the most interesting exhibits present at this edition of the fair is the Suite Gaudí de Joan Miró presented by the Fundación Joan Miró, which will also show an exhibit-homage to the Spanish printmaker, Joan Barbará. This exhibt features the artist's complete creative process, including technical aspects.

Spain's Biblioteca Nacional presents two exhibitions for 2002. The first one is their collection of artists' books donated to the National Library in recent years. The second, organized in conjunction with the Museo de Guadalajara, deals with the importance of engravings in the diffusion of the work of artists in other media. This show presents original prints along with their derivative paintings done by historic Spanish painters.

An exhibition organized by the Instituto Cervantes de Siria, will give the Spanish print loving public the opportunity to see the work of contemporary Syrian printmakers. In addition, the Fundación CIEC will show the inedited work of Spanish printmaker, Luis Seoane.

The Image of Madrid
The Madrid city hall is mounting a selection of its permanent collection entitled"The Image of Madrid", which portrays different visions of Spain's capital through the eyes of artists.

The commercial section of the Estampa fair is made up of the stands of more than 100 galleries, both from Spain and the rest of the world. This means the traditional participant counties such as France, Argentina, Portugal, Mexico and Austria, along with new faces from China, Nigeria and Israel.

ESTAMPA 2002 facts:
Date: November 6-10, 2002
Place: Pabellón XI y de Convenciones de la Casa de Campo de Madrid.
Hours: From 12:00 a.m. till 9:00 p.m. nonstop
Admission price: Six euros.
Access: Metro stations: "Alto de Extremadura" (L.6) and "Lago" (L. 10)
Buses: Numbers 31,33, 36, 39 and 65.