An artwork in which optical readers transform celluloid into musical compositions has won the €10,000 first prize in the PowSOLO Awards, created by Colección SOLO together with the Dutch collective, Powland Network. The winning piece, selected from 116 entries to the international open call, is by the artist Enrique de Castillo. His piece, entitled Phonoptics Readers, creates a constant stream of musical compositions by reading patterns designed on cinematographic film.
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Juan Díaz-Faes, Ryan Heshka and Sergio Mora team up with Spanish fine jewellery firm, Joyería Suarez, to produce Silver Squad, a collection of 14 pieces crafted in sterling silver, infused with pop-culture energy and vintage chic. Silver Squad reflects the aim of…
On 17th September we will announce the winners of the PowSOLO Awards in a ceremony broadcast live with our partners and friends @powland.tv.
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Limited by SOLO is a new space for exclusive, curated and certified artworks. Developed by Colección SOLO, this project is an invitation to share, enjoy and support international contemporary art.
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Colección SOLO launches its new exhibition, Still Human , an invitation to reflect on our capacity to relate to what’s new. David Altmejd, Mario Klingemann, Tomoo Gokita, Neo Rauch, Nina Saunders, Nam June Paik, Evru/Zush and Miriam Cahn feature in this dialogue on how…
Colección SOLO and Powland Network Powcademy, an Amsterdam-based collective dedicated to promoting sound art, launch the Powsolo Awards to recognise the best works in this artistic discipline.
The awards have been launched with the aim of supporting and recognising the best international sound artworks through…
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Packing is always a nightmare. Whether you’re heading for a full-blown adventure or squeezing your stuff into tiny hand luggage, getting ready for a trip is a challenge in itself. More so for the artist, Mario Klingemann, whose works are…
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“I’m a storyteller and an observer. And I don’t want to pretend to be someone I’m not.” Mu Pan (Taichung City, 1976) is unequivocal. Visual tales are intrinsic to human experience, the places we go to discover new worlds and…
Espacio SOLO Madrid is currently hosting the most ambitious retrospective to date and first museum presentation by the artist, Mu Pan. The exhibition brings together over 20 works by this master of visual narrative, many of which have never been shown in Europe before,…
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Think KAWS and Companion immediately comes to mind. The cartoon character with X-ed out eyes, blobby bone ears and Disneyesque gloves has come to be synonymous with the Brooklyn-based phenomenon, Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS. Since its first appearance back…
Juan Herreros, the architect who designed SOLO’s home, chats to us about this extraordinary project, winner of the prestigious Madrid College of Architects Awards 2018.
From the outset, Espacio SOLO was conceived as a space in permanent flux. It houses an art collection but is…
If you were a urinal, where would you rather live? In a bathroom or on a gallery wall? In 1917, Marcel Duchamp turned a manufactured piss pot into a gallery exhibit named Fountain; the work caused an earthquake in the arts establishment and is…
In 2002, The New York Times baptised him as “the painter who came in from the cold.” Eight years later, Vogue Italia made it even simpler: Neo Rauch is a “contemporary art master.” So whether you’re into Cold War spy glamour or not,…
When it comes politics, Marcel Dzama is unequivocal: “I think it’s an important time for artists to make as much noise about it as we can,” he told Juxtapoz magazine earlier this year. Now, his personal brand of subversion arrives to Madrid in the…
“I don’t really consider myself art-world material,” Danny Fox told GQ magazine in late 2016. This self-taught painter is the archetypal outsider: a stylistic loner, doing his own thing, his naïve creations apparently out of synch with aesthetic trends. Yet in that…
Mighty Mouse has lost the will to fight. He kneels on the ground, distraught, his face in his hands, while two smiling children look on, apparently delighting in the superhero’s distress. This is Broken Hearts by Victor Castillo, the title work for…
With Kenichi Hoshine’s oil painting, Fever – the latest edition to Colección SOLO –well on its way to Madrid, it’s the ideal time to discover this talented Brooklyn-based artist. His work joins a select group of pieces by figures such as Karim…
“It’s one of those gloomy things like cancer. It’ll happen to you. You’ll have a heart attack from political correctness,” said lifelong mischief maker, Peter Saul, during an interview in New York last month. No chance of suffering death by diplomacy at…
The exciting new installation, Skate Wall 01, by Spanish artist Juan Díaz-Faes, puts the spotlight on skate culture at Colección SOLO, home to boarding luminaries such as Haroshi and former pro skaters like San Francisco-based Andrew Schoultz. Whether as inspiration,…
“Peter Saul demands our full attention,” says Philipp Demandt, Director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Forerunner of the Pop Art movement, pioneer of Bad Painting and eternal outsider, Peter Saul has been poking critical fun at contemporary society since the 1950s, yet has…
“Without music, life would be a mistake,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols. It’s a view shared by the Musseu del Disseny de Barcelona, which this week opens David Bowie Is, curated by the Victoria & Albert Museum. With over 300…
From Evrugo Mental State to Nobson Newtown, from Clown Squid to Whoriders and Lizardmen, parallel worlds and their intriguing inhabitants form an essential part of Colección SOLO.
“People see it as a virtual or imaginary space but to me it’s absolutely real,” says the landmark Spanish…
“In China, ancient ceramics tell long tales,” says Li Xiaofeng. And there’s certainly no shortage of storytelling material in this artist’s trademark pieces, spectacular dresses and suits sculpted from shards of broken porcelain, meticulously rearranged.
Although he originally trained as a muralist, Li Xiaofeng…
“When localism meets globalisation, it does not necessarily have to lead to confrontations; the seamless divide can be overcome and mended by outstanding artists,” says Wu Tien-Chang. And his own work, developed over a thirty-year career across a range of different media, goes…
Although best known for his drawings, Marcel Dzama is certainly no newcomer to film. His latest video, for the indie rock group Spoon, oozes the distinctive, Dada-inspired style that has earned his work a place in top-notch collections including MOMA, New York and…
The Spanish capital turns art world hotspot this week. ARCOMadrid takes centre stage, bringing together 200 galleries from 27 different countries, while a huge array of smaller events floods the city with emerging talents from across the globe.
It was Spanish artist Antonio Crespo Foix,…
Cult figure, punk icon and irrepressible lampooner, Raymond Pettibon has chronicled the shifting face of US culture for well over thirty years. From politicians to sporting figures, celebrities to counter-cultural heroes, every aspect of American popular culture has come under Pettibon’s trademark pen-and-ink…
Danish artist and psychotherapist Johan Deckmann says that therapy can happen anytime, anyplace. It’s simply “an interaction between a person and something else that makes sense.” Fortunately for viewers, his fake self-help publications perfectly fit the bill.
Deckmann uses books as his canvasses, breathing…
Colección SOLO co-founder and curator David Cantolla is clear on what he’s looking for: “Artists in touch with contemporary popular culture, a blend of local and global influences, of tradition and modernity…and the ideas that connect us all as human beings.” At Miami…
It’s one of the hottest dates on the art-lover’s calendar: Miami Art Week. Collectors flock to the sunshine state for what has become an all-encompassing celebration of creative energy, with over 20 different art fairs, museum events, public art projects and partying. Colección SOLO,…