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Sala de Arte Joven opens a free exhibition on how a work of art comes into being
Sala de Arte Joven once again focuses on emerging Madrid artists with Bitácoras. El valor de lo invisible, an exhibition bringing together ten artists under 35 and changing the usual perspective: here, what matters is as much the finished work as everything that happened before it came into being.
The exhibition can be visited from 16 September to 8 November on Avenida de América and is part of Circuitos 2026, one of the Community of Madrid's longest-running calls supporting young artists. Admission will be free throughout the period.
The tour combines drawing, sculpture, installation, expanded painting and works linked to data and technology. Diego Lara works with plant forms; Sonsoles Masiá recovers ethnobotanical knowledge; and Juan Pablo Pacheco uses the Manzanares river as a starting point to speak about landscape, water and technological systems.
Ana Daganzo moves between phosphenes, digital errors and visual perception, while Romina Casile brings work experiences and manual gestures into the realm of sculpture and performance. In every case, visitors find traces of the process, rather than only an isolated work on a wall or a plinth.
Memory also appears as a connecting thread. Lucía Gutiérrez transforms the studio into a kind of pictorial diary, while Dandara Catete focuses on the marks time leaves on homes and urban spaces, from damp stains to worn surfaces.
Technology is another front in the exhibition. Valeria Landete and Pedro Núñez, from Estudio POLARI, turn data on the environmental impact of artificial intelligence into artistic material. Pablo Quesada works with the tension between fragility and resistance, and Verónica Márquez takes painting towards formats that function almost as poems installed in space.
The Sala de Arte Joven will open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 20:30, while on Sundays it can only be visited in the morning. Avenida de América station, connected to Metro lines 4, 6, 7 and 9 and numerous bus routes, leaves the venue a few minutes' walk away.
The opening on 16 September will also include specific activities, and group visits may be arranged during the exhibition. The proposal thus turns a relatively small room in the Salamanca neighbourhood into a place to look at art from within: not as something that appears finished, but as a succession of tests, doubts, errors and decisions that normally never get exhibited.