Women artists deservedly recognized
Two great references of contemporary art such as Soledad Sevilla and Cristina Iglesias share the limelight in our auction on April 5.
The history of art has featured countless women whose talent and significance was systematically ignored and made invisible. The old structures that governed the artistic system and the excluding dynamics that condemned them to oblivion and relegated them to the simple role of muses, are currently collapsing as a sign symptom of an era that cannot continue reproducing the discriminatory clixes of past times. The need to introduce and integrate women artists in the historiographic narrative has promoted new avenues and research methodologies, whose impact in recent years has led to a symptomatic increase in their presence within museum institutions, as well as in museums. approaches that have dominated traditional hegemonic discourses.
This incipient change of paradigm has been translated into the growing interest of the art market in his work, whose presence (and price) has experienced a significant boom, doubling during the second decade of this century the value of the figures that were registered throughout the first. This trend is especially visible in the field of contemporary art, where the weight of women artists represents an upward value that from Setdart we want to support and consolidate, in this case, hand in hand with two of the great references of contemporary art in our country: Soledad Sevilla and Cristina Iglesias.