Galería Freijo

When you think about your business, what are you most proud of?

A gallery that, beyond commercial mediation, promotes artistic lines of work in various media, from site-specific installations, photography, video, documents and archives, to performance-actions, painting and sculpture, establishing a policy of collaborative work with Latin American intellectuals to investigate and enrich new languages in contemporary art on both shores, supporting and disseminating specialised publications.

The Freijo Gallery is currently developing a parallel programme in its mezzanine space, LZ46, directed by the artist and manager Ramón Mateos, in which it experiments with formats that are not the usual ones, seeking to dynamise the gallerys general programme by providing new content and new perspectives.

What is the history of your commerce?

Angus Freijo, after years of curatorial work, consultancy and collection building in Mexico and Spain, decided to open his space, Galería Freijo in Madrid, in 2010, with the aim of presenting small curatorial projects by artists, sometimes ignored by the market, but who have been creators of seminal languages for future generations - Germán Cueto, Roberto Fernández Balbuena, Felipe Ehrenberg, José Iges, Darío Villalba, Elena Asins, Bartolomé Ferrando, Juan Cuenca, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Antoni Abad. ..

The gallery was founded with the aim of creating a space of visibility and diffusion for conceptual art, visual poetry and performance. With a programme focused on generating a space for dialogue between Latin American artists, mainly Mexican, and Spanish artists, weaving intellectual bridges between the two continents.

What is your professional experience?

Angus Freijo moved to Mexico City in 1976 and worked as a journalist, publishing in newspapers such as El Universal, El Heraldo and Ovaciones, among others. In Mexico he established a close relationship with the Spanish Republican exile community. In Mexico, he met and later researched the painters who had chosen Mexico as their host country. Many of these artists remained forgotten both in Mexico and in Spain.

In 2010, after years of curatorial work, consultancy and the formation of collections in Mexico and Spain, as previously indicated, he decided to open a space (Galería Freijo) in Madrid.

How has covid 19 affected your business?

The two exhibitions presented at the Freijo Gallery were quarantined for two months, which has greatly affected their visibility, dissemination and sales possibilities. The gallery has also been forced to postpone some of the exhibitions scheduled for these months.

However, the quarantine period has given rise to a new virtual programme for the gallery: www.virtual.galeriafreijo.com.