{"id":3235,"date":"2026-03-05T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsituacions.com\/es\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:20:12","slug":"escristina-lucas-gana-el-premio-pilar-forcada-art-situacions-arcomadrid-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsituacions.com\/en\/noticias\/escristina-lucas-gana-el-premio-pilar-forcada-art-situacions-arcomadrid-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristina Lucas receives the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions – ARCOmadrid 2026 Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cristina Lucas receives the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions – ARCOmadrid 2026 Prize<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sponsored by Honda \u2013 \nGreens, the award \nrecognizes the best \nemerging artwork at \nARCOmadrid 2025.\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a prize of \u20ac15,000, \nthe prize was presented \non Thursday, March 5, at \nthe gallery Albarr\u00e1n \nBourdais stand. \n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Madrid, March 5, 2026.- <\/strong>Today the \nPilar Forcada ART Situacions \u2013 \nARCOmadrid 2026 Prize, worth \n\u20ac15,000, was awarded to Cristina \nLucas, an artist born in Ja\u00e9n and based \nin Madrid. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prize was presented to Galer\u00eda Albarr\u00e1n Bourdais, which represents the award-winning artist, during a very emotional ceremony that paid special tribute to the memory of its founder, Pilar Forcada. The event featured remarks from Maribel L\u00f3pez, Director of ARCOmadrid; Marcel Pascual, Director and Patron of ART Situacions; and jury members Lorena M. de Coral and Ferran Barenblit. The winning work will be incorporated into the ART Situacions collection. \n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prize, first established in 2017, has taken on a particularly special significance since its most recent edition, when it was renamed the Pilar Forcada ART Situacions Prize in memory of the founder and director of ART Situacions, the driving spirit behind the project, who sadly is no longer with us. Her husband, Marcel Pascual, Managing Director of Honda-Greens, has taken up the mantle to continue this initiative, which his wife led with great enthusiasm and success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maribel L\u00f3pez, Lorena M. De Corral, Cristina Lucas, Marcel Pascual i Ferran Barenblit a la cerim\u00f2nia de lliurament. Foto: David Nieto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 
About the winning work <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prize has been awarded to the work D.A.N.C.E (Dynamic Algorithm, Neural Creative Evolution) 3, which is part of a larger series by the artist Cristina Lucas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transparent series \u201cComposiciones\u201d refers to the revolution of big data: data processing, the loss of privacy, and the exponential use of screens and camera-equipped devices that enable constant surveillance. The works are assembled from key elements used in the manufacture of screens, such as cobalt, manganese, nickel, zinc, and lithium. Through the use of these materials\u2014linked to geopolitical conflicts, child labor, and pollution, as well as to the vital development of the human body\u2014Lucas reminds us that materiality is not abstract, but concrete. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D.A.N.C.E (Dynamic Algorithm, Neural Creative Evolution) 3, de 200 x 150 cm, measuring 200 \u00d7 150 cm, is a unique piece made with next-generation electronic components, cobalt, lithium, nickel, manganese, silicon, copper, and resin on transparent acrylic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
About the artist <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through her work, Cristina Lucas reminds us that art is a form of seduction that helps make us aware of what is happening in our society. Interested in the mechanisms of power, she analyzes political and economic structures, dissecting them to reveal the contradictions between official history, reality, and collective memory. \n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working across a variety of media\u2014including sculpture, video, painting, photography, and performance\u2014Lucas confronts the flow of information and structures it into cartographies, installations, or images, creating possible interpretations that nevertheless always remain unfinished. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Works by Cristina Lucas include the performance \u201cHabla\u201d (2008), in which the artist strikes with a hammer a reproduction of Michelangelo Buonarroti\u2019s Moses, alluding to the legend that the artist carved into the knee of his sculpture; as well as pictorial compositions made with the same chemical elements that constitute the human body, produced through the uncontrolled chemical reactions of those elements. With a distinctive satirical style, the artist interprets cultural and political stereotypes and broadens perspectives to incorporate viewpoints drawn from intimacy and everyday life. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work is included in international collections such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris); Fundaci\u00f3 \u201cla Caixa\u201d (Barcelona); Banco de Espa\u00f1a (Madrid); Mudam (Luxembourg); FRAC Lorraine (Metz); IVAM \u2013 Institut Valenci\u00e0 d\u2019Art Modern (Valencia); Kiasma \u2013 National Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki); Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven); Fundaci\u00f3n NMAC Montenmedio (C\u00e1diz); The Coppel Collection (Mexico); and the Bulgari Collection (Rome), among others. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
A Project of Patronage and Passion for Art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aware of the scarcity of opportunities facing the youngest sector of contemporary art, ART Situacions, which arose from the personal desire of the Catalan collector couple Pilar Forcada and Marcel Pascual to contribute to invigorating the artistic fabric, was born in 2011 to promote emerging art through economic support for creation. As a result, two editions have already been held. The first took place in 2012 with Portugal as the guest country and featured the participation of Spanish artists Patricia Dauder, Pepe Cifuentes, Francesc Ruiz, Juan L\u00f3pez D\u00edez, Miki Leal, Jaime de la Jara, Santiago Giralda, Nuria Fuster, and the Portuguese artists Mauro Cerqueira and Carla Filipe. The second was held in 2016 with the Italian artists Ludovica Carbotta, Gabriele de Santis, Anna Franceschini, Diego Marcon, and Alek O. and the Spanish artists Miren Doiz, Jos\u00e9 Guerrero, Rub\u00e9n Guerrero, Teresa Solar Abboud, and Anna Talens. Finally, the third initiative strengthened ties with France and brought together the work of five Spanish artists and five French artists: Elena Aitzkoa, Nora Aurrekoetxea, Luc\u00eda Bay\u00f3n, Aleix Plademunt, and Pablo Capit\u00e1n del R\u00edo, along with the French artists Salom\u00e9 Chatriot, Marie-Luce Nadal, Beno\u00eet Pi\u00e9ron, Elsa Br\u00e8s, and Yoan Sorin. They were selected by a committee formed by Mar\u00eda de Corral, Lorena Mart\u00ednez de Corral, Chus Mart\u00ednez, and Vicent Todol\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the passing of Pilar Forcada in 2021, her husband Marcel Pascual, collector and general manager of Honda-Greens, has taken over the direction of ART Situacions with the will to give continuity to the project in memory of his wife and their shared passion for art for over 50 years. \u201cFor almost half a century we have built together an eclectic and diverse collection, where alongside renowned artists we incorporate works by emerging promises,\u201d says Marcel Pascual. \u201cIt has given us great joy to have contributed with our support to ensuring that a good number of artists have been able to dedicate themselves exclusively to creation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, between 2017 and 2022, ART Situacions convened the annual ART Situacions ARCOmadrid prize to recognize the best work of emerging art at the fair. Its winners have been: Antonio Ballester Moreno (2017), Carlos Irijalba (2018), Patricia G\u00f3mez and Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Gonz\u00e1lez (2019), Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo (2020), Irma \u00c1lvarez-Laviada (2022) and Lara Flux\u00e0 (2025). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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