Held from February 15 through February 19, the most recent edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid (ARCO-Madrid) presented the awards that this organization grants to recognize individuals and institutions that stand out in the field of contemporary art at the international level. Since the Fair's creation in 1987, the Asociación de Amigos de ARCO has presented a series of awards called "A" Collecting Awards to honor national and international excellence in the world of art collecting. This mention was conceived to acknowledge and encourage the work involved in maintaining an art collection. Victorino Rosón from Galicia, an entrepreneur and attorney by trade, received the award in the category of Private Collecting. Rosón has been involved with collecting since the 1990s and began his collection by acquiring works by artists from Galicia. Today his private collection includes a vast repertoire of international works with an emphasis on contemporary art. The Private Collecting award was presented to the Fundación Banco Santander. This bank¿s collection contains more than one thousand pieces created throughout five centuries of art history-from the 16th Century to the 20th Century. Additionally, ARCO has continuously worked to support contemporary art and the organization of exhibitions. This year, the event brought to Europe for the very first time a selection of the most important pictorial works from the Rubell Family Collection. Lastly, the International Collecting award was presented to Han Nefkens, a Dutch collector who lives in Barcelona. Nefkens began the Colección H + N in 2001, with a video installation by Pipilotti Rist. Today, the collection includes photographs, videos, installations, and paintings. For its part-with a purse of 15,000.00 euros-the ARCOmadrid/BEEP Electronic Art Award aims at promoting the research, production, and exhibition of art associated with new technologies or electronic art, and encouraging the interaction between manufacturers and/or technologies and artists. Selected from a group of 65 proposals entered for the competition, this year the winning work was the sculpture entitled Maquina Stella (Stella Machine) by Mexican artist Marcela Armas, represented by the Galería Arróniz. This piece was the result of research centered on energy and sustainability, the vulnerable nature of machines, and the unsustainable society we have created through the years. Sponsored by the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), the Community of Madrid Award for best Young Artist this year went to Canadian artist Marcel Dzama for his work entitled Rebellion Lay in Her Way, exhibited in the stand of Madrid-based Galería Helga de Alvear. Created in 2004, the purpose of this award is to recognize the best work, in the visual arts field, exhibited by an artist under the age of 40. The Community of Madrid acquires the winning work to incorporate it in its Contemporary Art Collection. Likewise, the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in collaboration with Heineken, presented the second edition of the Heineken-CA2M Award. Heineken selected and acquired one of the exhibited works and donated it to the CA2M's collection. This year the Award went to the installation entitled The Body in Crisis (Distance, Repetition, and Representation), by Dutch artists Falke Pisano, represented by the Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam. Lastly, illycaffè presented its fifth edition of the Illy Sustain Art Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize young Latin American artists under the age of 35, who have their works exhibited at Solo Projects: Focus Latinoamérica. Endowed with a purse of 15,000.00 euros, the award offers winners the opportunity to design a project for a new set of coffee cups for the illy Art Collection. This year the award went to Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa-represented by the Galería Isabel Aninat in Chile-for her work entitled Minimal Secret. According to the jury, this work was chose...