Fandangos: The Most Important European Art Scandalpaper!

Fandangos is an artist-led magazine-newspaper founded by Raúl Marroquín in Maastricht, the Netherlands, in December 1973, in collaboration with Marjo Schumans and Anton Verhoeven. Emerging from the bulletin board of the Jan Van Eyck Academie, it began as a playful and provocative communication experiment—part game, part pamphlet—created to spark conversation around art.

Both a cornerstone of self-published artist media and a vital archival document, Fandangos captured the pulse of 1970s artistic practices in Europe. It featured contributions from artists active in Fluxus, conceptual art, visual and concrete poetry, Body Art, Mail Art, and performance. The magazine condensed key dialogues of the era into a dynamic, often irreverent format.

This exhibition, curated by Iván Tovar and Camilo Otero, presents issues one through eight, most of which were printed at the Experimental Department of the Jan Van Eyck Academie during Marroquín’s residency, using silkscreen and offset presses. Some issues also featured early video interviews with artists and figures including Joseph Beuys and María de Monaco, highlighting the publication’s multidisciplinary spirit.