2–6 April 2014
VIP preview: 2 April 2014
Public dates: 3–6 April 2014
Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
Parque do Ibirapuera, Portão 3
São Paulo
Brazil
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SP-Arte is delighted to announce additional details for its 10th edition, taking place from 2 to 6 April 2014. As Latin America’s leading art fair, SP-Arte will feature 136 galleries from 18 countries around the globe. The fair continues to expand its representation of international galleries and artists through its three exhibitor sectors: Main, Solo, and Showcase. The fair’s new sector, Solo, organised by prominent Brazilian Curator and Director of Inhotim, Rodrigo Moura, presents a variety of galleries each exhibiting a single artist, and the Showcase sector returns for its second year showing three artists from emerging galleries with strong curatorial programmes. The fair will also host talks with renowned curators and artists as part of Adriano Pedrosa’s Dialogues series.
The Solo sector makes its debut with 13 cutting-edge art galleries from 10 countries, all invited by Rodrigo Moura and focused on the work of a single artist. One of Solo’s defining attributes is the inclusion of historical works by three influential, female artists now in their 80s: Olga de Amaral at Agnès Monplaisir (Paris), Geta Bratescu, who will present a large-scale installation previously shown at the 2013 Moscow Biennale at Ivan Gallery, and Anna Bella-Geiger at Henrique Faria Fine Arts (New York), who will show work that spans her nearly six-decade career. In contrast to these three historical presentations will be works by younger artists, such as Chilean artist Manuela Viera-Gallo at Instituto de Visión (Bogotá); work by Peruvian artist David Zink Yi including photographs from his “Untitled” series depicting the Ayachucho silver mine in central Peru at 80m2 (Lima); and a powerful sculptural installation which will re-create some of the great paintings of Caravaggio in three dimensional form by Argentinean artist Mariana Telleria at Ruth Benzacar (Buenos Aires).
In its second year, the Showcase sector has increased to 23 exhibitors and each gallery will focus its stand on the exhibition of three artists. Through this sector, the 2014 edition of the fair will introduce a vast selection of international galleries that have not taken part in SP-Arte before, including Plan B Gallery (Berlin), Rolf Art (Buenos Aires), Galerie Esther Woerdehoff (Paris), Johannes Vogt Gallery (New York), Gallery Nosco (London) and Hus Gallery (London). Highlights of artists to be featured in the Showcase sector include work by João Paulo Barbosa and Tiago Santana at A Casa da Luz Vermelha from Brasilia, Brazil; work by Katja Loher, Cris Bierrenbach and Rosangela Dorazio at Galeria Lourdina Jean Rabieh from São Paulo, Brazil; work by Bettina Vaz Guimarães, Fernanda Valadares and Heleno Bernardi at Myrine Vlavianos Arte Contemporânea from Florianópolis, Brazil and work by Lauren Seiden and Rodrigo Bueno at Gallery Nosco from London, UK.
The two exhibitor sectors, Solo and Showcase, will be concentrated on the ground floor of the Biennial Pavilion, the modern and contemporary galleries participating in the main sector will be on the first and second floors of the fair as in previous editions.
The Dialogues programme, organised by Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa, will present a series of public talks by leading artists and curators at the fair. On Thursday, 3 April, the artists featured will include Brazilian artists Thiago Martins de Melo, Mabe Bethônico and Anna Bella Geiger. On Friday, 4 April, curators speaking will include Julieta Gonzalez, senior curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico with Pablo Leon de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Ivo Mesquita, Artistic Director of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
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