II International Seminar
ARTE!Brasileiros
“Who’s Who in Contemporary Art”
Tuesday 10 September 2013, 9am–5:30pm
Auditório Ibirapuera
Avenida Pedro Álvares Cabral, 0
Ibirapuera Park, Gate 3
São Paulo
ARTE!Brasileiros and Latitude: Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad are delighted to announce the II International Seminar ARTE!Brasileiros, which will take place on Tuesday 10 September 2013 in São Paulo. This seminar will bring leading international figures from the art world together to discuss topics around the theme ‘Who’s Who in Contemporary Art.’ Latitude has worked in partnership with magazine ARTE!Brasileiros to put together the panel and will be taking some attendees to the Mercosul and Curitiba Biennales as part of an Art Immersion Trip upon completion of the Seminar.
The II International Seminar ARTE!Brasileiros takes the objective of looking at what goes on behind the scenes in the international contemporary art world. Panel members come from leading Brazilian and international institutions and have achieved notable work in areas such as production, exhibitions, acquisition and communication, working in roles such as curators, directors of institutions, artists, critics, historians and project managers. The Seminar will have four panel discussions, asking questions such as ‘To what extent does the market define artistic production?,’ ‘What are the new spaces for disseminating and distributing contemporary art?,’ ‘What is the impact of contemporary art on cultural institutions?’ and ‘What are the new geopolitical horizons in art?’ The seminar will be broadcast live via a live stream on the ARTE!Brasileiros site, www.revistabrasileiros.com.br.
Highlights of international panellists include Joan Young (Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Guggenheim Museum, New York), Julieta Aranda (Founder and Publisher of e-flux journal, New York), Marieke Van Hal (Director and Founder of the Biennale Foundation, The Netherlands), Francesco Manacorda (Artistic Director of Tate Liverpool), Paula Tsai (Curator, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art – UCCA, China), Polly Staple (Director of the Chisenhale Gallery, UK), Chantal Wong (Head of Strategy and Special Projects at the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong), and Sandra Mulliez (Founder of SAM Art Projects, France).
Highlights of Brazilian professionals who will be participating in the seminar include Marcelo Araujo (State Secretary of Culture of São Paulo), Eduardo Saron (Director of Itaú Cultural), Danilo Santos Miranda (Regional Director of SESC), Moacir dos Anjos (Researcher and Curator of the Fundação Joaquim Nabucco), Solange Farkas (Director and Curator of the Cultural Association VideoBrasil), Fabio Cypriano (art critic and Professor at PUC-SP), and Daniel Rangel (Artistic Director of ICCo).
Since the project started in 2007, Latitude: Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad has brought over one hundred influential buyers, curators, journalists and directors of international art institutions to Brazil through Art Immersion Trips. This initiative has helped to double the number of international curators working within the Brazilian Contemporary art scene and this current project with ARTE!Brasileiros will expand on past efforts by not only introducing a group of international guests to the Brazilian art scene, but also by creating additional opportunities for exchange with leading figures from Brazilian arts organisations through the II International Seminar ARTE!Brasileiros. Latitude has also recently launched their second Sectorial Study and new website www.latitudebrasil.org. Further details about the Seminar and Art Immersion Trip will be included on the website.
About Latitude: Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad
As of 2012, Latitude is the new title of the International Promotion Project for Brazilian Art Business, which is a partnership between the Brazilian Association of Contemporary Art (ABACT) and Apex-Brasil (Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency). Originally established in 2007, this project has maintained the core goal of creating business opportunities for the art sector mainly through cultural promotion activities. Currently, 46 primary market art galleries participate in Latitude, representing more than 1,000 artists. In 2011, Latitude commissioned a groundbreaking study on the Brazilian contemporary art market coordinated by Dr. Ana Letícia Fialho. Bringing to light key facts and important data on the activities of Brazilian contemporary art galleries, the first study is now updated on a yearly basis and has become an essential tool for building strategy.
About Brasileiros Publishing
Brasileiros Publishing was created by Brazilian journalist and photographer Hélio Campos Mello and educator Patricia Rousseaux in 2007, with additional collaboration by journalists Ricardo Kotscho and Nirlando Beirão. Today, after six years of activity, Brasileiros are responsible for publishing a range of titles including ARTE!Brasileiros, a bimonthly magazine currently in its 20th edition on Brazilian and international art. Brasileiros also publishes INOVAÇÃO!Brasileiros, a bimonthly magazine on its tenth edition focusing on scientific research and innovation. Alongside the editorial they produce, they also present Seminars, which bring together experts from various fields to discuss topics relevant to Brazilian society.
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