[english] SP-Arte/2016 Closing Statement

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April2016
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Held in the historic Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, designed by Pritzker Laureate Oscar Niemeyer in São
Paulo, the 12th edition of SP-Arte presented a dynamic mix of emerging and established Brazilian and
international artists while the Fair’s curated sections continued to encourage cutting edge programs and
artworks that challenged attendees.
SP-Arte/2016 welcomed 124 participating galleries (86 Brazilian and 38 international) and featured over
two thousand artists across its six sections: Main, Solo, Showcase, Design, Open Plan and Performance.
Even fresher and more innovative this year, the edition had 140 events surrounding the Fair, throughout
the city.
Attendance reached a record 27,000 visitors over the five days of the Fair, including illustrious art world
figures such as Ella Fontanals-Cisneros (CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art), Maxine and Stuart Frankel
(Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation), Betty and Brack Duker, Franklin Sirmans (Pérez Art Museum
Miami), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Joan Weinstein (Getty Foundation, Los
Angeles), Helen Molesworth (MOCA, Los Angeles) and Kimberli Meyer (MAK Center for Art and
Architecture, Los Angeles). Strong works and high attendance were supported by a series of events,
including openings, private collection visits, panel discussions, book launches, performances, and guided
tours that made the week a success.
SP-Arte Director, Fernanda Feitosa, said, “It was a beautiful edition with a positive atmosphere, excellent
selection of works presented by the galleries, and a diverse public with a common interest in art. Our 12th
edition was also notable because of the collective effort seen among professionals, institutions, art collectors
and art enthusiasts working together to exceed expectations of the present moment in Brazil and help the
country restore through art.”
SP-Arte/2016 highlights include:
Exhibitor focal points
A wide range of emerging and established Brazilian and international artists were featured at the Fair.
Highlights among Brazilian galleries included Sergio Camargo at Almeida & Dale; Raymundo Colares at
Ronie Mesquita and Bandeira + Mary Vieira at Pinakotheke. Other Brazilian names such as Helio Oiticica,
Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Waltercio Caldas, Tunga, Mira Schendel, Adriana Varejão and Beatriz Milhazes
also exhibited important works at the Fair.
International highlights featured Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lucio Fontana and Jannis Kounelis at Cardi and
Continua; Francis Picabia at Michael Werner; Giorgio Morandi, Oscar Murillo and Yayoi Kusama at David
Zwirner; Damien Hirst at White Cube; Damián Ortega and Gabriel Kuri at kurimanzutto; David Shrigley at
Stephen Friedman; Hamish Fulton at espaivisor and Henri Chopin at Richard Saltoun.
SP-Arte Week Program
Supported by Volvo and Heineken, gallery nights offered a unique opportunity for galleries to host guests
over two lively and entertaining evenings. The Fair kicked off the week on the Saturday and Sunday prior to
the Fair opening, with exhibitions by Haroon Gunn-Salie, Antonio Dias, René Francisco, Erika Verzutti and
the launching of Luciana Brito’s new gallery. Luisa Strina and Casa Triângulo also held openings in new
gallery spaces during the Fair week.
In addition to the gallery openings, there were also special museum openings at Masp- Sao Paulo Museum
of Art (Histórias da Infância), Tomie Ohtake (Sebastião Salgado) and MAC USP- Museum of
Contemporary Art (Oswaldo Vigas).
New Design sector
SP-Arte/2016 featured a new Design sector entirely dedicated to the country’s leading furniture and
lighting designers, highlighting the most renowned names in Brazilian design, such as Lina Bo Bardi,
Irmãos Campana, Carlos Motta, Oscar Niemeyer, Claudia Moreira Salles, Jorge Zalszupin, and Hugo
França to name a few, among the selection of 23 exhibitors. “The design sector is now part of SP-Arte and
São Paulo’s calendar. It was very enriching for the Fair to have the art world in dialogue with design and
architecture”, says Feitosa.
Talks
In addition to its gallery program, SP-Arte/2016 presented Talks, panel discussions organized with a
Brazilian art magazine, ARTE!Brasileiros, featuring prominent artists, collectors, curators, museum
directors and art historians, including Mari Carmen Ramírez, Franklin Sirmans, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti,
Francesco Arena, Radames Juni Figueroa, Daniel de Paula, Seb Patane, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Guillermo
Kuitca and Joan Weinsten.
Over 800 people attended the talk given by Pritzker Prize-winning French architect Jean Nouvel, who
discussed his career and the challenges facing architecture and public spaces in the future with Folha de São
Paulo journalist Raul Juste Lores and Monolito editor Fernando Serapião.
Awards
SP-Arte/2016 continues with its exemplary programme of partnerships with institutions to create and
sustain relationships that support art initiatives in Brazil throughout the year.
The Illy Sustain Art Award, which was founded in 2007 to support Latin American artists under the age of
35, was presented to artist Dalton Paula, represented by Galeria Sé, and who became an absolut hit of the
Fair.
Marcelo Moscheta and Bruno Baptistelli, represented by Galeria Vermelho, and Galeria Pilar respectively,
were winners of the 2016 ICCo/SP-Arte Award. The award, sponsored by SP-Arte and ICCo - Instituto de
Cultura Contemporânea offers artists an opportunity to participate in residency programs abroad.
Baptistelli will go to Residency Unlimited (RU), at New York and Moscheta to Flora Arts + Natura in
Honda, Colombia.
As an outcome of the 1st edition of SP-Arte/Videobrasil Award, Galpão Video Brasil opened the
exhibition Bittersweet, by Haroon Gunn-Salie composed of film, photography and installation, aiming to
tell the story behind the environmental disaster at Mariana, Brazil. The artist is represented by Goodman
Gallery and Mendes Wood DM.
Open Plan Sector
After a huge success in 2015, Open Plan, a section dedicated to large works and installations, returned to
exclusively present commissioned works by SP-Arte, organized and curated by XII Cuenca Biennial
curator, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti.
Performance Sector
SP-Arte received an incredible response to its call for applicants for its second Performance sector, which,
in partnership with Centro Universitário Belas Artes, explored the role of the body in contemporary art.
The final selection of artists were chosen via a selection process that was open to the public, as well as a jury
panel composed of Cauê Alves, assistant curator of the Brazil pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennial, and
Solange Farkas, curator and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil. The section included works by
Alexandre D’Angeli, Renan Marcondes, Elfie Nitze, Karen Cruz, Baillistas, Cadu Ribeiro, N Jeans, Luanna
Jimenes and Lucas Takahaschi.
Donations
SP-Arte‘s unique donation program encourages public and private collections in the country to enrich
museum collections, this year museums receiving the donations are MAC-USP, MAM-SP, MAR and
Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo.
SP-Arte/2016 is supported by main sponsors Itaú, Oi and Iguatemi São Paulo with the cultural support of
Oi Futuro and the State of São Paulo and also by co-sponsors Volvo, Officine Panerai, Amsterdam Sauer,
Perrier Jouet, Heineken and Minalba.
MAINSECTORGALLERIES
AgnèsMonplaisir,Paris/AlmeidaeDale,SãoPaulo/AM,BeloHorizonte/AnitaSchwartz,Riode
Janeiro / Arte 57, São Paulo / ArtEEdições, São Paulo / Athena, Rio de Janeiro / Athena
Contemporânea,RiodeJaneiro/Babel,SãoPaulo/Baró,SãoPaulo/BereniceArvani,SãoPaulo/
Bergamin & Gomide,SãoPaulo/Blain|Southern,London/ Blau Projects,SãoPaulo/ Bolsa de
Arte, Porto Alegre,SãoPaulo/ Carbono,SãoPaulo/ Cardi,Milan/Casa Nova,SãoPaulo/Casa
Triângulo, São Paulo / Celma Albuquerque, Belo Horizonte / Choque Cultural, São Paulo /
Colecionador,RiodeJaneiro/ Continua,SanGimignano/Dan,SãoPaulo/ Dan Contemporânea,
SãoPaulo/ David Zwirner,NewYork/ Eduardo Fernandes,SãoPaulo/ Elba Benítez,Madrid/
Eliana Benchimol, Rio de Janeiro / Estação, São Paulo / Fernando Pradilla, Madrid / Fólio, São
Paulo/FortesVilaça,SãoPaulo/FrancoNoero,Turin/Frente,SãoPaulo/GustavoRebello,Rio
de Janeiro / Hilda Araujo, São Paulo / Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro / kurimanzutto, Mexico City /
Leme,SãoPaulo/LemosdeSá,NovaLima/Lisson,London/LucianaBrito,SãoPaulo/Luciana
Caravello,RiodeJaneiro/ Luisa Strina,SãoPaulo/ Lume,SãoPaulo/ LURIXS:,RiodeJaneiro/
ManoelMacedo,BeloHorizonte/MarceloGuarnieri,RibeirãoPreto/MarciaBarrozodoAmaral,
RiodeJaneiro/MariliaRazuk,SãoPaulo/MendesWoodDM,SãoPaulo/MichaelWerner,New
York/ Millan,SãoPaulo/ Mul.ti.plo,RiodeJaneiro/ Murilo Castro,BeloHorizonte/ El Museo,
Madrid/ Nara Roesler,SãoPaulo/ neugerriemschneider,Berlin/ Studio Nobrega,SãoPaulo/
Oscar Cruz, São Paulo/ Other Criteria, London / Paulo Darzé, Salvador / Paulo Kuczynski, São
Paulo / Pequena Galeria/Mario Cohen, São Paulo / Piero Atchugarry, Pueblo Garzón /
Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro / Polígrafa, Barcelona / A Ponte, São Paulo / Rabieh, São Paulo /
Raquel Arnaud,SãoPaulo/ Referência,Brasília/ Ricardo Camargo,SãoPaulo/ Roberto Alban,
Salvador/RonieMesquita,RiodeJaneiro/SergioGonçalves,RiodeJaneiro/SilviaCintra+Box
4, Rio de Janeiro / SIM, Curitiba / Simões de Assis, Curitiba / Steiner, São Paulo / Stephen
Friedman,London/ SUR,Montevideo/ Utópica,SãoPaulo/ Vermelho,SãoPaulo/ White Cube,
London/Ybakatu,Curitiba/Zipper,SãoPaulo.
SOLOSECTORGALLERIES
Andrea Rehder Arte, São Paulo / Boiler, Curitiba / Collage Habana, Havana / C. galeria, Rio de
Janeiro/Inox,RiodeJaneiro/k²o,Brasília/Mamute,PortoAlegre/Mezanino,SãoPaulo/Pasto,
BuenosAires/Pilar,SãoPaulo/Room8,SãoPaulo/RosaBarbosa,SãoPaulo/SOLOSHOWS,São
Paulo/Superfície,SãoPaulo.
GALERIASDOSETORSHOWCASE
Andrea Rehder Arte, São Paulo / Boiler, Curitiba / Collage Habana, Havana / C. galeria, Rio de
Janeiro/Inox,RiodeJaneiro/k²o,Brasília/Mamute,PortoAlegre/Mezanino,SãoPaulo/Pasto,
BuenosAires/Pilar,SãoPaulo/Room8,SãoPaulo/RosaBarbosa,SãoPaulo/SOLOSHOWS,São
Paulo/Superfície,SãoPaulo.
GALERIASDOSETOROPENPLAN
AsierMendizabal[ProjecteSD,Barcelona];ChristodoulosPanayiotou[Rodeo,London];Danielde
Paula [Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo]; Francesco Arena [Sprovieri, London]; Hector Zamora
[Luciana Brito, São Paulo]; Marcelo Cidade [Vermelho, São Paulo]; Radamés Juni Figueroa
[Ultravioleta,GuatemalaCity];SebPatene[Fonti,Naples];VictoriaFu[SimonPreston,NewYork].
GALERIASDEDESIGN
Artemobilia,SãoPaulo/Baraúna,SãoPaulo/BelasArtes,SãoPaulo/CarlosMotta,SãoPaulo/
ColetivoAmordeMadre,SãoPaulo/DPOT,SãoPaulo/ETEL,SãoPaulo/FirmaCasa,SãoPaulo
/HugoFrança,SãoPaulo/ItamarMusse,Salvador/JacquelineTerpins,SãoPaulo/Jader
AlmeidaparaDPOT,SãoPaulo/LegadoArte,SãoPaulo/LLUSSÁ,SãoPaulo/ManecoQuinderé,
RiodeJaneiro/MartonEstúdio,SãoPaulo/MercadoModerno,RiodeJaneiro/OVO,São
Paulo/PassadoCompostoSéculoXX,SãoPaulo/PéPalito,BeloHorizonte/SandraeMarcio,
BeloHorizonte/Teo,SãoPaulo/ThomazSaavedra,SãoPaulo.
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