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8 | POND (CIRCULAR) (2013), HANS OP DE BEECK. WORK OF BELGIAN ARTIST BROUGHT London. The artist looks at everyday objects and researches
BY GALERIA CONTINUA IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL NAMES IN RECENT YEARS IN their nature, substance, how they react, their values, materiality
THE INTERNATIONAL ART SCENE WITH OFFICES IN SAN GIMIGNANO IN ITALY, BEIJING, and sustainability.
PARIS AND HAVANA
1 | BUILDING LOCATED ON AVENUE D’IÉNA, 51, IN PARIS, WHICH HOSTED PARIS
9 | DANIEL TEMPLON GALLERY, CONSIDERED ONE OF THE TOP TEN GALLERIES IN FRANCE INTERNATIONALE FAIR.
EXPOSED YOU AND ME (2016) BY FRANCESCO CLEMENTE. THE ITALIAN ARTIST HAS
CREATED FOR OVER FOUR DECADES. HIS WORKS HAVE ACHIEVED GREAT INTERNATIONAL 2 | LEFT, CURATOR HANS ULBRICH OBRIST VISITS THE FAIR, IN GALLERIST JAQUELINE
PROMINENCE. BELOW, SILENT, LISTEN (2016) BY CHILEAN IVAN NAVARRO, KNOWN FOR MARTINS ROOM.
HIS COMBINATIONS OF NEON AND FLUORESCENT LIGHTS AND HIS SOCIO-POLITICAL
3 | BELOW, LÂMPADAS UV (2016), SILICON, PLASTER, VARIABLE DIMENSIONS, BY
10 | APPROACH ON THE LEFT, AUS DER SAMMLUNG: AUS EINEM ETNOGRAPHISCHEN BRAZILIAN ARTIST ADRIANO AMARAL
MUSEUM NR. IX (1929), HANNAH HOCH, PRESENTED BY NATALIE SEROUSSI. WOMAN
AHEAD OF HER TIME, THE GERMAN ARTIST WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARIS PALAIS DE TOKYO | PAGES 56 TO 59
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE DADAIST MOVEMENT AND PIONEER OF PHOTOMONTAGE.
BELOW, : * (2016), PAULO NIMER PJOTA, ARTIST REPRESENTED BY MENDES WOOD RODRIGO BRAGA
DM - THE ASCENDING GALLERY HAS RECENTLY OPENED IN NEW YORK
NAVIGATES IN PARIS
PARIS MARKET | PAGE 54
FLEXIBILITY AND WITH MAR INTERIOR

NEW ALTERNATIVES BRAZILIAN ARTIST SELECETD BY SAM PROJECTS, RODRIGO BRAGA
GENTLY OCCUPIES THE FOUNTAINS AND STAIRCASES OF THE PALAIS

GALLERISTS JOIN FORCES IN STANDALONE PROJECTS DE TOKYO AND THE MUSÉE DE LA VILLE

BY PATRICIA ROUSSEAUX BY PATRICIA ROUSSEAUX PHOTO HÉLIO CAMPOS MELLO
THANKS TO THE EAGERNESS OF THE PUBLIC, who RODRIGO BRAGA, who was born in Manaus and raised
permanently seek trends and young talents, the art market is in Recife, Pernambuco by the margins of the Capibaribe
reinventing itself trying to find new and flexible ways to meet River, developed a close relationship with nature. His work,
the needs of a diversity of art consumers. which involves different techniques and forms of expression,
The first art fair ever created was the Cologne Art Market, is obsessively contaminated by his own research and
inaugurated at Germany in 1967. This fair now ranks way reflection of the man-nature relationship. Drawing, painting,
below other important exhibits. The Cologne Art Market was sculpture, photography and video formed the education
followed by the Art Basel in Switzerland. By 2005 there were, of the generation who graduated in 2002 from the School
according to the publication Artnet, 68 fairs. In 2016 this of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Pernambuco. For
number skyrocketed to 270. The market has quadrupled in just Rodrigo, his generation “was little influenced by the market,
11 years. Most fairs succeed in meeting targeted audiences by non-existent at the time in Recife, and largely benefited from
adopting a wider range of concepts. cultural incentive projects.”
In parallel to the major trade fairs in Miami, the Untitled for Awards and scholarships as the Incentive to Artistic Creation,
example, takes place on the beach and has established itself Marc Ferrez Photography Award, the Joaquim Nabuco
in recent years; the Parte Fair in São Paulo had its sixth edition Foundation Grants - Fundaj (Recife, 2007), the Marcantonio
in a new exhibition space - at a club called A Hebraica; and in Vilaca Funarte Fine Arts Award / Ministry of Culture and
Paris, Paris Internationale will have its second edition. the National Network of Visual Arts were decisive for the
With specific characteristics, Internationale is organised development of his career. However, it is after his participation
autonomously by a group of young and rising gallery owners in the video installation Tonus (1, 2 and 3), 2012, in the 30th
who together choose a space to exhibit works created by one São Paulo Biennial, entitled The Imminence of Poetics that
or two artists, in general. Emerging galleries Crèvecoeur, High Braga begins to gain international prominence. In 2014, he
Art, Antoine Levi, Sultana e Gregor Steiger have organised wins the PIPA Award.
themselves to manage the project. This year they have gathered Laurent Le Bom, director of the Musée Picasso and one of the
54 galleries and seven projects in an old building located near members of the SAM Projects Selection Committee - institution
the Arc de Triomphe, which was constructed in 1897. The founded and headed by Brazilian Sandra Hegedüs Mulliez who
building used to be a private hotel, which hosted prominent supports contemporary art projects - has sponsored artists
art collectors such as Calouste Gulbenkian. The project is from around the world to develop site specifics in France. In
supported by the Ricard Foundation. 2015, Le Bom appointed Braga for a project after reviewing
This year the Brazilian gallery Jaqueline Martins, currently his work and the moment of his career. Before Braga actually
dedicated to the research, documentation and presentation of started working exclusively in this project, he wandered around
conceptual artists who work with research of materials, chose the city of Paris for four months. “During my first stay in Paris
to participate in this space and present works of Hudinilson I saw a city dominated by sandy colours and, as I looked closer,
Jr. (1957-2013) and Brazilian artist, born in Ribeirao Preto, it impressed me the numerous organisms embedded in the
Adriano Amaral, who lives and works in Amsterdam since he stones that build the walls and columns of the city. They could
graduated in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London in be small shells or remains of these shells. This made me think
2014. Since then, Amaral has exhibited in Brazil, New York and of the sea, a sea that was once there”, says Braga.

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