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On the 9th, at 8pm, Estação Gallery organizes a visit to an exhibition Gallery; Daniel Lie, Casa Triangulo; Igor Vidor, Leme Gallery and
by Teodoro Dias, who talks about his career, his creative process Luciana Caravello Gallery; Laura Belém, Athena Contemporânea
and the pieces created for the exhibition. and Marcelo Cidade, Galeria Vermelho. In 2018, the program offers
On Tuesday, 10, Nara Roesler Gallery opens the exhibition León a three-month stay at the Delfina Foundation, one of the leading
Ferrari: for a world with no hell, curated by Lisette Lagnado. In the organizations of its kind in London.
occasion, the gallery presents to the public works by the artist that This year, the reader and the visitors can search the cast of artists
become part of its collection. As part of the program, the gallery and the set of works, as well as the complete schedule, on the website
organizes a conference at MAM on Thursday, at 7 pm, with the of the fair www.sp-arte.com.
presence of the artist Regina Silveira, Catherine David (Center
Pompidou), the Argentine curator Vitoria Noorthonn (Museum of EXHIBITION SÃO PAULO | PAGES 24 TO 27
Modern Art of Argentina, MAMBA) and the Mexican curator Pablo
León de la Barra. AHORA JUGUEMOS PARA
On the same day, Vermelho Gallery presents the work by Mauricio
Dias & Walter Riedweg, who dedicate their studies to pieces by the NO DESAPARECER
American Charles Hovland, more specifically with the images that the
photographer made from his ads in New York newspapers in 1970s THE CUBAN ARTIST CARLOS GARAICOA FACES DIFFERENT
and 1980s. In this project, he invited ordinary people to reproduce AUTHORITARIANISMS WITH THE EXIBITION OF HIS UNPUBLISHED
their sexual fantasies for his camera. WORKS IN BRAZIL
Two of the numerous galleries, born in 2017, are going to be presente
for the first time in SP-Arte. Adelina Gallery, by the businessman BY FELIPE MOLITOR
Fabio Luchetti, has exhibition space, courses and workshops. It
opens, also in the week, an exhibition of the DOMA group. The other A FEW HOURS AFTER arriving in Sao Paulo, Carlos Garaicoa was
is Houssein Jarouche Gallery, which, according to its director and walking by the Campos Eliseos, in downtown zone. Despite visiting
founder, the entrepreneur who names the investment, will be the the city already for 20 years, it was like he has never been here.
first space in Brazil dedicated to the practices of Pop Art and its In this region, marked by some of the major social tensions of the
reverberations in contemporary art. São Paulo state capital, the Cuban artist rode his first individual
The traditional and habitué Bahian gallery Paulo Darzé invests this of the year, in Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro. “When you work in a
year in the work of Rubem Valentim, born in Sé neighborhood, in different city, often time is limited and weird. The artists, in the art
Salvador. world, are muddled with a somewhat false idea of the city, far from
His repertoire, of geometric base, points to a syncretism, considering the reality. I like to be able to work here”, he says. The exibition Ser
that his family was had catholic origin, but he ventured through the Urbano, curated by Rodolfo de Athayde, also Cuban, highlights the
world of Umbanda and Candomblé. Friends of Rubem, dead in 1991, latest Garaicoa production through drawings, photographs, models
have united to create an organization with his name. The Rubem and installations carried out in the last ten years.
Valentim Institute was inaugurated in 2017 in Brasilia, with the efforts Since his first works, the artist reflects on movements of construction
by Celso Albano, Paulo Darzé, Jonas Bergamim, Carlos Dale and and dismantling of the urban tissue. The notions of memory, ruin,
Antônio Almeida and the critic Frederico de Morais, among others. power and utopia that he inherits from his Havana are present, for
“It was an old desire of Rubem. He tried to create it in the 70s, but example, in what is perhaps the best-known work of Garaicoa in
he could not do it, “says Paulo Darze. Brazil, Ahora Juguemos a Desaparecer II (2002), a miniature city
Fernando Oliva, curator of MASP and one of the participants of the made with candles in constant replacement installed in Inhotim
Conference Ecos of the South Atlantic, which the Goethe Institut will Institute. The set of works presented now, although designed under
present in Salvador in April, comments that the work of Valentim a European context to cities like Lisbon and Turin, interacts directly
will be rescued by MASP in the second semester, by the references with the socioeconomic status of São Paulo and, above all, brazilian.
that he established with the universe of the Afro-Brazilian cultural After all, the surroundings of the Campos Eliseos suffers from the
and visual matrix, especially with with religiosity. It points to the real estate speculation , from actions based on gentrification as
objects, tools of worship, structures of altars and symbols of gods the construction of the complex Nova Luz, the unknowns about a
represented by Valentine. possible Minhocão Park,- a kind of solution to an elevated causeway
“In Valentim’s pieces, there is a very subtle and precise interpenetration that cross downtown - , and the unsuccessful and criminal expulsion
between the constructive base structure, iconography and color of the cracolândia population. “It is evident that the art of Carlos is
inherited from the Afro-Brazilian magical and religious universe.” not uncommitted. It becomes more complex, with other layers, by
In the second edition of Repertoire, a space curated by Jacopo not only point the political authoritarianism’s problem but also as
Crivelli Visconti, the objective was to find a chronological artistic the financial market and economic agenda imposes social control
focus focusing on works produced during the 1980s. In the curatorial and violences as disastrous as “says curator.
choice, there are names like the Brazilian galleries Jaqueline Martins, In Saving the Safe (2017), the artist keeps a sculpture of the Central
Almeida and Dale (with Ione Saldanha ) and the Italian gallery Bank of Brazil made of gold in a vault- a metaphor about how
Continuo. financial institutions, by the accumulation of wealth and control of
During the fair, the winner of the SP-Arte Residency Prize will be economies, cause crises that ensure their power over the people and
known, whose finalists this year are: Daniel Jablonski, Janaína Torres the cities. Other works articulate broader language exercises, as in

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