The fair takes place from April 6 to 10 at the Bienal Pavilion, in Ibirapuera Park, where it will bring together 132 galleries, including 92 national art galleries, eight international galleries and 32 design galleries. Among the main Brazilian galleries are: Galeria Luisa Strina, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel,Gentil Carioca, Nara Roesler and Galeria Jaqueline Martins. They also participate strongly in the secondary marketGomide & Co, Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte, Dan Galeria, Paulo Kuczynski, Pinakotheke and Galeria Ipanema.
SP-Arte also has thirty offices and galleries specialized in furniture and Brazilian authorial design. Participating: Etel, Ovo, Loja Teo, Jacqueline Terpins, Atelier Hugo França and Passado Composto Séc. XX (all from São Paulo), in addition to several star rookies such as Wentz and Diletante 42, also from São Paulo, and the collective of designers Cultivado em Casa, from Minas Gerais.
New: SP-Arte Radar
New to this edition, Radar SP–Arte seeks to bring the market and the public closer to autonomous agents (artists, self-managed spaces) that make up the art system. Radar SP–Arte will be formed by a curatorship by Felipe Molitor of artists who do not have commercial representation, entitled big time, and by the face-to-face participation of five collectives and autonomous art spaces, which will present their projects in small commercial exhibitions. They are: 01.01 Art Platform, Casa Chama, GDA, MT Projetos de Arte and Nacional TROVOA.
SP-Art map
With the new expography developed for the 18th edition, the ground floor will be occupied by the design, editorial and Radar SP–Arte sectors, in addition to the exhibition Art Nature: resignify to live. On the first floor, there will be galleries linked to the secondary market and, on the second, the galleries of the primary art market, both the most established and emerging, and institutional participations.
SP-Art Talks
The traditional Talks program will be promoted in the Arena Iguatemi lounge on the second floor of the Pavilion. This time, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, who was in charge of the curatorship of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, and Ana Roman, assistant curator at the last Bienal, organize and lead conversations with renowned artists and curators on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 7th, 8th and 9th respectively.
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