Spontaneous Poetics: Marepe Explains Why Bahia is the Perfect Place for Making Art
His spontaneous conceptual poetics boasts universal appeal with common, everyday things brilliantly transformed.
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FAMA and Fortune: The art and patronage of Marcos Amaro
In the town of Itu, a two-hour drive from São Paulo, you’ll find FAMA. The acronym for fame in Portuguese stands for Fábrica de Arte Marcos Amaro, an art factory […]
Always the Sea: An interview with curator Denise Mattar about the late modernist master Pancetti
According to Brazil’s preeminent art critic of the 1970s, Frederico Morais, “Pancetti’s painting is like a ship’s deck, tanned by the sun and salt. It never rusts. Honest, clean, economic, […]
The Fascinating Life and Exceptional Tragedy of Ismael Nery: A conversation with the critic Olívio Tavares de Araújo
To celebrate twenty-two years in the art market, São Paulo gallerist Ricardo Camargo stages two closely knit exhibitions in his cul-de-sac in the Jardins.
Bewitched by Shoes And Other Things An interview with Sergio Romagnolo on the Occasion of His New Exhibition at Galeria Marilia Razuk
In the second solo exhibition of artist Sergio Romagnolo in the double compounds of São Paulo’s Galeria Marilia Razuk, this four-decade front-runner of Brazilian contemporary art literally shows the objects […]
Drawing Room A Conversation with Marcelo Pallotta about his new Galeria MaPa and Saul Steinberg's Lesser-Known Brazilian Connections
The art of drawing is celebrated at Galeria MaPa in its opening show, “Desenho Moderno: as formas da ideia sobre o branco do papel” (Modern Drawing: forms of the idea […]
The Insider’s Outsider: The Working-Class-to-Art-Star Story of José Antonio da Silva
Fifty oils from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s by self-taught Brazilian-born artist José Antonio da Silva (1909-1996), who also signed his name JAS and JA Silva and called himself […]
Neoconcrete Raconteur: Memories of Willys de Castro, On the Occasion of A Solo Show in New York
Pioneering Neoconcrete artist Willys de Castro, one of the founders of the abstract-geometric movement in the 1950s in Brazil, is being celebrated in a solo show in New York nearly three […]
Beautiful Surprises A Memoir of SP-Arte Week in São Paulo
If you think the shadow of Mies looms large over Chicago, you’ve seen nothing till you visit Brazil and see the stature of Oscar Niemeyer, who not only designed most, […]
News: Marina Abramovic Makes a Grand Return to Brazil
Brazil has made a quantum leap in the arts. Local and international cultural manifestations otherwise aimed at a small intellectual elite have been embraced in this country traditionally ignited by […]
