São Paulo – Sampa to Its Friends – Has a Dynamic Art Scene, from the Graffitied Streets to the Palaces of Culture
The SAMPA beat São Paulo – Sampa to its friends – has a dynamic art scene, from the graffitied streets to the palaces of culture. Paul Richardson rounds up the galleries to visit and the artists to look out for Photographs by Carol Sachs Choque Cultural Left, Alex Katz, Ulla in With its all-over black-and-white patterned livery, Black Hat, 2010, at Choque Cultural doesn’t look like your standard Luciana Brito. Below, Yuri modern art gallery. And Baixo Ribeiro and Mariana Oliveira and Julia Brito Martins don’t have much in common with their with, from left: Rochelle counterparts in upmarket Jardins. Their discourse Costi, Acervo, from the defiantly pits ‘urban’ against the bourgeois rt has been one of the great series Vende-se Tudo, constructs of ‘conventional’ contemporary art. beneficiaries of Brazil’s decade-long economic 2004 – 6; Delson Uchôa, ‘Culture Shock’ avoids certain aspects of the boom. The statistics are remarkable: a recent report Soleira, 2004 – 7; Thomaz traditional gallery, although Ribeiro does go to suggested that two-thirds of the country’s galleries Farkas, Presidente art fairs now that the stock of Brazilian street art opened their doors in the past 15 years, and that Juscelino Kubitschek no has begun to rise. The art sold here is affordable almost three-quarters of international collectors dia da inauguração de (Daniel Melim, the most expensive artist, prices own work by Brazilian artists or intend to do so. Brasília, 21 de abril, 1960, his biggest pieces at just US$12,000), making it Artistic creation has always been important and Populares sobre an attractive proposition for novice collectors.
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