São Paulo Art Week

SP- Arte/2015 opens this week and hosts some of the world's most prominent modern and contemporary galleries from 17 countries.

Two prizes will be awarded during the fair days:Illy Sustain Art, a prize with the aim of giving exposure to new talents in the world of contemporary art in developing countries and the ICCO/SP- Arte Prize which grants an artist residency to two artists represented by galleries participating at the Fair.

A novelty for this year’s edition is the introduction Performances, a platform dedicated that medium. Twelve artists were selected to make presentations during the Fair, in the aisles and ramp, in an arena located on the third floor of the Pavilion, and also outdoor. Performa is fruit of a partnership with Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo.

Always in the performance field Marta Soares presents Descolamentos: a performance of choreographic scores composed by several combinations of bodies attached by the costumes and can be understood as a reflexion about how contemporary forms of power affect the bodies. .

As it happens most of the times, the art fair’s week brings in town various events that My Art Guides have selected for you and that you will be able to find online as well as on our paper guide.

At SESC-Pompeia the Marina Abramovic Insitute (MAI) presents Becoming Again Terra Comunal, the most extensive retrospective of Marina Abramovi? to take place in Latin America.

After Tomie Ohtake's (1913, Japan – 2015, Brazil) passing in February, the institute that takes her name presents 100-101 an exhibition with her recent pictorial production curated by Agnaldo Farias and Paulo Miyada.

In the exhibition The Mystical Body, at Bulgari Boutique, Nino Cais showcases a selection of recent works dedicated to the figure of the Venus. The female figures is represented both fragility and strength, the beauty is both eternal and ephemera. Timeless images are juxtaposed to the Bulgari jewels, and the artist has created a site specific work to celebrate preciousness and unicity.

Ficção nas Coisas at Raquel Araud Gallery gathers recent and new works by Waltercio Caldas: eight sculptures and eight paper objects that put in question the certainty of their status as images.

At Nara Roesler visitors will be able to see Chão, Cao Guimarães’ solo show. For this exhibition, the filmmaker and visual artist surrounds himself with the surfaces that beings record their existence on, unbeknownst to them - floors and walls.

Rufino occupies all of Central's exhibition spaces with his new show, Dogma, which marks his 30 years of artistic production. In the artist's works, evolutionary theories, mythologies, social-politic ideologies, esthetical movements and artistic manifests are mixed to religious symbols and psychoanalytic quotes, as if all was parte of his private museum of references.

Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo presents Sean Scully’s first solo show in Brazil. It showcases 46 works produced between 1947 and 2014.