SP-Arte/2016 featured record attendance, recognised galleries, artists and an extraordinary programme of events

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1 Press release April 2016 SP-Arte/2016 featured record attendance, recognised galleries, artists and an extraordinary programme of events Held in the historic Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, designed by Pritzker Laureate Oscar Niemeyer in São Paulo, the 12th edition of SP-Arte presented a dynamic mix of emerging and established Brazilian and international artists while the Fair s curated sections continued to encourage cutting edge programs and artworks that challenged attendees. SP-Arte/2016 welcomed 124 participating galleries (86 Brazilian and 38 international) and featured over two thousand artists across its six sections: Main, Solo, Showcase, Design, Open Plan and Performance. Even fresher and more innovative this year, the edition had 140 events surrounding the Fair, throughout the city. Attendance reached a record 27,000 visitors over the five days of the Fair, including illustrious art world figures such as Ella Fontanals-Cisneros (CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art), Maxine and Stuart Frankel (Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation), Betty and Brack Duker, Franklin Sirmans (Pérez Art Museum Miami), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Joan Weinstein (Getty Foundation, Los Angeles), Helen Molesworth (MOCA, Los Angeles) and Kimberli Meyer (MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles). Strong works and high attendance were supported by a series of events, including openings, private collection visits, panel discussions, book launches, performances, and guided tours that made the week a success. SP-Arte Director, Fernanda Feitosa, said, It was a beautiful edition with a positive atmosphere, excellent selection of works presented by the galleries, and a diverse public with a common interest in art. Our 12th edition was also notable because of the collective effort seen among professionals, institutions, art collectors and art enthusiasts working together to exceed expectations of the present moment in Brazil and help the country restore through art. SP-Arte/2016 highlights include: Exhibitor focal points A wide range of emerging and established Brazilian and international artists were featured at the Fair. Highlights among Brazilian galleries included Sergio Camargo at Almeida & Dale; Raymundo Colares at Ronie Mesquita and Bandeira + Mary Vieira at Pinakotheke. Other Brazilian names such as Helio Oiticica,

2 Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Waltercio Caldas, Tunga, Mira Schendel, Adriana Varejão and Beatriz Milhazes also exhibited important works at the Fair. International highlights featured Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lucio Fontana and Jannis Kounelis at Cardi and Continua; Francis Picabia at Michael Werner; Giorgio Morandi, Oscar Murillo and Yayoi Kusama at David Zwirner; Damien Hirst at White Cube; Damián Ortega and Gabriel Kuri at kurimanzutto; David Shrigley at Stephen Friedman; Hamish Fulton at espaivisor and Henri Chopin at Richard Saltoun. SP-Arte Week Program Supported by Volvo and Heineken, gallery nights offered a unique opportunity for galleries to host guests over two lively and entertaining evenings. The Fair kicked off the week on the Saturday and Sunday prior to the Fair opening, with exhibitions by Haroon Gunn-Salie, Antonio Dias, René Francisco, Erika Verzutti and the launching of Luciana Brito s new gallery. Luisa Strina and Casa Triângulo also held openings in new gallery spaces during the Fair week. In addition to the gallery openings, there were also special museum openings at Masp- Sao Paulo Museum of Art (Histórias da Infância), Tomie Ohtake (Sebastião Salgado) and MAC USP- Museum of Contemporary Art (Oswaldo Vigas). New Design sector SP-Arte/2016 featured a new Design sector entirely dedicated to the country s leading furniture and lighting designers, highlighting the most renowned names in Brazilian design, such as Lina Bo Bardi, Irmãos Campana, Carlos Motta, Oscar Niemeyer, Claudia Moreira Salles, Jorge Zalszupin, and Hugo França to name a few, among the selection of 23 exhibitors. The design sector is now part of SP-Arte and São Paulo s calendar. It was very enriching for the Fair to have the art world in dialogue with design and architecture, says Feitosa. Talks In addition to its gallery program, SP-Arte/2016 presented Talks, panel discussions organized with a Brazilian art magazine, ARTE!Brasileiros, featuring prominent artists, collectors, curators, museum directors and art historians, including Mari Carmen Ramírez, Franklin Sirmans, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Francesco Arena, Radames Juni Figueroa, Daniel de Paula, Seb Patane, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Guillermo Kuitca and Joan Weinsten. Over 800 people attended the talk given by Pritzker Prize-winning French architect Jean Nouvel, who discussed his career and the challenges facing architecture and public spaces in the future with Folha de São Paulo journalist Raul Juste Lores and Monolito editor Fernando Serapião. Awards SP-Arte/2016 continues with its exemplary programme of partnerships with institutions to create and sustain relationships that support art initiatives in Brazil throughout the year. The Illy Sustain Art Award, which was founded in 2007 to support Latin American artists under the age of 35, was presented to artist Dalton Paula, represented by Galeria Sé, and who became an absolut hit of the Fair.

3 Marcelo Moscheta and Bruno Baptistelli, represented by Galeria Vermelho, and Galeria Pilar respectively, were winners of the 2016 ICCo/SP-Arte Award. The award, sponsored by SP-Arte and ICCo - Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea offers artists an opportunity to participate in residency programs abroad. Baptistelli will go to Residency Unlimited (RU), at New York and Moscheta to Flora Arts + Natura in Honda, Colombia. As an outcome of the 1st edition of SP-Arte/Videobrasil Award, Galpão Video Brasil opened the exhibition Bittersweet, by Haroon Gunn-Salie composed of film, photography and installation, aiming to tell the story behind the environmental disaster at Mariana, Brazil. The artist is represented by Goodman Gallery and Mendes Wood DM. Open Plan Sector After a huge success in 2015, Open Plan, a section dedicated to large works and installations, returned to exclusively present commissioned works by SP-Arte, organized and curated by XII Cuenca Biennial curator, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti. Performance Sector SP-Arte received an incredible response to its call for applicants for its second Performance sector, which, in partnership with Centro Universitário Belas Artes, explored the role of the body in contemporary art. The final selection of artists were chosen via a selection process that was open to the public, as well as a jury panel composed of Cauê Alves, assistant curator of the Brazil pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennial, and Solange Farkas, curator and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil. The section included works by Alexandre D Angeli, Renan Marcondes, Elfie Nitze, Karen Cruz, Baillistas, Cadu Ribeiro, N Jeans, Luanna Jimenes and Lucas Takahaschi. Donations SP-Arte s unique donation program encourages public and private collections in the country to enrich museum collections, this year museums receiving the donations are MAC-USP, MAM-SP, MAR and Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo. SP-Arte/2016 is supported by main sponsors Itaú, Oi and Iguatemi São Paulo with the cultural support of Oi Futuro and the State of São Paulo and also by co-sponsors Volvo, Officine Panerai, Amsterdam Sauer, Perrier Jouet, Heineken and Minalba. MAIN SECTOR GALLERIES Agnès Monplaisir, Paris / Almeida e Dale, São Paulo / AM, Belo Horizonte / Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro / Arte 57, São Paulo / ArtEEdições, São Paulo / Athena, Rio de Janeiro / Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro / Babel, São Paulo / Baró, São Paulo / Berenice Arvani, São Paulo / Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo / Blain Southern, London / Blau Projects, São Paulo / Bolsa de

4 Arte, Porto Alegre, São Paulo / Carbono, São Paulo / Cardi, Milan / Casa Nova, São Paulo / Casa Triângulo, São Paulo / Celma Albuquerque, Belo Horizonte / Choque Cultural, São Paulo / Colecionador, Rio de Janeiro / Continua, San Gimignano / Dan, São Paulo / Dan Contemporânea, São Paulo / David Zwirner, New York / Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo / Elba Benítez, Madrid / Eliana Benchimol, Rio de Janeiro / Estação, São Paulo / Fernando Pradilla, Madrid / Fólio, São Paulo / Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo / Franco Noero, Turin / Frente, São Paulo / Gustavo Rebello, Rio de Janeiro / Hilda Araujo, São Paulo / Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro / kurimanzutto, Mexico City / Leme, São Paulo / Lemos de Sá, Nova Lima / Lisson, London / Luciana Brito, São Paulo / Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro / Luisa Strina, São Paulo / Lume, São Paulo / LURIXS:, Rio de Janeiro / Manoel Macedo, Belo Horizonte / Marcelo Guarnieri, Ribeirão Preto / Marcia Barrozo do Amaral, Rio de Janeiro / Marilia Razuk, São Paulo / Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo / Michael Werner, New York / Millan, São Paulo / Mul.ti.plo, Rio de Janeiro / Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte / El Museo, Madrid / Nara Roesler, São Paulo / neugerriemschneider, Berlin / Studio Nobrega, São Paulo / Oscar Cruz, São Paulo/ Other Criteria, London / Paulo Darzé, Salvador / Paulo Kuczynski, São Paulo / Pequena Galeria/Mario Cohen, São Paulo / Piero Atchugarry, Pueblo Garzón / Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro / Polígrafa, Barcelona / A Ponte, São Paulo / Rabieh, São Paulo / Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo / Referência, Brasília / Ricardo Camargo, São Paulo / Roberto Alban, Salvador / Ronie Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro / Sergio Gonçalves, Rio de Janeiro / Silvia Cintra + Box 4, Rio de Janeiro / SIM, Curitiba / Simões de Assis, Curitiba / Steiner, São Paulo / Stephen Friedman, London / SUR, Montevideo / Utópica, São Paulo / Vermelho, São Paulo / White Cube, London / Ybakatu, Curitiba / Zipper, São Paulo. SOLO SECTOR GALLERIES Andrea Rehder Arte, São Paulo / Boiler, Curitiba / Collage Habana, Havana / C. galeria, Rio de Janeiro / Inox, Rio de Janeiro / k²o, Brasília / Mamute, Porto Alegre / Mezanino, São Paulo / Pasto, Buenos Aires / Pilar, São Paulo / Room 8, São Paulo / Rosa Barbosa, São Paulo / SOLO SHOWS, São Paulo / Superfície, São Paulo. GALERIAS DO SETOR SHOWCASE Andrea Rehder Arte, São Paulo / Boiler, Curitiba / Collage Habana, Havana / C. galeria, Rio de Janeiro / Inox, Rio de Janeiro / k²o, Brasília / Mamute, Porto Alegre / Mezanino, São Paulo / Pasto,

5 Buenos Aires / Pilar, São Paulo / Room 8, São Paulo / Rosa Barbosa, São Paulo / SOLO SHOWS, São Paulo / Superfície, São Paulo. GALERIAS DO SETOR OPEN PLAN Asier Mendizabal [ProjecteSD, Barcelona] ; Christodoulos Panayiotou [Rodeo, London]; Daniel de Paula [Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo]; Francesco Arena [Sprovieri, London]; Hector Zamora [Luciana Brito, São Paulo]; Marcelo Cidade [Vermelho, São Paulo]; Radamés Juni Figueroa [Ultravioleta, Guatemala City]; Seb Patene [Fonti, Naples]; Victoria Fu [Simon Preston, New York]. GALERIAS DE DESIGN Artemobilia, São Paulo / Baraúna, São Paulo / Belas Artes, São Paulo / Carlos Motta, São Paulo / Coletivo Amor de Madre, São Paulo / DPOT, São Paulo / ETEL, São Paulo/ Firma Casa, São Paulo / Hugo França, São Paulo / Itamar Musse, Salvador / Jacqueline Terpins, São Paulo / Jader Almeida para DPOT, São Paulo / Legado Arte, São Paulo / LLUSSÁ, São Paulo / Maneco Quinderé, Rio de Janeiro/ Marton Estúdio, São Paulo / Mercado Moderno, Rio de Janeiro / OVO, São Paulo / Passado Composto Século XX, São Paulo / Pé Palito, Belo Horizonte / Sandra e Marcio, Belo Horizonte / Teo, São Paulo / Thomaz Saavedra, São Paulo. SP-ARTE/2016 International press enquiries: Juan Sánchez, Pickles PR juan@picklespr.com / T