SP-Arte s weeklong festival in São Paulo featured record attendance, distinguished exhibitors, artists and a diverse program of events

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1 Press Release April 2017 SP-Arte s weeklong festival in São Paulo featured record attendance, distinguished exhibitors, artists and a diverse program of events Transformed into the São Paulo International Art Festival, SP-Arte reached its 13th edition with strong works, high attendance and a diverse parallel agenda that included museums, galleries and cultural spaces. The special week provided a platform for cultural and artistic exchanges between curators, collectors, artists, galleries, artworks and admirers of art and design. SP-Arte/2017 welcomed 134 participating galleries (90 Brazilian and 44 international from 11 countries) and featured over 2000 artists across its seven sections: Main, Solo, Showcase, Design, the debuting Repertorio, Performance and a special edition of Japan House. As part of the São Paulo International Art Festival, SP-Arte 2017 had 180 events throughout the city. Attendance reached a record visitors over the five days of the event in the Bienal Pavilion, including illustrious art world figures such as a group from the acquisitions committee of Museu de Arte Lima (MALI), Gabriel Perez-Barreiro (Curator, CPPC, and curator of next São Paulo Bienal), Michael Wellen, (Curator, Tate), Christine Bruhl and Michael Juul Holm (Director of Køs Museum and curator and editor of Louisiana Museum of Copenhaguen respectively) and Gary Mercer (Collector, USA). SP-Arte was supported by events, including gallery nights, 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 fantastic to see the city transformed for SP-Arte week. This year we welcomed exciting new partnerships such as the exhibition in partnership with Galpão Videobrasil, a special project with Japan House, and a take over of the Talks program by Artsy. We are very pleased with the results of this edition, the combination of high caliber works, a full agenda and a positive atmosphere turned this years event into a success. SP-Arte/2017 highlights include: Gallery Nights SP-Arte opened up the week on the Monday and Tuesday prior to the preview with exhibitions by Efrain Almeida at Fortes D Aloia and Gabriel; Artur Barrio and Cristina Motta at Galeria Millan - Anexo; group shows curated by Franck Marlot at Galeria Raquel Arnaud and by Rafael Vogt at Galeria Millan; Daniel Senise and Daniel Buren at Galeria Nara Roesler; Nino Cais at Casa Triângulo; Michael E. Smith at KOW (Berlin); Bosco Sodi at Luciana Brito Galeria; Alfredo Jaar and Thiago Honório at Galeria Luisa Strina; Dadamaino, Lotus Lobo and Paulo Nazareth at Mendes Wood DM.

2 In addition to the gallery openings, there were also special events in São Paulo s museum and art spaces including Masp- Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Pivô, Espaço Auroras, Galpão Videobrasil and Casa de Vidro. Robust Design Sector The Design sector, in its second year, bolstered 25 of the country s leading furniture designers and antique dealers. Highlighting the most renowned names in Brazilian design, such as the iconic Lina Bo Bardi, Hugo França, Jacqueline Terpins and Carlos Vergara. Talks In addition to its exhibitor program, SP-Arte/2017 presented Talks, panel discussions organized with Brazilian art magazine, ARTE!Brasileiros, presenting prominent collectors, curators and critics. Guests included Dan Fox, Frieze Magazine editor; Ana Paula Cohen, independent curator, and collectors Mark and Livia Strauss. On Friday, the Design Talks included an introduction by Giancarlo Latorraca, director of the Museu Casa Brasileira; the discussion was led by Kristina Parsons, Artsy Design specialist, featured Maria Cecilia Loschiavo, Design Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) and Lissa Carmona, Etel interiors director. The final Talks panel on street art as a space for expression included journalist Gabriela Longman, curator Baixo Ribeiro and philosopher Nelson Brissac. Over 400 people attended the Talks program. Awards SP-Arte/2017 continues with its exemplary program of partnerships with institutions to support art initiatives in Brazil and internationally throughout the year. The Illy Sustain Art Award was granted to artist Clara Ianni represented by Galeria Vermelho. The award which was founded in 2007 to support Latin American artists under the age of 35 grants BRL 20,000. Regina Parra, represented by Galeria Millan and Alice Shintani, represented by Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri were awarded the 2017 SP-Arte Residency Prize, which offers a two-month-long residency at Residency Unlimited (RU), New York and at Delfina Foundation, London. The new prize awarded by the Marcos Amaro Foundation in partnership with SP-Arte was awarded to artist Ivan Grilo, represented by Casa Triângulo, with a BRL 25,000 prize. Repertório Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, the new sector was developed with the intention of introducing artists who had essential contributions to contemporary art, but who are not recognized by a wider audience. This year s presentation highlighted works created in the 1980s by artists born before the 1950s, including works by artists who have been inspiring generations of other artists, such as Dan Graham, Richard Long, Lothar Baumgarten and Pino Pascali, as well as local artists such as Niobe Xandó, Mario Cravo Neto, Rubem Valentim and Guilherme Vaz. Solo Sector Curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, the sector offered a thoughtful selection of single booth presentations offering deeper analysis. Galleries featured artists such as Franz Erhard Walther (KOW, Berlin); Gabriel

3 Abrantes (Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon) and Carolina Martinez (Portas Vilaseca, Rio de Janeiro). Other highlights included Plan B, with a project by Iranian artist Navid Nuur, and espaivisor, with the Croatian historical artist Sanja Ivekovic. Japan House Curated by Marcello Dantas, the new space at SP-Arte celebrated the opening of Japan House, a cultural center by the Japanese government to be opened in May on Avenida Paulista. The space at SP-Arte presented seven galleries showing Japan s vibrant visual culture articulating the Japanese obsession for precision alongside a strong admiration for imperfection. Artworks by Yayoi Kusama, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kazuko Miyamoto and Kishio Suga were present in the space. Performance For the third year, and in partnership with Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo, SP-Arte presented a sector exclusively dedicated to performances. Applicants were evaluated by a committee including Cauê Alves and Roberto Bertani, professors and coordinators from Belas Artes; Solange Farkas, curator and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil; Paula Garcia, artist; and Fernanda Feitosa, director and founder of SP-Arte. Focused on durational performances, nine performances were presented during the days of the Festival, placing the body and its strength within the artistic debate. Donations SP-Arte s unique donation program encourages collections from the public and private sector to donate to local museums, This year MAR, MASP and Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo received a record of donations since the program started in 2008, with 23 artworks given to the cultural institutions. SP-Arte/2017 was supported by main sponsors Itaú, Vivo and Iguatemi São Paulo with the cultural support of the State of São Paulo and also by co-sponsored Volvo, Amsterdam Sauer, Perrier Jouet, Stella Artois and Minalba. MAIN SECTOR GALLERIES Alexander Gray, New York / Almeida e Dale, São Paulo / AM Galeria, Belo Horizonte / André Viana, New York / Andrea Rehder, São Paulo / Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro / Arte 57, São Paulo / ArtEEdições, São Paulo / Athena, Rio de Janeiro / Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro / Baró, São Paulo / Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo / Blau Projects, São Paulo / Bolsa de Arte, Porto Alegre and São Paulo / Berenice Arvani, São Paulo / Babel, São Paulo / Carbono, São Paulo / Casa Nova, São Paulo / Casa Triângulo, São Paulo / Celma Albuquerque, Belo Horizonte / Cheim & Read, New York / Colecionador, Rio de Janeiro / Continua, Beijing, Le Moulin and San Gimignano / Dan Contemporânea, São Paulo / Dan, São Paulo / David Zwirner, New York / El Museu, Bogotá / Elba Benítez, Madrid / Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo / Estação, São Paulo / Fólio, São Paulo / Fernando Pradilla, Madrid / Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo / Frente, São Paulo / Gregor Podnar, Berlin / Gustavo Rebello, Rio de Janeiro / Hilda Araújo, São Paulo / Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro / K2o, Brasília / Kubikgallery, Porto / kurimanzutto, Mexico City / Leme, São Paulo / Luisa Strina, São Paulo / Lume, São Paulo / Lemos de Sá, Nova Lima /

4 Luciana Brito, São Paulo / Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro/ LURIXS:, Rio de Janeiro / Misiones, Montevideo / Marcelo Guarnieri, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo / Marilia Razuk, São Paulo / Mario Cohen, São Paulo / Millan, São Paulo / Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte / Manoel Macedo, Belo Horizonte / Marcia Barrozo do Amaral, Rio de Janeiro / Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo / Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro / Mul.ti.plo + Polígrafa, Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona / Nara Roesler, New York, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo / neugerriemschneider, Berlin / Oscar Cruz, São Paulo / Other Criteria, London / Paulo Darzé, Salvador / Paulo Kuczynski, São Paulo / Piero Atchugarry, Pueblo Garzón / Pinakotheke, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo / Rabieh, São Paulo / Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo / Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris / Referência, Brasília / Ricardo Camargo, São Paulo / Roberto Alban, Salvador / Ronie Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro / SUR, Montevideo / Silvia Cintra + Box4, Rio de Janeiro / SIM, Curitiba / Simões de Assis, Curitiba / Steiner, São Paulo / Stephen Friedman, London / Studio Nobrega, São Paulo / Vermelho, São Paulo / White Cube, Hong Kong and London / Ybacatu, Curitiba / Zipper, São Paulo REPERTÓRIO SECTOR GALLERIES A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro [Guilherme Vaz] / Alexander Gray, New York [Luis Camnitzer] / Almeida e Dale, São Paulo [Rubem Valentim] / Studio d'arte Campaiola, Rome [Pino Pascali] / Continua, San Gimignano [Michelangelo Pistoletto] / Filomena Soares, Lisbon [Helena Almeida e Dan Graham] / Franco Noero e Marian Goodman, Turin, New York and Paris [Lothar Baumgarten] / Gregor Podnar, Berlin [Julije Knifer] / Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo [Lydia Okumura] / Lisson, London, Milan, New York and Singapore [Richard Long] / Nobrega, São Paulo [Niobe Xandó] / P420, Bologna [Irma Blank] / Paci Contemporary, Brescia and Deer's Port [Mario Cravo Neto] / Ronie Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro [Carlos Vergara] / Taka Ishii, Tokyo [Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Daido Moriyama, Tomoharu Murakami, Kumi Sugai, Yutaka Takanashi, Shomei Tomatsu, Shoji Ueda, Takeo Yamaguchi, Kansuke Yamamoto] SOLO SECTOR GALLERIES Baginski, Lisbon [Bruno Cidra] / BFA (Boatos Fine Arts), São Paulo [Thomaz Rosa] / Central, São Paulo [Gisele Camargo] / Emma Thomas, São Paulo [Lucas Bambozzi] / espaivisor, Valencia [Sanja Iveković] / Francisco Fino, Lisbon [Gabriel Abrantes] / KOW, Berlin [Franz Erhard Walther] / LAMB Arts, London [Dalila Gonçalves] / Lisa Kandlhofer, Viena [Pier Stockholm] / Madragoa, Lisbon [Joanna Piotrowska] / Plan B, Berlin [Navid Nuur] / Portas Vilaseca, Rio de Janeiro [Carolina Martinez] / Richard Saltoun, London [Renate Bertlmann] / Sé, São Paulo [Rafael RG] / Superfície, São Paulo [Falves Silva] / White Rainbow, London [Shigeo Anzaï] SHOWCASE SECTOR GALLERIES Aura, Porto Alegre [Elke Coelho, Lilian Maus, Viviane Teixeira] / Boiler, Curitiba [Felipe Scandelari, Adriana Tabalipa, Maya Weishof] / C. Galeria, Rio de Janeiro [Bruno Belo, Marcos Duarte, Maria Fernanda Lucena] / Cavalo, Rio de Janeiro [Pedro Caetano, Thora Dolven Balke, Alvaro Seixas] / Choque Cultural, São Paulo [Alê Jordão, Daniel Melim, Tec] / Collage Habana, Havana [Jose Margulis, Mabel Poblet, Mariana Villafañe] / Fotospot, São Paulo [Christian Cravo, Lucas Lenci, Cássio Vasconcellos] / Inox, Rio de Janeiro [Renato Bezerra De Mello, Jorge Mayet, Celina Portella] / Luis Maluf, São Paulo [Caligrapixo, Cranio, Flávio Rossi] / Mamute, Porto Alegre [Pablo Ferretti, Frantz, Emanuel Monteiro] / Mezanino, São

5 Paulo [Ulysses Bôscolo, Reynaldo Candia, Leo Sombra] / Movimento, Rio de Janeiro [Marcela Gontijo, Walter Nomura Tinho, Tomaz Viana Toz] / Periscópio, Belo Horizonte [Guto Lacaz, Marcone Moreira, Éder Oliveira] / Room 8, São Paulo [Anna Guilhermina, Fabiano Al Makul, Joseph Romeo] / Rosa Barbosa, São Paulo [Osvaldo Gaia, Paula Otegui, Guy Veloso] / Sergio Gonçalves, Rio de Janeiro [Siron Franco, Eduardo Moreno, Rosana Ricalde] /Via Thorey, Vitória [Ernesto Bonato, Regina Chulam, Tatiana Stropp] DESIGN GALLERIES Apartamento 61, São Paulo / Artemobilia, São Paulo / Ary Perez, São Paulo / Belas Artes, São Paulo / Bolsa de Arte // Estudio Mameluca, Rio de Janeiro / By Kamy, São Paulo / ETEL, São Paulo / Firma Casa, São Paulo / Herança Cultural, São Paulo / Hugo França, São Paulo / Itamar Musse, Salvador / Jacqueline Terpins, São Paulo / Legado Arte, São Paulo / LLUSSÁ, São Paulo / Mercado Moderno, Rio de Janeiro / Ovo, São Paulo / Passado Composto Século XX, São Paulo / Paulo Alves, São Paulo / Pé Palito, Belo Horizonte / PROTOTYP&, São Paulo / Rafael Moraes, São Paulo / Resplendor, São Paulo / Sandra & Márcio, Belo Horizonte / Teo, São Paulo / Thomaz Saavedra, São Paulo JAPAN HOUSE GALLERIES Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo / Koyanagi, Tokyo / Mizuma, Cingapura, Tokyo, Beijing / Ota, Tokyo / SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo / TAI Modern, Santa / White Rainbow, London International press enquiries Júlia Frate Bolliger, Pickles PR julia@picklespr.com / T Brazilian Press Mai Carvalho, A4 Comunicação maicarvalho@a4com.com.br