SP-Arte 2024
04/04/2024 - 07/04/2024
DAN Galeria will bring together at a single booth at the 20th edition of SP-Arte masters such as Alfredo Volpi, Candido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Ivald Granato and José Aguilar, as well as exponents such as Adriana Varejão. The interior space of the exhibition area is dedicated to historical works, while the outdoor area shows works by contemporary artists
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The avant-garde of the arts draws attention with the striking and vivid colors in the works of Granato and Aguilar, a generation that broke with patterns in the 1980s, expanding artistic language, proposing new aesthetics and discovering possibilities for modern art.
Ivald dedicated most of his artistic production to transmitting spontaneity and liveliness, achieved with quick and free brushstrokes, intense and vibrant colors, which results in works of expressive corporality and frenetic creative gesture. Aguilar, on the other hand, brings the works to life in an explosion of colors, which mix figurativism and abstraction
with elements of nature.
Still in the field of Brazilian painting, but from another movement, Di Cavalcanti and Candido Portinari appear with figurative paintings with typically national characteristics. Next to Volpi, with the geometric synthesis of the facades that marked modern art in the country
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DAN’s curatorship also includes prominent kinetic artists Jesus Soto, Knopp Ferro, and Luis Tomasello, who challenge perspective with a tendency toward inclusion and the indispensable participation of the spectator. In the same way, Lygia Pape involves the public as an agent in the work, allowing different interpretations according to the angle of
observation.
Transitioning between the sensory experience of Tony Cragg sculptures, the same treatment of space also extends to the works of the German Thomas Schönauer, who dissolves the boundaries between art, science and philosophy, unfolding a particular dialectic that agencies the processes of thought and matter.
The selection of contemporary artists includes Adriana Varejão, renowned for treating colonization viscerally in her work, contrasting with the brilliance of Denise Millan’s stones and metals, which refer to geology as a metaphor for the rapprochement between human and nature.
DAN Galeria also presents Yolanda Mohalyi, Teodoro Dias, Sérgio Fingermann, Pascal Dombis, Lucas Benites, José Panceti, Lygia Clark, Bob Nugent, Antonio Hélio Cabral, Franz Weissmann, Gabriel Villas Boas, Ismael Nery, Alberto Guignard, Macaparana and the Lab [au] group.
The booth also dedicates space to the works of the artists participating in the DAN Acredita project, an innovative project conceived and managed by the director of Dan Interior, Cristina Delanhesi.
From April 3 to 7, SP-Arte brings together more than 180 exhibitors at the Biennial Pavilion, including design studios, cultural institutions and publishers. The fair program also includes conversations with artists, audio guides and editorial releases
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About the gallery
Dan Contemporanea emerged as a Contemporary Art department of the Dan Gallery. In 1985, Flávio Cohn, son of the founding couple, joined Dan to create the Department of Contemporary Art, which he has directed ever since. Thus, space was opened for many contemporary Brazilian and international artists, who strongly represent their respective schools. Later, Ulisses Cohn also joins the gallery, completing its board of directors
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Over the
past twenty years, the gallery has exhibited: Macaparana, Sérgio Fingermann, Amélia Toledo, Ascanio MMM, Laura Miranda and international artists: Sol Lewitt, Antoni Tapies, Jesus Soto, César Paternosto, José Manuel Ballester, Adolfo Estrada, Juan Asensio, Knopp Ferro and Ian Davenport. International concrete masters were also part of Dan’s history, such as: Max Bill, Joseph Albers and the British Norman Dilworth, Anthony Hill, Kenneth
Martin and Mary Martin.
More recently, Dan Galeria included important concrete artists in its selection: Francisco Sobrino and François Morellet. Brazilian photographer Cristiano Mascaro; artists José Spaniol, Teodoro Dias, Denise Milan and Gabriel Villas Boas (Brazil); international artists, Bob Nugent (USA), Pascal Dombis (France), Tony Cragg (Brittany), Lab [AU] (Belgium) and Jong Oh (Korea), joined the gallery’s Contemporary Art department. Dan Galeria has always aimed to highlight Brazilian artists and movements from the beginning of the 1920s to today. At the same time, it maintains a close relationship with international artists, since artistic movements are historically intertwined and dialogue with each other without borders
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