It's started! The most important contemporary art event in the world is happening now: from November 30th to December 3rd
Art Basel Miami is taking place at the
Miami Beach Convention Center . The
20th anniversary edition
of the fair, which takes place annually in Florida, features a record number of Brazilian galleries in its
line-up :
16 Brazilian galleries among the 283 participants from
38 countries and territories. Check out some highlights among Brazilian galleries:
1. Simons of Assisi
In the
Kabinett section of Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, the gallery highlighted the works of Emanoel Araujo (1940-2022): artist, curator, collector and researcher. A fundamental name in the history of Brazilian art, Araujo began his career in engraving, but soon expanded his practice into sculpture, creating Initially, he created three-dimensional geometric reliefs in wood. In the 1990s, Araujo began to incorporate ritual elements into his works, such as shells, beads and icons representing the Orixás. Pieces from different phases of the artist's life celebrate his contributions to Brazilian, Latin American and and worldwide. 2. Luisa Strina
Galeria Luisa Strina and Gomide&Co, on the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, brings the project
Lina Bo Bardi and the
Palma Art and Architecture Studio . The initiative aims to present the furniture from the studio of Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti produced between 1948 and 1950.
In addition, the traditional gallery presents the work of
Panmela Castro : an artist who, originally a graffiti artist from the suburbs of Rio, is interested in the dialogue that her female body marginalized person establishes with the city. Through performances and personal experiences, the artist is in search of a reciprocal affection with the other and with her works, which result in videos, photographs, objects and paintings.
3. The Gentle Carioca
Marcela Cantuária is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. She creates paintings that intertwine historical images from the world of politics with representations of contemporary visual culture. Some of her works are based on her research into the struggles of women around the world. such as the work Sônia, which pays homage to a communist riverside guerrilla killed by the military in the Araguaia region, during Brazil's first military coup in 1964. “Cantuária refuses to identify with the official narrative and opts for a reading that goes against the grain, pictorially instrumentalizing insurgent utopian images/monuments, integrated into the history of social exclusion, labor exploitation and environmental degradation”, by Aldones Nino,
La Larga Noche de the 500. Gentil Carioca, in partnership with the South African gallery Goodman Gallery, presents a selection of “new works of a critical, aesthetic, playful, social and political nature in the current global context”, according to the curatorship, “represented in the scope of the recent production of our artists”. Among the names highlighted are:
Agrade Camíz, Aleta Valente, Ana Linnemann, Arjan Martins, Cabelo, Denilson Baniwa, Jarbas Lopes, João Modé, José Bento, Laura Lima, Marcela Cantuária, Maria Laet, Maria Nepomuceno, Maxwell Alexandre, Brand new Edgar, OPAVIVARÁ!, Renata Lucas, Rodrigo Torres, Vinicius Gerheim and Vivian Caccuri .
4. Nara Roesler
Considered one of the great names of the so-called Generation 80,
Angelo Venosa (1954-2022) stood out for his dedication to sculpture, rather than painting, the group's main trend. His work often evokes organic structures, which the artist builds with wood covered with textiles. , resin, fiberglass or bones, beeswax and teeth.
For Art Basel Miami Beach, Nara Roesler is exhibiting more than 35 artists, in addition to the works of artist Angelo Venosa, who died recently in São Paulo. 5. Luciana Brito Gallery
For this edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, Luciana Brito Galeria presents a set of works by artists who have contributed to the international cultural debate in recent years, such as
Allan McCollum (1944, USA),
Anthony McCall (1946, England),
Bosco Sodi (1970, Mexico),
Iván Navarro (1972, Chile),
Leandro Erlich (1973, Argentina),
Liliana Porter (1941, Argentina) and
Marina Abramovic (1946, Yugoslavia), as well as
Caio Reisewitz (1967, Brazil) and
Regina Silveira (1939, Brazil).
Argentine Leandro Erlich has been one of the highlights of the arts in 2022. The artist has received several exhibitions from institutions around the world, including traveling through Brazil in the spaces of the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center. In addition to the “Liminal” exhibition, a retrospective at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the artist will also be presenting the performance “ You can't have your cake and eat it too ” during Art Basel, in partnership with Kreëmartno at the Luciana Brito Gallery at the fair and museum.
Also as a highlight,
Regina Silveira presents “Wall Series”, her first collection of NFTs, inspired by the 15 historical silkscreen prints of "Labirintos", created by the artist in 1971. Regina Silveira is one of the most important artists in the contemporary visual arts scene and brings a trajectory guided by research in new media.
The 20th anniversary edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center Miami from November 30 to December 3, 2022. Among the novelties is the record number of Brazilian galleries, including A Gentil Carioca , Galeria Raquel Arnaud, Galeria Luisa Strina Luciana Brito Gallery, Triângulo House, Dan Gallery, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, omide & Co , Millan, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel , Nara Roesler , Simões de Assis, Luisa Strina and Vermelho, Central Gallery and Paulo Kuczynski. 
