For the 2025 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, Galeria Raquel Arnaud is honored to celebrate its pioneer trajectory by presenting a selection of works that highlights its enduring commitment to geometric abstraction, constructivism and kinetic art.

Building on its pioneering role in bringing kinetic art to Brazil in the 1980s, particularly through its long-standing representation of Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús Rafael Soto. This presentation explores how each artist uniquely engages with their chosen materials to shape and redefine spatial perception. From Soto’s pioneering kinetic works that invite viewer participation, to Carlos Cruz-Diez, a key figure in Kinetic Art represented by the gallery since 1983, will be showcased through one of his dynamic “Physichromie” that explores the spatial production of color.

The gallery will feature key works by these masters, alongside the gallery’s most established references, the two Brazilians living artists, Waltercio Caldas and Iole de Freitas, both represented since the late 1970s, and known for their investigations. Caldas’s minimalist and conceptual sculptures explore the space between objects, the exhibition highlights diverse approaches to material and spatial relationships. Freitas’s large-scale steel sculptures demonstrate a dialogue with architecture, testing the limits between monumentality and lightness, as a dance.

The proposed exhibition will also showcase the gallery’s continued support of significant artists from subsequent generations. Carla Chaim, Wolfram Ullrich, and Gisela Colon. This intergenerational dialogue reflects the gallery’s historical coherent line of contemporary artists from the 1970s onwards.

Furthermore, the presentation will include Camargo’s iconic explorations of form through his signature carrara marble, black belgium and seminal bronze sculptures to the most recognized wooden relief. Chaim whose work across painting, drawing investigates her body’s performative relationship. Ullrich’s metal reliefs paintings that challenge perceptions of dimension, and Colon’s innovative work introduces biomorphic sculptures created with innovative materials that manipulate light and color, reflecting a contemporary evolution of kinetic minimalist principles.This application aims to further this legacy by showcasing a dialogue between established and contemporary artists who explore the fundamental interplay of material and space in compelling ways.

Galeria Raquel Arnaud’s consistent vision, continues to foster artistic research and present a coherent program that has significantly influenced Brazilian art recognition worldwide. This carefully curated proposal aims to provide a glimpse and curiosity into the gallery’s rich history while highlighting its ongoing commitment to presenting cutting-edge contemporary art to an international audience at Art Basel Miami Beach.