miami basel 2024

For the 2024 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, Galeria Raquel Arnaud celebrates its 50 years of history, featuring a special focus on the works of Sergio Camargo, one of the most influential artists in Brazil in the second half of the last century. Representing Camargo, and his estate, for almost 50 years, the relationship between artist andgallery is symbiotic.

To honor this longstanding partnership, we will show a set of works that mark the sculptor’s fundamental transition from the 1960s wooden reliefs to the use of Carrara marble in 1970s. The wooden sculpture “untitled”, 1960, was the ground zero of this shift. In addition, the relief Untitled, 1971, is accompanied by an assortmentof marble and black belgium stone small-format sculptures that are rarely exhibited.

The exhibition establish a dialogue between Camargo and his contemporaries. Such as Jesús Rafael Soto with Ambivalencia in el Espacio, Color 16, 1982, painted on wood and metal; Luis Tomasello and his Chromoplastic Mural Brasil, 2012; and Carlos Cruz-Diez with Physichromie n 2,173, 1986, and his striking Chromointerferent Pyramid as a special highlight at Art Kabinett.

In addition, we are presenting pieces by artists from a later generation, such as Waltercio Caldas, whose sculptures explore the poetic potential of form; Iole de Freitas, who recently had a large solo exhibition at the Instituto Moreira Salles and Tomie Ohtake, in São Paulo; German artist Wolfram Ullrich, who has been exploring the materiality of geometric abstraction for more than 40 years, and who recently opened a retrospective at the Kunsthalle Weishaupt Überwindung der Schwerkraft Ulm, Germany; and, finally, the third generation is represented by Carla Chaim whose works were acquired by MASP, the Pérez Art Museum and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation.

The selection of artworks highlights Galeria Raquel Arnaud’s influence on the Brazilian art scene. Celebrating its 50th anniversary with a critically acclaimed exhibition curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, the gallery will launch the international publication 50 Years Galeria Raquel Arnaud at Art Basel Miami Beach, featuring a comprehensive collection of texts and images showcasing its rich history.