ArPA 2024

Galatea is pleased to announce its participation in the 3rd edition of ArPa, which will take place from June 26 to 30 at Mercado Livre Arena Pacaembu, in São Paulo. At our booth, we continue our mission to bring artists from outside the Southeastern axis to the fair, presenting a solo project of paintings and sculptures by the artist Miguel dos Santos (Caruaru, PE, 1944), represented by the gallery.

The selection features eighteen historical works produced between 1968 and the mid-1980s, allowing viewers to follow the development of formal and symbolic characteristics that were decisive in the consolidation of Miguel dos Santos' body of work. Among the paintings, São Miguel (1968), which exhibits a style aligned with the proposals of the Armorial Movement of which he was a part, and Um neto de Aleijadinho (1977), produced in the same year he participated in the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture — FESTAC '77 (Lagos, Nigeria), one can see the refinement of his lines and compositions resulting in figures of unmistakable character. As a common thread between the works, there is a combination of references from Northeastern popular culture, mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and Yoruba art brought to Brazil by African peoples.

Galatea will occupy booth U7 in the UNI sector, curated by Germano Dushá and Benedicta M. Badia, which brings together nine galleries in seven projects, with artists from Latin America and the Caribbean exploring the mystery of life through different means. The selection includes artists who, in their various contexts and practices, synthesize or rework earthly issues from spiritual dimensions, imagination, and speculative thinking. Their works, between the corporeal and the ethereal, resonate cosmological visions, collective imaginations, contemporary tensions, and futures populated by ancestral forces and ineffable phenomena. It is in this meeting of spirituality with everyday materiality that critical dynamics towards colonization and modernity transmute into pathways for the power of life.