Ten artists to keep an eye on 2024

2024 promises to be a vibrant year for Brazilian art. After the cultural sector’s revival as a whole last year, it is likely that in this new cycle, we will witness the consolidation and expansion of public policies and increased interest from private initiatives in the cultural sector.

The first semester of 2024, for example, holds some events of enormous impact for the visual arts scene: SP–Arte reaches its 20th edition as the main art and design fair in Latin America. The commemorative milestone reflects the role the event has played in the last decades in the development and professionalization of the art market in Brazil. Additionally, the Venice Biennale, the world’s most traditional art exhibition, will be curated by a Brazilian. Adriano Pedrosa is leading the 60th edition of the exhibition, titled “Foreigners Everywhere.”

As usual, SP–Arte opens the year by presenting ten artists to keep an eye on. This time, five young researchers with keen perspectives indicate two artists who are part of their curatorial research. More than highlighting individual figures, what should be paid attention to in this list are the artistic practices and subtleties gathered here: the variety of experimented techniques, the intimacy given to the origin (and destination) of the materials used, the temporalities that permeate the works, and the importance of the affections that involve everything that is commonplace and everyday. Check it out!

Diego Mouro

Painter and muralist. Observer of everyday life, Diego Mouro (São Bernardo do Campo, SP, 1988) highlights the layers that constitute us as individuals who share stories and territories. In Povoada, his solo exhibition at the Afro Brazil Museum, one can perceive how, beyond technique, the artist positions himself in the history of Brazilian painting in relation, for example, to Arthur Timótheo da Costa (1882-1922) and Benedito José Tobias (1894-1963).

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