Raquel Arnaud Gallery

A pioneer in the Brazilian art market and fundamental to the development and consolidation of contemporary art, Galeria Raquel Arnaud was created in 1973, under the name Gabinete de Arte. With striking spaces signed by architects such as Lina Bo Bardi, Ruy Ohtake and Felippe Crescenti, the Cabinet has passed through different addresses such as Avenida Nove de Julho and Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, besides the space that had belonged to the Commercial Subdistrict of Art, on Rua Artur de Azevedo, in Pinheiros, in which it remained from 1992 to 2011. The focus on the geometric abstraction segment and the special attention given to contemporary art investigations - constructive and kinetic art, installations, sculptures, paintings, drawings and objects - have perpetuated the Raquel Arnaud Gallery in Brazil and abroad, both for its coherence and for the unique contribution to the appreciation and consolidation of Brazilian art. To this end, artists such as Amilcar de Castro, Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Mira Schendel, Sergio Camargo, Hércules Barsotti, Waltercio Caldas, Iole de Freitas and Arthur Luiz Piza, among others, have made fundamental contributions. Currently based at 125, Fidalga Street, Vila Madalena, Galeria Raquel Arnaud represents artists recognized nationally and internationally - Waltercio Caldas, Carlos Cruz-Díez, Arthur Luiz Piza, Sérvulo Esmeraldo, Iole de Freitas, Maria Carmen Perlingeiro, Carlos Zilio and Tuneu. The youngest attest the consolidation of new contemporary languages - Frida Baranek, Georgia Kyriakakis, Elisa Bracher, Daniel Feingold, Julio Villani, Célia Euvaldo, Marco Giannotti, Wolfram Ullrich, Elizabeth Jobim, Carla Chaim, Carlos Nunes and Ding Musa. Raquel Arnaud also founded the Institute of Contemporary Art (IAC) in 1997, the only institution in Brazil to catalogue artists' documentation.