NEW YORK’S FIRST CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN ART FAIR
NOVEMBER 16-20, 2007
The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street
New York, NY, 10011
PINTA will be a unique event exhibiting annually — for sale through the participating galleries — the best of Latin American art, coinciding with Christie’s and Sotheby’s Latin American art auctions and with important exhibitions in museums and cultural institutions in New York City.
PINTA will be an exclusive fair which will include the participation of only thirty-five select art galleries showing museum-quality works representative of abstract, concrete, neo-concrete, kinetic and conceptual art, as well as of other contemporary Latin American art movements.
Participating galleries will feature works in different disciplines by artists such as Waltercio Caldas, José Pedro Costigliolo, Roberto Cortázar, Eduardo Costa, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Danilo Dueñas, León Ferrari, Gego, Arturo Herrera, Carmen Herrera, Juan Iribarren, Alfredo Jaar, Wifredo Lam, Ana María Maiolino, Marco Maggi, Fabián Marcaccio, Ronald Morán, Edgar Negret, Helio Oiticica, José Clemente Orozco, Julio Le Parc, César Paternosto, Rogelio Polesello, Lygia Pape, Liliana Porter, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Omar Rayo, Armando Reverón, Luis Roldán, Mira Schendel, Xul Solar, Jesús Soto, Joaquín Torres García, among others.
Special Programs
PINTA’s opening event, a tribute to the Brazilian conceptual artist Waltércio Caldas will take place at The Americas Society on Tuesday, November 13 at 6:30 p.m. Caldas’ lecture and reception will follow.
The creation of the Pinta Research Fund, a program to fund scholarships for New York University (NYU) advanced students in the field of Latin American Art History will be announced at the Opening Reception. Any donations to contribute with this initiative will be most welcome.
Collector, art patron and philanthropist Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Chairman of the New York City and Caracas – based Fundacion Cisneros is the Honorary Chairperson of PINTA’s Host Committee, and Estrellita Brodsky and Gonzalo Parodi are its Co-Chairs.
The Opening Reception, by invitation only, will be held on Thursday, November 15 at 7 p.m., and the fair will open its doors to the public at large on Friday, November 16 at 12 a.m.
The Pinta Museum Acquisitions Program has been created with the aim of incentivating the art market and enhancing museum collections. It will contribute funds to four major museums committed to Latin American art: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museum Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), El Museo del Barrio (New York) and the Lima Art Museum (MALI).
Principals
PINTA is headed by Diego Costa Peuser, Alejandro Zaia and Mauro Herlitzka. Chairman Alejandro Zaia is also Chair of Conexion PR/ZCM, a public relations firm based in Miami and South America. Diego Costa Peuser, the Fair Director, is currently the publisher of Arte al Día Internacional magazine, and he is also the director of the arteaméricas fair in Miami and of Buenos Aires Photo. Mauro Herlitzka, PINTA’s Institutional Director, is the current President of Fundación Espigas.
Dates & Times:
Friday, November 16, noon to 8 pm
Saturday, November 17, noon to 8 pm
Monday, November 19, noon to 8 pm
Tuesday, November 20,noon to 5 pm
Telephone: 305/854-3050
Contacts:
Liana Pérez
Pinta Public Relations Director
liana@pinta-art.com
786/262-1112
Mariangela Capuzzo
Pinta VIP Relations – Americas
mariangela@pinta-art.com
305 527 2046
Dan Schwartz
Media Relations
Susan Grant Lewin Associates
212/947-4557
dan@susangrantlewin.com
For more information visit the PINTA web site – www.pinta-art.com
