Amparo, São Paulo, 1933
Sculptor, lecturer, painter, draftsman
Picture by: Mario Grisolli
ANNA MARIA NIEMEYER GALLERY
City – Country: Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
Homepage: www.annamarianiemeyer.com.br
Email: galamn@centroin.com.br
Tel.: +55 21 22399144
Participation in International Fairs: XXX
Soon profile of the gallery: Art and beauty were always the guiding visual rulers of Anna Maria Niemeyer’s aesthetic world. Very early in her life, the only daughter of the architect Oscar Niemeyer has joined her father in collaborating with many of his distinct Brazilian projects. Among other works, she was responsible for the interior design projects for Alvorada and Planalto Palaces in Brasilia from 1960 to 1973. She has also been his partner in furniture design, many of their creations being exhibited in major galleries and museums over the world. But it was in Rio de Janeiro – her hometown – where she decided 30 years ago to establish her Art Gallery, the definite natural location for practicing her skilled look and passionate experience in Contemporary Art, especially Brazilian vanguard art.
The Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery first opened in 1977 in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, and it is presently placed in the Gavea Shopping Center since 1979. The gallery integrates the Fine Arts Circuit and celebrates many achievements among more than 400 successful exhibits for individual and collective artists’ works and book writers’ events. It is for her great satisfaction the acknowledgement of her being responsible for the first commercial appearance of great artists’ exhibits in Rio, such as Jorge Guinle (1980/1992), Victor Arruda (1981/1985/1986/1989/1991/1995/2000/2001/2005), João Carlos Goldberg (1987/1989/1999 e 2003), João Magalhães (1988), Maria Lucia Cattani (1991), Edmilson Nunes (1993/2003/2005), Marcos Cardoso (1995/2000/2004/2007), Eliane Duarte (1996/1999/2002/2005), Mônica Sartori e Isaura Pena (1996), Fernando Cardoso (2002), Rosa Oliveira (2003/2007) e Camille Kachani (2007).
Many other individual works’ exhibits of acknowledged artists nowadays participants of the greatest collections in Brazil and elsewhere have sometime been presented in Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery. She quotes Loio-Pérsio (1980/1986/2001), Farnese de Andrade (1986/1992), Sante Scaldaferri (1984/1987/2006), Maurício Bentes (1987/1990/1991), Ione Saldanha (1988, 1990,1984), Oscar Niemeyer (1988/1995/1997/2002/2003/2004), Marco Tulio Resende (1988/1993), Carlos Zílio (1989), Marcos Coelho Benjamim (1989/1981/1982), Chico Cunha (1989/1991/1995/2001/2004), Katie van Scherpenberg (1989/1993/1995/1999/ 2003), Luis Ernesto (1090/1993/1996), Manfredo de Souzanetto (1990/ 1992/ 1994), Anna Maria Maiolino (1991), Jorge Duarte (1992/2001/2005), Iole de Freitas (1993/1997/2002), Paulo Pasta (1994/1997/2001), Beatriz Milhazes (1994/1998), Rodrigo Andrade (1994/1997/2000), Luciano Figueiredo (1995/1998/ 2001), Marcos Giannotti (1995/1998), Cristina Canale (1995/1998/2002), Niura Bellavinha (1997), Luiz Zerbini (1998), Caetano de Almeida (1998/2007), Cristina Salgado (1999/2002/2006), Nelson Leirner (1999), Franz Weismann (2000/2003), Efrain Almeida (2001/2003/2005), Jorge Fonseca (2001/2004/2007), Ricardo Ventura (2002/2005/2007), José Patrício (2004), Delson Uchoa (2005), Ana Miguel (2006) e Gastão Manoel Henrique (2007).
The gallery has been the site for some other recognized foreign artists’ exhibits such as Julio Pomar, Hsiao Chin, Clemencia Labin, Pedro Tagliafico e Albuquerque Mendes. In association with Paulo Klabin and Saramenha Galleries, it promoted the presentation “Ione Saldanha – A summary for 45 years of painting”. The Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery was one of the first galleries to show works of art with an installation feature like Victor Arruda’s “Clocks” and Maurício Bentes’ “Horse-Light”. Regularly, it produces exhibits for young artists in collective showings, like “Black humour in female universe” and “True and false”, both curated by Nelson Leirner and, more recently, “Pictures” by the curator Edmilson Nunes. The gallery took part in the gathering of other galleries in Brazil and abroad, such as Sattamini Collection “Going to Niteroi”; Eliane Duarte and Marcos Cardoso’s “The nineties”, both in Paço Imperial Museum, Rio de Janeiro; Chico Cunha’s “Drawings and Pictures” in the Latin American Cultural Center – DIAG, Frankfurt, and Beatriz Milhazes, Eliane Duarte and Iole de Freitas “Internets” exposition, a simultaneous realization with Sala Alternativa Gallery and Alejandro Otero Museum, both located in Caracas.
In December 2005, a second address in Gavea, Rio de Janeiro, completed the gallery intention to increase the artist’s value with collective exhibits, periodically renewed. Among those are the three artists selected by the curators designated by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture to represent Brazil in ARCO/2008: Gastão Manoel Henrique, Katie van Scherpenberg and Victor Arruda.
Artists of the gallery: Ana Miguel, Caetano de Almeida, Camille Kachani, Chico Cunha, Cristina Salgado, Deneir Martins, Edmilson Nunes, Efrain Almeida, Eliane Duarte, Farnese de Andrade, Franz Weissmann, Galeno, Gastão Manoel Henrique, Ione Saldanha, Isaura Pena, João Carlos Goldberg, Jorge Duarte, Jorge Fonseca, José Patrício, Katie van Scherpenberg, Loio-Pérsio, Luciana Horta, Mara Martins, Márcia X, Marco Giannotti, Marco Tulio Resende, Marcos Cardoso, Mario Azevedo, Mario Cravo, Monica Barki, Monica Sartori, Sante Scaldaferri, Oscar Niemeyer, Ricardo Ventura, Rodrigo Andrade, Rosa Oliveira y Victor Arruda.
Artists in ARCO'08: Gastão Manoel Henrique, Katie van Scherpenberg and Victor Arruda.
Main address:
Main Activity: Monthly exhibits
Rua Marquês de São Vicente 52 – loja 205
Shopping da Gávea
22451-040 – Gávea – Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Tel: 55 21 22399144
Fax: 55 21 22592082
e-mail: galamn@centroin.com.br
Working times: Monday thru Saturday from 10h00 to 22h00
Sunday and holidays – closed
Branch address:
Main Interest: Periodical exhibits of its main artists’ colletions
Praça Santos Dumont, 140 – loja A
Baixo Gávea
22470-060 – Gávea – Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Tel: 55 21 25408155
Fax: 55 21 22592082
e-mail: galamn2@centroin.com.br
Working times: Tuesday thru Friday from 13h00 to 21h00
Saturday and Sunday from 14h00 to 18h00
Monday and holidays – closed
Other information:
Manager: Anna Maria Niemeyer
Assistant Manager: Carlos Oscar Niemeyer
Sales Manager and Assistant to the manager: Leonor Azevedo
Crédito: Versão Português/Inglês: Elizabeth Baldo Correa
Gastão Manoel Henrique
Amparo, São Paulo, 1933
Sculptor, lecturer, painter, draftsman
Picture by: Mario Grisolli
From 1955 to 1958 he attended the Painting Course at National Fine Arts School, Rio de Janeiro. He traveled to Europe, where he stayed until 1963. Back to Brazil, he lived in Rio, and by the end of the sixties he made “Convertible Objects”, consisting of geometrical wooden cut forms, handled by the participant public. He took interest on set design and made stages and minute shape wooden crafts. Since then, he integrates important collections exhibits. He moved to Brasilia in 1968 to lecture in the Expression Representation and Visual Arts Department of the Central Arts Institute of Architecture Course in University of Brasilia. There he stayed until 1972. He lectured from 1975 to 1987 in the Visual Arts School in Parque Lage and in the Modern Art Museum, both in Rio de Janeiro. In 1987 he received the Art Vitae Scholarship on Visual Arts with a sculpture project. He was a lecturer in the Art Institute of the Federal University of Campinas, São Paulo, until 2004. In the nineties he participated in Sculpture and Painting Workshop of the Ibero-American Culture Institute of Israel. Retired from lecturing at UNICAMP, he vigorously took back the Fine Arts circuit. In 2005 he presented about 50 wooden pieces built with strict accuracy as a summary for his late years’ activity among which were 30 original works. In 2007 he made an individual exhibit in Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery, in Rio.
Katie van Scherpenberg
São Paulo, São Paulo, 1940
Painter, engraver, lecturer
Picture by: Fausto Fleury
She is recognized to use diversified materials with the purpose of obtaining plastic effects in her creative technique. She lived her childhood in England where she had accomplished plastic art skills which were completed in Rio (painting with Caterina Baratelli, from 1957 to 1960), in Germany and Austria. Citizen of the world, Katie also lived in Santana Island, Amazon River. “Maybe I have developed far away from my origin the possibility of “thinking painting”. I finally recognized that I am a romantic person. Facing a screen, I look for the landscape as a walker”, she stated when talking to the well-known reviewer Luiz Camilo Osorio. She also is a painting teacher, between each of her brush strokes. Since 1983 she has been focusing her attention to the use of different materials, either at the Visual Arts School of Rio or in workshops she elaborates in the city. Her unique style is one among many other reasons to keep close proximity with art in Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery. Therefore, since 1989 she maintains exclusive presence in the gallery where she performed her first individual exhibit. Her works integrate important art collections in Brazil and abroad, such as Blanton Museum of Art and the Jack Blanton Collection, both in Austin, Texas; the Cisneiros Collection, Miami, Florida; Sweden Royal Collection, Stockholm; Statoil Collection, Stavamger, Norway and the UECLA Collection, University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, Essex, England. She regularly participates of important collective and biennial exhibits recently having presented her works in a special room of MERCOSUL Biennial by appointment of one of the international curators of the exhibit.
Her future plans for the year 2008, is the organization of her first art book that will also be presented at an individual exhibit at Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery.
Victor Arruda
Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, 1947
Museologist, draftsman, painter and lecturer
Picture by: Vicente de Mello
Having moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1960, he obtained his Museology Degree in UNIRIO Federal University. He also attended to medical school in Gama Filho University in Rio. In 1975 he introduces himself in Plastic Arts by participating in the Summer Exhibit in the Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro. Since then, he integrates the Fine Arts circuit of Rio de Janeiro. In 1978 he lays the foundation and management of the Saramenha Gallery – together with his mother and brother – one of the pioneer art galleries to show regular, vigorous works of Brazilian Contemporary Art. It is at Saramenha Gallery where the greatest and most important plastic artists had obtained their first opportunity to present their works. Meanwhile, he also was one of the curators of the recently inaugurated Sattamini Collection, an activity that he used to share with João Manuel Sattamini and Ruben Breitmann, both former directors of the extinguished Subdistrito Gallery in São Paulo. He also worked with Art Education and acted as an administration member of Touch and Contact Group. In 1977 he was responsible for the installation of the first “Free Art Atelier”, intended for children assisted by the Correctional National Organization FUNABEM.
In 1982 he became the coordinator of the Children Sector of the Exhibition “In the border of life” as well as a plastic arts teacher in the Correctional Institute Lemos de Britto. In 1981 he restarted his artistic career with the the exhibition “Clocks” at the Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery, which was his only presentation in National and International collective exhibits. Thereafter, he received distinguished reviews by numerous famous international galleries’ owners and reviewers. In 1989 he was invited by Oscar Niemeyer to create the theater panel in the theatre foyer of the Latin America Memorial, São Paulo, SP. He was also invited to participate in the showing “Hommage à la Declaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme” at the United Nations Building, UN, New York. In 1990 he integrated the Working Group for the creation of The Contemporary Art Museum of Niterói, RJ, together with João Leão Sattamini, Ítalo Campofiorito and Anna Maria Niemeyer. Anna Maria was the one who made it possible to obtaining from Oscar Niemeyer the project for the construction of the Contemporary Art Museum – MAC without any charges to the City of Niterói. The museum building was inaugurated in 1992 and since its opening it locates the Sattamini Collection. This collection complements the major Brazilian art collection, the Gilberto Chateaubriand’s Collection that gathers modern and contemporary art works. The collection is also disposed as a commodatum-regulated share to the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Rio de Janeiro – MAM. In 2005 he presented a large exhibit of his drawings in Sergio Porto Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro, RJ. He is presently preparing a new individual exhibit to be presented next year in Anna Maria Niemeyer Gallery.
Crédito: Versão 
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: Elizabeth Baldo Correa