This Week in Art in Brazil: October 16, 2024

Casa NALATAxSTRAAT/ Photo: Rhauan Santana Pop-Up Street Art Museum The NaLata International Art Festival, now in its fifth edition, is producing a pop-up museum of street art in partnership with STRAAT, a street art and graffiti museum in Amsterdam. the NaLata X STRAAT House is open until November 2 in the Pinheiros neighborhood of São Paulo. Featuring more than forty Brazilian and international artists, admission is free of charge. More information here.  Thalita Hamaoui Joins Marianne Boesky Gallery New York-based Marianne Boesky Gallery announced that São Paulo artist Thalita Hamaoui has joined its roster, to be co-represented with Curitiba-based Simões de Assis. Trained under Sandra Cinto, the artist turned to textiles and painting. Boesky writes: “Throughout her vibrant, kaleidoscopic paintings, Thalita Hamaoui (b. 1981; São Paulo, Brazil) imagines fantastical, overgrown landscapes that glow with a rich, internal luminosity. Building her work layer upon layer, Hamaoui conjures dense jungles amidst constant transformation—each element of the landscape seemingly poised on the verge of change: growing, blooming, evolving.” More here.  Open Call at A Gentil Carioca The esteemed Rio-based gallery A Gentil Carioca has issued a call for proposals for Abre Alas 20 — 2024/2025, a group exhibition to feature artists not represented...