PINTA The Contemporary Latin American Art Fair 16.-20.11.07 NY

PINTA, New York's first contemporary Latin American art fair, will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, 18th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, November 16-20, 2007. 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. The fair organizers have invited the most prestigious galleries from the United States, Latin America and Europe to participate in this event. Thus, 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 art movements. Participating galleries will feature works in different disciplines by artists such as Carmelo Arden Quinn, Cruz Azaceta, Milton Becerra, José Bedia, Muu Blanco, Waltercio Caldas, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ariel Cusnier, Eugenio Espinosa, Manuel Espinosa, Danilo Dueñas, Teresita Fernández, León Ferrari, Alfredo Jaar, Wifredo Lam, Marcos López, Raul Lozza, Oscar Machado, Ana María Maiolino, Marco Maggi, Fabián Marcaccio, Roberto Matta, Cildo Meireles, Ronald Morán, Edgar Negret, Helio Oiticica, Julio Le Parc, César Paternosto, Rogelio Polesello, Liliana Porter, Omar Rayo, Armando Reverón, , Xul Solar, Jesús Soto, Gego, Joaquín Torres García, and Augusto Zanela, among others. The following galleries will be represented: Alejandra Von Hartz (Miami), Aina Nowak (Madrid), Alfredo Ginocchio (Mexico), Arévalo Art (Miami), Alternativa Elvira Neri (Caracas), Appetite (Buenos Aires and New York) Cecilia de Torres (New York), Durban Segnini (Caracas and Miami), EDS (Mexico), Gabinete Raquel Arnaud (Sao Paolo), dpm Arte Contemporáneo (Guayaquil and Miami), Fernando Pradilla (Madrid), Wussmann (Buenos Aires and New York), GC Estudio de Arte (Buenos Aires), Hardcore Contemporary Art (Miami), Josee Bienvenu (New York), Latincollector (New York), Latitude Art (San Juan), Nara Roesler (Sao Paulo), Lyle O Reitzel (Miami and Santo Domingo), Pan American Projects (Miami and Dallas), Praxis Art International (Nueva York, Miami and Buenos Aires), RJ Fine Arts (Stamford), Tres Art (Miami), Van Eyck (Buenos Aires), Vasari (Buenos Aires), Virgilio (Sao Paulo), Rubbers (Buenos Aires), Henrique Faria Fine Art (New York), Leon Tovar (New York), Magnan Projects (New Yo rk), Hostfelt (New York, San Francisco), MOKA (Chicago), Sammer (Miami), Ruth Benzacar (Buenos Aires).