EDUARDO BERLINER: THE ARTIST NOMINATED FOR THE EFG LATIN AMERICAN AWARD AT SP ARTE 2024

Eduardo Berliner, represented by Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most important Brazilian painters of his generation. In his canvases, landscape, architecture, cultural residues and human relationships are transformed through small or large deviations. In this way, what might at first glance appear to be personal narratives and real memories become dreamlike or threatening dinners, fragments of stories whose beginning and end we know neither the beginning nor the end. Coherently with these premises, and as we see in Folhagem (2021), children are recurring characters in his paintings, depositaries of an innocence at the same time fragile and powerful.

The work was selected at the SP Arte fair with the collaboration of Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, independent curator, together with Celia Sredni de Birbragher, director and editor of ArtNexus.

The EFG Latin America Art Award, now in its fourteenth edition, was created to support the production of Latin American artists. The process consists in pre-selecting the work of artists through a jury at contemporary art fairs in Latin America throughout each year. The award aims to promote the continent's visual arts production and regional fairs among collectors from around the world.

This year the fairs where the pre-selection will be made are: SP Arte, São Paulo; PArC, Lima; arteba, Buenos Aires; Ch.ACO, Santiago de Chile and ArtBo, Bogota.

As in previous years, once the nominees have been selected at the participating Latin American art fairs, the acquisition will be announced at Pinta Miami during the week of Art Basel. EFG Capital will acquire a representative artwork by the winning artist. The entire EFG Latin America Art Award collection is on permanent display at EFG Capital's Miami office.