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As I wrote on Friday, many galleries and museums have timed ambitious shows to coincide with the 11th edition of the SP-Arte fair, which opened on Wednesday and runs through today. The city is rich with art, including a remarkable show by Brazilian artist Tonico Lemos Auad at the Pivô space, which brings together knit works (some hung from the ceilings), humble little sculptures made with aluminum cans (their coating largely wiped away), and two little kiosks in which two repairman are carefully working on everything from watches to toasters. Airy and deeply moving, it is concerned with how objects come together, and what happens when they start to come apart, to wear. Someone should bring it to New York. Below, photos of shows in the city, including Auad and Lucas Arruda at Pivô, Andrey Zignnatto at Blau Projects, Marina Abramovic at SESC Pompeia, Sean Scully at the Pinacoteca, Andrey Zignnatto at Blau Projects, Rodrigo Matheus at Fortes Vilaça, Rubens Mano at Galeria Millan, and Robert Heinecken at the Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo.
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Hanging knit sculptures by the great Tonico Lemos Auad at Pivô.
More Tonico Lemos Auad.
And more.
A detail of that beguiling wall work.
A watch repairman working as part of Tonico Lemos Auad's show at Pivô.
Pivô is located in Oscar Niemeyer's Copan building.
From inside the Copan building.
Lucas Arruda at Pivô. Photographing this work feels ridiculous—they're subtle but strong abstractions on slides.
Tonico Lemos Auad at Pivô.
Sean Scully, Dakar, 1989, at Pinacoteca.
‘Sean Scully 1974-2015’ at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
‘Sean Scully 1974-2015’ at Pinacoteca.
'Marina Abramović: Terra Comunal' at SESC Pompeia.
Choice ephemera from the early years.
'Marina Abramović: Terra Comunal' at SESC Pompeia.
Marina Abramovic, Double Edge (detail), 1995.
A long row of classics.
Abramović geodes.
Works from the 1990s and 2000s, when Abramović got into super heavy handed objects.
A video based on Abramović's MoMA piece, 'The Artist Is Present.' Videos of those who sat across from her fill the opposite wall.
Visitors enjoying the audio for Abramović's The House With the Ocean View, which was performed in 2002 at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.
Lina Bo Bardi's SESC Pompeia, which she designed in 1977.
TVs everywhere. An installation view of Robert Heinecken's 1986 work Waking Up in News America at Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo.
'Rubens Mano: social contract' at Galeria Millan.
'Rubens Mano: social contract' at Galeria Millan.
Andrey Zignnatto at Blau Projects.
More Zignnatto, filling almost the entire main space.
A supremely elegant show of sculptures made with objects purchased in São Paulo by Rodrigo Matheus. 'Atração' is the name of the show, at Galeria Fortes Vilaca.
More works by Matheus.