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ORMA Gallery, based in Milan, debuts at the 2026 edition of SP–Arte with a presentation conceived around the idea of cultural exchange between Italy and Brazil, reaffirming the gallery’s commitment to fostering international dialogue and to promoting contemporary artistic practices through cross-disciplinary perspectives.
For its first participation in the fair, the gallery brings together a group of emerging and established Italian artists — Giulia Mangoni (1991, Isola del Liri), Matteo Negri (1982, San Donato Milanese), Eleonora Rinaldi (1994, Udine), Maria Positano (1995, London), and Andrea Gallotti (1993, Monza) — in dialogue with Brazilian artists such as Luciano Maia (1987, Santarém, PA) and Paulo Agi (1997, Paranaíba), proposing a sensitive and plural reading of different formal, material, and conceptual investigations.
At the center of the project presented at the booth is Daniel Lannes’s (1981, Niterói) new series, Safe Sex, conceived as a revisitation of one of the artist’s earliest bodies of research, developed 25 years ago in Rio de Janeiro as part of the SafeSex Project. By returning to this inaugural work, Lannes reactivates questions that run throughout his trajectory, creating a group of nine paintings that rework, from a contemporary perspective, central themes in his practice.
The series is curated by Victor Gorgulho and will be launched during SP–Arte alongside a catalogue specially conceived for the occasion, also curated by Victor Gorgulho and published by Cosac Naify.
With this inaugural participation, ORMA presents to the public of SP–Arte a project that goes beyond the exhibition format to assert itself as a platform of convergence between artists, territories, and repertoires, consolidating a space of exchange between Italian and Brazilian artistic production within the context of contemporary art.
