A GENTIL CARIOCA

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Rua Gonçalves Ledo, 11 / 17 sobrado -Centro, Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil, CEP 20060-020 • correio@agentilcarioca.com.br • +55 (21) 2222 1651

Operating as a nonprofit commercial outfit and run by three artists – Marcio Botner, Laura Lima and Ernesto Neto – A Gentil Carioca is hard to fit into any typical definition of who should operate a gallery and how they should do it. Situated on the first floor of a downtown block in Rio de Janeiro, the gallery makes frequent forays to art fairs (including Art Basel and Frieze London) and international exchange programs. Its oddly proportioned space is a flag-bearer for the city’s art scene. Botner handles most of the day-to-day administration, while maintaining a collaborative practice with Pedro Agilson and teaching at the Parque Lage Visual Arts School. With the interests of the represented artists to occupy him, gallery exhibitions to organize, the readying of an impending additional space a few doors down and the commissioning of a regularly changing installation on the gallery’s external wall, he’s a busy man.