This is a report on the closing of Rex Gallery & Sons in 1967, a sad event due to the importance of that venue for Brazilian art from the sixties; the gallery played an important role in the struggle against a form of abstraction that no longer had anything to contribute and in furthering concern with social problems and other aesthetics. The article contains a reproduction of the text in the last issue of the Rex Time newsletter on what was called the end of painting. Between parentheses, the author expresses support for those who are outraged by the closing, among them painter Nelson Leirner. The text contains a description of the event Exposição Não Exposição, where Leirner gave away the works on exhibit to viewers in what would later be called a happening.

This document reports the closing of the celebrated Galeria Rex, which was open in São Paulo for a period of approximately one year, from 1966 to 1967. Although unsigned, the text is attributed to Pietro Maria Bardi, director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) and sponsor of the magazine Mirante das Artes, where the article was published.

Founded in 1966 by Brazilian artists Wesley Duke Lee (1931–2010), Geraldo de Barros (1923–1998), Nelson Leirner (b. 1932), Carlos Fajardo (b. 1941), Luiz Paulo Baravelli (b. 1942), and  Frederico Nasser (b. 1942), the polemic Rex group was critical of the art scene. It ran a gallery, Rex Gallery & Sons, and put out a newsletter, Rex Time. In addition to the five shows the group held and the five newsletters it released, it engaged in other cultural activities, including organizing a lecture by sculptor Flávio de Carvalho.

Twelve issues of the magazine Mirante das Artes were published in São Paulo in 1967 and 1968. The editor of the magazine was Pietro Maria Bardi, director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). The far-reaching publication was as democratic as possible considering the political situation in Brazil at the time. In it, Bardi was able to communicate his ideas in opposition to the art market that was taking hold in Brazil at the time. [For further information on the closing of the Galeria Rex, see ICAA digital archive (doc. no. 1111033)].