Tag: Brazil
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Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
The RA turns over its grand halls to an erudite, even academic look at half a century of Brazilian painting. There are some interesting finds amid the abundance
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Ibrahim Mahama – interview: ‘It’s not so much about what you produce, but about the relationships that are created in the process’
He is showing at the Bienal de São Paulo and the Chicago Architecture Biennial and is artistic director of this year’s Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, but his real passion, he says, is the creative and cultural infrastructure he is…
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Beatriz Milhazes – interview: ‘My big ambition is always to try to do something new with abstraction’
On the occasion of a major survey of her work at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, the Brazilian artist discusses being political, fusing elements of European modernism with Brazilian culture and the increasing importance to her of the natural world
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Ann Gallagher – interview: ‘Hélio Oiticica’s work was outstanding in terms of its radicality’
As the first survey of Oiticica in London in 15 years goes on show at the Lisson Gallery, its curator, Ann Gallagher, talks about the Brazilian artist’s vibrant, sensual works
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Jonathas de Andrade: With the Heart Coming Out of the Mouth – Venice Biennale 2022
Giant ears, a massive inflatable heart and a disembodied head – De Andrade explains why he has filled the Brazilian Pavilion with an odd assortment of body parts
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Danielle Dean: Amazon
With her playful but disturbing critique of exploitative working practices, Danielle Dean takes the spotlight at Tate’s Art Now commission showcasing emerging artists
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Luiz Zerbini – interview: ‘I treat a painting as an oracle’
Ahead of his delayed new exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery, Brazilian painter Luiz Zerbini discusses urbanity and nature, the power of geometry and the secret life of paintings
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Matheus Parizi – interview: ‘Artists are compelled more than ever to make work about what is happening in the street. Art has to be political.’
Parizi talks about the current right-wing climate in Brazil, cuts to funding for the arts, and his new short film First Act, which he made as a direct response to the political events in his country
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Cinthia Marcelle: The Family in Disorder: Truth or Dare
In her first major UK solo exhibition, the Brazilian artist shows the importance of collective action in an exciting experiment in the occupation and transformation of publicly accessible space
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Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
As revealed by this tightly curated exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tarsila do Amaral, the latest artist to ride the current wave of Brazilian modernism, turns out to have invented it
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