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Mendes Wood DM
Mendes Wood DM is a contemporary art gallery founded in São Paulo in 2010. The gallery is known for exhibiting sculpture and conceptual works and for representing Afro-Brazilian artists and 20th-century Brazilian works associated with self-taught artists and modernism. The gallery has locations in São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, and New York City. History Mendes Wood DM was founded in São Paulo in 2010 by Pedro Mendes, Matthew Wood, and Felipe Dmab. Mendes and Wood, who met as philosophy of art students in Paris, initially began by representing the works of Brazilian sculptor Sônia Gomes in Paris. In 2010, Mendes and Wood partnered with Dmab to open the Mendes Wood DM gallery in São Paulo, gaining visibility as early supporters of Lucas Arruda, Paulo Nazareth, and Marina Perez Simão, for representing works by Tunga (artist), Tunga, and for being one of the few Brazilian galleries, at the time, representing Afro-Brazilian artists within Brazil and internationally. In 2017, Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendes Wood DM
Mendes Wood DM is a contemporary art gallery founded in São Paulo in 2010. The gallery is known for exhibiting sculpture and conceptual works and for representing Afro-Brazilian artists and 20th-century Brazilian works associated with self-taught artists and modernism. The gallery has locations in São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, and New York City. History Mendes Wood DM was founded in São Paulo in 2010 by Pedro Mendes, Matthew Wood, and Felipe Dmab. Mendes and Wood, who met as philosophy of art students in Paris, initially began by representing the works of Brazilian sculptor Sônia Gomes in Paris. In 2010, Mendes and Wood partnered with Dmab to open the Mendes Wood DM gallery in São Paulo, gaining visibility as early supporters of Lucas Arruda, Paulo Nazareth, and Marina Perez Simão, for representing works by Tunga (artist), Tunga, and for being one of the few Brazilian galleries, at the time, representing Afro-Brazilian artists within Brazil and internationally. In 2017, Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Allen (artist)
Alma Allen (born June 17, 1970 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor. He lived and worked in Joshua Tree, California. He currently works in Tepoztlán, Tepotzlán, Mexico. Work Carved from foraged wood and stone or cast in bronze, Allen's sculptures range in scale from thimble-sized Fetishism, fetishes to several ton pseudo-figures. Though made of the densest materials, the highly polished works appear to be in states of silent, inchoate movement. ''The New York Times'' described the shapes as "sensuous biomorphic forms", and 2014 Whitney Biennial co-curator Michelle Grabner selected three of Allen's large-scale sculptures for inclusion in the 2014 Biennial. Career and critical reception Prior to the 2014 Biennial, the self-taught artist was known to a following of collectors, but less so to the wider art establishment. He rarely exhibited, preferring to sell independently from his Mojave Desert studio, which the artist designed and built himself. The remote locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kishio Suga
(born 1944), is a Japanese sculptor and installation artist currently living in Itō, Shizuoka, Japan. He is one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. The works focus as much on the interdependency of these various elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves. Career Kishio Suga was born in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. From 1964 to 1968, he was a student in the painting department at Tama Art University in Tokyo. While at Tama, Suga read the writings of Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Kitarō Nishida, Kei Nishitani, Nāgārjuna, and Vasubandhu. During this period, two artists who taught at the university were important influences on Suga. Yosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosana Paulino
Rosana Paulino (born 1967, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian visual artist, educator, and curator. She holds a doctorate in Visual Arts from the University of São Paulo, School of Communications and Arts and a specialization in printmaking from London Print Studio. She won the Mercosur Konex Award from Argentina in 2022. Her works have been displayed in several shows in Spain, UK, Puerto Rico, France, USA, Cape Verde, Mexico, Portugal, and Brazil. She has also had solo exhibitions in Ouro Preto and São Paulo, Brazil. Background Paulino is recognized for her visual representations of Black women that examine historical and modern social contexts of racism, discrimination, and slavery in Brazil. Across North and South America, the Black female body has been an “icon on display for public consumption”. It has been symbolic of sex and desire; eroticized, exoticized and objectified. All these perceptions, biases and stereotypes that seek to define the Black female body have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Monteiro (artist)
Paulo Monteiro is a Brazilian artist who was born in São Paulo in 1961. He is a painter, sculptor and designer. In the 80s he was one of the founders of "Casa7" group. Participated in two Biennales of São Paulo (1985 and 1994). Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Some of his works are in important collections, such as MOMA's. 1970s From 1977 he attended Colegio Equipe Secondary School in São Paulo; fellow students included Fabio Miguez, Antonio Malta, Rodrigo Andrade, Branco Melo, Nando Reis, Leda Catunda, together with the filmmaker Cao Hamburger and the writers, Augusto Massi and Arnaldo Antunes. Towards the end of the 1970s he contributed to magazines from the subculture of São Paulo, including Boca and Almanak 80 and created front cover designs for three unique editions of Papagaio. His drawings were influenced by George McMannus, Robert Crumb and Luiz Sa. 1980s In 1981 he began to paint regularly, inspired by the late work of Philip Guston in the XVI São Paulo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato
Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900 – 1995), better known as Lorenzato was a Brazilian modernist artist. His painting portrays landscape and everyday life in tropical savanna during Minas Gerais urbanization. Lorenzato's paintings also have a very characteristic pattern made by the use of vivid colors mixed with an adapted comb that left shades and texture at the canvases. Early life and education Born in 1900 in Belo Horizonte to Italian immigrants, Lorenzato began working as a painter's assistant at a very early age. However, in the late 1920s, due to the outbreak of Spanish flu that hit Brazil, Lorenzato and his family returned to Italy, where he became a wall painter in the reconstruction of the town of Arsiero, destroyed during the First World War. A self-taught artist, he educated himself in the major renaissance historical movements, and after a short enrollment at the Reale Accademia delle Arti in Vicenza in 1925, he engaged at a year-long cycling trip across Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanam Khatibi
Sanam Khatibi (born 1979) is an Iranian-born Belgian visual artist. Her work consists of paintings, embroideries, tapestries, and sculptures. Themes of her work relate to humanity's primal instincts and animality, male-female dynamics, balance of power between the sexes, domination and submission, and fear and desire. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Work Khatibi cites Frida Kahlo, Hieronymus Bosch, and Henry Darger as her sources of inspiration. Khatibi's paintings often resemble Renaissance imagery, with groups of almost transparent nude female figures against backgrounds of pastel-coloured landscapes. The ghost-like women interact with the surrounding wildlife and explore their animal impulses. Her work is seen as putting "a contemporary spin on surrealism and the uncanny." A self-taught artist, Khatibi is described as "guided by an untamed instinct", and "each work seems to be an invit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Gomes
Sonia Gomes (Caetanópolis, Minas Gerais,1948) is a Brazilian contemporary artist who lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Gomes frequently employs found objects and textiles in her works, twisting, stretching, and bundling them to fashion wiry or knotty sculptural forms. Background Sonia Gomes was born in 1948 to a Black mother and white father in Caetanópolis, a small town in Minas Gerais considered to be the birthplace of Brazil's textile industry. As a child, she showed an interest in deconstructing her clothes and creating her own jewelry from leftover fabric and found materials. Despite this early inclination towards artistic creation, Gomes initially pursued a career in law. In 1994, at the age of 45, Gomes left her legal career to attend the Guignard School of Art in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. This pivotal decision marked her formal entry into the art world. She credits her maternal grandmother with her interest in art. In a 2022 profile in Sculpture magazine she sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Bella Geiger
Anna Bella Geiger, (born 1933, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian people, Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish people, Polish ancestry, and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, and her work, characterized by the use of different media, is held by galleries and private collections in the US, China, Brazil and Europe. Biography Her parents were raised in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland. They moved to Brazil ten years before her birth. Her father was a craftsman. Geiger first graduated in literature and language from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and later in the 1950s, studied art at Rio's Instituto Fayga Ostrower. In 1950, at the age of seventeen, she participated in her first exhibition at the Salão Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. She moved to New York in 1954 where she took classes in Art history, Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, returning to Rio the following year. In 1965 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco (born Juliana Emilia Fusco Miyares; June 18, 1960) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work explores gender, identity, race, and power through performance, video, interactive installations, and critical writing. Early life and education Fusco was born in 1960 in New York City. Her mother was a Cuban exile who had fled the Cuban revolution that year. Fusco received a B.A in Semiotics from Brown University in 1982, an M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University in 2005."Coco Fusco" Alexander Gray Associates. Retrieved 2014-11-23. Career After finishing graduate school in 1985, Fusco met a group of Cuban artists, inclu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Creuzet
Julien Creuzet (born 1986) is a French-Caribbean conceptual artist and professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Creuzet's practice encompasses sculpture, poetry, music, video, and animation and often engages with topics of creolization, migration decolonization, and the complexities of French colonial history. In 2021, Creuzet was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, and in 2022, he received Art Basel's donnés Prize. In 2024, Creuzet represented France at the 60th Venice Biennale, becoming the first black man, and one of the youngest artists, to do so. Early life and education Creuzet was born in the eastern Parisian suburb Le Blanc-Mesnil, Le Blanc Mesnil. He and his family moved to Martinique when he was 4 years old. While living in Martinique, Creuzet was exposed to Caribbean culture and artists by his father, an assistant nurse who loved art and cultural exhibitions. In 2006, at the age of 20, Creuzet returned to France to pursue studies a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Canell
Nina Canell (born 1979) is a sculpture and installation artist born in Växjö, Sweden and educated at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin, Ireland. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany Work Nina Canell’s practice concerns the physical and chemical characteristics of materials and found objects as well as their metaphorical and indexical nature. By placing material forms and immaterial forces into proximity, for example electrifying, heating or moistening wood, copper, plastic or glass, she creates works that embody an interchanging state, a process. Canell’s sculptural practice concentrates on this transformative affect: materials and objects are either being animated by a process in her installations or have been the site of a process in that an encounter or traversal has taken place. Despite the articulation of the material phenomena, Canell’s works are essentially of indexical nature as they open up a sense for the symbol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
