Anna Bella Geiger (Rio de Janeiro, 1933) is a pioneering Brazilian artist, with an extensive international career. Her work has an experimental and innovative character, traversing references that are political and conceptual, formal and aesthetical, personal and bodily. Geiger was one of the first artists to engage with abstract art in Brazil, and was also one of the first to work with video and mail art in the country.This is the most comprehensive monograph on the artist to date, and accompanies Geiger's first full-length museum retrospective, organized by the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP in partnership with the Serviço Social do Comércio - Sesc Avenida Paulista, in São Paulo, and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst - S.M.A.K., in Ghent. The publication's title is borrowed from one of Geiger's most emblematic works, a set of postcards now in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Tate Modern, London, the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, as well as MASP: Native Brazil/Alien Brazil (1976/1977). This work serves as a starting point and a common thread for the exhibition, charting other works in which Geiger questions hegemonic narratives, Brazil's colonial past and the country's social reality, articulating politics, self-representation, irony and fiction, often based on an autobiographical pespective.The exhibition catalog is organized by Adriano Pedrosa and Tomás Toledo, from the MASP, and includes newly commissioned texts by Bernardo Mosqueira, Estrella de Diego, Philippe Van Cauteren, Tomás Toledo, Zanna Gilbert, a biographical note by Gabriela De Laurentiis, and an interview with the artist by Adriano Pedrosa. With 288 pages, the publication reproduces 369 images, spanning the artits's entire trajectory, from the 1950 until the present day, with its different formats, supports, media and languages, and is divided into seven chapters: Self-Portraits (1951-2003), Visceral Works (1965-1969), Maps and Geographies (1972-2018), About Art (1973-2018), Notebooks (1974-1977), History of Brazil (1975-2015), and Soft and Nocturnals Works (1984-2014).
Sobre os autores(as)
Diego, Estrella De
Professora de história da arte moderna e contemporânea na UniversidadeComplutense de Madri e membro da Academia Real de Belas Artes deMadri. Foi nomeada para a cátedra Ida Cordelia Beam em 2017-8 e tambémocupou a cátedra Rei Juan Carlos I de Cultura e Civilização Espanhola.Membro do conselho consultivo do Museu de Arte Contemporânea emBarcelona (Macba), da Fundação Norman Foster em Madri e do RealColegio Complutense de Harvard; também é patrona da Real Academiada Espanha em Roma, do Instituto Cervantes e do Museu Reina Sofía, emMadri. Estrella é colunista do jornal El País |
Gilbert, Zanna
Zanna Gilbert é especialista de pesquisa curatorial sênior no Getty Research Institute, em Los Angeles. Sua produção é focada em livros de artistas, arte e poesia concreta e na rede internacional de arte postal. Foi cocuradora da exposição Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2017), promovida pela Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. |
Mosqueira, Bernardo
Bernardo Mosqueira é curador, escritor e mestrando no Center for Curatorial Studies —Bard College. Fundador e diretor artístico do Solar dos Abacaxis (Rio de Janeiro), étambém diretor do Prêmio Foco ArtRio. Curou Enchanted Bodies/Fetish for Freedom (GAMeC, 2018) e Anna Bella Geiger: CIRCA MMXIV — A imaginação é um ato de liberdade (Galeria Mendes Wood DM, 2014), entre outras, |
Pedrosa, Adriano
Adriano Pedrosa é diretor-artístico do MASP. |
Toledo, Tomás
Tomás Toledo é curador chefe do MASP. |
ISBN | 9788531000812 |
Autores | Pedrosa, Adriano (Compilador, Autor) ; Toledo, Tomás (Compilador, Autor) ; Mosqueira, Bernardo (Autor) ; Diego, Estrella De (Autor) ; De Laurentiis, Gabriela (Autor) ; Cauteren, Philippe Van (Autor) ; Gilbert, Zanna (Autor) |
Editora | Masp |
Idioma | Inglês Internacional |
Edição | 1 |
Ano de edição | 2020 |
Páginas | 288 |
Acabamento | Capa Dura |
Dimensões | 28,20 X 21,20 |