Archive for the ‘Brazil’ Category

Vera Costa

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Vera was born in southern Brazil, where she completed her BFA and MFA degrees and started her artistic career. Art is her passion and since the 90s she has been showing her artwork in several group and solo exhibitions. In addition, she’s contributed to community projects aiming social consciousness. She ...

Beatriz Milhazes

Friday, November 30th, 2007

b. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1960 Established Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes has attracted international attention with her colorful compositions since the 1990s. Her art features elements of both Brazilian pop culture and modern visual languages. Overlapping floral motifs, ornamental arabesques and abstract patterns convey an excessive, sensuous energy. COLLECTIONS: Solomon R. ...

Hélio Oiticica

Friday, November 30th, 2007

b. Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - 1937-1980. Hélio Oiticica used to say that he was not a 'career artist', reflecting his wish not to be categorised under an established label. Oiticica's early works were influenced by the Brazilian neo-Concretists and fell within the framework of geometric abstractionism, but his particular ...

Fernando Ferreira de Araujo

Friday, November 30th, 2007

b. 1962 in Brazil. Lives and works in New York City. Artist Statement: “I’ve been paiting for almost 18 years. Painting, to me, is basically an intuitive process, I always find myself guided by intuition and led by emotion. As opposed to wide and long heavy brush strokes, I used to have, I ...

Harding Meyer

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Outstading figurative/portrait contemporary artist Biography 1964 Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil 1993 Meisterschüler 1987 - 1998 Studies at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe / Prof. Max Kaminski and Prof Helmut Dorner 1999 Helmut-Stober-Prize www.hardingmeyer.de

Plínio Palhano

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

    Plínio Palhano was born in Recife, Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil, in 1954. He belongs to the group named Seventy's generation, from Pernambuco. It's a figurative, but a figurative that "attracts" and "abstracts" the figure, mending it by the "inflamed" form through which he develops his work. More than the vision ...