Catalog of the exhibition held at MASP, Sao Paulo, November 29, 2019-March 1, 2020 and Sesc Avenida Paulista, Sao Paulo, November 30, 2019-March 1, 2020. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Selected bibliography Gabriela De Laurentiis -- Anna Bella Geiger: viscera, maps, and protraits / Tomas Toledo -- Anna Bella Geiger, circa MMXIX: the sharp point of the compass leg / Bernardo Mosqueira -- On the myth of belonging: other ways of being feminist / Estrella de Diego -- Letter to Anna Bella Geiger (2) / Philippe Van Cauteren -- A whole connected history: an interview with Anna Bella Geiger / Adriano Pedrosa -- 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 -- Soft and noctural works, 1984-2014 -- Biographical note / Gabriela De Laurentiis -- Exhibition checklist -- Selected bibliography
Summary:
Brazilian artist Anna Bella Geiger (born 1933) was one of the first artists to engage in abstract art in Brazil, participating in the historic exhibition of Brazilian abstract art held in Rio de Janeiro in 1953. Since the 1970s she has also worked with video, conceptual art and mail art. 'Native Brazil/Alien Brazil', named after her provocative political postcard series from 1976, covers the artist's entire seven-decade career from the 1950s to the present, providing an overview of the extraordinary scope and diversity of Geiger's work and themes, including informal abstraction, self-portraits, maps, landscapes and equations, as well as the artist's interest in the interior of the human body, and her critiques of art systems and analyses of political and historical issues of Brazil. Exhibition: MASP Museu de Arte Sao Paulo, Brazil (29.11.2019 - 03.01.2020) / S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (30.05.-11.10.2020).
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