Screen LibraryCildo Meireles /
"Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles, born in 1948, has made some of the most politically telling and aesthetically seductive works in recent art. An important theme in the Brazilian postwar avant-garde, from which Meireles emerged at the end of the 1960s, was the relationship between the sensual a...
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D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles, born in 1948, has made some of the most politically telling and aesthetically seductive works in recent art. An important theme in the Brazilian postwar avant-garde, from which Meireles emerged at the end of the 1960s, was the relationship between the sensual and the cerebral, the body and the mind. Meireles, now acknowledged as a key instigator of international Conceptual art, has remained true to these concerns - and to a political and ethical viewpoint formed outside the cultures of plenty. At the same time, he has become a global artist, making work that deals with issues and experiences that affect us all - whatever our country of origin. Under the repressive military regime of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which controlled the Brazilian media, Meireles found different ways of reaching the public - stamping bank notes with seditious slogans and returning them into circulation, or stenciling Coke bottles with slogans before sending them back to the bottling plant. Other works play with the sense of space or scale, varying in size from that of a finger ring to an installation covering almost 750 square feet. His installations are always designed to heighten the awareness of his audience, sometimes by inducing fear, as in "Volatile" (1980/94), which includes the presence of a naked candle and the smell of natural gas. "Babel" (2001) is a contemporary take on the myth of the tower that confounded the world's languages." "Lavishly illustrated, this volume includes 10 short thematic essays by leading scholars - including Moacir dos Anjos, Guy Brett, Okwui Enwezor, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Bartomeu Mar', Lu Menezes, Suely Rolnik, Stnia Salzstein and Lynn Zelevansky - as well as previously unpublished commentaries on each work by the artist."--Jacket. |
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Published to accompany the touring exhibition 'Cildo Meireles', held at Tate Modern, London, 14th Oct. 2008-11th Jan. 2009; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Feb. 11-May 3, 2009; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 7-Sept. 27, 2009; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Nov. 22, 2009-Feb. 7, 2010; Art Gallery of Ontario, Mar. 27-June 27, 2010. Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781933045917 1933045914 |
| Index Number: | N6659 |
| CLC: | J057.77 |
| Call Number: | J057.77/M514 |
| Contents: | Cildo Meireles : on the nature of things / Guy Brett and Vicente Todolí -- Work biographies -- To be curved with the eyes / Maaretta Jaukkuri -- Human murmur/cosmic studio / Lu Menezes -- On the politics of disaggregation : notes on Cildo Meireles's Insertions into ideological circuits / Okwui Enwezor -- Let there be light / Guy Brett -- Worldmaking / Lynn Zelevansky -- A shift towards the unnameable / Suely Rolnik -- Through / Bartomeu Marí -- Where / Sônia Salzstein -- Where all the places are / Moacir Dos Anjos. |