Beatrice Milhazes
Beatriz Milhazes (* 1960 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian artist. Milhazes is known for her colored works, in which she juxtaposes folkloric elements of Brazilian culture with European works of modernity . Her work is shaped by the writer Oswald de Andrade , a representative of the modernism trend.
life and work
The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes grew up in Rio de Janeiro. She studied social communication at the private Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso and then moved to the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage .
She achieved international breakthroughs with her work at Carnegie International in 1995. In 2003 Milhazes represented Brazil at the Venice Biennale .
Milhazes has exhibited her work in a number of renowned museums, including the Museum of Modern Art , New York, Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo) , Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris . Milhazes work is also part of the permanent collections u. a. the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museu de Arte Moderna , São Paulo.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2000 Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- 2003 Biennale di Venezia , Venice.
- 2009 Cartier Foundation , Paris.
- 2011 Fondation Beyeler , Basel, catalog.
- 2014 Beatriz Milhazes. Jardim Botânico , Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
literature
- Paulo Herkenhoff : Beatriz Milhazes. Catalog, Ikon Gallery, 2001.
- Beatriz Milhazes - pintura, colagem. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Pancrom Indústria Gráfica, 2008.
- Beatrice Milhazes. Catalog Fondation Cartier, Thames & Hudson, 2009.
- Beatrice Milhazes. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3285-7 .
Web links
- Beatriz Milhazes in Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural
- Deutsche Bank Collection
- In the Studio: Adriano Pedrosa visits Beatriz Milhazes. (June 7, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ) Tate Modern Magazine, Issue 2, Autumn 2004
- MoMA Interview on Succulent Eggplants (English audio)
- Beatriz Milhazes on aspects of art
Individual evidence
- ^ Carol Kino: Modern Motifs, With Echoes of Brazil. In: New York Times , October 24, 2008
- ↑ Venice Biennale 2003
- ^ Neo Tropicalia - When Lives Become Form - Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960s to the Present. In: mot-art-museum.jp. Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ^ MoMA collection
- ↑ MET Collection
- ^ Collection of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo .
- ^ MoMA, 2000
- ^ Fondation Beyeler, 2011 ( Memento from February 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , in English, accessed on April 1, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Milhazes, Beatrice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |