Beam Drop Inhotim (2008) is the re-creation of a work made in 1984 at the Art Park, a sculpture park in the state of New York, USA, destroyed three years later. For its version accomplished for Instituto Inhotim, 71 steel beams collected in junkyards close to Belo Horizonte were hoisted 45 meters high by a … Continued
Estas plantas primitivas têm seus ancestrais datados no período carbonífero (há cerca de 359 milhões a 299 milhões de anos). É uma samambaia monumental, cujas folhas podem chegar a 8 metros de comprimento e tem sua origem na Oceania, com ocorrência na Ásia, Austrália e Madagascar. Por ser de grande porte, deve ser plantada em … Continued
Uma das plantas mais fotografadas do Inhotim é a agave-polvo, que pode ser encontrada próxima à obra Olafur Eliasson, Viewing machine, 2001. Com folhas carnosas e que lembram tentáculos de polvo, não possui caule e é uma suculenta natural de desertos e montanhas.
William Kentridge is graduated in African and political studies (University of the Witwatersrand) and fine arts (Johannesburg Art Foundation). The South African sociopolitical conditions in the post-apartheid period (racial segregation regime) become evident in his production, which includes drawings, objects, videos, and installations. By putting together social awareness and irony, the artist makes use of … Continued
The artistic education of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster started back in 1982, at the École des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble, France. Since the 1990s, she works around the sensitive and cognitive relation between bodies and spaces – whether real or fictitious. Her interdisciplinary practice includes videos, installations, and collaborative projects, such as the design of Balenciaga stores in … Continued
Motta and Lima first met at the fine arts school of Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (São Paulo) and started to develop and sign works of shared authorship. Interested in the experience of the beholder and having the daily life as the main theme, their works deal with the city and gallery spaces (including the limitations … Continued
Waltercio Caldas studied painting at MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro in 1964, as a disciple of Ivan Serpa. His sculptures, objects, drawings, and installations present a combination of different materials, more often than not unconventional. In addition to being marked by minimalist shapes, his production makes use of humor and … Continued
One of the main names of Argentinian conceptual art, Victor Grippo dedicated a good part of his production to the investigation of traditional oppositions, such as art-science, nature-culture, real-artificial, as a way to broaden our awareness regarding the world and how we can change it. His installations gather daily objects displaced from their usual functions … Continued
Valeska Soares has an interdisciplinary background comprising studies in domains as diverse as architecture (Universidade de Santa Úrsula – RJ), art history (PUC-RJ), and fine arts (New York University). Time, affective memory, and literary fiction are among the main starting points of her sculptures, videos, and installations. The recurring presence of mirrors and reflexive materials … Continued
Sculptor Amilcar de Castro started to attend the drawing and painting course offered by Alberto da Veiga Guignard back in 1943, while he was in his third year at the Law School of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte. His sculpture starts from a metal sheet (in the shape of a circle, rectangle, … Continued