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Continually reexamining and re-presenting Brazil's cultural history, Adriana Varejao constructs sculptural paintings that often take the fragmented or eviscerated human body as their subject. Extremely tactile and often saturated in blood-red hues, Varejao's highly visceral work recalls the pain and pleasure that accompanies both colonialism and the creative process.
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One of the most original voices in contemporary Brazilian art, Varejeo's diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Her sources are many, encompassing baroque art history, architectural, natural, sciences and theatre. 00Exhibition: Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (2013).
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"The work includes more than 170 reproductions of works by the internationally recognized artist (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1964), as well as critical essays by Silviano Santiago, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Karl Erik Schollhammer, Luiz Camillo Osorio, Zalinda Cartaxo. The book covers the last twenty years of her art . Varejao's work revolves around themes of Portuguese colonization, the tiles and the use of the human body as an aesthetic element". -- Getty Research Institute Research Library Catalog.
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