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Brazil is experiencing an exciting blossoming of culture across many areas. 'Contemporary Art Brazil' focuses on 110 of the country's most important practitioners in the realm of the fine arts, including artists, gallerists, heads of institutions, critical thinkers and collectors.
A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in Brazil Form and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the sensorial, experience-based, and participatory practices pioneered in the 1950s by artists and poets such as Flávio de Carvalho, Ivan Serpa, Hélio Oiticica, Haroldo de Campos, Mary Vieira, Lygia Pape, Anna Maria Maiolino, Lygia Clark, Waly Salomão, and Emil Forman, among many others. Fourteen thought-provoking essays examine how many of their strategies constituted a pertinent critique of the country’s wide-ranging embrace of Eurocentric modernity while anticipating a number of practices prevalent among c...
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Much Wider Than a Line is the second installment in SITElines, a reimagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas. Featuring over 30 artists from 10 countries and five new commissions, SITElines 2016 articulates the interconnectedness of the Americas and various shared experiences such as colonial legacies, the vernacular and relationships to the land. The catalogue includes works by artists Xenobia Bailey, Lina Bo Bardi, Francisca Benitez, Margarita Cabrera, Raven Chacon, Benvenuto Chavajay, Lewis deSoto, Aaron Dysart, Carla Fernández, Pablo Helguera, Graciela Iturbide, Zacharias Kunuk, David Lamelas, Cildo Meireles and Erika Verzutti, plus new commissioned pieces by Jonathas De Andrade, Anna Boghiguian, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, William Cordova, Jorge Gonzáalez and Julia Rometti & Victor Costales.
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