White Cube Mason's Yard presented 'Open Cube', an international group exhibition organised by Sao Paulo-based curator Adriano Pedrosa. Invited by the gallery to curate an exhibition, Pedrosa launched a process of open submission via Art Agenda in January 2013, under the title 'Call for entries: 'Open Cube' at White Cube Mason's Yard'. The only requirement was that the artist needed to be available for an interview in London with the curator, in March 2013. 'Open Cube' received over 2,900 applicants, of which Pedrosa interviewed 38 and selected a final group of 17 artists.
Anna Bella Geiger (Rio de Janeiro, 1933) is a pioneering Brazilian artist, with an extensive international career. Her work has an experimental and innovative character, traversing references that are political and conceptual, formal and aesthetical, personal and bodily. Geiger was one of the first artists to engage with abstract art in Brazil, and was also one of the first to work with video and mail art in the country. This is the most comprehensive monograph on the artist to date, and accompanies Geiger's first full-length museum retrospective, organized by the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP in partnership with the Serviço Social do Comércio - Sesc Avenida Paulista, in São Paulo, and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst - S.M.A.K., in Ghent. The publication's title is borrowed from one of Geiger's most emblematic works, a set of postcards now in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Tate Modern, London, the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, as well as MASP: Native Brazil/Alien Brazil (1976/1977). This work serves as a starting point and a common thread for the exhibition, charting other works in which Geiger questions hegemonic narratives, Brazil's colonial past and the country's social reality, articulating politics, self-representation, irony and fiction, often based on an autobiographical pespective. The exhibition catalog is organized by Adriano Pedrosa and Tomás Toledo, from the MASP, and includes newly commissioned texts by Bernardo Mosqueira, Estrella de Diego, Philippe Van Cauteren, Tomás Toledo, Zanna Gilbert, a biographical note by Gabriela De Laurentiis, and an interview with the artist by Adriano Pedrosa. With 288 pages, the publication reproduces 369 images, spanning the artits's entire trajectory, from the 1950 until the present day, with its different formats, supports, media and languages, and is divided into seven chapters: Self-Portraits (1951-2003), Visceral Works (1965-1969), Maps and Geographies (1972-2018), About Art (1973-2018), Notebooks (1974-1977), History of Brazil (1975-2015), and Soft and Nocturnals Works (1984-2014).
Ernesto Neto (b. Rio de Janeiro 1964) is one of the most important proponents of the Neo-Concrete movement, an art trend that started in Brazil in the 1950's. The exhibition "Ernesto's Toungue" was a retrospective comprising a selection of sculptures and installations created by artist Ernesto Neto in the last 24 years. The exhibition, described as a playground with sensorial and interactive possibilities includes drawings, sculptures, photographs and his small and monumental abstract installations that invited the visitor to smell, feel, touch, listen and use them and where the main elements and materials used in his works are the elasticity of the fabrics, the force of gravity, spices and polythene foam. The present book published on the occasion of the exhibition "gathers and organizes works and images in order to begin to envision a wider panoramic view of Ernesto's oeuvre. For this publication we selected in close dialogue with the artist the most significant exhibitions and projects since 1968, thus encompassing 25 years of production (...) we documented all of Ernesto Neto's individual exhibition catalogues, reproducing them in the book. The codifying and cataloguing drives led us to organize the book in a strictly chronological manner, privileging exhibitions over individual works"--P. [9].
Following the successful reception of Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing and Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, Vitamin 3‐D aims to create a lively and informative survey of contemporary sculpture and installation from around the globe. With 120 artists selected by 40 nominators, Vitamin 3‐D will be an up‐to‐the‐minute guide to the best artists working in three dimensions.
O arquivo universal e outros arquivos' é formado por imagens da exposição homônima, realizada no Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil do Rio de Janeiro entre julho e setembro de 2003, e também por trabalhos desenvolvidos diretamente para a publicação, compondo uma súmula da obra da artista. Aliado aos cuidados de impressão, o conceito autoral da edição torna este volume uma autêntica obra de arte.
This book provides deep insights about the fundamentals, applications and perspectives of the use of supercritical CO2 as solvent and antisolvent for biorefinering.
Known as one of the best edition ever produced, the "Anthropophagy Bienal” was led by Paulo Herkenhoff as general curator and Adriano Pedrosa as associate curator. The concept, extracted from the roots of Brazilian culture, permeated the work of all 76 curators involved in the exhibition, as well as was the result of powerful solo shows dedicated to each of the 53 National Representations. The curators worked with the idea of contamination and put contemporary Brazilian works in dialogue with works in the Historical Nucleus."--Bienal website.
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