Overview
Rivane Neuenschwander’s latest exhibition, Brasil de susto e sonho: um panorama na obra de Rivane Neuenschwander at Itaú Cultural in São Paulo, Brazil, explores Brazilian history from the 1970s to the present day.
Taking inspiration from social media, children’s dreams, folk traditions and observations from the artist’s travels throughout Brazil, the show combines both new and historical works across a variety of media. Neuenschwander invites viewers to reflect on the complexities of individual experience and shared histories, while encouraging a renewed attentiveness to the strangeness and vitality of everyday life. Curated by Fabiana Moraes, the exhibition presents a panoramic journey through the artist’s thirty-year career, bringing together emblematic works never before seen in Brazil alongside pieces produced especially for the exhibition. Neuenschwander urges viewers to resist apathy, renew their perception of reality and delight in the creation of possible new worlds. Neuenschwander was born in 1967 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She is one of the most internationally renowned Brazilian artists of her generation. Highlighting the beauty of overlooked phenomena and seemingly banal gestures, she seeks to unveil and make sense of the chaotic logic that underpins both the natural and man-made worlds. Drawing...
Taking inspiration from social media, children’s dreams, folk traditions and observations from the artist’s travels throughout Brazil, the show combines both new and historical works across a variety of media. Neuenschwander invites viewers to reflect on the complexities of individual experience and shared histories, while encouraging a renewed attentiveness to the strangeness and vitality of everyday life.
Curated by Fabiana Moraes, the exhibition presents a panoramic journey through the artist’s thirty-year career, bringing together emblematic works never before seen in Brazil alongside pieces produced especially for the exhibition. Neuenschwander urges viewers to resist apathy, renew their perception of reality and delight in the creation of possible new worlds.
Neuenschwander was born in 1967 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She is one of the most internationally renowned Brazilian artists of her generation. Highlighting the beauty of overlooked phenomena and seemingly banal gestures, she seeks to unveil and make sense of the chaotic logic that underpins both the natural and man-made worlds.
Drawing from Brazilian culture and history, Neuenschwander references the experiences of Carnival and the military dictatorship through shapes reminiscent of monsters and ghosts. The result is an exhibition that occupies a liminal space between joy and barbarity, fear and dreams, allowing viewers to complete the work through their own associations and responses.
Rivane Neuenschwander’s latest exhibition, Brasil de susto e sonho: um panorama na obra de Rivane Neuenschwander at Itaú Cultural in São Paulo, Brazil, explores Brazilian history from the 1970s to the present day.
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