Anna Maria Maiolino
Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. In a career spanning five decades and a diversity of disciplines and mediums, ranging from drawing, sculpture, and artist books to video and performance, she expresses through her art a bottomless concern with creative and destructive processes and, above all, the never-ending search for identity. Maiolino’s multidisciplinary practice has consistently explored the viscerality of embodied experience – often obliquely through fragmentation and abstraction – and engaged the human body’s processes as analogs for both the making of art and the making of modernity. As an immigrant coming of age in politically unstable Brazil, Maiolino has perfected a dialogue between opposite yet complementary categories in a practice that dissolves dichotomies of inner and outer, self and other. Hers is an art in search of a new language for the liminal realm of daily human existence.
She has had solo exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Antoni Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona, Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela, Malmö Kunsthalle, Camden Arts Centre in London, Pharos Center for Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Miami Art Center, Pinacoteca …
Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. In a career spanning five decades and a diversity of disciplines and mediums, ranging from drawing, sculpture, and artist books to video and performance, she expresses through her art a bottomless concern with creative and destructive processes and, above all, the never-ending search for identity. Maiolino’s multidisciplinary practice has consistently explored the viscerality of embodied experience – often obliquely through fragmentation and abstraction – and engaged the human body’s processes as analogs for both the making of art and the making of modernity. As an immigrant coming of age in politically unstable Brazil, Maiolino has perfected a dialogue between opposite yet complementary categories in a practice that dissolves dichotomies of inner and outer, self and other. Hers is an art in search of a new language for the liminal realm of daily human existence.
She has had solo exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Antoni Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona, Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela, Malmö Kunsthalle, Camden Arts Centre in London, Pharos Center for Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Miami Art Center, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and The Drawing Center in New York. Her work was also included at dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel.
Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
