Cildo Meireles
dal 23/5/2013 al 28/9/2013
Segnalato da
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
23/5/2013
Cildo Meireles
Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid
Works and installations never before presented, and others that are among the artist's lesser-known creations
The exhibition includes some works and installations never before presented, and others that are among the artist's lesser-known creations. As seen in installations such as Abajur, Olvido and Amerikkka, many of the pieces on display put forward a critical commentary on the concept of territory, questioning history, which is understood to be a narrative of colonial domination of the world. The exhibition also has some of Meireles's historical series that examine the ideas of value, the art object and-again-territory, such as Physical Art and Insertions into Ideological Circuits. His art broadens the field of the critique of modernism made in Brazil and Latin America in the second half of the 20th century. Since the end of the 1960s Cildo Meireles (b. 1948, Rio de Janeiro) has been developing new possibilities for the redefinition of conceptual art, based on a relationship with the viewer's sensorial experience. Organised by Museo Reina Sofia in collaboration with Fundacao Serralves, Porto and HangarBicocca, Milan. Curator Joao Fernandes.