Beatriz Milhazes
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Beatriz Milhazes
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Beatriz Milhazes's works are layered with elements of both local Brazilian popular culture and modernist pictorial language. Her eccentric and elegant paintings are intricately constructed and recall the exuberance, excess and energy of the Brazilian carnival.
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes.
Beatriz Milhazes's works are layered with elements of both local Brazilian popular culture and modernist pictorial language. Her eccentric and elegant paintings are intricately constructed and recall the exuberance, excess and energy of the Brazilian carnival.
Milhazes often paints onto clear sheets of plastic. Once dry, the paint is peeled off and
transferred onto canvas. This working method allows Milhazes to build up the surface of
her work with an intensity of colour. The various layers of applied paint reveal motifs
which are taken from her everyday environment such as local flora and fauna, folk art
and colonial Brazilian baroque. Expanding abstract patterns and ornamental arabesques,
at once profound and unsettling, play on the ambiguity between the recognisable and
the unfamiliar. The beauty, harmony, and violent contrasts in her work result in a
colourful visual experience that is at once jarring and musical.
Beatriz Milhazes had a solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham 2001 which
travelled to the Birmingham Museum of Art, USA. Group shows include Urgent Painting,
Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris 2002; Hybridities, Tate Gallery, Liverpool in
2001; and Ficciones, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain in 2000. Milhazes
will have a major survey show at the Centro Cultural Banco Do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil from October 2002 January 2003. She will also be producing an artist's book in
conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA in 2002.
Image: 'As Tulipas', 1999, Acrylic on canvas, 89 x 139.1cm
Forthcoming exhibition: Corey McCorkle, 29 May - 29 June 2002
Gallery hours are: Tuesday to Friday 10am - 6pm and Saturday 11am - 5pm
For further details please contact Kirsten MacDonald Bennett on +44 20 7494 1434
Stephen Friedman Gallery
25-28 Old Burlington Street London W1S 3AN
t: +44 020 74941434 f: +44 020 74941431