Working with painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, the artist started her education in visual arts back in 1983, at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro). The first works of Adriana Varejão already pointed towards issues and references that remain present in her production yet today, like her interest in the … Continued
During the 1990s, Rivane Neuenschwander studied drawing at Escola de Belas Artes da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, later obtaining a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art (England), in 1998. In her installations, she often uses reframed industrial objects, as well as daily or perishable materials, such as dried flowers, insects, dust, styrofoam, … Continued
Lygia Pape initiated her education at MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, taking classes with the printmakers Ivan Serpa and Fayga Ostrower. She was involved in the creation of Grupo Frente (1954) and the Neoconcrete movement (1959), major events connected with the renovation of Brazilian contemporary art. Pape developed works that … Continued
In the polyptych Carnívoras (2008), the artist goes back to the tiles, a recurring element in her painting, and represents species of carnivorous plants: Darlingtonia, Dionaea, Drosera, Heliamphora, and Nepenthes, as a reference to the formality of botanic cataloging. The idea of the work came up from the artist’s observation when the gallery was finished. … Continued
Did you ever think of tasting chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla) in one of Inhotim’s gardens? Or how about a candy leaf (Stevia rebaudiana), used to produce sweeteners? This garden provides visitors with a multisensory experience, where one can observe more than 75 species in three mandalas made of medicinal and aromatic, condiment and toxic plants, in … Continued
Inspired by the desert landscapes of Mexico as well as by the arid and semiarid regions in Brazil, the garden counts on some 120 species adapted to hot environments with restricted water access, as is the case for groups of Cactaceae, Crassulaceae, and Euphorbiaceae. Placed at the Viveiro Educador, the garden is signed by landscape … Continued
Inhotim is placed in a region of transition from the Atlantic Forest to the Cerrado, two of the most threatened biomes of the world. Walk through this garden, feel the difference of temperature and moisture, and get to know the biodiversity over a trail concentrating around 120 species, some of which are currently endangered, such … Continued
Those who are fascinated by orchids cannot miss a visit to this garden dedicated to the vandaceous orchids. Whether for the beauty of their flowers or the aerial roots absorbing air humidity, they are among the audience favorites. Originated in Southeast Asia and Australia, their cultivation adapted exceptionally well in Brazil. The space at the … Continued
[…] At the veredas there are often huge, common groves. Yet, at the center, lays the lively and colorful intimacy of the vereda, ever draped with buritis, buritiranas, sassafrás, and pindaíbas by the water. The veredas are always beautiful!’ A major enthusiast of the veredas (nature trails) of the Brazilian Cerrado, Guimarães Rosa could surely … Continued
The most ancient garden of Inhotim received, back in the 1980s, a visit of the landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx. Among the coexistence of art and nature, visitors can find in this garden works by artists Cildo Meireles and Olafur Eliasson amid some 150 species of tropical plants, such as aroids, palm trees, heliconias, orchids, … Continued