Janet Cardiff first graduated in photography and engraving at Queens University (Canada), in 1980. After her experience with filmmaker Georges Miller, in 1983, Cardiff started to produce works involving sound, as well as sound installations. In her works, she explores emotions, memories, and imagination, having the sense of hearing as central to build spaces pervading … Continued
Olafur Eliasson started his education at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark) and later opened his studio in Berlin (1995). His work involves large-scale interventions and installations, sculptures and photographs. In his production, he seeks to question the social mores and automatic reactions with sensory experiences. The use of elements like vapor, water, … Continued
Rirkrit Tiravanija graduated in arts from the Ontario College of Art, in Toronto (Canada) between 1980 and 1984. His works are platforms for artistic activities, whether public or private. They are usually architectural structures conceived in their social/collective dimension: stages or rooms where the audience can share meals, read, or play music. In his projects, … Continued
Paul McCarthy studied experimental painting and performance at the University of Utah (1968), and later obtained a multidisciplinary master’s degree in arts and film production from the University of Southern California (USA). In his early career, he sought to rupture with the limitations of painting by using the body and unconventional materials, such as body … Continued
Simon Starling iniciou sua formação em arte e fotografia na Nottingham Trent University (Inglaterra), entre os anos de 1987 e 1990, e se formou na Glasgow School of Art (Escócia), em 1992. A produção de Starling parte do interesse por processos de transformação de substâncias e objetos. O artista levanta questões como o uso da … Continued
Zhang Huan studied arts at the Henan University in Kaifeng (China, 1988) and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, in Beijing (1993). In addition to his sculpture and photo works, he is also known for performances that put his own physical and mental resistance to test. His production approaches issues around politics, religion, tradition, … Continued
Contrary to many works of Instituto Inhotim that mingle with the landscape, Desert Park (2010) was idealized to be a deliberately dissonant element. It puts together a small collection of different typologies of bus shelters, in real size and made of concrete, locally prefabricated. The artist takes appropriation of an important reference to modernist street … Continued
Bisected Triangle, Interior Curve (2002) is part of the Pavilion series made by Dan Graham since the late 1970s. They are works that place themselves in between architecture, sculpture, and site-specific by investigating the relationship between architectural environments and those who inhabit them. In these structures, mirrors of simple and often curved shapes provoke distorted … Continued
Beam Drop Inhotim (2008) is the re-creation of a work made in 1984 at the Art Park, a sculpture park in the state of New York, USA, destroyed three years later. For its version accomplished for Instituto Inhotim, 71 steel beams collected in junkyards close to Belo Horizonte were hoisted 45 meters high by a … Continued
Estas plantas primitivas têm seus ancestrais datados no período carbonífero (há cerca de 359 milhões a 299 milhões de anos). É uma samambaia monumental, cujas folhas podem chegar a 8 metros de comprimento e tem sua origem na Oceania, com ocorrência na Ásia, Austrália e Madagascar. Por ser de grande porte, deve ser plantada em … Continued