William Kentridge is graduated in African and political studies (University of the Witwatersrand) and fine arts (Johannesburg Art Foundation). The South African sociopolitical conditions in the post-apartheid period (racial segregation regime) become evident in his production, which includes drawings, objects, videos, and installations. By putting together social awareness and irony, the artist makes use of … Continued

The artistic education of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster started back in 1982, at the École des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble, France. Since the 1990s, she works around the sensitive and cognitive relation between bodies and spaces – whether real or fictitious. Her interdisciplinary practice includes videos, installations, and collaborative projects, such as the design of Balenciaga stores in … Continued

Motta and Lima first met at the fine arts school of Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (São Paulo) and started to develop and sign works of shared authorship. Interested in the experience of the beholder and having the daily life as the main theme, their works deal with the city and gallery spaces (including the limitations … Continued

Waltercio Caldas studied painting at MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro in 1964, as a disciple of Ivan Serpa. His sculptures, objects, drawings, and installations present a combination of different materials, more often than not unconventional. In addition to being marked by minimalist shapes, his production makes use of humor and … Continued

One of the main names of Argentinian conceptual art, Victor Grippo dedicated a good part of his production to the investigation of traditional oppositions, such as art-science, nature-culture, real-artificial, as a way to broaden our awareness regarding the world and how we can change it. His installations gather daily objects displaced from their usual functions … Continued

Valeska Soares has an interdisciplinary background comprising studies in domains as diverse as architecture (Universidade de Santa Úrsula – RJ), art history (PUC-RJ), and fine arts (New York University). Time, affective memory, and literary fiction are among the main starting points of her sculptures, videos, and installations. The recurring presence of mirrors and reflexive materials … Continued

Sculptor Amilcar de Castro started to attend the drawing and painting course offered by Alberto da Veiga Guignard back in 1943, while he was in his third year at the Law School of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte. His sculpture starts from a metal sheet (in the shape of a circle, rectangle, … Continued

The vast production of Tunga gathers photographs, sculptures, drawings, videos, and performances, at the same time it makes reference to several realms of knowledge, such as literature, psychoanalysis, and science. Materials like magnets, glass, felt, and rubber, in addition to bones and fluids, have been used not only due to their physical aspects, but also … Continued

Robert Irwin started his career as an abstract painter, showing his work for the first time at the Felix Landau Gallery, in Los Angeles (1957). By this time, he started to question the boundaries of the traditional art field. Since the 1960s, Irwin explores the relation of perception in art by means of immersive environments … Continued