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“Biblioteca” by Brazilian-born artist Tonico Lemos Auad will run through October 23, 2016, at CRG Gallery, New York.
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Brazilian artist Tonico Lemos Auad is to have his first solo exhibition for a UK public gallery, responds to the natural environment and architecture
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Now in its 11th year, Brazil’s leading international contemporary art fair, SP Arte, brings the world of contemporary art to the ever-growing market of Brazilian collectors, from April 9 – 12, 2015. Here we’ve profiled 10 exciting Brazilian artists you’ll find at SP Arte this year, working in diverse media, from painting to installation to video. And as the Brazilian market continues to grow exponentially, there’s no time like the present to start collecting the country’s future art stars.
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In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our selection includes an exhibition focusing on the effects of the hurricane Sandy in New York, an artist who protests against urban societies through art, a project gathering different artists who addressed the subject of Minimalism by using contemporary tools, a film combining urban and rural landscapes from East to West, and a Japanese artist showing his creations assembling painting, sculpture and collages.
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In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes Selections from the Paul R. Jones Collection by South Carolina graphic artist, painter, and printmaker Amos Ashanti Johnson at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Raspberry Poser, the first UK solo exhibition by New York-based artist Jordan Wolfson at Chisenhale Gallery in London, a retrospective of pop artist Pauline Boty’s work at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, UK, a series of paintings and prints referencing minimalism and abstract expressionism by artist Bas Geerts at the Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam, and paintings of the Australian landscape by Mark Stewart at Hill Smith Gallery in Adelaide, Australia.
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Much like the New Museum’s 2007 show "Unmonumental," this Rodrigo Moura–curated exhibition, spread across both of Galeria Luisa Strina’s locations
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Large Glass presents ‘Universal Fragments: Conversations with Trevor Shearer’, a group show inspired by the work of Trevor Shearer. Six contemporary
Read MoreMuch like the New Museum’s 2007 show "Unmonumental," this Rodrigo Moura–curated exhibition, spread across both of Galeria Luisa Strina’s locations
Read MoreLarge Glass presents ‘Universal Fragments: Conversations with Trevor Shearer’, a group show inspired by the work of Trevor Shearer. Six contemporary
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3 am can be an extraordinary hour when some fear ghosts and monsters are on the prowl, when animals feel able to move without human detection and the
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Born in 1968 in Belém do Pára, Brazil, Tonico Lemos Auad lives and works in London. While drawing is central to his practice, Auad also works with photography and installation. His pieces are often site-specific and impermanent in nature. These delicate poetic works oscillate between the mundane and the magical, momentarily suffusing new life into everyday objects with an animist vision. "Untitled (Headless Man)" (2001) represents a headless human body made out of carpet fluff and hairspray while "Drawing on Banana (Portrait)" (2001-03) depicts an oxidized face pin-pricked onto the skin of a banana. Auad also uses gold and silver chains to trace figures and words onto the ground or the walls of exhibition spaces, as with "Avalanche" (2007).
Tonico Lemos Auad has had recent solo shows at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2009), CRG Gallery, New York (2008), Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2007), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (2007) and Project Kabinett, Miami Art Basel (2005). His work has also been shown as part of “Textiles Art and the Social Fabric” at MUHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2009), “This is not a Void” at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2008), “It Starts From Here” at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (2007), both the 2005 and 2006 editions of British Art show 6, which toured to several venues in the UK including Baltic and Newcastle, as well as the Yokohama Trienniale (2005). In 2004, he was nominated for Beck’s Futures Prize.
Tonico Lemos Auad is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo and CRG Gallery, New York.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
