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The trajectory of an artist in exile and resistance

Anna Maria Maiolino has gone through migration that deeply carved her artistic universe. Nevertheless, From Italy to Venezuela in 1954. In addition, then in Brazil in 1960, she moved to Rio de Janeiro in the heart of a cultural bubbling, while facing expo anna maria-maiolino picasso museum the military dictatorship in 1964. Meanwhile, Trained at the National School of Fine Arts. she joined forces with the movements of the new figuration and the new objectivity, marking her entry with the exhibition Nova Objectididade Brasileira in 1967.

In this personal odyssey, intimate and universal themes like exile, identity and political resistance are deployed. Maiolino transforms modest materials into poetic declarations, defying social and historical oppressions. Its iconic performance Entered (1981), where she puts her eyes closed among fragile eggs, embodies the precariousness of existence under repression.

Multiform works: from drawing to organic sculpture

The wealth of mediums illustrates the artist’s perpetual experimentation, deployed in six rooms on the ground floor of the Salé hotel. The introduction sets the foundations for its hybrid language. while the room on the meaning of meaning highlights performance as Entered and movies Super-8 of the 1970s, such as In-Out (Antropofagia) (1973), inspired by the Anthropophagus Manifesto of Andrade’s Oswald.

The section Storm of ideas Reveals for the first time a set of unpublished drawings. these small schematic visual notations which capture ephemeral ideas on nature and abstract space. These joyful forms. between intuition and rigorous analysis, transform the paper into an exploration ground, where the lines take precedence over words to narrate interior stories.

In principle: clay as a living language

Since the early expo anna maria-maiolino picasso museum 1980s, Maiolino has been working on malleable materials in its series Molded land (Modelée land), where clay retains the imprint of unconscious gestures and daily rituals. For the artist, all creation implies both a beginning and a rehearsal.

It tirelessly repeats primordial gestures – knead, stretch, cut, roll, compact. From this ritual emerges what she calls ” the law of the series. the law of repetition », Thus expressing his deep interest in the dynamics of creation and destruction. Its new installation In Principle born directly from the material. The clay. by the repetition of ancient gestures, allows it an intuitive access to a collective memory, transforming the material into a living language.

Why go see the “Anna Maria Maiolino” exhibition?

Discover “Anna Maria Maiolino. I am here. Estou Aqui “at the Picasso Museum for an immersion in the work of an artist who raises creation in act of resistance. life. With a hundred multidisciplinary works. this first in France fascinates by its organic tactility and its deep explorations of exile, body and identity, powerful echoes to our contemporary world.

Crowned with the Golden Lion, Maiolino Finely dialogue with Picasso, offering sensory and reflexive experience. Book your ticket to the Picasso Museum without delay for this vibrant exhibition. anchored in the Brazil-France season, which transcends the retrospective to celebrate moving art. An irresistible call for art enthusiasts and curious, where each piece generates endless conversations.