Exhibition "Anna Bella Geiger - Between the vectors of the world

Anna Bella Geiger - Among the vectors of the world

With historic works and other recent and unpublished ones, the exhibition will bring together about 50 works by the great artist, born on April 4, 1933 in Rio de Janeiro.

Danielian Gallery, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro

Opening: 26 March 2022, from 2pm to 7pm

Public viewing: 28 March to 7 May 2022

Curator Marcus Lontra Costa and co-curator Rafael Peixoto

Free entry

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A Danielian Gallery presents to the public from March 28 to May 7, 2022, with a preview to guests on March 26, at 2 pm, the exhibition "Anna Bella Geiger - Between the vectors of the world", with approximately 50 works that gather the artist's most recent and unpublished production - embroideries, "drawers", and works from the series "Rrolos" and "RroseSelavy" - and iconic pieces such as the visceral from the 1960s, the maps from the 1970s, the paintings and soft from 1980 and 1990, and the series "Bureaucracy". The curatorship is by Marcus Lontraartistic director of Danielian Galeria, and co-curated by Rafael Peixoto.

There will also be a special room on the ground floor of the Danielian Galeria where the historic video installation "Circa" (2006) will be mounted, in which Anna Bella recreates in space the ruins of an archeological site. This will be the third time this occupation will be made by the artist, who only presented it in 2006, at Fundação Eva Klabin and at the Paralela of the XXVII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo.

Under the coordination of Danielian Edições, a special limited edition print will be launched from the work "Cultural Currents" (1976), in which Anna Bella uses a typewriter to make interferences on the Indian map, playing critically with the concepts of dominant and dependent cultural currents.

Marcus Lontra states that "it is in this diffuse territory between the real and the virtual, between that which is and that which moves, between seriation as a communication strategy and the independence of each work with its intrinsic value and quality, that Anna Bella Geiger's trajectory is founded".

Among the historical works on show are the watercolours and engravings known as "Visceral" from the 1960s; works composed of photographs and postcards from the 1970s, such as "Our Daily Bread" (1978) and "Native Brazil/Alienated Brazil (1976/1977); artist's notebooks inspired by old school textbooks such as "Colour in Art (1976) and "The New Atlas I" (1976)" as well as paintings from the series "Pier and Ocean" and "Soft".

From her most recent production the drawers created by Anna Bella, merging geographical references with symbols, lines and shapes, call our attention. In addition, developments of series that the artist has been producing since the 1970s, uninterruptedly, in different formats and materials will be presented, as is the case of "Bureaucracy" and the interventions in newspapers inspired by the practice of Marcel Duchamp in "RroseSelavy".

ABOUT ANNA BELLA GEIGER

Anna Bella Geiger was born in 1933 in Rio de Janeiro, where she lives and works. She studied Anglo-Germanic Languages at the National Faculty of Philosophy in Rio de Janeiro and Sociology of Art with Hannah Levy Deinhardt at New York University and the New School for Social Research (1950s). Since then, he has exhibited regularly in solo and group shows in Brazil and abroad. He has participated in several International Biennales: São Paulo, Mercosul, Venice, Liverpool, Istanbul, Tokyo, of the Amazonies etc. He has works in the Collections: MoMA (New York), ISLAA (NY), Guggenheim (NY), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Tate Modern (London), Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), MACBA (Barcelona), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Getty Institute (LA), The FOGG Collection (Boston), Hank Hine - TAMPA Museum (Florida), MAM Brasília, among others. Awards: 1st Prize at Casa de Las Americas (Cuba) 1962, JAC Museu de Arte Contemporânea (USP) São Paulo, 1966, Abstract JB Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro 1968, Guggenheim Foundation (NY) 1981, Bolsa Vitae de Artes, 1992, IBRAM Rio de Janeiro, 2005. 

In 1987 he published, with the Brazilian philosopher Fernando Cocchiarale, the book "Geometric and Informal Abstractionism: The Brazilian Avant-Garde in the 1950s". He teaches at HISK (Hoch Schule aus Kunst), Ghent, Belgium and at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (EAV), Rio de Janeiro.

SERVICE: Exhibition "Anna Bella Geiger - Between the vectors of the world

Opening: 26 March 2022, from 2pm to 7pm

Public viewing: 28 March to 7 May 2022

Danielian Gallery, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro

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