Cildo Meireles
Bio
Estudia artes en la Fundación Cultural del Distrito Federal con Félix Alexandre Barrenechea. Tiene obras en varios museos y colecciones mundiales, participó en algunas de Venecia, São Paulo y otras Bienales. Crea en 1969, con Guilherme Vaz y Frederico Morais, la Unidad Experimental. Gana el Premio Español Velázquez de Artes Plásticas.
Statement
Meireles’ work has been the subject of several large-scale exhibitions at renowned institutions, like Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Spain. The following year, it also traveled to the Fundação de Serralves, in Portugal, and the HangarBicocca, in Italy. In 2008, Meireles had a full-scale retrospective at the Tate Modern, in England. Through 2010, the exhibition traveled to the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, in Spain, and to the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, in Mexico.
Información adicional
Fiat Lux is an object created decades ago that synthesizes the work-performance ‘Sermão da Montanha: Fiat Lux’, presented more than 40 years ago, in 1979, at Cândido Mendes Cultural Center, which was a provocation to the military dictatorship.
