Ana Maria Tavares
Born: 1958, BELO HORIZONTE, BRASIL
Lives: LIVES AND WORKS IN SãO PAULO, BRAZIL
Web: Ana María Tavares
Ana Maria Tavares is a rather unique artist with her works that blends pure sensuousness with a high degree of technological awareness, something that allows her to move in a very personal path in Brazilian art. The title for her PhD theses, A trap for the senses, synthetizes in a most appropriate way her ideas and practice: in her works, the eye is summoned, both in its own capacity of a visual organ and as an extension of the hand, to explore the high tech surfaces that she manages to display. Her training as an academic allowed her to research strenuously the materials she chooses, from glass to metal to acrylic as well as her media, ranging from photography to video and digital art. She is definitely an artist of her age. Born in 1958, with a master’s degree at the Art Institute of Chicago, Ana Maria Tavares teaches at the University of São Paulo and has shown extensively in Brazil and around the world, from the USA to Russia, Japan, the Netherlands, England and Germany, among others. Her current exhibition “Modern Atlantica”, at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, displays her most recent interest in the relations between architecture, nature and art; references to Adolf Loos’architecture, the exuberant forests and waters from Brazil, her memories and her utopian/dystopian projections for a near future mingle together and intrigues and placates the eye of the beholder. Lives and works in São Paulo
- 2014 Atlântica Moderna: Purus e Negros, Museu Vale, Espírito Santo, Brazil
- 2013 Natural Natural: Paisagem e Artifício, C. Cul. Banco do Nordeste, Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil
- 2010 Paisagens Perdidas (Para Lina Bo Bardi), Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2008 Ana Maria Tavares, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
- 2005 Paisagem para Exit II, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
- 2004 Enigmas de uma Noite com Midnight Daydreams, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
- 1998 Relax’o’visions, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MUBE), São Paulo, Brazil
- 1994 Chicotes, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1982 Objetos e Interferências, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Ana Maria Tavares: Euryale Amazonica, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Ana Maria Tavares: Desviating Utopias, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Natural Natural: Paisagem e Artifício, C. de Arte e Cul. Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, Brazil
Tautorama, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Ana Maria Tavares, Kröller-Müller Museum, Arnhem, Holland
Noturnos (da série Caça-Palavras), Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP), São Paulo, Brazil
Porto Pampulha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 2013 Brasil Vívido, Sotheby’s, New York, NY, USA MAC 50: doações recentes 1, Museu de Arte Contemporanea (MAC Ibirapuera), São Paulo, Brazil Circuitos Cruzados: o Centre Pompidou encontra o MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM), Saõ Paulo, Brazil
- 2012 Exposição 05+50 MARP 20 ANOS, Museu de Arte de Riberaõ Preto, Riberaõ Preto, Brazil 2011 Mulheres, Artistas e Brasileiras, Salão Oeste do Palácio do Planalto, Brasília, Brazil
- 2010 Livre Tradução, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil Tékhne, Fundaçaõ Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo, Brazil Tudo o que é sólido dissolve-se no ar: o social na Coleção Berardo, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2009 After Utopia, Museo Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy Unity, Kröller-Müller Museum, Arnhem, Holland Outros Passatempos, SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil Atenção: Estratégias Para Perceber a Arte, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil
- 2009-08 When Lives Become Form: Creative Power from Brazil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil
- 2008 Nature, space and time: recent acquisitions, Kröller-Müller Museum, Arnhem, Holland Verbo 2008, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil Blooming_Brasil-Japão – O_seu_lugar, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi Province, Japan Espelhos: Reflexos e Reflexões, Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil PROCEDENTE – MAP: Novas Aquisições, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur, Sonnsbeek Park, Arnhem, Holland Heteronímia-Brasil, Museo de América, Madrid, Spain Quase líquido, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil O desenho e seus papéis: Alguns aspectos do desenho contemporâneo brasileiro, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2007 80/90 Modernos, Pós-Modernos Etc., Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2005 Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA
- 2004 The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
- 2003 Conceptualisms: Zeitgenossische Tendenzen in Musik, Kunst und Film, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
- 2002 Arte Cidade Zona Leste, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil Estratégias para Deslumbrar, Museu de Arte de Contemporânea (MAC USP), São Paulo, Brazil Arte Brasileira Contemporânea, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2001 Políticas de la Diferencia: Arte iberoamericano, fin de siglo, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Centro de Convenções de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil Côte à Côte, Art Contemporain du Brésil, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France 7° Bienal internacional de Istambul: Ego Fugal, Istanbul, Turkey (with exhibition catalogue)
- 2000 Obra Nova, Museu de Arte de Contemporânea (MAC USP), São Paulo, Brazil 7° Bienal de la Habana: Una más acerca del otro, Havana, Cuba Em Busca da Identidade, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany PR’ (Intervenciones Multiples Intervenciones), San Juan, Puerto Rico
Manobras Radicais, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), São Paulo, Brazil Paralela 2005, Pavilhão Armando Arruda Pereira, São Paulo, Brazil MAM na Oca, Oca, São Paulo, Brazil Seis Séculos de Arte Gráfica, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), São Paulo, Brazil
Auf Eigene Gefahr/At your Own Risk, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art, London, England Living Inside the Grid, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA (with exhibition catalogue) Layers of Brazilian Art, Faulkner Gallery at Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA 2080, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil
Em Busca da Identidade, Galleria Comunale D’ Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Bienal 50 Anos, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Em Busca da Identidade, Rupertinum, Museum für modern und zeitgenössische Kunst, Salzburg, Austria
XXVI Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra: O Espaço como Projecto – O Espaço como Realidade, Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra, Spain Escultura Brasileira na Luz, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil Panorama de Arte Brasileira, Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, Brazil
- Casa da Cultura de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
- FRAC Haute Normandie, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, France
- Fundação ARCO, Madrid, Spain
- Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
- Kröller-Müller Museum KMM, Arnhem, Holland
- Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Niterói, Brazil
- Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo (MAC), São Paulo, Brazil
- Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Museu de Arte de Brasília (MAB), Brasília, Brazil
- Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil
- Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Belgium
- Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Stichting Sonsbeek Internationaal, Arnhem, Holland
- Universidade de Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia, Brazil
Digital prints on Hahnemüehle Photo Rag 308g, 120 x 180 cm, Edition by Galerie Stöckle Hauser
Digital prints on Hahnemüehle Photo Rag 308g, 120 x 180 cm, Edition by Galerie Stöckle Hauser
Digital prints on Hahnemüehle Photo Rag 308g, 120 x 180 cm, Edition by Galerie Stöckle Hauser
Victoria Regias . Crochet pieces: Made by artisans from Fortaleza, Ceará, in the northeast of Brasil.Collaboration with Celina Hissa
Victoria Regias . Crochet pieces: Made by artisans from Fortaleza, Ceará, in the northeast of Brasil.Collaboration with Celina Hissa
Victoria Regias . Crochet pieces: Made by artisans from Fortaleza, Ceará, in the northeast of Brasil.Collaboration with Celina Hissa
Aluminum, colored and silver stainless steel, digital print and electrostatic
painting 140 x 280 x 18 CM
Aluminum, colored and silver stainless steel, digital print and electrostatic
painting 140 x 280 x 18 CM
From the series Hieróglifos Sociais. UV printing on glass, mirror, and rubber. 35 cm x 80 cm x 2.5 cm.
DEVIATING UTOPIA from September 25 - November 27 2015
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2015 · April 30 - May 11
Ana Maria Tavares: Deviating Utopias (from the Social Hieroglyph series) will be on display in the Rolls-Royce Studio at the BMW Haus am Kurfürstendamm 31, 10719 Berlin from 30 April 2015 and will be on show from 1 – 11 May 2015 for public viewing.
As part of the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Arts Programme, a new installation by Brazilian artist Ana Maria Tavares will be presented in the BMW Haus am Kurfürstendamm, Berlin. Her work Deviating Utopias (from the Social Hieroglyphs series) will be unveiled on Thursday 30 April 2015, incorporating Berlin Gallery Weekend (1-3 May), closing on 11 May. The work will continue the artist’s exploration of the relationship between art, architecture and design, and the architectural legacy of modernism in Brazil. Tavares will present an installation which will create a virtual environment, depicting a blend of technology and craftsmanship, industrial and organic materials and speed and silence, properties she found present in Rolls-Royce motor cars, following a visit to the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, West Sussex, England.
Tavares’ new work links the art and architecture as well as the engineering and nature of Brazil and England. The works of English architect and gardener Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) and Brazilian landscape designer and artist Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) will be analysed, exploring the lasting impact they have had on their disciplines.
Peter-Paul Schoppmann, Regional Director Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Germany commented, “Ana Maria Tavares expands the impressive line-up of artists featured in the Rolls-Royce Art Programme. Ana’s exploration of the legacy of both British and Brazilian architects, combined with her interest in materials, processes and the use of technology and craftsmanship presents a thrilling digital installation, reflective of the materials and techniques used to create the pinnacle in automotive super-luxury.”
Ana Maria Tavares, said “During my recent visit to the Rolls-Royce plant with its extraordinary architecture, I was struck by the way it has a productive function while being like a capsule which suspends time. These elements inspired me to present a new work for Rolls-Royce as a virtual immersive environment, creating a mechanical capsule for a dream journey to bridge the rational and organic worldviews.”
Tavares’ new commission will be an installation with three distinctive parts, taking over the main atrium of the BMW Haus am Kurfürstendamm. A large projected video, Deviating Utopias (from the Social Hieroglyphs series) will digitally recreate one of architect Oscar Niemeyer’s most recognised buildings Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Gercez in São Paulo, creating a fractured and amplified architectural view of the modernist landmark. Her second piece, Desire, Deserve, Delight Mantra will be reflected on nine curved panels in the centre of the space with the words: “Idesire, Ideserve, Idelight”. Deviant Topographies from Paxton to Burle Marx II (from the Social Hieroglyphs series), will consist of four portable panels with printed images of the Pavilhão placed within the atrium and will include hand-crafted Victorias Regias - the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies, an allusion to the architects Burle Marx and Paxton’s interest in tropical flora and the way nature has played an important role in the construction of the modern world.
The work is the latest installation created as part of the Rolls-Royce art programme, which draws together the hand-crafted elegance of Rolls-Royce motor cars with contemporary artists around the world. Internationally acclaimed artists including Isaac Julien, Ugo Rondinone, Erwin Wurm, Regina Silveira, Will Cotton, Angela Bulloch and Morgan Wong have featured in the programme.