Alfredo Volpi
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Soccer Dossier
When Brazil suffered its great World Cup defeat on July 8, 2014, losing seven to one against Germany, its…
Echoes of Touch
Michele D’Aurizio: In 2002 you organized a group show titled “poT” in the context of the Liverpool Biennial, which then…
Ana Prata
Over the past thirty years, many critics have become used to evaluating the work of painters by their level of…
Pedro Wirz
When asked in an interview about what triggered her iconic Water Event (1971), Yoko Ono said that when she first…
Leo, 35, 60, 179
In 1984, when he took part in the group show “Como vai você, geração ’80?” [How are you doing, ’80s…
Adriano Amaral
Adriano Amaral’s delicate installations are grounded in the interpolation of layers, elements and moments of both experience and representation. Matter,…
I Went to São Paulo and Learned a Lot
OK, OK, so good-time summer isn’t entirely gone; it probably never really is. Sounds a little true and somewhat right…
Her Other Selves
For over a decade, Anna Maria Maiolino has produced a series of sculptural objects called Outros (Others, initiated in 2000).…
Beto Shwafaty
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis in the late 2000s, the international media seemed to give unprecedented exposure…
The Arts and the Multitude
If São Paulo’s contemporary art production is, for the moment, mainly centered on exhibition programs within a sprawling network of…
Accomplished Things
Bruno Dunley: When I first started to think about this conversation, it occurred me that a common ground I perceive…
Art of Change: New Directions from China
Barely two days into its existence, “Art of Change” found a critic in the authoritative figure of Ai Weiwei, who…
Jon Pestoni
Jan Tumlir: In your latest paintings there are forms we identify as “figures,” simply because they are bounded by contour lines…
Diango Hernández
Jade Niklai: Your practice reminds me of the ancient art of storytelling. Fact and fiction are consistently interspersed with meaning and…
Gianfranco Baruchello
Angelo Capasso: Hypothalamic Brainstorming, is the work that you chose for your participation in dOCUMENTA (13). The hypothalamus is a…