Anna Maria: You know, with age comes a lot of wisdom. The first one was Arroz e Feijão [Rice & Beans, 1979], an installation which involved a table with frijoles and rice – the elementary meal of Brazil and Latin America – germinating in plates. And yes, I brought it from Italy. “Art is the activist. Right now, in Los Angeles, Maiolino is the subject of a retrospective at ⦠In our civilisation, there are always people who are famined. Featured image: Anna Maria Maiolino â Portrait of the artist, photo credits Alessandro Lentati Back in Brazil, she abandoned figuration — a “great turning point” — creating her own strain of abstraction. Artprice.com's price levels for this artist are based on 73 auction results. But having worked on the show in Milan, Maiolino is now “at peace” with the country. Anna Maria: Humanity forgets. Anna Maria Maiolino is an Italian-Brazilian artist who makes books, video art, sculptures, and drawings. “On the eve of Brazil’s first free elections in 1982, brought about by public protest, ‘Entrevidas’ . Maiolino was born in southern Italy and moved to Venezuela in 1954 with her parents where she began her artistic training. “The five people who work with me, we’re all happy.” At that moment, holding that thought, Maiolino looks truly content. When I discovered the Manifesto Antropófago, I understood that you had to eat your enemies to incorporate their ideals. “I never rejected the various destinies that were presented to me. Benoît Loiseau: This is not the first time your work has been exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery. Anna Maria Maiolino's first major US retrospective is as much about the progression of a career as about the progression of a life. We have a president who is utterly intolerant. Anna Maria Maiolinoâs significance for the history of art in Brazil from the 1960s onward cannot be underestimated. And for my parents, it was important that we had knowledge. My husband had received a grant, we were living humbly, but we got by, we had two young children of two and four. Anna Maria Maiolino has 31 works online. T here are phallic images all over the place in Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolinoâs witty and weird show, but this is no triumph for the male member. Benoît: I remember seeing your work in the brilliant group exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 at the Hammer Museum in LA, in 2017. The military dictatorship emerged in 1964, when I was 27. When I arrived in Brazil from Venezuela, aged eighteen, I was looking to identify with a land, a place. This interview has been translated from Spanish to English and edited for clarity. When Bolsonaro appears on TV, I suffer. Standout show: The exhibition at the ⦠In this work, I wanted to eat the enemies of freedom. Does she consider herself an artist or an activist? Born during World War II in the region of Calabria, southern Italy, Maiolino immigrated to Brazil in 1960 via Venezuela, only years before the coup d’état which threw the country into two decades of military dictatorship. No image available. Being a mother and a wife didn’t leave me much time, I didn’t have anyone to help me with the children. There are 16,434 drawings online. Anna Maria Maiolino's first major US retrospective is as much about the progression of a career as about the progression of a life. Anna Maria Maiolino and I met for this interview over lunch at her home in São Paulo, where we shared a typical Brazilian meal with a plate of rice and beans. Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. As many of you know I quit my full-time position in Early April and was thrilled to have more time for things like blogging and volunteering but, as often happens, the work ⦠Born 1942 in Italy, Maiolinoâs practice expresses a concern with creative and destructive processes. The immigration crisis and the levels of intolerance, I think it’s horrible. Ana Maria Maiolino. I never rejected the various destinies that were presented to me. Anna Maria Maiolino and I met for this interview over lunch at her home in São Paulo, where we shared a typical Brazilian meal with a plate of rice and beans. It is a work that speaks to censorship and political resistance, at a time of profound turmoil, and it feels more relevant than ever in the contemporary context of Brazil. Some unexpectedly punk videos, featuring extreme closeups of Maiolino, complete the portrait of an artist at once private and confident. Text Benoît Loiseau; 8th January 2020 . Central to Anna Maria Maiolinoâs practice are notions of subjectivity, belonging and place. Was she fearful? The Whitechapel exhibition has travelled from the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea in Milan, boosting Maiolino’s profile in Europe, where she has been somewhat overlooked. It’s terrible, everything that’s happening in the world right now. Follow Artist. The artist is nonplussed by the assessment. In 1968, artist Anna Maria Maiolino moved to New York from Rio de Janeiro with her husband, Rubens Gerchman, and their two children. In her artistic practice, Maiolino is known for works in a variety of media, including clay, cement, printmaking, film and performance. Until her participation in dOCUMENTA 13 held in Kassel, Germany in 2012, where she filled a former gardener’s home with abstract unfired clay forms, Anna Maria Maiolino was relatively unknown to international audiences. My unconscious and my memory very much nourished my work. Now, after an acclaimed solo exhibition at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art in 2017, the Italian-Brazilian artist is finally getting the global attention she deserves with a major show at Whitechapel Gallery in London. . We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history. In 1996, Belgian curator Catherine De Zegher included you in the group show Inside the Visible, alongside 30 other female artists from various backgrounds. The striking short film âY,â from 1974, feels related: it shows the artist, blindfolded, with her mouth open in an endless scream. Maiolino has worked in an innovative way across various media. This kind of experience stays with you, inside of you. Benoît: Scary. Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. 39. is a succinct and poetic representation of hunger, resistance and hope,” writes Iwona Blazwick, director of the Whitechapel, in the catalogue. ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO - Untitled from the series 'Outras Marcas', 1999. Benoît: In part, yes. We are dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. Mine swore in Flemish, that’s when we knew we were in trouble. Studio Sunday: Anna Maria Maiolino Anna Maria Maiolino was born in Southern Italy and later moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I can make a plate of spaghetti as if it were poetry.”. Artists of my generation, we never thought about the art market, we just had day jobs. She has created abstract fabrications from folds of paper, such as “Desenho Objeto” (“Drawing Object”) from 1974-76; she has taken transfixing photographs, including “By a Thread” (1976), which shows a single length of string hanging from the mouths of Maiolino, her mother and daughter. ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO - Untitled from the series 'Uns & Outros', 2000-2005. Anna Maria Maiolino. Even now that I live from my work, it’s something that touches me deeply. Could you tell me about the origin of the work, and the process of documenting it? I calmed it down. Artist. Through June 21. “I was self-caged because I was prepared to be a wife and a mother.” Her comments bring to mind a quote in the catalogue from the US curator (not of this show) Helen Molesworth, that there’s something of the “housewife gone mad” about Maiolino’s work. Anna Maria: I spoke Spanish, which was the language of the descualificados, [‘unskilled’] I couldn’t speak English, and I still can’t really speak it now! I did what I could. Anna Maria Maiolino, Capítulo II (Chapter II, from the Mapas Mentais (Mental Maps) series, 1976/1999, ink and transfer type on paper, 19 11/16 x 19 11/16 in. It was originally published in the 2019 HERO Winter Annual. I was in a profound crisis of language in the 1980s, with the pace of things in the modern world, I couldn’t understand what I was expecting from life anymore. Her “Mental Maps” series (1971) is made up of meticulously plotted grids dotted with formative places, emotions and experiences. Anna Maria Maiolino makes drawings, artist books, sculpture, and video, frequently drawing inspiration from her experience as an immigrant growing up in politically unstable Brazil. ), courtesy of the artist. It was a particular cultural moment for the US, the year of Martin Luther King’s assassination, soon after the summer of love and just before the Stonewall riots. It featured some of your work with clay, but it was also the first time that the documentation of Entre Vida (Between Lives), originally performed in Rio in 1981, was exhibited. It was seen as a bourgeois concern, pertaining to the personal and distracting from the political attention required by the dictatorships that burdened much of the continent. 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