Brazil Contemporary art
Miguel Rio Branco, full name Miguel da Silva Paranhos do Rio Branco, is a Brazilian photographer, artist, director and creator of multimedia installations.
His father was a diplomat and as a child Miguel lived in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA, now living and working in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After earning a degree in photography from the New York Institute of Photography, Miguel first worked as a cameraman and then worked with the Magnum agency. Miguel is known for exploring and crossing two different art forms: painting and photography. He has also shot 14 short films and eight long films, he is recognized in the world as one of the best color photojournalists.
Miguel Rio Branco's photographs are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Rosilene Luduvico is a Brazilian and German artist who lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Nature is the main source of inspiration for the artist, whose beautiful works in pastel colors on canvas, paper and installation walls are filled with leaves, rocks, sky and especially trees - whether along rivers in Germany, in American parks or along the beach in Recife. Luduvico's paintings are soaked in light and filled with wind.
Harding Meyer is a distinguished contemporary artist of Brazilian origin, renowned for his mastery in large-scale photorealistic portraiture. Born in 1964 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Meyer has made a significant mark in the art world with his unique blend of realism and abstraction. He studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany, a formative experience that greatly influenced his artistic style.
Harding Meyer's portraits are known for their intimate and tightly cropped depictions of the human face, sourced from a diverse array of visual media including magazines, film, and television. His technique involves a meticulous use of brushes and palette knives, skillfully capturing the essence of his subjects. Harding Meyer's works are particularly notable for replicating the horizontal blurs of television stills and the pixelated textures of digital images, adding a unique dimension to his photorealistic style.
Residing and creating in Karlsruhe, Germany, Harding Meyer continues to push the boundaries of contemporary portraiture. His work is a testament to his commitment to capturing the human essence through a lens of technical precision and artistic innovation.
For collectors and experts in art, Harding Meyer's work offers a fascinating exploration of the human visage, blending traditional portraiture with modern techniques and media influences.
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Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography. Primarily working with unconventional materials such as tomato sauce, diamonds, magazine clippings, chocolate syrup, dust, dirt, etc., Muniz creates works of art, referencing old master's paintings and celebrity portraits, among other things, and then photographs them. His work has been met with both commercial success and critical acclaim, and has been exhibited worldwide. He is currently represented by Galeria Nara Roesler based in New York and Brazil.
Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto is a contemporary visual artist. Ernesto Neto began exhibiting in Scotland in 1988 and has had solo exhibitions abroad since 1995. Neto's work has been described as "beyond abstract minimalism". His installations are large, soft, biomorphic sculptures that fill an exhibition space that viewers can touch, poke, and walk on or through. They are made of white, stretchy material—amorphous forms stuffed with Styrofoam pellets or, on occasion, aromatic spices. In some installations, he has also used this material to create translucent scrims that transform the space's walls and floor. His sculptures can be regarded as expression of traditional abstract form, but in their interaction with the viewer, they work on another level as well.
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. His exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete was highly influential in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Both lauded and criticized for being a "sculptor of monuments", Niemeyer was hailed as a great artist and one of the greatest architects of his generation by his supporters. He said his architecture was strongly influenced by Le Corbusier, but in an interview, assured that this "didn't prevent [his] architecture from going in a different direction".
Hélio Oiticica was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, and theorist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for what he later termed "environmental art", which included Parangolés and Penetrables, like the famous Tropicália. Oiticica was also a filmmaker and writer.
Emanuel Pimenta, full name Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, is a Brazilian-Portuguese musician, architect, photographer and media artist.
In the late 1970s, Pimenta began working in the synthesis of visual arts, music, architecture, media systems, photography and urbanism. He also developed graphic music notation in virtual environments. The results of his research bridging art and science are presented as works in major museums, foundations and art collections in several countries.
Emanuel Pimenta develops music, architecture and urban projects using virtual reality and cyberspace technologies. His music concerts integrate visual art and have been held in different countries over the last twenty years. In 2016, he completed his third opera entitled Metamorphosis. In 2017, Pimenta was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters. Emanuel Pimenta is also a prolific writer: more than eighty of his books have been published since the 1970s.
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.
Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993. He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016.
Frederick Sommer was an American artist and photographer who is best known for his innovative and experimental work in the mid-20th century.
Sommer's work was characterized by his interest in abstraction, surrealism, and the natural world. He used a wide range of photographic techniques, including collage, photomontage, and solarization, to create images that were often dreamlike and otherworldly.
Sommer was also known for his work as a painter, sculptor, and poet, and his interdisciplinary approach to art had a significant impact on the development of modern art in the United States. He was a mentor and friend to many artists, including Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, and his influence can be seen in their work.
Sommer's legacy as an artist and photographer continues to inspire new generations of artists, and his commitment to experimentation and innovation remains a powerful example of the role that artists can play in shaping the course of art history.
Not Vital is a Swiss artist living and working between his hometown, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro.
Not Vital's art is inspired by his nomadic lifestyle and experiences traveling the world, reflecting on habitats, nature and animals, as well as on the relationship between sculpture and architecture. To define his large-scale constructions, in 2009 Vital coined the term "SCARCH" - the union of sculpture and architecture. Central to his work is an exploration of the spatial, economic and cultural context of homes and workplaces.
Vital has opened studios in New York, Lucca, Beijing and Agadez. Over the course of his career, he has realized many structures for contemplation around the world, including a tunnel on the island of NotOne in Patagonia, Chile.
