Turning human rights into art: woodcuts on the Universal Declaration are exhibited in Brazil
Channel: ONU Brasil
Date: 2018-08-29

During August, the United Nations in Brazil will hold an exhibition in Rio de Janeiro with artworks by Brazilian artist Otávio Roth, who in 1978 created and printed woodcuts that illustrate the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

It is the first time in more than 30 years that the woodcuts –which are in permanent exhibition at the UN headquarters in New York, Vienna and Geneva- are exhibited in the country.

The idea of illustrating each of the articles of the Declaration came from the artist himself. In 1980, Roth exhibited them at the New York-based gallery Automation House, where he was seen by an advisor to the then UN Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim. The advisor was impressed with the work of the Brazilian artist, and invited him to exhibit the series of woodcuts at the UN headquarters in New York. In 1981, the exhibition was open to mark the 33th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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