Henrique Oliveira
By: essay, Agnaldo Farias ; interview, Aracy Amaral ; versão inglês, Rafael Mantovani
Contributors: Galeria Millan
Publisher: SESI-SP; Cosac Naify; Galeria Millan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: São Paulo
Language: por
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9788550400990
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; Interviews; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Henrique Oliveira.; Henrique Oliveira. English.
Description: Comprehensive exhibition of artist Henrique Oliveira (b. Sao Paulo, Brazil 1973) . One of the most prolific artists in the contemporary scene, recognized worldwide for his works of epic dimensions that operate the fusion between various artistic modalities and architecture. Oliveira is best known for his monumental sculptural works which take the form of free-standing pieces, wall-reliefs or immersive environments made from materials scavenged from construction sites: plywood, metal, foam, tree branches. He uses these to build organic structures evocative of tumors, exposed viscera, or various plant-life. These meticulously-built hybrid forms reference both nature and the environmental decay associated with societal waste. Oliveira expertly integrates these structures with adjacent architecture or ordinary objects, blurring the line between a sculpture and its surroundings to suggest a strange and new kind of life. In this first book, or "illustrated monograph", about his professional career, begun in the late 1990s and contains 120 images of work done by the artist over the last 13 years, in addition is an essay by art critic Agnaldo Farias and an interview with Henrique Oliveira by art critic Aracy Amaral.
Notes: Cover title.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Galeria Millan, São Paulo in 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in Portuguese and English.