Beatriz Milhazes: 100 Suns This is the artist's first solo exhibition in Salvador and brings together, in MAB – Museum of Art of Bahia, a wide selection of works spanning 30 years of his production, offering a glimpse into different phases of his career and highlighting recurring elements that structure his poetics.
Curated by art critic and historian Tiago Mesquita, the exhibition presents historical paintings, previously unseen works, recent collages, and an installation in the museum's windows, revealing how different media fuel his research, with painting as the central axis and main medium of his studio practice, whose reverberation permeates all his work.
The works are arranged in a kind of spatial collage, revealing both the breadth of Beatriz Milhazes' formal repertoire and the sophistication of her compositional strategies. In this arrangement, it becomes evident how her works dialogue with modern art in different geographical contexts, the constructive tradition, design, fashion, the Rio Carnival, allegory, ornament, Baroque decoration, and a choreography of dancing forms, while simultaneously incorporating structural issues of pop art, a dimension that runs through her trajectory and reaffirms her position as one of the central voices of contemporary abstraction.
The artist presents a new stained-glass window designed for the institution's windows, in which her characteristic patterns are applied to multicolored translucent films that filter sunlight and project kaleidoscopic beams throughout the exhibition space. Also on display is *The Silk*, an emblematic work from her 2000s production, in which graphic elements in vibrant colors expand from the center of the canvas in centrifugal motion. At its core, a tangle of lace-like arabesques forms the heart of the composition, combining fluidity and order in an expanding organic structure. In more recent works, such as *Memories of the Future II* (2023), the artist superimposes graphic elements made with acrylic ink pens (Molotow markers) onto forms transferred using her monotransfer technique, adding a new layer of patterns to the intricate interplay of rotating weaves and creating strata that articulate in a complex and multidirectional network.
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Exhibition Beatriz Milhazes: 100 Suns
From January 20th to April 29th
Tuesday to Sunday, from 10pm to 18pm
