After a five-year hiatus without a robust exhibition of the artist in the country, the shows together offer a broad and complementary view of the artist's work. Cildo Meireles, for whom drawing is often the genesis of his practice in the three-dimensional field.
A Galatea presents a selection of drawings produced from 1964, when the artist was only 17 years old, until 1977, highlighting Meireles as a draftsman, a facet that is less explored in comparison to other aspects of his work. On the other hand, this is his most constant and long-lasting practice. Curator Diego Matos, who wrote the exhibition's critical text, comments on this subject that:
“Bringing to the public a generous selection of Cildo Meireles’ drawings is to make visible and accessible the most omnipresent practice in the artist’s career of over 60 years. A practice, in fact, inseparable from his object-based and installation-based production. Made in a hotel room, in the dead of night; in the homely calm of the morning; or in the studio, during a break from work — his drawings tell us a lot about a poetic and conceptual repertoire that he has been developing since the beginning of his production.”
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Exhibition | Cildo Meireles: drawings, 1964-1977
From October 03rd to November 01st
Monday to Thursday from 10am to 19pm, Friday from 10am to 18pm, Saturday from 11am to 17pm
