Satuday ArtWalk: Anna Bella Geiger. Maps under the Sky of Rio de Janeiro.
Guided tour in English
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
entry included in the ticket price
Anna Bella Geiger is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish ancestry and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. Her art often touches upon the theme of the Brazilians’ contemporary identity (brasilidade) and its political aspects, particularly the colonial and postcolonial history and the regime imposed by the military junta that ruled the country from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. To face those complex issues Geiger uses various contexts from anthropology, astronomy and alchemy to modern utopias and game theory. However, the artist’s main source of inspiration is maps. Cartography is in Geiger’s interpretation an extraordinary phenomenon, linking science, art and politics. Maps are always a combination of knowledge, ideology and individual aesthetic vision, which makes them a perfect canvas for artistic intervention.
guide: Sara Herczyńska
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08.12.2018 – 24.02.2019Anna Bella GeigerMaps under the Sky of Rio de Janeiro"Maps under the sky of Rio de Janeiro" is a presentation of the artistic output of Anna Bella Geiger (b. 1933), a pioneer of Brazilian art. In the historical context of modern art in Brazil, Geiger, alongside Hélio Oticica, Lygia Clark, and Lygia Pape, is one of Rio de Janeiro’s top artists who have re-established the connection between the expressionist tradition with neo-concretism (neoconcretismo). The exhibition reflects the diversity of the artist’s interests: from anthropology to astronomy, from indigenous cultures and alchemy to concrete poetry and Brazilian music, from modern utopias and dystopias to game theory. Geiger’s works from the 1970s – drawings, prints, and video projections – serve as the exhibition’s starting point and form its core.
Zachęta – National Gallery of ArtZachęta
