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CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL Banco do Brasil S.A. is a major Brazilian bank headquartered in Brasília. The bank was founded in 1808 and is the oldest surviving bank in Brazil — one of the oldest of Latin America.  

In the edgy sumptuousness of Beatriz Milhazes's allusions to local flora, Rio's urban verve and the legacies of Brazilian Baroque sit alongside references to both modernist painting--Brazilian and otherwise--and the traces of colonialist co·lo·ni·al·ism  
n.
A policy by which a nation maintains or extends its control over foreign dependencies.



co·loni·al·ist n.
 expansion in earlier European art. It's a seductive se·duc·tive  
adj.
Tending to seduce; alluring: "his sad and fastidious but ever seductive Irish voice" John Fowles.
 and disturbing blend. Organized by Adriano Pedrosa, this first full-scale museum survey brings Milhazes's paintings from the past decade back to her home city. The emphasis here will be on recurrent themes and motifs rather than chronology. A banner project is planned for the Centro Cultural's grand rotunda rotunda

In Classical and Neoclassical architecture, a building or room that is circular in plan and covered with a dome. The Pantheon is a Classical Roman rotunda. The Villa Rotonda at Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, is an Italian Renaissance example.
, and the show will be accompanied by a bilingual catalogue including critical essays by Pedrosa, Paulo Herkenhoff, and Barry Schwabsky. Oct. 29-Jan. 26.
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Author:Archer, Michael
Publication:Artforum International
Date:Sep 1, 2002
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