Waltercio Caldas 1985-2000.CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL Rio-based Waltercio Caldas has yet to gain the international recognition enjoyed by a number of Brazilian artists of his generation, such as Tunga Tunga /Tun·ga/ (tun´gah) a genus of fleas, including T. pe´netrans, the chigoe (q.v.). and Cildo Meireles. Curated by Ligia Canongia, this fifty-work retrospective covering the latter half of Caldas's career will provide a broad panorama of the severe yet playful post-Conceptualism conceptualism, in philosophy, position taken on the problem of universals, initially by Peter Abelard in the 12th cent. Like nominalism it denied that universals exist independently of the mind, but it held that universals have an existence in the mind as concept. These concepts are not arbitrary inventions but are reflections of similarities among particular things themselves, e.g., the concept male reflects a similarity between Paul and John. that sets him apart from the body-based practices of artists ranging from Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica to Ernesto Neto. With essays by ten Brazilian critics as well as excerpts from Caldas's own writings, the catalogue offers a first monographic look at his oeuvre OEUVRE - Ocean Ecology: Understanding and Vision and Research. May 14-July 29; CentroCultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia; Aug. 10-Sept. 16. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion