Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: A Scattershot Bienal de São Paulo Is Out of Sync with Today’s Brazil
Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, through December 9
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Tunga
A Tribute to Tunga (1952-2016)
Inspired by Hellenistic poetry and medieval alchemy, Brazilian artist Tunga created sculptures, installations, and performances over the past three decades that made him one of Brazil’s best known and…
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Tunga, One of Brazil’s Most Important Contemporary Artists, Dies at 64
Tunga, the Brazilian artist known for his work about the body and its relationship to its surroundings, died yesterday afternoon of cancer-related causes. He was 64. Though Tunga has…
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Preview Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2015
The 13th edition of Frieze London and the fourth edition of Frieze Masters open in the city’s Regent Park on Wednesday, October 14, with previews for invited guests on Tuesday, October 13…
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Alchemical Procedures: An Interview with Tunga
Brazilian artist Tunga has, in recent years, developed an elaborate, idiosyncratic cosmology. Grounded in literary sources such as Poe and Mallarmé, his work reflects the artist's psychoanalytic res…
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Muse: Poetic Glue
I am inspired by what I call the energy of conjunction. This energy results from bringing disparate things together: unexpected materials, objects, ideas and, most potent and important of all, words…
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