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Anna Maria Maiolino

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b. 1942, Italy

Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. Born 1942 in Italy, Maiolino's practice expresses a concern with creative and destructive processes. Working across a wide range of disciplines and mediums - spanning drawing, printmaking, poetry, film, performance, installation and sculpture - Maiolino relentlessly explores notions of subjectivity and self.

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Through fragmentation and abstraction, Maiolino's surfaces are rich with metaphor, alluding to and questioning language, sexuality, desire and the unconscious. The artist's deeply formative migration from post-war Southern Italy to a politically unstable South America, and her linguistic passage from Italian to Portuguese, engendered an enduring fascination with identity. Maiolino has perfected a dialogue between opposite yet complementary categories in a practice that dissolves dichotomies of inner and outer, self and other. Hers is an art in search of a new language for the liminal realm of daily human existence.

Shadowed by the turmoil and governance of military repression, Maiolino's early experiments in the 1960s connected her to important movements in Brazilian art history such as New Figuration and New Objectivity. Maiolino took part in the radical reconfiguring of the art object - and thus the art institution and the artist - during this period. Along with Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, and Hélio Oiticica, Maiolino participated in the 1967 exhibition, New Brazilian Objectivity, which symbolized a cultural shift in previous constructivist traditions and established a new vision for the production of art in Brazil.

Since the early 1980s Maiolino has worked with malleable materials that, through her handling, come to bear the imprint of unconscious gestures, daily rituals and sensory expressions of being. Her mark-making is based on the repetition of basic actions that are recorded in the material; her forms the result of this laborious processing of raw material, like the basic bodily functions of eating and defecating. Hers is a work of liberation: abstraction is freed from the more repressed and puritanical precepts of Minimalism and brought back into the service of the active, desiring body.

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Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Bodily Abstractions / Fragmented Anatomies at Hauser & Wirth, Monaco Closed 26 January–26 March 2022 Group Exhibition Bodily Abstractions / Fragmented Anatomies Monaco
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Seeing Touch at Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland Closed 26 September–15 November 2020 Group Exhibition Seeing Touch St. Moritz
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Material Actions at Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland Closed 7 July–8 September 2019 Group Exhibition Material Actions St. Moritz
Contemporary art exhibition, Anna Maria Maiolino, ERRÂNCIA POÉTICA (POETIC WANDERINGS) at Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22nd Street, New York, USA Closed 14 November–22 December 2018 Anna Maria Maiolino ERRÂNCIA POÉTICA (POETIC WANDERINGS) 548 West 22nd Street, New York

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Untitled, from Cobrinhas (Little Snakes) series by Anna Maria Maiolino contemporary artwork sculpture
Anna Maria Maiolino Untitled, from Cobrinhas (Little Snakes) series, 2018 Marble powder and white cement
58 x 30.8 x 10 cm
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Untitled, from the Desenhos Objetos (Drawing Objects) series by Anna Maria Maiolino contemporary artwork works on paper
Anna Maria Maiolino Untitled, from the Desenhos Objetos (Drawing Objects) series, 1974/2010 Thread on paper
72 x 72 x 10 cm
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In-Out (Antropofagia) [Antropophagy], from Fotopoemação [Photopoemaction] series by Anna Maria Maiolino contemporary artwork photography
Anna Maria Maiolino In-Out (Antropofagia) [Antropophagy], from Fotopoemação [Photopoemaction] series, 1973/1974 (printed 2010) Black and white analogue photograph
26 x 39.7 cm
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Untitled, from Ações Matéricas (Material Actions) series by Anna Maria Maiolino contemporary artwork painting
Anna Maria Maiolino Untitled, from Ações Matéricas (Material Actions) series, 2017 Acrylic ink on canvas
90 x 230 cm
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Untitled, from Ações Matéricas (Material Actions) series by Anna Maria Maiolino contemporary artwork painting
Anna Maria Maiolino Untitled, from Ações Matéricas (Material Actions) series, 2010 Acrylic ink on canvas
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Na Horizontal (On the Horizontal) by Anna Maria Maiolino contemporary artwork sculpture
Anna Maria Maiolino Na Horizontal (On the Horizontal), 2014/2016 Copper wire and raku ceramic on metal structure
282 x 150 x 25 cm
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Untitled, from Peculiaridades (Peculiarities) series by Anna Maria Maiolino contemporary artwork works on paper
Anna Maria Maiolino Untitled, from Peculiaridades (Peculiarities) series, 2018 Acrylic ink on paper
101 x 72 cm
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Untitled, from Filogenéticos (Phylogenetics) series by Anna Maria Maiolino contemporary artwork works on paper
Anna Maria Maiolino Untitled, from Filogenéticos (Phylogenetics) series, 2018 Acrylic ink on paper
40.5 x 33.5 cm
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Anna Maria Maiolino In Ocula Magazine

Frieze New York Viewing Room Sales Exceed Expectations Ocula News Frieze New York Viewing Room Sales Exceed Expectations New York, 8 May 2020

Galleries have reported stronger than anticipated sales at Frieze New York's Viewing Rooms, which opened to VIPs on 6 May. The online event, initiated after the physical fair was cancelled due to COVID-19, opens to the public from 8-15 May.

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‘I Allowed Myself to Be Eaten’: Anna Maria Maiolino on the Cultural Cannibalism of Brazil Related Press ‘I Allowed Myself to Be Eaten’: Anna Maria Maiolino on the Cultural Cannibalism of Brazil 18 August 2019, Frieze

Anna Maria Maiolino and I met for this interview over lunch at her home in São Paulo, where we shared a typical Brazilian meal with a plate of rice and beans. This dish was the starting point for the

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