CRISTIANO LENHARDT
Cristiano Lenhardt works in a variety of media: video, performance, photography, drawing and engraving. The artist delves in the process of transformation of materials and symbols referencing different sources — from folklore to literature to cartoons to science fiction. His modus operandi involves exercises in writing, observation, and drawing.
Cristiano Lenhardt lives and works in Recife (PE). Exhibition highlights include: the 36th Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna, (São Paulo, 2019); the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (São Paulo, 2016); 19th Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil: Panoramas do Sul (São Paulo, 2015); Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio, 2014); Programa Rumos, Itaù Cultural (São Paulo, 2012); Mythologies, Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2011); and Intimate Bureaucracies, University of Essex (Colchester, 2011); and Constructing Views, New Museum (New York, 2010).
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