MILTON MACHADO

In his interventions, Milton Machado seeks to capture and show the viewer surprising and unseen relationships between seemingly unrelated fields—such as industry and art, architecture and image, family and politics etc. with an undertone of irony and disillusion. For thirty years, the artist has been developing the series ‘História do Futuro’, an urban fable that brings together critical theory, architecture and urbanism to approach the dynamic and unpredictable cycles of life and death in a fictional city.

Milton Machado was born in 1947, in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives and works. Some of his latest solo shows include: X, at Galeria Nara Roesler (2016), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cabeça, at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB-BH) (2015), in Belo Horizonte; at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB-RJ) (2015), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Mão pesada, at Galeria Nara Roesler (2013), in São Paulo, Brazil. Recent group shows include: In Memoriam, at Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro (2017), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Em polvorosa, at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) (2016), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Made in Brasil, at Casa Daros (2015), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Imagine Brazil, at DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art (2015), in Montreal, Canada; Where the streets have no name, at CSS Bard and Hessel Museum of Art (2014), in New York, USA. His works are included in major public collections such as those of: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; Museo Civico Gibellina, Gibellina, Italy; Daros Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland; Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Text courtesy Galeria Nara Roesler.