Beatriz Milhazes by Hans Werner Holzwarth
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Enter the vibrant world of Beatriz Milhazes
The work of Beatriz Milhazes fuses two very different worldviews. Her abstract compositions, which can be understood according to a modernist lineage running from Henri Matisse to Bridget Riley, are also saturated with the colors, light and symbolism of her native Brazil. The motifs of carnival and traditional crafts are brought together with elements from Western art history in an exuberant visual rhythm. Milhazes' colorful atmosphere has an irresistible exotic allure, but as in the works of Paul Gauguin, we ultimately encounter a broken paradise in which the promises of both tropical life and modernist abstraction are unfulfilled.
This beautiful monograph explores all of the artist's creative phases, from her beginnings to the present, and features over 300 of her works. The book was created in close collaboration with the artist, in both the selection of images and specially designed pages between chapters. It includes a conversation between Milhazes and editor Hans Werner Holzwarth in which the artist unravels her working methods and talks about the ideas and cultural influences behind her work. An art historical essay by David Ebony, a poetic dictionary of Milhazes's key motifs by Adriano Pedrosa, and a detailed, updated artist biography by Luiza Interlenghi round off this comprehensive work.
528 pp. hardcover
25.8 x 5.6 x 34.5 cm
Published July 2021 by Taschen and Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo
