Anna Maria Maiolino
In the sky I am one and many and as a human I am everything and nothing
11 Jun - 26 Sep 2021
Anna Maria Maiolino, Construção / Jogo (Construction / Game), 1973. Courtesy of the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan and Hauser & Wirth. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2021. Foto / Photo : Gina Folly
Anna Maria Maiolino, Aos Poucos (Little by Little), from Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction) series, 1976. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; É o que sobra (What is Left Over), from Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction) series, 1974. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; In-Out (Antropofagia), [In-Out (Antropophagy)] from Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction) series, 1973-2000. Collezione Carmela Sanuedolce. Courtesy of the artist, Collection Carmela Sanguedolce and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2021. Foto / Photo : Gina Folly
Anna Maria Maiolino, Sem Título (Untitled), serie Leonardo Engenho-Fotopoemação (from series Leonardo Engenho - Photopoemaction series), 2007. Courtesy of the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2021. Foto / Photo : Gina Folly
Anna Maria Maiolino, Na Horizontal (On the Horizontal), 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Sem Título (Untitled), from Vida Afora (A Life Line) – Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction) series, 1981-2012. Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, Milan and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2021. Photo : Gina Folly
Anna Maria Maiolino, Sem titulo, da série Codificac o es Matéricas, 1994; Sem título, da série Interações, 2019. Courtesy of the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Sem Título (Untitled), from Vida Afora (A Life Line) –Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction) series, 1981-2010. Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, Lugano and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Sem Título (Untitled), from Vida Afora (A Life Line) – Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction) series, 2006-2012. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2021. Photo : Gina Folly
Anna Maria Maiolino, Sem Título (Untitled), from Corpo/Paisagem – Fotopoemação (from Body/Landscape – Photopoemaction) series, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Por um Fio (By a Thread), from Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction) series, 1976-2010. Courtesy of the artist, Video Insight Collection and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2021. Photo : Gina Folly
Anna Maria Maiolino, Por um Fio (By a Thread), from Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction) series, 1976-2010. Courtesy of the artist, Video Insight Collection and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. Photo: Regina Vater
Anna Maria Maiolino De: Para: (From: To:), série Fotopoemação (from the series Photopoemaction), 1974–2010, B/w photograph, digital print, 75 × 48 cm; 76.4 × 49.4 × 3.7 cm framed. Courtesy of the artist, private collection, Switzerland, and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Anna Maria Maiolino, Sem título (Untitled), série Vida Afora - Fotopoemação (from Vida Afora - Photopoemaction series), 1981. B/w photograph, analog print. 34 × 46.5 cm; 50.4 × 35 cm framed. Courtesy of the artist, Collection Cattaneo Mantica and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942) is one of the most significant women artists working in Brazil today. The Italian-born Brazilian artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland will feature a selection of her early videos, films, photographs, sculptures, drawings and texts, spanning a narrative arc through her artistic work and life from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition brings together a selection of works from the past fifty years. Her oeuvre encompasses a wide range of disciplines and media while managing to develop a strong poetic language in each. In it, she explores her identity as a woman, a woman artist, and an immigrant, especially under the military dictatorship in Brazil from the 1960s until the 1980s. As her work has influenced generations of artists all over the world, reconsidering it today is a great opportunity for opening up new perspectives on life and living together. The work confronts us with the power of the artist’s imagination and her own sensibility towards human conditions, but also her acute awareness of social and cultural deficiencies in daily life.
Maiolino has participated in numerous international exhibitions. More recent solo exhibitions of her long artistic work include Por um fio (By a Thread), SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, US; Anna Maria Maiolino. O amor se faz revolucionário, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT; Anna Maria Maiolino: Making Love Revolutionary, Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB; Em Tudo - Todo, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR; Errância Poética, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US; Anna Maria Maiolino, The Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA, Los Angeles, US; Matrix 252, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, US; Affections. Premio MASP Mercedes-Benz, MASP, São Paulo, BR; and the Retrospective itinerant exhibition, which took place at Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, SE; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, ES.
She also organized several performances such as AL DI LÀ DI, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT (2019), and In Atto, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, IT (2015), and was awarded several prizes including the MASP Mercedes-Benz Prize of Visual Arts, São Paulo, BR (2015).
A comprehensive interview with the artist and Ines Goldbach was published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Curator: Ines Goldbach
Maiolino has participated in numerous international exhibitions. More recent solo exhibitions of her long artistic work include Por um fio (By a Thread), SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, US; Anna Maria Maiolino. O amor se faz revolucionário, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT; Anna Maria Maiolino: Making Love Revolutionary, Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB; Em Tudo - Todo, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR; Errância Poética, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US; Anna Maria Maiolino, The Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA, Los Angeles, US; Matrix 252, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, US; Affections. Premio MASP Mercedes-Benz, MASP, São Paulo, BR; and the Retrospective itinerant exhibition, which took place at Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, SE; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, ES.
She also organized several performances such as AL DI LÀ DI, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT (2019), and In Atto, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, IT (2015), and was awarded several prizes including the MASP Mercedes-Benz Prize of Visual Arts, São Paulo, BR (2015).
A comprehensive interview with the artist and Ines Goldbach was published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Curator: Ines Goldbach