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• Ana Maria Tavares. Airshaft (to Piranesi) (video still), 2008.Three dimensional computer animation, 24 minutes, 04 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and GaleriaVermelho, São Paulo. © Ana Maria Tavares

  October 11, 2013–January 12, 2014 | Exhibition

  Ana Maria Tavares: Deviating Utopias

   

   

   

  
  

 

 

 

 

Related Programs

• Art-Making in the Lobby: Wax Wonderland Thu, Sep 19, 2013
• Film: Brazil Fri, Oct 18, 2013
• ARTini: Ana Maria Tavares: Deviating Utopias Fri, Oct 25, 2013
• FREE Family Festival Day Sun, Nov 17, 2013

Ana Maria Tavares finds inspiration in the architecture of the modern city, particularly the stylistic grammar of Oscar Niemeyer and other utopian modernist Brazilian architects who have transformed urban Brazil in the post World War II years.  She employs materials such as steel, glass, and mirrors, often alluding to building interiors and product design, to make structures that occupy the border between design and fine art.  Airports and departure lounges—places that symbolize exit from everyday life—are a recurrent theme in her work, evoking feelings relating to floating and falling, meditating, and the co-existence of the real and virtual.

The centerpiece of this exhibition is her four-sided immersive video,Airshaft (to Piranesi), 2008, comprising sequences of elaborate interiors as seen from multiple perspectives in constant motion.

Tavares’s immersive video is accompanied by Nashville composer Brian Siskind’s Niterói, water that hides. This sonic collage brings together mid-century/post-war orchestral vinyl, recontextualized into a dark, deep, and teeming sound environment.

This exhibition is organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and curated by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala.

Location: Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery