Beatriz Milhazes

Beatriz Milhazes

2010painting in 4 parts
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The ornamental and brightly coloured works of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960) call diverse references from traditional arabesques, to both Brazilian Baroque and Brazilian Modernism to Henri Matisse's papiers découpés to mind. Influenced by the tropical climate and vegetation of her home country as well as by the urban vibe of cities like Rio de Janeiro, Milhazes combines traditional imagery and cultural clichés with plain geometric forms and accurate structured composition, creating dynamical and unexpected works. Although painting forms a major part of her œuvre since the beginning of her career, Milhazes constantly extends her work and includes different media like textiles, wrappers, collages or delicate mobiles consisting of mirroring balls, chains and flowers.

"Despite the vividness of her colors and compositions, a relative slowness is characteristic of Milhazes' working method, and it is this measured rhythm which enables her to cover increasingly vast distances in time as in space. The Brazil that concerns her is not just that of the morning newspapers and the news on TV Globo. Her Brazil goes right back to the sixteenth century and even earlier. And her country interests her all the more for bearing the marks of multiple cross-cultural currents. For us non-Brazilians, from a distance, it is a mythical country, that of a successful racial diversity, one where economic expansion has not erased extreme social differences, but which is waging a struggle against extreme poverty. For the Brazilian artist, it is history made real."

Frédéric Paul, In China, you must know, the Emperor is a Chinaman, and all whom he has about him are Chinamen too in Beatriz Milhazes: Snow in the Tropics, Fondation Beyeler and Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, 2011

Image: Gamboa Seasons, Summer Love, 2010, acrylic on canvas, part 1 of 4, 300 x 500 cm

Solo Exhibitions

BEATRIZ MILHAZES - Galerie Max Hetzler

Marilola

57, rue du Temple, Paris

17 October – 19 November 2016
Beatriz Milhazes - Galerie Max Hetzler

Beatriz Milhazes

(catalogue)

Oudenarder Straße 16-20, Berlin-Wedding

10 September – 5 November 2011
Beatriz Milhazes - Galerie Max Hetzler

Beatriz Milhazes

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

28 April – 3 June 2006
Beatriz Milhazes - Galerie Max Hetzler

Beatriz Milhazes

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

31 January – 15 March 2003

Group Exhibitions

REMEMBER EVERYTHING - Galerie Max Hetzler

REMEMBER EVERYTHING

40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
(catalogue)

Oudenarder Straße 16-20, Berlin-Wedding

10 November – 21 December 2013
Works on Paper - Galerie Max Hetzler

Works on Paper

Franz Ackermann, Haluk Akakçe, Darren Almond, André Butzer, Günther Förg, Ellen Gallagher, Mona Hatoum, Arturo Herrera, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Graham Little, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Chloe Piene, Jorge Queiroz, Kara Walker, Christopher Wool (catalogue)

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

6 May – 25 June 2005

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

Beatriz Milhazes

Avenida Paulista

MASP, São Paulo, 18 December 2020 – 6 June 2021
Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, 12 December 2020 – 30 May 2021
Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Beatriz Milhazes

Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Beatriz Milhazes

The Jewish Museum, New York

6 May – 23 October 2016
Beatriz Milhazes

Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botanico

Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami

19 September 2014 – 11 January 2015
Beatriz Milhazes

Panamericano. Beatriz Milhazes. Paintings 1999-2012

MALBA - Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires

13 September – 19 November 2012

Biography

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Publications

REMEMBER EVERYTHING - Galerie Max Hetzler

REMEMBER EVERYTHING

Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais

€ 45.00

Leaf through book
Beatriz Milhazes - Galerie Max Hetzler

Beatriz Milhazes

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2011
With an interview by Sebastian Preuss

€ 35.00

Works on Paper - Galerie Max Hetzler

Works on Paper

Franz Ackermann, Haluk Akakçe, Darren Almond, André Butzer, Günther Förg, Ellen Gallagher, Mona Hatoum, Arturo Herrera, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Graham Little, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Chloe Piene, Jorge Queiroz, Kara Walker, Christopher Wool

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2005
With a text by Kirsty Bell

€ 35.00

Selected Press

Art in America 2015

Frieze 2014

The Art Newspaper 2014

Berliner Zeitung 2011

Parkett 2009

Res Art World 2008

Frieze 2002

News

Beatriz Milhazes

Collaboration with Louis Vuitton

Beatriz Milhazes is one of the six leading contemporary artists invited by Louis Vuitton to reinterpret the iconic Capucines bag. The artist created a bag that takes after her vibrant and hypnotic paintings inspired by the popular art of her native country. Translating the refined geometric ...
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Beatriz Milhazes

Yellow Flower Dream (public artwork)
Inujima Island
Inaugurated 1 November 2018. Official opening: 26 April 2019

New artwork unveiled at Inujima "Art House Project"

Yellow Flower Dream, a work by Beatriz Milhazes has opened in Japan on November 1st, 2018, at Inujima Island for the "Art House Project - A-Art House”, and also will be joining Setouchi Triennale 2019 starting from April 26th, 2019. ...
Beatriz Milhazes