Amanda Carneiro - Böcker

A compendious celebration of the exuberant, multilayered paintings and prints of Beatriz MilhazesPublished with Museu de Arte de São Paulo.This is the most comprehensive book to date on Beatriz Milhazes, featuring many previously unpublished paintings and prints. Milhazes, a pivotal figure in contemporary art and the history of abstraction, works with a complex repertoire of images associated with different motifs, origins and sources. She works mainly in painting, printmaking and collage, but also in drawing, sculpture, artist’s books and textiles, among other mediums. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, geometry and free form, her compositions are intricate, dense, multicolored and literally full of layers—of colors, paints, papers and meanings. Milhazes’ sources are diverse and varied: from modernism to the Baroque, from folk art or "arte popular" to pop culture, from fashion to jewelry, from architecture to abstraction, from the history of art to nature. Her work encompasses multiple references, including the artists Hilma af Klint, Sonia Delaunay, Bridget Riley, Henri Matisse, Tarsila do Amaral and Piet Mondrian.Beatriz Milhazes: Avenida Paulista includes more than 170 works made since 1989, a turning point in Milhazes’ career. It was in that year that she developed the technique she calls “monotransfer,” in which she paints on a sheet of transparent plastic and then decals or transfers the painted and dry element to the canvas. The book provides a unique opportunity to discover her diverse, complex, multifaceted and singular work.Beatriz Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. Her works can be found in the collections of the Guggenheim, MASP, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Tate and the Centre Pompidou, among others. Milhazes lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

Bugres' career proposes a more plural history of Brazilian sculptureThis is the first monograph on the Brazilian sculptor Conceição dos Bugres (1914–84)—best known for her “bugres,” wood sculptures covered in wax and paint resembling minimalist human forms, which she produced prolifically for three decades.

Articulating the ideas, colors and forms of the Pan-Africanist movement within a “Latin-Amefrican” imaginaryThis catalog documents the paintings of African-Brazilian scholar, artist, poet, dramatist and activist Abdias Nascimento (1914–2011), compiling around 70 works from his wide-ranging career.

“Wool pictures” from a Brazilian folk artist known for her intricate and figurative tapestriesBrazilian artist Madalena Santos Reinbolt (1919–77) was known for her “wool pictures,” intricately embroidered tapestries evoking scenes and characters from her agropastoral past in the countryside of Bahia. This volume accompanies her posthumous solo show at MASP.

The first monograph for an influential indigenous Brazilian painterCarmézia Emiliano (born 1960) is a Macuxi painter and pioneering Indigenous figure on the contemporary Brazilian art scene. This volume accompanies her first solo exhibition, featuring recent canvases depicting landscapes, objects of material culture and the daily life of her community.

Queer activism meets grassroots printing and Latin American identity in this typographic celebration of resistanceFormed in 2007, the Buenos Aires–based collective Serigrafistas Queer employs accessible graphic printing techniques with slogans applied to pieces of paper and strips of fabric. This bright and stylish introduction to their work reproduces 62 works, together with fanzines, visual records and a portable manual on screenprinting.

"Everyday life and the uncanny coalesce in a potent brand of magical surrealism that oscillates between Guzmán's own private cosmos and a universal collective." —ArtforumThis is the first ever volume dedicated to the Dominican painter Hulda Guzmán (born 1984), who is best known for her psychedelic junglescapes populated by figures both real and imaginary. Invoking the exoticizing fantasies of Henri Rousseau and Paul Gauguin, Guzmán's paintings deconstruct imperialist fantasies, proposing an alternative vision of symbiosis—between both nature and its inhabitants and the conscious and unconscious mind.Presenting 84 pieces by the artist—seven of which are new—the volume is organized in sections that explore different facets of her practice, including her relationship to modernist architecture and her creative sublimation of inner demons. Miracle Fruits also features her lesser-known studio scenes and self-portraits, as well as three new essays that probe Guzmán's fusion of art historical references, such as ancient Chinese painting, Japanese Ukiyo-e, Impressionism and Post-impressionism, Surrealism and Magical Realism, Mexican Muralism and ex-voto painting.