Joana Vasconcelos
Joana Vasconcelos ( born November 8, 1971 in Paris) is a Portuguese artist of our time.
Life
Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris in 1971. At 18, she began studying Fine Arts at the Art School Ar.Co in Lisbon, where she graduated in 1996.
Since 1994, she presented her works regularly, first in Portugal and later around the world, for example in Paris, London and San Francisco.
International attention they achieved first time in 2005 through their exhibits at the Venice Biennale.
She won several art awards, including the 2006 Award The Winner Takes It All by the Berardo Foundation in Lisbon.
Was published in 2009, the documentary Joana Vasconcelos: Coração Independente Midas film in which director Joana Vasconcelos Cunha Ferreira and her team showing at work. 2010 " artists up close " a documentary about Vasconcelos was in the series aired on ARTE.
Joana Vasconcelos lives and works in Lisbon.
Work
To Vasconcelos ' work mainly include installations and sculptures, as well as videos, photographs and performances.
She works with a team that supports them, because many of their works are very expensive to produce.
One of her most famous works is the seven meter high sculpture Nectar, which is located in Lisbon at the entrance of the Museu Berardo Colecção. It consists of iron and glass bottles and shows the viewer how something big may arise from ordinary materials of everyday life - a topic that often finds itself in Vasconcelos ' work.
Another work which they made known the installation Jóia do Tejo, which adorned the facade of the Torre de Belém 2006.
In addition to modern conceptual art Vasconcelos is also old handicraft techniques such as crocheting or sewing one, often in combination with each other. For example, furniture, musical instruments and sculptures spanned with crochet networks. Other manual techniques such as welding are used.
Often expressed in Vasconcelos ' works her identity as a woman and Portuguese from. So excited her at the 2005 Venice Biennale with the construction Noiva A sensation that was five feet high and consisted of 25,000 tampons. Another example is her early sculpture series Independent Hearts, in which gigantic heart turn to a chain, while Portuguese folk music sound. Her recent works include oversized welded together from steel pots Pumps. One of these structures, Marilyn, scored at an auction in London at a price of £ 500,000.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2004 Arte y Portugues Espanol de los 90, CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- 2005 EMERGENCIAS, MUSAC Leon
- 2005 51st Venice Biennale 2005 Venice Biennale
- 2005 INICIATIVA X - 2005, Arte Contempo, Lisbon
- 2006 Paradiso & Inferno, Mario Mauroner, Salzburg
- Joana Vasconcelos 2007, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
- 2007 Existencias, MUSAC Leon
- 2007 Coleccion Josep Civit: La vida privada, CDAN Huesca
- 2008 L'Argent, Frac Ile -de -France, Paris
- 2009 MUSAC - Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell. , Mücsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest
- Júlio Pomar Joana Vasconcelos & 2009: A la mode de chez nous, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian Paris
- 2009 Garden of Eden # 2, It Baluart
- 2010 Un chef- existe une fois pour toutes d'œuvre, FAUX MOUVEMENT, Metz
- Joana Vasconcelos 2010: I Will Survive, Haunch of Venison, London
- 2010 Loft Gallery Nathalie Obadia, Paris
- 2010 Sem speech, Retrospective exhibition of Vasconcelos ' work over the last 15 years, Berardo, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
- 2011 Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, Pallant House Gallery Chichester
- 2011 The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
- Joana Vasconcelos 2012. Versailles, Palace of Versailles
- 2013 Trafaria Praia, Venice Biennale
- 2013 Lusitana, 2013, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Scholarships and Awards
- 2000 Young Artist Prize EDP, Lisbon
- 2003 Tabaqueira Fund for Public Art, Lisbon
- 2006 Award The Winner Takes It All, Berardo Foundation, Lisbon