29 Jul 2014

Cabeça [Head] | Milton Machado | CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

CABEÇA [HEAD]

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - CCBB celebrates its 25 years of activity paying homage to artist Milton Machado's 45-year career with a retrospective exhibition, putting together more than 100 works of drawing, painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation, produced between 1969 and 2014 – many of which never shown in Rio – occupying four rooms on the second floor plus the monumental foyer of the building.

During the exhibition will be launched the book 'Cabeça' [Head], with a selection of images of significant works and published reviews and essays, written by art critics and by the artist himself. A series of guided tours will be realized, as well as roundtables with invited guests.

CCBB Rio is one of the most visited cultural centers in the world, with a record of public in 2011. The dedication of its spaces to a single artist in the especially important year of 2014 is significant of the artist's importance and reception.

Milton Machado belongs to a generation of Brazilian artists whose careers began in the 1970s, with productions characterized by conceptual investigation and experimentation. His own production, initiated in that period and developed over the following decades with the exploration of diverse media and genres, can be said to constitute a 'theory' on the production of art, uniting conceptual universality and the singularity of authorial discourse, the political and the poetic dimensions. His multidisciplinary background – his training as an architect with a master degree in urban planning and a PhD in Fine Art, his many years dedicated to the study and amateur practice of music, his activity as writer, lecturer and researcher – results in a work with a high level of complexity.

CABEÇA [Head] will include relevant works, such as a new version of the sculpture 'Módulo de Destruição' [Module of Destruction] (1990-2010-2014), part of the work-in-progress 'História do Futuro' [History of the Future] (1978– ), to be installed in the foyer.

Another highlight is the series 'Conspiração Arquitetura' [Conspiracy Architecture], of drawings related to issues of architecture and urban design, shown for the first time at Galeria Sergio Milliet, Rio de Janeiro, in 1981, most of which belonging to the Gilberto Chateaubriand/MAM-RJ collection. 'Conspiração Arquitetura' was selected by critics as one of the most important exhibition of that year.


MILTON MACHADO – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1947

Architect, FAU-UFRJ (1970); MSc, IPPUR (1985); PhD Fine Art, Goldsmiths College (2000).

26 solo shows, various group shows in Brazil and abroad, such as Panorama (MAM-SP), the 10th, 19th and 29th São Paulo Biennials, 7th Mercosul Biennial, Europalia (Bozar, Brussels), Imagine Brazil (Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway / Musée d'Art Moderne de Lyon, France / Qatar Museum of Modern Art), Continental Shift (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen), among others.

Has works in various private and institutional collections, such as Gilberto Chateaubriand/MAM-RJ, João Sattamini/MAC-Niterói, MALI/Lima-Peru, ESCALA/Colchester-UK and Daros Latinamerica/Zurich-Switzerland.

Published texts in books, magazines, newspapers and on-line in Brazil and abroad. Associate Professor of Art History at EBA-UFRJ. Researcher for CNPq from 2007 to 2013.

Represented by Galeria Nara Roesler.