Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (born 1967) joyously embraces all genres from painting and sculpture to film and photography, installation and collaborative actions. Whether gathering anonymously created objects from bars and restaurants, or installing continually dripping buckets in a forest, her art is ultimately about being alive and responsive. Some of Neuenschwander's best-known works are collaborations with the public: "I Wish Your Wish" enables visitors to select from hundreds of wishes those they hope will come true, in exchange leaving new wishes behind; in "First Love," visitors are invited to describe the face of their first love to a forensic artist. A Day Like Any Other is the artist's first full-length monograph.

Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other

Arts & Photography

Thomas, Rachael

Flood, Richard

Raymond, Yasmil

Herkenhoff, Paulo

Larsen, Lars

History & Criticism

Editora Cobogó

This first monograph on the extraordinary Afro-Brazilian sculptor Sonia Gomes (born 1948) brings together around 100 images of her works. The book traces the path of this artist who, by transforming found and donated materials such as fabric and wire by twisting, tying and sewing, creates sculptures that describe her history as an artist of African descent. Born in Caetanópolis, a town with an important textile industry, Gomes grew up in the midst of textile factories and the strong presence of her grandmother―a black woman, a healer and a midwife, who taught her everything about the basics of sewing. The book includes essays by curators Ricardo Sardenberg and Solange Farkas, as well as a textual work by artist Paulo Nazareth made especially for this volume.

Sonia Gomes (EDITORA COBOGO)

Farkas, Solange

Sardenberg, Richard

Nazareth, Paulo

Individual Artists

Passaros do Brasil e algumas historias colorindo com Adriana Varejao (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Varejão

Milton Nascimento e Lo Borges - Clube da Esquina - Colecao O Livro do Disco (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Paulo Thiago de Mello

This is the first book on the collages of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960). During a residency in Brittany, in 2003, Milhazes offered chocolates and sweets to the art center team, asking them to return the wrapping papers afterward. From these the artist commenced a new project: her collages. Until this point, Milhazes had considered collage a secondary activity, a way of drafting her paintings. With time, her collage technique developed along its own path. “Collages have a kind of dialogue with an imaginary journal,” she writes. “Collected papers come from a variety of interests: sometimes it’s an aesthetic attraction, but other times they’re part of a routine, such as with chocolate wrapping paper or cuttings remaining from existing impressions. That’s why composition in collage creates a dialogue that’s exclusive to collages.” As Frédéric Paul, the book’s editor, observes, by using disposable ingredients in her collages, Milhazes emphasizes the acceleration of cycles of taste. “The frivolity of sweets and shopping express the frivolous versatility of trend indicators. They are also, surely, an expression of the assumed decorative frivolity. Milhazes’s work has the extraordinary complexity of simple things and faces us with a breathtaking plastic evidence.”

Beatriz Milhazes: Collages

Arte Censura Liberdade Reflexoes a luz do Presente (Em Portugues do Brasil)

VARIOUS

Monumento

Cunha, Alexandre da

Solange Pessoa

Alex Bacon

Twin brothers Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo (born 1974) make up Osgemeos, a Brazilian graffiti collective that has come to define the São Paulo scene and Brazil’s own style. Opera of the Moon documents their immersive painted environments, which draw heavily from Brazilian folklore and surrealism of the ‘30s.

Osgemeos: Opera of the Moon

Brazilian artist Iran do Espírito Santo (born 1963) is known for the subtle minimalism of his paintings, sculptures and installations. This gorgeously produced substantial overview is dedicated to the artist's drawings--some abstract and monochrome, others figurative reflections on daily objects, all technically masterful.

Iran do Espírito Santo: Drawings

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