Néle Azevedo

Néle Azevedo
Born 1950
Santos Dumont, MG, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Education MA, Visual Art, Art Institute of State University of São Paulo, Brazil
BA, Art, Faculdade Santa Marcelina
BA, Faculdade de Educação e Ciências Pinheirense
Known for Sculpture

Néle Azevedo (b. 1950) is a Brazilian sculptor and independent researcher.

Azevedo was born in Santos Dumont, MG. She holds a Masters in Visual Arts from São Paulo State University Arts Institute (UNESP 2003) and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Santa Marcelina College (1997).

Work

Minimum Monument installation, Birmingham UK

In 1998, she launched a solo exhibition with an installation of iron sculptures at the Brazilian Post Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro and won the acquisition prize in the Santo André Art Hall in São Paulo. In 2002, she was awarded the Bunkyo Art Hall 1st prize with an installation of sculptures in acrylic. In 2001, Azevedo started working with the Minimum Monument Project[1] doing interventions in urban space that discuss the contemporary public monuments in countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Japan, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy. These interventions have become known worldwide as the "Army of Melting Men".[2]

The Minimum Monument project,[1] along with the other urban interventions developed by Azevedo including ‘’Glory to Inglorious Fights’’ and ‘’Anhangabau: A River For The Absent Ones’’, [3]have their genesis on local history. The aim is the political-poetical dimension that the artist can create by paralleling and referencing art and coexistence, art and exchange, and art as a currency. These ephemeral interventions have resulted in videos, pictures and drawings.

Urban interventions

2010
Torgtrappene, Stavanger, Norway, 15 September
2009
Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany, 2 September. This sculpture is called Melting Men. It represents that global warming is fast approaching and that it affects everyone.
2008
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy, 21 October
2007
Ribeirão Preto City, 22 September
Virada Cultural São Paulo, Glória a todas as lutas inglórias, (Glory to all the inglorious fights), Intervention at Pateo do Colégio-São Paulo, 5 May
2006
Burgplatz, Braunschweig, Germany, 16 June
Praça D. João I, Porto City, PT, 22 September
2005
Municipal Theatre, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 19 November
Place L’Opera end Mairie du 9émè, Paris, France, 30 June
Praça da Sé, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 7 April
2004
Largo da Ordem, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, April 10–13
2003
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
2002
Havana, Cuba
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Awards

2007
Winner of the Award for Experimental Video at the 15th Video festival, Teresina, Piaui, Brazil, December
2002
31st Salão Bunkyo // 31st. Bunkyo Contemporary Art Show: Golden Medal and JAL Award
1998
XXVI Contemporary Art Show, Acquisition Award. Santo André City, São Paulo, Brazil
1996
X Atibiai Art Meeting: Special Mention

Public collections

MartiusStaden Institut, São Paulo, Brazil
Bienal International, Evento of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Pinacoteca Municipal, São Paulo, Brazil
Sycomore Art Gallery, Paris, France
ACBEU Gallery, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Nipo Brasileiro Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
Cultural Center of Mail Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Espirito Santo Art Museum, Vitória, Brazil
Santo Andre Art Museum, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
Atibibaia Museum, Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil

References

  1. 1 2 "Opening: Néle Azevedo – Minimum Monument". Stavanger, Norway: Article Biennial. Archived from the original on 2010-09-20.
  2. "Nele Azevedo Interview". GreenMuze. 12 December 2008.
  3. Parsi, Maryam (September 2011). "Finding a Balance Between Man and Nature". American Contemporary Art: 36. Retrieved 10 March 2015.


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