Sonia Gomes : assombrar o mundo com beleza = I haunt the world with beauty / org. Paulo Miyada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gomes, Sonia, 1948-

Miyada, Paulo, 1985- editor.

Standardized Title:

Sonia Gomes (Cobogó)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gomes, Sonia, 1948-.

Gomes, Sonia.

Soft sculpture.

Textile artists.

Artists--Brazil.

Artists.

Artists, Black--Brazil.

Artists, Black.

soft sculpture.

Physical Description:

319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Assombrar o mundo com beleza

I haunt the world with beauty

Place of Publication:

Rio de Janeiro : Cobogó, [2024]

Language Note:

Parallel text in Portuguese and English.

Summary:

"Sonia Gomes: Assombrar o mundo com Beleza" (Haunting the World With Beauty) presents a selection of works produced in the last 15 years by Minas Gerais artist Sonia Gomes, one of the foremost names in Brazilian contemporary art. Through fabric work, Gomes's "plastic poetry," as the artist calls her creation, deals with themes such as identity, memory, and temporality. Edited by Paulo Miyada, artistic director of the Tomie Ohtake Institute and adjunct curator of the Centre Pompidou, the book is composed of pictures of the works, records of exhibitions, personal drawing and poetry journals, a shrine section--featuring the artist's objects and letters, prepared by featured researcher Beta Germano--as well as pictures by Lita Cerqueira of Gomes in her workshop. Therefore, the edition includes the artist's works as well as personal aspects of their production. The book also features essays written by various authors about the artist and her work, such as writer and poet Leda Maria Matins, neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro, Tate Modern curator Michael Wellen, TBA21-Academy's The Current IV curator Yina Jiménez Suriel, as well as the book's own editor and researcher Paulo Miyada. According to Paulo Miyada, the artist's output "is a powerful recent contemporary expression of a lineage of Brazilian artists who build on the repetition of minimal gestures with materials of little market value, spending time, transforming substance, delineating shapes, extrapolating scales and reaching a very particular kind of monumentality.".

Contents:

Poemas e aforismos = Poems and aphorisms / by Sonia Gomes

Ensaio fotográfico = Photographic essay/ by Lita Cerqueira

ENSAIOS = ESSAYS

Torce o tempo o afeto do tato: uma aliteração para Sonia Gomes = Time's tender touch twists: an alliteration for Sonia Gomes/ by Paulo Miyada

No ar, esculturas bailarinam = Sculptures dancing ballet in the air / by Leda Maria Matins

Estruturas, ações, torções = Structures, actions, torsions / by Michael Wellen

...vivem no compasso do sol = ... Living by the sun's rhythm / by Yina Jiménez Suriel

Catarse, catálise, cachoeira = Catharsis, catalysis, waterfall / by Sidarta Ribeiro

Relicário = Reliquary / by Beta Germano

Biografia, exposições e coleções = Biography, exhibitions and collections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786556911519

6556911518

OCLC:

1520446628