Tarsila do Amaral. Painting Modern Brazil

The ambitious exhibition is dedicated to Tarsila do Amaral, considered a central figure of Brazilian modernism. Curated by Cecilia Braschi, chief curator and curator of the exhibition in Paris, and Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, curator at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, it is divided into six thematic sections that allow the public to discover Tarsila as the creator of an original and evocative oeuvre based on the Indigenous and popular imaginary and on the modernizing dynamics of a country in the throes of transformation.
Her painting inspired the Pau-Brasil and Antropofagia movements, which seek an "authentic" multicultural and multiracial Brazil that aims to re-establish the country's relationship with the European "centers" of colonization. The militant dimension of Tarsila's paintings from the 1930s, along with her ability to adapt to the profound transformations of her social and urban environment until the 1960s, demonstrates the strength of a body of work attuned to its time and always ready to renew itself despite the unstable conditions faced by an emancipated and independent woman artist, depending on the time and context.
For more information, visit: https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/exposiciones/tarsila-do-amaral-pintando-el-brasil-moderno.