Beatriz Milhazes

The exhibition entitled Meu Bern presents fifty works by Beatriz Milhazes, including paintings, collages and engravings from 1989 to this day. The exhibition will remain open to the public until October 27 of this year at the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro.

Born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, the city where she continues to live and work, Milhazes is one of the most prominent Brazilian artists of the last two decades. She began her artistic trajectory in 1980 and studied at the Escuela de Artes Visuales of Parque Lage, where she would eventually also teach. She participated in exhibitions by Generation 80—a group of artists that wanted to bring back painting in answer to the conceptual current from the 1970s—and made the search for new techniques and materials the center of her working process.

The walk through the exhibition begins with works from 1989, the year in which Milhazes began to develop a technique based on successive extensions—reminiscent of decals—in which every motif and layer of color intervene separately to give the images their unique structure, syntax and vibration. Later on Milhazes would delve into other expressive approaches like serigraphy (beginning in 1996), artist's books (beginning in 2002), collages (beginning in 2003), architectural commissions (beginning in 2004) and three-dimensional works (beginning in 2010).

The extensive exhibition at the Paço Imperial follows her retrospective exhibition last year at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, and the exhibitions at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, at the MoMA, the Fondation Cartier in Paris, and the Pinacoteca in São Paulo.

Meu Bern will also be on display next November at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba.