Brígida Baltar Explained

Brígida Baltar
Birth Date:1959/1960
Birth Place:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality:Brazilian
Education:Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage

Brígida Baltar (1959/1960 – 8 October 2022) was a Brazilian visual artist. Her work spanned across a wide range of mediums, including video, performance, installation, drawing, and sculpture. She was interested in capturing the ephemeral in her artwork.[1]

Life and career

Brígida Baltar was born in 1959 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she lived and worked. Her career began in the 1990s, often working with primordial elements, such as the material she took from her own house in the neighbourhood of Botafogo. In recent years, Baltar's work was shown in institutions throughout Brazil and in the United States, Japan and Argentina, and other countries. She also took part in important group shows, such as The Peripatetic School – Itinerant Drawing From Latin America (2011), which premiered at the Drawing Room in London, and then toured to several other venues.[2]

She participated in important Biennials, such as the I Biennial of the Americas, Denver (USA) (2010); 25a Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (2002); V Bienal de la Habana (1994); and 12a Bienal do Mercosul (2020). Her work is featured in important public collections such as MOCA Cleveland (USA); Blumenthal Collection (Boston, USA); MIMA Museum (Middlesbrough, United Kingdom); Coleccíon Copel, CIAC (México); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil); MAC-USP, Museu de Arte Contemporânea USP (São Paulo, Brazil); Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil); Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (Recife, Brazil); and the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).[3] [4]

Baltar died from leukemia on 8 October 2022, at the age of 62.[5]

Works

Baltar's artistic career began in the 1990s and crossed many different mediums. Baltar started from her home, where she would gather drops of rain seeping through openings in her roof, mixed with dusts from the clay bricks of her house.[6]

In 2005, Baltar had to leave her house in the Rio de Janeiro district of Botafogo. During the fifteen years that preceded this event, the artist had lived and worked almost in a symbiosis with the old brick building. In Abrigo (1996), she carved the form of her body into the wall of the house and then entered that space. She ground up many of the red bricks from that house and used that as the medium for future drawings and sculptures.[7]

Baltar strove to return to a pre-industrial, childlike and primitive narration.’ Baltar's artistic production began in the 1990s with the so-called small poetic gestures, developed in her studio-home in Botafogo.[8]

In her work, Collecting Mist (1998–2004), which was shown at the New Museum, Baltar photographically captures herself in the Sisyphean task of trying to capture mist.[9]

Baltar has had her work exhibited at LAMB Arts in São Paulo, Casas Riegner in Bogota, Bergamin & Gomide in São Paulo, Drawing Room in London, the Embassy of Brazil in London, Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York, and Carbono Galeria in São Paulo. Her works are greatly influenced by the practices of the Brazilian Neo-Concrete artists Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica. According to Baltar she wanted to criticise the contemporary world of productivity surplus, that allows little room for daydreaming, for contemplation, etc.

Exhibitions

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brígida Baltar. Cultural. Instituto Itaú. Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. pt-br. 2019-03-04.
  2. Web site: Brigida Baltar . March 27, 2024 . Estadão . pt-br.
  3. Web site: Arte Al Día. www.artealdia.com. en. 14 January 2021.
  4. Web site: Os pequenos momentos de Brígida Baltar em mostra de filmes no BNDES . March 27, 2024 . O Globo . pt-br.
  5. Web site: 2022-10-08 . Morre artista Brígida Baltar, aos 62 anos . 2022-10-12 . O Globo . pt-br.
  6. Web site: Brígida Baltar - 45 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy. 20 May 2021. artsy.net.
  7. Web site: Arte Al Día. artealdia.com. 4 March 2019.
  8. Web site: Brígida Baltar. Nara Roesler. en. 20 April 2020.
  9. Web site: Exhibitions. New Museum Digital Archive. en. 4 March 2019.
  10. Web site: Um habitar de tijolo, sonho e ser da artista carioca Brígida Baltar . March 27, 2024 . Folha de São Paulo . pt-br.
  11. Web site: To make the world a shelter . March 27, 2024 . Nara Roesler . pt-br.
  12. Web site: Brigida Baltar Biography – Brigida Baltar on artnet. www.artnet.com. 20 April 2020.

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