Cecilia Brunson Projects is delighted to announce a survey exhibition of works from the 1960s and 1970s by renowned Brazilian Pop artist, Claudio Tozzi, in collaboration with Almeida e Dale Gallery in São Paulo, which aims to provide UK audiences with an introduction to modern and contemporary Brazilian art.
Tozzi, whose vibrant work was most recently seen at Tate Modern’s critically acclaimed exhibition, The World Goes Pop, provides a dynamic overture to the series of exhibitions with 18 works which neatly encapsulate the language that Pop Art adopted internationally. While the leading names of British and American Pop Art frequently celebrate the consumer pop culture of the time, Tozzi’s work stands as a critical and fundamentally political response to it.
The artist, who continues to live and make work in his native São Paulo, was one of the most important exponents of the Brazilian avant-garde in the 1960s and participated in several...national and international biennials of the period, most notably with a special room dedicated to him at the Venice Biennale of 1967.
Tozzi wanted to popularize art, making art for the masses which communicated the pervasive mood of political upheaval of the times – expressed in protests against the military regime in his native Brazil such as ‘The March of the One Hundred Thousand’ in Rio De Janeiro, the student revolts in Paris and demonstrations held around the world against the Vietnam War. By adopting Pop’s accessible language, he proposed to sensitise a wider audience to the mobilising potential of art.
After the introduction to Tozzi’s work provided by The World Goes Pop, this ambitious exhibition is likely to be a revelation for London audiences – fully confirming his status as one of the great masters of both political and pop art. The exhibition will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with essays by Cecilia Brunson, Ricardo Camargo and Isobel Whitelegg.
Entrada actualizada el el 15 ene de 2016
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