JOANA VASCONCELOS’ MAGICAL WORLD AT THE OSCAR NIEMEYER MUSEUM
Extravagances is Portuguese artist Joava Vasconcelos’ largest solo show at Brazil in the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON). Curated by Marc Pottier, the exhibition invites the audience to an immersion into the magical world of the artist.
Recognized for her monumental sculptures and immersive installations, Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos invites visitors to dive into a universe never created at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum. Extravagances brings together works with stratospheric dimensions, such as the “Miss Dior Valkyrie” and the “Matarazzo Valkyrie”, as well as an exhibition of models that allow exploring the connection between art and space and architecture. This grand exhibition occupies not only the Eye, the floors of the tower, and the Araucária spaces, but also transforms, for the first time, the Museum's ramp into an extraordinary exhibition space. Marc Pottier's curation reveals installations and sculptures that go beyond and invade the Museum's space, giving a glimpse of Joana Vasconcelos' extensive professional trajectory, which, with humor and irony, questions the status of women, consumer society, and collective identity.
Visual artist Joana Vasconcelos declares: “I am very happy to return to Brazil and be able to bring together my latest ‘Valkyria (Miss Dior)’ with the one I created for Matarazzo in 2014, in a very interesting dialogue not only between the two works but also with the Museum’s architecture. I also designed, especially for MON and for the first time in my career, an exhibition of models that will allow exploring the connection between the work of art and space and architecture, an idea that emerged from the privilege of exhibiting in Niemeyer’s ‘Eye”.
Joana Vasconcelos has a professional career spanning approximately 30 years, covering a huge variety of techniques. Recognized for her monumental sculptures and immersive installations, she decontextualizes everyday objects and updates the concept of arts and crafts for the 21st century, establishing a dialogue between the private sphere and public space, popular heritage, and high culture. With humor and irony, she questions the status of women, consumer society, and collective identity.
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