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How might they have eaten lots of chocolate for this work? Toblerone and Valrhona, bitter and sweet, in the jumbo pack or as a delicacy for coffee. The Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes continues its collage made up of glittering chocolate paper.

At Max Hetzler succumbed to the temptation of the collector. The exhibition of new works was sold before the opening.72% cocoa promised on the packaging of the Caf de Flore. Based in Brazil, cocoa bean and the Parisian avant-garde of the 20th meeting of the Century - the little paper called the exact coordinates, which moves in the work of Beatriz Milhazes. It combines Brazilian independence by recourse to European modernism. The artist refers, among Henri Matisse and Bridget Riley Even the Brazilian surrealist Tarsila do Amaral as a model. With her painting Abaporu - ogre rejected this in 1928 against the European-dominated art on. "Tropical proliferation, naivete and wildness," then called her boyfriend Oswald de Andrade in his Manifesto Antropfago.
In her collages sets Beatriz Milhazes different textures on each other. The eye falters. Dominate the structure of the sweeping arabesques or give the straight diamonds, rectangles, grids and the sprawling baroque flourishes clarity and order? Seduced by the silver paper is the view swallowed and plunges into a maze of tropical splendor and cool geometry.
Beatriz Milhazes, born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro and grew up during the military dictatorship. The coup in 1964 ended the era of the great utopias, who had worn the construction of Brasilia and offered the vegetative architecture of Oscar Niemeyer as well as the scope of the systems landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. The coup also brushed aside the neo-Concretists had developed in the late 1950s in line with Malevich and Mondrian, a Brazilian variety of abstraction. What remained was the notion of Tropicalismo, which was during the dictatorship of the solution for the protest against censorship.
Almost simultaneously with the end of the dictatorship comes Beatriz Milhazes with a fireworks display of colors on the plan. Today, she is so famous in Brazil, that one of the largest samba schools in So Paulo's designs for the costumes of the dancers were inspired by their art.
For her painting, she developed her own technique. "Gamboa Seasons" is the four-part series of large sizes at Max Hetzler, named after a small town in Panama. Flowers explode into exotic splendor and lush mature at the same moment to cones. The painter wears their colors only on plastic wrap, let them dry and then glue them onto the canvas. If she withdraws the film, gives the surface a matt, weathered retro look. The fresh acrylic colors fade into a tropical pace. Since 1987, the artist has her studio near the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro. Its flowers, but also its organic structure shape their art.
The four paintings in the series "Seasons Gamboa" respond to the mobile space filling of pink flowers and gold-colored plastic balls as they decorate the cars at the carnival. This installation is a little sugary after the last stop of the exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, a German collection. Could sell the four paintings Max Hetzler to a French collector. With prices from 500,000, - USD per image would have helped the series to start the European tour in the Fondation Beyeler was issued.

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