Brígida Baltar

Brígida Baltar (Rio de Janeiro, born in 1959) is a Brazilian visual artist. Baltar works in drawing, photography, performance, video, sculpture, and performance. She is interested in capturing the ephemeral in her artwork.[1]

Brígida Baltar
Born1959
Rio de Janeiro
NationalityBrazilian
EducationEscola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage

Brígida Baltar was born in 1959 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she still lives and works. Her career began in the 1990s, often working with primordial elements, such as the material she took from her own house in the neighborhood of Botafogo. In recent years, Baltar’s work was shown in institutions throughout Brazil and in the United States, Japan and Argentina, among 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. 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). Her work is featured in important public collections such as MOCA Cleveland (USA); Coleccíon Copel, CIAC (México); MAC-USP, Museu de Arte Contemporânea USP (São Paulo, Brazil); Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil); Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (Recife, Brazil); Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).[2]

Works

Baltar's artistic career began in the 1990s and crosses many different mediums. In 2005, Brígida 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 carves 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.[3]

Baltar strives 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, a neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro.[4]

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.[5]

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.

Exhibitions [6]
  • 2019
    • Filmes at Galeria BNDES (solo)
    • Dois vídeos, at Galeria Gustavo Schnoor
    • Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
    • I Remember Earth, at Magasin des Horizons, Centre d'arts et de cultures, in Grenoble, France
    • Studiolo XXI – Desenhos e afinidades, at Fundação Eugénio de Almeida Centro de Arte e Cultura, in Évora, Portugal
  • 2018
    • A carne do mar, at Galeria Nara Roesler, in São Paulo, Brazil
    • Abstracción textil \ Textile Abstraction, at Galería Casas Riegner, in Bogotá, Colombia
  • 2017
    • Neither-nor: Abstract Landscapes, Portraits and Still Lives, at Terra-Art Project, in London, UK
  • 2016
    • International Series: Contemporary Artists from Brazil, at Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, in Boone, USA.
  • 2012
    • SAM Art Project, in Paris, France;
    • O amor do pássaro rebelde, at Cavalariças, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (EAV Parque Lage), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
  • 2008
    • Arte e música, Paisagens sonoras Caixa Cultural Brasília, DF, Brasil
    • Masamerica, Canal Mediateca, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
    • Estranha coletiva, Galeria Durexart, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Leveza e aspereza da linha, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Contradictorio, Panorama de Arte Brasileiro, Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
    • Sertão Contemporâneo, Caixa Cultural do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Paper trail, 15 Brazilian Artists, Allsopp Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
    • Mão Dupla, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2007
    • Contraditório, Panorama Brasileiro de Arte Contemporânea, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
    • Mais Precioso do que Prata,, Centro Cultural da Caixa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Pó de Casa, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
    • Entre Paredes,, 713 Arte Contemporânea, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo)
    • In search of the miraculous, University Gallery of Essex, Colchester, UK
    • Itaú Contemporâneo, Brasil 1980-2007, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Anos 80/90 Modernos e Pós-Modernos, Instituto Tomie Otake, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Passagem Secreta, Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Incisão, Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste Cariri, Ceará, Brazil
    • Resplandores, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2006
    • Paralela, Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Desenho Contemporâneo Brasileiro, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
    • Draw-Drawing-2, The Foundry Gallery, London Biennale 2006, UK
    • Um Céu Entre Paredes /An Indoor Heaven, Firstsite, Colchester, UK (solo)
  • 2005
    • Ainda Utopias, Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
    • Em Casa, Casa da Ribeira, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (solo)
    • Arte Brasileira Hoje, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Untitled, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, US
    • São Francisco Bayennale, San Francisco, US
    • O corpo, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
    • L’autre Amerique, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
  • 2004
    • Palm Beach Contemporary, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, US
    • Brazil: Body Nostalgia, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan
  • 2003
    • Art Basel Miami Beach, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, US
    • Art unknown, Arco project room, Madrid, Spain
    • Grande Orlândia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Fotoarte 2003, Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Venâncio ECCO, Brasília, Brazil.
    • Latinarte Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
    • Paper works, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • Nuit de la science Geneve, Musée d’histoire des sciences, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Casa de Abeja, Instituto Cultural Brasil Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
    • Museu de Arte Moderna de Recife, Brazil
    • Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2002
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    • Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, US
    • Museu Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, Brazil
    • Artefoto, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro/Brasília, Brazil
    • Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Brígida Baltar / Michel Blazy, curated by Sabine Schaschal, Kunsthaus Baselland.
    • C’est pas du cinéma, Studio Fresnoy Nacional des Arts Contemporains, France
    • Air from the other planets, Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
    • Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Caminhos do Contemporâneo, 1952/2002, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Final Frontier, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA
    • Banca 2, Cinema Capacete e Festival de Inverno do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Love’s House, lapa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2001
    • Virgin Territory, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington.
    • O Fio da Trama, El Museu del Barrio, Nova York / Museu de arte Latinoamericano Buenos Aires MALBA
    • Get that Balance, Kampnagel KulturFabric, Hamburg, Germany
    • Neue Kunst in Hamburg 2001, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
    • Outra Coisa / Projeto Agora, Museu Ferroviário Vale do Rio Doce, Vitória,Brazil.
    • Filmes de artistas / Cinema Capacete e FestRio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Die Rio Video, curated by Hans Christian Dany- Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany.
    • Espaço Agora / Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil

References
  1. Cultural, Instituto Itaú. "Brígida Baltar". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  2. "Arte Al Día". www.artealdia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  3. "Arte Al Día". www.artealdia.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  4. "brígida baltar". Nara Roesler. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  5. "Exhibitions". New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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