PRESS RELEASE

Anna Bella Geiger: GlobaLocaL

 exhibition 23rd October to 28th November 2009

                                                                                         curated by Daniella Géo

Dagmar De Pooter Gallery is pleased to present Anna Bella Geiger: GlobaLocaL, curated by Daniella Géo. The exhibition introduces a brief but punctual overview of Anna Bella Geiger's oeuvre, including some of the Brazilian artist's most emblematic works, whose previous editions are in collections such as MoMa, New York, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. GlobaLocaL features works dating from the 70's up to now, presenting a variety of researches and approaches undertaken by Geiger.
 
One of the most important Brazilian contemporary artists, Geiger is a pioneer of conceptual art in Brazil, being one of the first to introduce video art to the country. Alongside painting, sculpture, etching, drawing and photography, since the 70’s, she has also developed experimental productions, in which she makes use of photomontage, photocopies, postcards, Super-8, among other media. Geiger is renowned for her research into the concept of national territory, identity and culture, in which cartography plays a central role. Influenced by anthropology and geopolitics Geiger’s oeuvre points out transformation in the face of multiculturalism but not without questioning the notions of periphery, borders, citizenship, autochthon etc. The daughter of Polish immigrants, she deals with the problematics of adaptation, mimesis, exchange, and ubiquity, searching for what is global in the local and vice-versa.
 
In a joint initiative, the exhibition Anna Bella Geiger: Visceral, at Galeria Marcantônio Vilaça - Embassy of Brazil in Brussels, presents a selection of etchings from the series Viscerais. Developed in the 60's, these works are part of the Embassy's collection and are being shown for the first time to the general public.

Geiger (1933, Rio de Janeiro) has influenced generations of Brazilian artists, critics and curators as both artist and educator. A graduate in Language and Literature, she also studied Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the New York University (NYU).  She has taught at Columbia University and various Brazilian art institutes. Her work is included in the collections of  MoMA, New York, The Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as well as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Museu Serra Alves, Porto, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and others. Awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, she has exhibited in museums including MoMA, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. She has taken part in the Biennale di Venezia, Bienal de São Paulo, Bienal de la Habana. Geiger lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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