Lia Menna Barreto

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Lia Menna Barreto
Born
Lia Mascarenhas Menna Barreto

(1959-03-03) March 3, 1959 (age 62)
Alma materUniversidade do Rio Grande do Sul
Spouse(s)Mauro Fuke
Websitelia-mennabarreto.blogspot.com

Lia Mascarenhas Menna Barreto (born March 3, 1959 in Rio de Janeiro)[1] is a Brazilian studio artist currently based in Rio Grande do Sul.[2]

Biography[]

Barreto was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 3, 1959.[1] She spent her childhood in São Paulo, where she lived until she was 13 years old.[2] In the 1970s she moved to Rio Grande do Sul where she completed her formal education, graduating from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 1985.[3] During the 1990s she lived in the United States, working on a studio at Stanford University.[4]

Barreto currently lives in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul with her husband, the Brazilian artist and their daughter.[3]

Education[]

Between 1975 and 1978 Barreto took art and drawing courses at the .[1] In 1984, she studied painting and drawing with (1942) and Rubens Gerchman (1942 – 2008) respectively. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Design from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 1985.[3]

Career[]

In 1985, the same year of her graduation, Barreto the (Margs) in Porto Alegre featured her first solo exhibit[1] and in 1988 her work was featured in the 10º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas at the (Funarte).[1] During the 1990' - after several pitches to galleries in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro - Lia was taken on by the Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporânea gallery in Rio, the same gallery credited with launching the careers of Leda Catunda and .[4] The Thomas Cohn gallery featured her first exhibit outside of Porto Alegre.[4]

Following her national recognition, between 1993 and 1994 Lia lived as fellow in Stanford University with a grant awarded by the .[1] In 1997 she exhibited her work at the , at the and at the ,[1] consolidating her international career.

Several galleries have featured solo exhibitions of Lia Menna Barreto's work. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the has hosted her [ Projeto 2001 ], Origem do Afeto and assorted other works in the last decade. In Porto Alegre, her work has appeared in the , the (MARGS), the and the . In Rio de Janeiro, the show featured her works in 1990, 1992, and 1995.[5]

Critical reception[]

Lia is most famous (or infamous, rather) for her deconstruction of childhood through the transmogrification of dolls and plastic toys, which she began to explore during the 1990s.[2]

, writing in ,[6] describes her work this way:

"In her strange formal operations, Lia Menna Barreto defies the sweetened way of looking at the world of children. Her radical vision engenders a relevant social commentary that is involved with and questions the oppression of the everyday experience, full of mutilations and losses and feelings of safety and danger."[6]

Also on the subject of Barreto's work with dolls, says:

"In Menna Barreto's work, the experience is that of the unlearning and of the transgression. The crisis, more precisely, is that of the subject itself."[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Cultural, Enciclopédia Itaú. "Lia Menna Barreto - Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural". enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Marciofo. "ArtArte: Conversando sobre Arte Entrevistada Lia Mascarenhas Mena Barreto". ArtArte. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Segunda entrevista de 2014". lia mascarenhas menna barreto. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Maus, Lilian; Waquil, Isabel (2014). A Palavra Está com Elas: Diálogo Sobre a Inserção da Mulher nas Artes Visuais. Porto Alegre: Panorama Crítico. pp. 11–24. ISBN 9788563870131.
  5. ^ "CV". lia mascarenhas menna barreto. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Kanton, Katia (1997–98). "Lia Menna Barreto defies the sweetened way of looking at the world of children". Poliester Magazine. 6 (21).
  7. ^ Arte, Escritório de. "Lia Menna Barreto - Obras, biografia e vida". www.escritoriodearte.com. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
  • Katia Kanton. "Lia Menna Barreto defies the sweetened way of looking at the world of children." Poliester Magazine, vol 6, n 21, 1997/98
  • Waquil, I. (2014). A energia feminina lida melhor com os mistérios. In L. Maus, A Palavra Está com Elas: Diálogos Sobre a Inserção da Mulher nas Artes Visuais. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil: Panorama Crítico.

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