Antonio Dias - Nexus between differences
"I consider, then, Antonio Dias' work Nota sobre a Morte lmprevista (Note on the Unforeseen Death, 1966) as the decisive turning point in this process of the pictorial-plastic-structural field" proclaimed Helio Oiticica. According to him, Dias addressed problems concerning the social-ethical and...

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Antonio Dias
Antonio Dias, a Brasilian artist, comes to Europe. There he discovers pictures of a country which show him his own country as it once was. In Milan, Antonio Dias finds photographs, drawings, water colours, maps and designs by Boggiani. A world which Levi Strauß referred to as the “Sad Tropics” is...

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All the colors of man
Since the late 1960’s, Antonio Dias’ art has traversed a serpentine path from a conceptually based minimalism to a spiritually inspired, symbolically charged maximalism. From the methodical analysis of the grammar and syntax of art in series such as “The Illustration of Art” (1971-1975), to the...

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A public portrait - The critics
Possibly Antonio Dias links our own conception of the avant-garde artist with his work «A public Portrait»; that is the idea of the artist whose face (or only eyes emerge) from the carnival-like monkey mask that the «party» of art allows him. However this is done without anger. It’s a small mask,...

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A common place, a common present
This is an exhibition of the work of contemporary, non-Italian artists who have chosen, or simply happened, to live in Italy. Some of them for longer, others for less, or periodically, or only for an interlude. Why they have lived in Italy is something we haven’t attempted to discover, since we...

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Un travain sur Antonio Dias

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