Thomas Brambilla gallery is proud to announce the participation at Art Rio 2013 with artists such as William Anastasi and Dove Bradshaw.
William Anastasi (Philadelphia, 1933) is an important exponent of American Conceptual Art and Minimal Art. In 1965 he met John Cage and was impressed by his musical theories, and the component of sound became a frequent presence in his works. Starting in 1963 he analyzed the relationship between sound, time and the unconscious in his Blind Drawings, works made with the eyes closed, letting the movements of the pencil on paper be guided by music. The result of the operation is a drawing with an essential form, rendered forcefully dynamic by the graphic sign. A great admirer of Duchamp, Anastasi often builds on his work, especially in terms of the random factors that intervene in the artistic operation. This theme recurs frequently in Anastasi’s works, as in the case of the Subway Drawings made by allowing the arm and the pencil to be freely shaken by the movements of the subway, tracing a continuous, fluid line on a blank sheet of paper. The drawing becomes the visual translation of the perception of that particular movement. The automatic creation of the drawing caused by the movement of the body is also a factor in the Walking Drawings, produced by the motion of the artist in space, and the Pocket Drawings, created by rubbing a small pencil against a piece of paper placed in the artist’s pocket. For Anastasi the graphic sign becomes the imprint and memory of the movement of his own body. During his career Anastasi has worked in various media, making many different types of pieces: paintings, sculptures, photographs, sound works, installations, architectural works, works on the body, films, performances, linguistic and literary works.
His works are included in the collections of the most important museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of New York, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the National Gallery of Art of Washington and the Art Institute of Chicago. He has had exhibitions in many international museums and institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dove Bradshaw (New York, 1949) pioneered the use of Indeterminacy in 1969 by enlisting the unpredictable effects of time, weather, erosion, and indoor and outdoor atmospheric conditions on natural, chemical, and manufactured materials. She has created chemical paintings that change with the atmosphere, indoor erosion sculptures of salt and outdoor stone sculptures that weather. She has worked with crystals that receive radio transmissions from local, short wave, and weather stations, along with reception of radio tele-scope signals from Jupiter.
In 1975 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant; 1985 the Pollock-Krasner award; 2003 a Furthermore Grant; in 2006 The National Science Foundation for Artists Grant. Her work has been shown regularly in the US, Europe, South America, Japan and South Korea, appearing in the 6th Gwangju Biennale. She is represented in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Gallery of Washington, The Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Marble Palace, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg.