Cildo Meireles

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Cildo Meireles (born Rio de Janeiro, 1948) is a Brazilian installation artist and sculptor.

A retrospective of his work, organized by Dan Cameron and Gerardo Mosquera, was presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1999 and then traveled to the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro and the Museu de Arte Moderna in Sao Paulo. In conjunction with the exhibition, a book was published entitled Cildo Meireles, was published by Phaidon Press (1999).

[edit] Selected Bibliography

Gilmore, Jonathan. "Cildo Meireles at Galerie Lelong." Art in America v. 93 no. 3 (March 2005) p. 132.
Weinstein, Joel. "Industrial Poetry: A Conversation with Cildo Meireles." Sculpture v. 22 no. 10 (December 2003) p. 50-5.
Cohen, Ana Paula. "Cildo Meireles: Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhaes." Art Nexus no. 44 (April/June 2002) p. 125-6.
Carvalho, Denise. "Cildo Meireles: New Museum of Contemporary Art." Sculpture v. 19 no. 10 (December 2000) p. 74-5.
Farmer, John Alan. "Through the Labyrinth: An Interview with Cildo Meireles." Art Journal v. 59 no. 3 (Fall 2000) p. 34-43
Basualdo, Carlos. "Maxima Moralia: The Work of C. Meireles." Artforum International v. 35 (February 1997) p. 58-63
Mosquera, Gerardo. Cildo Meireles. London : Phaidon, 1999.