PHILOSOPHICALLY INTRIGUING
DISTILS COMPLEX IDEAS INTO SINGLE OBJECTS/ ENVIRONMENTS
Neo-concretism, a Brazilian movement of the late 1950s - sensorial, participatory works, which engage the body as well as the mind.
‘A work by Meireles often starts in a commonplace, usually domestic object, or a childhood memory, which becomes transmuted into a perceptual, philosophical, even a cosmological speculation, without, however, losing its grit, its roots in social reality – a reality often harsh but marked by human resilience and inventiveness.’
Guy Brett, co-curator of Cildo Meireles Tate Modern exhibition (14th October 2008- 11th January 2009)
(Descriptions and quotes from http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/cildomeireles/about.shtm)
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