Often simple in composition, the art of Waltercio Caldas invites
a host of complex questions about perception and space. Caldas
challenges not only the way we look at his objects in the moment,
but also our perspectives on art more generally. For decades he has
been a central figure in Brazilian art. While his influence extends
across much of the art world, he has remained largely
underrecognized in the United States. To make this exceptional
artist more widely known to the U.S. audience, the Blanton Museum
of Art at the University of Texas at Austin and the Fundacao Ibere
Camargo, a premier art organization in Porto Alegre, Brazil, have
organized the exhibition The Nearest Air: A Survey of Works by
Waltercio Caldas.
The exhibition catalog Waltercio Caldas is the first illustrated
English-language publication to fully explore Caldas's four-decade
artistic trajectory, his influences, and his impact. The catalog
includes essays by the exhibition's curator, Gabriel
Perez-Barreiro, director of the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de
Cisneros; leading art critic Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale
University School of Art, who investigates Caldas's work in
relationship to that of his international peers and its importance
in the history of art; and renowned art historian Richard Shiff,
modern and contemporary art professor at the University of Texas,
who discusses key Caldas works that epitomize his investigation of
the history of art. The catalog also includes a selected chronology
of the artist's career and a selected bibliography.
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