A well-known portuguese artist

Saturday 1 June 2013

    Hi everyone! Today I will talk to you about a portuguese artist, Joana Vasconcelos.

    Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris, in 1971, and now lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.

   Her creative process is based on the appropriation, decontextualisation and subversion of pre-existent objects and everyday realities into sculptures, installations, performances, and video or photographic records, to reveal an acute sense of scale and mastery of color, while combining in the materialization of concepts that challenge the prearranged routines of daily life. Starting out from ingenious operations of displacement, the artist offers us a complicit vision, but one which is at the same time critical of contemporary society.

    She is a very well-known artist and, in 2012, Joana Vasconcelos showed her work at the major annual contemporary art exhibition in the Palace of Versailles.

    Joana Vasconcelos has already won several awards, such as The Winner Takes It All, from Berardo Foundation, the Fundo Tabaqueira Arte Pública and the Prémio EDP Novos Artistas.

    Here are some of her works:

 

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