Americas Society is honored to have hosted the Venezuelan artist and Kinetic Art master’s first solo show in the United States in 2008.
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"Walls of Air has become an instant-artifact from a more open Brazil," says Vic Vaiana about the exhibition.
Curators of Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale talk about how mapping contemporary Brazil can influence urban development today.
A rustic commune outside Santiago serves as the backdrop for this Chilean coming-of-age story.
“Walls of Air is a research exhibition model that maps contemporary Brazil beyond its frontiers,” says AS/COA's Gabriela Rangel to Artdaily.org about the current exhibition.
"Visually, the Brazil displayed throughout the exhibition is not bounded by national frontiers, but placed amid a fluid web of global and regional forces," said Matthew Marani in The Architect's Newspaper about Walls of Air.
The four architects who curated the exhibition explain how their data maps show visible and invisible walls that both built and divided Brazil.