Brighting Cave, movie, 2011 - produced by TAL TV, credits on video

 

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Denise Milan, born in São Paulo, Brazil 1954. Renowned sculptor and multimedia artist whose work centers around the stone as a microcosm of nature, seeded in her collaborations with experts in science and technology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, literature, theater, and music. She uses the stone as her creative axis, which leads to a production that embraces public art, sculpture, urban performance, scenic arts, opera, poetry, printing, video-art, and multimedia art. Milan’s works have been exhibited in several renowned national and international institutions. She participated in the 20 th (1989), 21 st (1991), and 33 rd (2018) São Paulo Art International Biennial, at COP22 (Marrakesh - 2016) and at Glasstress 2019, parallel exhibition to the Venice Biennial of Arts (Fundacione Berengo, Murano), recently inaugural artist in Encounters, STUDIO.nano, MIT.nano.

Public sculptures, Brazil and abroad
Sectiones Mundi (São Paulo, Modern Art Museum, 1989); Drusa (São Paulo, Anhangabaú, 1992); Womb of Life (São Paulo, Metrô Clínicas, 1993); A hole in space (São Paulo, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992); Palas Atena (Universidade de São Paulo, campus, 1994); Pelourinho Redeemed (Salvador, Pelourinho, 1994); Healing Time (São Paulo, Albert Einstein Hospital, 1999), Americas’ Courtyard (Chicago, Adler Planetarium, museum campus, 1999); Genetic Blue Stone (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., 2002); Améfrica (Brasília, Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre, 2003); U Ura Muta Uê (Belém, Cultural Space “Casa das Onze Janelas”, 2004); Beings (São Paulo, Sesc Vila Mariana, 2005); Planeness (São Paulo, Fleury Intitute, 2009); Mandala of Stone (Assis, Piazza degli Angeli, 2014); Brasilis Stone (São Paulo, Natura Company, 2018).

Public sculptures performance in Brazil
Sectiones Mundi (São Paulo, Modern Art Museum, 1989); Pelourinho Redeemed (Salvador, Pelourinho, 1994); Améfrica (Brasília, Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre, 2003); U Ura Muta Uê (Belém, Cultural Space “Casa das Onze Janelas”, 2004); Beings (São Paulo, Sesc Vila Mariana, 2005).

Art works and performance abroad
Americas’ Courtyard (Chicago, Adler Planetarium, Museum Campus, 1999); tryptic Oceanic, Cosmic and Earth Womb (Marrakesh, United Nations Conference on Climate Change – COP22, Emerson Elemental Do-Fest, 2016).

Exhibits, Brazilian museums
Bienal de São Paulo: 20ª (1989); 21ª (1991); 33ª (2018); Modern Art Museum (MAM); Museum of Art of São Paulo (Masp); Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC); São Paulo Gallery; Nara Roesler Gallery; Virgílio Gallery; Lume Gallery; Sesc SP (several units); Bank of Brazil cultural Centre (CCBB) Rio de Janeiro and Brasília; SP-Arte, São Paulo.

Exhibitions abroad
Barbican Centre (Londres/London); P.S.1, The Institute for Arts and Urban Resources – MoMA (Nova York/New York); EXPO 2000 (Hannover); EXPO 90, Hakone, Open-Air Museum (Osaka); Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival (Taiwan); Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago) ; Palazzo del Monte Frumentario (Assisi); Wilson Center (Washington D.C.); Galerie D’Architecture (Paris); Georgetown University (Washington D.C.); University of Utah (Salt Lake City); Brighan Young University (Provo, Utah); tryptic Cosmic Womb, Oceanic Womb e Earth Womb, COP22 (Marrakesh) and recently in Glasstress 2019, parallel exhibition to the Venice Biennial of Arts (Fundacione Berengo, Murano), (Fundacione Berengo, Murano), six prints from Denise Milan's Mist of the Earth series and inaugural artist in Encounters, STUDIO.nano, MIT.nano.

Publications
Cadumbra, Denise Milan with metapoems by Haroldo de Campos, São Paulo, DCL Publisher, 1997; Contos que brotam das florestas, Kátia Canton with prints by Denise Milan, São Paulo, DCL Publisher, 1997; First and Second Seminars of Public Art in São Paulo, 1998, Public Art, Sesc-SP, 1998; Americas’ Courtyard, Ary Perez and Denise Milan, essays by Manuela Mena e Michael Brenson, Vitor Maia/ DCL Publisher, 2001; Améfrica, preface by Olgária Matos, essays by Greg Cameron, J.B. Madureira Filho, CCBB - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2003; Mist of The Earth, literary transcription, visual poem, preface by Ghillean Prance, book with DVD, 2006; Opera of Stones - First voices, creation Denise Milan, music by Marco Antônio Guimarães, book with DVD, Sesc-SP, 2006; Opera of Stones - The Spectacle of the Earth, conception and libretto Denise Milan, Sesc-SP, 2010; Gems of the Earth - Aesthetic Imagination and Hospitality, organization by Denise Milan and Olgária Matos, Sesc-SP, 2010; The Blue Stone, Denise Milan with adaptation by Maísa Zakzuk, Saraiva Publisher, 2011; Dialogue of civilizations: culture and passages, organization Olgária Matos, Denise Milan and Javier Amadeo, Unifesp, 2017; The Language of Stone, Denise Milan, 2018; Stone: the hidden universe, organization Manuela Mena, interview Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, BEI Publisher, 2018.

Video-art
Ties of Inspiration and Death. Direction, script and poems by Denise Milan, music by Naná Vasconcelos, 1980.