The exhibition Art from Brazil in New York, organized by the United States branch of Galerie Lelong, addressed how Brazilian art had been received abroad starting in the nineties. The show, which encompassed a number of different venues, featured works by Hélio Oiticica, Waltércio Caldas, Cildo Meireles, Tunga, José Resende, Regina Silveira, Nuno Ramos, Leonilson, Ernesto Neto, Sandra Tucci, Adriana Varejão, Ester Grinspum, Fernanda Gomes, and many others.
For a text by Argentine critic and curator Carlos Basualdo on the same event in New York, see “Bodywise” [doc. no. 1110985].
Herkenhoff is an internationally known art critic and curator. He was the curator of the 1998 São Paulo Biennial. His career began in 1975 at the Project Room of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-Rio), a venue central to that city’s avant-garde art scene. His exhibition, Exposição da arte, held at the MAM-Rio Project Room in 1975, illustrated certain developments in performance art (see “Exposição da arte” [doc. no. 1110618]). The essay “Brasil (es) = Brazil(s)” [doc. no. 1075090], published in the Madrid-based magazine Lápiz in 1997, foretells the concepts underlying “Universalis,” Herkenhoff’s curatorial project for the XXIV Biennial held in 1998. In that text, the author attempts to understand his country in terms of the singular and the multiple.