Néle Azevedo

Néle Azevedo
Born	1950 Santos Dumont, MG, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Field	Sculpture
Training	MA, Visual Art, Art Institute of State University of São Paulo, Brazil BA, Art, Faculdade Santa Marcelina BA, Faculdade de Educação e Ciências Pinheirense

Néle Azevedo (b. 1950, Santos Dumont, MG, Brazil) is a sculptor artist and independent researcher. She holds a Masters in Visual Arts from São Paulo State University Arts Institute (UNESP 2003) and Bachelor in Fine Arts by Santa Marcelina College in 1997.

Work

In 1998 she launched a single exhibition with an installation of iron sculptures at the Brazilian Post Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro and won the acquisition prize in the Santo André Art Hall in São Paulo. In 2002, she was awarded the Bunkyo Art Hall 1st prize with an installation of sculptures in acrylic. In 2001 Azevedo started working on interventions in urban space with the Minimum Monument Project^[1] that discuss the contemporary public monuments in countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Japan, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy. These interventions have become known worldwide as the "Army of Melting Men.^[2]"

The Minimum Monument project,^[3] alongside with the other urban interventions developed by Azevedo as ‘’Glory to Inglorious Fights’’ and ‘’Anhangabau: A River For The Absent Ones’’,^[4] have their genesis on local history and are ephemeral. The aimed dimension is always the political-poetical that the artist can create through art and coexistence, art and exchange, and art as a currency. These ephemeral interventions have resulted in videos, pictures and drawings.

Awards

2007
Winner of the Award for Experimental Video at the 15th Video festival, Teresina, Piaui, Brazil, December

2002
31st Salão Bunkyo // 31st. Bunkyo Contemporary Art Show: Golden Medal and JAL Award

1998
XXVI Contemporary Art Show, Acquisition Award. Santo André City, São Paulo, Brazil

1996
X Atibiai Art Meeting: Special Mention

Urban Interventions

2010
Torgtrappene, Stavanger, Norway, 15 September

2009
Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany, 2 September

2008
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy, 21 October

2007
Ribeirão Preto City, 22 September
Virada Cultural São Paulo, Glória a todas as lutas inglórias, (Glory to all the inglorious fights), Intervention at Pateo do Colégio-São Paulo, 5 May

2006
Burgplatz, Braunschweig, Germany, 16 June
Praça D. João I, Porto City, PT, 22 September.

2005
Municipal Theatre, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 19 November
Place L’Opera end Mairie du 9émè, Paris, France, 30 June
Praça da Sé, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 7 April

2004
Largo da Ordem, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, April 10–13

2003
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

2002
Havana, Cuba
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Public Collections

MartiusStaden Institut, São Paulo, Brazil
Bienal International, Evento of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Pinacoteca Municipal, São Paulo, Brazil
Sycomore Art Gallery, Paris, France
ACBEU Gallery, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Nipo Brasileiro Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
Cultural Center of Mail Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Espirito Santo Art Museum, Vitória, Brazil
Santo Andre Art Museum, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
Atibibaia Museum, Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil

References

1. ^ http://www.article.no/en/content/program/2010/opening-nele-azevedo-minimum-monument
2. ^ http://www.greenmuze.com/art/interviews/641-nele-azevedo-interview.html
3. ^ http://www.article.no/en/content/program/2010/opening-nele-azevedo-minimum-monument
4. ^ http://issuu.com/acamag/docs/aca-sept-2011

External links

• Artist Website
• Hilda Magazine
• Green Muze - Artist Interview

Persondata
Name	Azevedo, Nele
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Date of birth	1950
Place of birth	Santos Dumont, MG, Brazil
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