MON holds an exhibition of Elizabeth Jobim
The exhibition “Elizabeth Jobim – O Tempo das Pedras” (“Elizabeth Jobim – The Time of Stones”), held by the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, provides visitors with the opportunity to see the work of several decades by one of the most important contemporary visual artists.
The exhibition will open on April 25th, in Room 3, curated by Taisa Palhares. There are more than one hundred works with different techniques, such as Chinese ink, graphite or acrylic on paper; oil on canvas; fabric and oil on sewn linen; charcoal on paper and pigmented concrete, wood and granite.
"Elizabeth Jobim is a reference for many generations of artists, and her exhibition at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum will certainly provide a broad overview of her productions throughout an extensive and important trajectory", says Luciana Casagrande Pereira, Secretary of State for Culture. "An unmissable opportunity to get in touch with the work of one of the most important artists on the national and international contemporary scene", she emphasizes.
According to Juliana Vosnika, MON's director-president, “the subjectivity of Elizabeth Jobim's work takes us on a journey that includes drawings, paintings, seams, and three-dimensionality”. “Poetically, without the need for words, she tells us about time and chance; her work evokes deep reflections,” she states.
With dozens of solo exhibitions and participation in group shows, inside and outside Brazil, Elizabeth Jobim has works spread across the world. Her works are in public collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM), the Museum of Art of Rio (MAR), the Pinacotheca of the state of São Paulo and The Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York).
Her career began in 1980 when she participated in the historic exhibition “Como Vai Você, Geração 80?” (“How are you, Generation 80?”), at Lage, Park, and continues on an upward curve to the present day. Many highlights of this path can be seen in the exhibition “O Tempo das Pedras”.
“My interest is oriented around an axis that is the transition from space to the plane and vice versa”, explains the artist. “The work starts, in the 1980s, from the observation of sculptures, which will reverberate in the large installations with paintings in the space, in which the public is enveloped by color,” says Elizabeth Jobim.
She informs that, in the blocks, the pigment is embodied in the space, in dialogue with the architecture. In the last room, there is a conversation between different materials both in the stitched canvases and in the sculptures in granite and pigmented cement. “‘Tempo das Pedras’ permeates this entire journey, with the right choice of curator Taisa Palhares”, she concludes.
The artist
Elizabeth Jobim was born in 1957 in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in Visual Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in 1981 and obtained her master's degree in Fine Arts (MFA) from the New York School of Visual Arts. She taught Drawing and Painting at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts (Rio de Janeiro), in 1994 and 2010.
Among her group exhibitions, the following stand out: National Salon of Visual Arts, at MAM Rio (Rio de Janeiro, 1982/1983); How are you, Generation 80?, at Lage Park (Rio de Janeiro, 1984); Rio Today, at MAM Rio (Rio de Janeiro, 1989); Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM (São Paulo, 1990); Brazilian Contemporary Art, at the National Gallery of Fine Arts (Beijing, China, 2001); Paths of the Contemporary – 1952/2002, at Imperial Palace (Rio de Janeiro, 2002) and 5th Mercosul Bienal (Porto Alegre, 2005); Art in Brazil 1950-2011 – Europalia 2011, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, (Brussels, 2011); (de)(re)construct, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York, 2015); Women in the Collection, at MAR (Rio de Janeiro, 2018).
Among her solo exhibitions are: Paintings and Drawings, at Raquel Arnaud Gallery (São Paulo, 1997); Openings, at Imperial Palace (Rio de Janeiro, 2006); Endless Lines, at Lehman College Art Gallery (New York, 2008); In Blue, at Pinacoteca Station, (São Paulo, 2010); Blocks, at MAM Rio (Rio de Janeiro, 2013); In This Place, Henrique Faria Fine Art (New York, 2017); Essays, Raquel Arnaud Gallery (São Paulo, 2018); Quarry, Açude Museum (Rio de Janeiro, 2018), Variations, at Imperial Palace (Rio de Janeiro, 2019); Frestas, Lurixs (Rio de Janeiro, 2019).
