Afonso Tostes: Between City and Nature

Afonso Tostes: Between City and Nature is edited in segments connected through work ideas, texts, sketches and images, thus revealing the artist’s research pathway, his influences, his creative process and the final formal art works. This structure presents the production of one of the major contemporary Brazilian sculptors.

About the artist
Afonso Tostes is a popular contemporary artist. Born in Belo Horizonte, he is a capoeira practitioner, a man of the sea, the orishas and the handicrafts. In his work Tostes often uses the same tools as craft artists. By working from iron, wood and rope as well as found objects that he acquires in trades during his travels, Tostes conveys the sense of the popular in himself with the experiences and the paths he followed. By embracing and re-signifying popular knowledge in his production, the artist connects his work to Arte Povera and other movements from Art History, but above all, he makes it resonate with the actions of Brazilian conceptual artists of the 1970s generation.

Specifications
Artist Afonso Tostes
Editor Daniel Rangel
Translators Carolina Alfaro and Steve Berg
Language Portuguese/English
Page count 256
ISBN 9788555911002
Format Hardcover
Size 20 x 25,5 cm
Year 2019