Carmela Gross

Carmela Gross collects the work of this artist who transmuted the city and its quirks in different pieces throughout the last 50 years. Carmela Gross created sketches, paintings, videos, stamps, heliographs and lithographs to bring real life closer to art. The book, edited by curator Douglas de Freitas, features writing by critics and curators Luisa Duarte, Paulo Miyada and Clarissa Diniz.

About the artist
Carmela Gross was born in 1946 in São Paulo. The artist studied visual arts at FAAP in the 1960s and, in 1972, started teaching at the ECA/USP Visual Arts College. In the 1990s, she worked as a researcher at the European Ceramics Work Center, in s’Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands, where she created a ceramics set titled Facas (Knives), which was then exhibited in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The artist showed her work as part of individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, in countries such as the United States, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Italy and Spain. She has held several solo exhibitions, among which are: Carmela Gross: The Photographer, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia (2017); La Carga, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico (2012); SE VENDE, Matadero, Madrid, Spain (2008); SUL, Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo, Brazil (2006); Bleujaunerougerouge, École René Binet, Paris, France (2004); and Facas, European Ceramics Work Centre, Netherlands (1994).

Specifications
Artist Carmela Gross
Editor Douglas de Freitas
Translators Steve Berg and Lynnea Hansen
Language Portuguese/English
Page count 280
ISBN 9788555910418
Format Hardcover
Size 26 x 30 cm
Year 2018