Cildo Meireles
Atlas, 1995-2006
transparency mounted on lightbox
157.5 x 127.9 x 9 cm | edition of 6
Edition 6 of 6 In Meireles’s lightbox Atlas 1995-2006, the artist portrays himself - not without irony - as an opposite version of the myth of Atlas, the Titan punished...
Edition 6 of 6
In Meireles’s lightbox Atlas 1995-2006, the artist portrays himself - not without irony - as an opposite version of the myth of Atlas, the Titan punished by the gods and condemned to carry the earth on his shoulders. Smiling, Meireles is standing upside down on Piero Manzoni’s famous pedestal of the world, Base del Mondo.
In Meireles’s lightbox Atlas 1995-2006, the artist portrays himself - not without irony - as an opposite version of the myth of Atlas, the Titan punished by the gods and condemned to carry the earth on his shoulders. Smiling, Meireles is standing upside down on Piero Manzoni’s famous pedestal of the world, Base del Mondo.
Exhibitions
Cildo Meireles, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, May - Sept. 2013
Cildo Meireles, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Nov. 2013 - Jan. 2014
Cildo Meireles, HangarBicocca, Milan, March - July 2014
Literature
João Fernandes, Cildo Meireles, Portugal, 2014 ( illustrated in colour, p.189)