Cildo Meireles

born 1948

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Biography

Cildo Meireles (born 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, encourage a phenomenological experience via the viewer's interaction.

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Artworks

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Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
Cildo Meireles Eureka/Blindhotland

1970–5
Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970

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Film and audio

In the Gallery

Audio Description: Babel

Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of Cildo Meireles's Babel
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Cildo Meireles and interactive art

The Brazilian artist talks about his first UK retrospective at Tate Modern in 2008

Features

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Five artworks to see with your family at Tate Modern

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Who is Cildo Meireles?

Get to know one of the artists from the Media Networks display at Tate Modern
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Cildo Meireles born 1948Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project 1970

Jonah Westerman

As part of Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art, Jonah Westerman explores Cildo Meireles's Insertions into Ideological Circuits: …
Tate Papers

Elasticity of Exhibition: Landmark Exhibitions Issue

Guy Brett

This paper looks at a number of exhibitions planned and installed by artists from the late 1950s until the present. …
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Playing the system: Cildo Meireles II

Mark Godfrey

Mark Godfrey asks three artists to describe projects in which they have adopted the strategy of insertion, using Meireles's Insertions …
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Material language: Cildo Meireles I

Cildo Meireles and Frederico Morais

The Brazilian artist is regarded as one of the leading figures in the development of conceptual art. In works that …
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All Systems Go: Recovering Jack Burnham’s ‘Systems Aesthetics’

Luke Skrebowski

Jack Burnham’s systems aesthetics was one of the first, fully developed, critical theories of postformalist artistic practice. Yet Burnham, undeservedly, …
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Border crossing: Open Systems II

Anna Dezeuze

The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object through ‘Open Systems.’ Anna Dezeuze explores aspects of this …
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But is it installation art?

Claire Bishop

What does the term ‘installation art’ mean? Does it apply to big dark rooms that you stumble into to watch …