Cildo Meireles

born 1948

Cildo Meireles, ‘Babel’ 2001
Babel 2001
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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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Conceptual art Neo-Concretism Postcolonial art

Artworks

Cildo Meireles, ‘Babel’ 2001

Cildo Meireles Babel

2001
On display at Tate Modern part of Media Networks T14041
Cildo Meireles, ‘Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project’ 1970

Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project

1970
On display at Tate Modern part of Media Networks T12328
Cildo Meireles, ‘Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project’ 1970

Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
T12526
Cildo Meireles, ‘Eureka/Blindhotland’ 1970–5

Cildo Meireles Eureka/Blindhotland

1970–5
T12605
Cildo Meireles, ‘Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project’ 1970

Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
T12512
Cildo Meireles, ‘Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project’ 1970

Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
T12528
Cildo Meireles, ‘Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project’ 1970

Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
T12522
Cildo Meireles, ‘Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project’ 1970

Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project

1970
T12520
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Film and audio

Cildo Meireles
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Cildo Meireles

This documentary (Gerald Fox, UK 2008, 50 min) by award-winning director Gerald Fox, presents an intimate portrait of the artist ...
TateShots

Cildo Meireles and interactive art

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

Features

Cildo Meireles Red Shift I: Impregnation (detail) 1967-1984
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Who is Cildo Meireles?

Get to know one of the artists from the Media Networks display at Tate Modern 

Cildo Meireles, Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project (Interções em Circuitos Ideolõgicos: Projeto Coca-Cola) 1970
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Cildo Meireles, Coca-Cola Project 1970

As part of Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art, Jonah Westerman explores Cildo Meireles's Insertions into Ideological ...
Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project Interções em Circuitos Ideolõgicos: Projeto Coca-Cola
Blog

Coca-Cola, but not as you know it

Eleanor Clayton, Assistant Curator, invites you to take a close look at the bottles in Brazilian conceptual artist Cildo Meireles ...

Cildo Meireles, ‘Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project’ 1970
Press Release

Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2012: Tate Liverpool

30 Apr 2013
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789-2012; Tate Liverpool press release
Cildo Meireles O Sermão da Montanha: Fiat Lux (The Sermon on the Mount: Fiat Lux) 1973–9
Tate Papers

Elasticity of Exhibition: Landmark Exhibitions Issue

This paper looks at a number of exhibitions planned and installed by artists from the late 1950s until the present ...

Cildo Meireles Insertions into Ideological Circuits Cedula Project 1970
Tate Etc

Playing the system: Cildo Meireles II

Mark Godfrey asks three artists to describe projects in which they have adopted the strategy of insertion, using Meireles's ...

Cildo Meireles in front of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier Rio de Janeiro 1974
Tate Etc

Material language: Cildo Meireles I

The Brazilian artist is regarded as one of the leading figures in the development of conceptual art. In works that ...

Hans Haacke Norbert: ‘All Systems Go’ 1970–1
Tate Papers

All Systems Go: Recovering Jack Burnham’s ‘Systems Aesthetics’

Jack Burnham’s systems aesthetics was one of the first, fully developed, critical theories of postformalist artistic practice. Yet Burnham ...

Tate Etc

Border crossing: Open Systems II

The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object through ‘Open Systems.’ Anna Dezeuze explores aspects of this ...

Martin Creed The lights going on and off 2000
Tate Etc

But is it installation art?

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

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