Art at Americas Society presents “Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth”, the first solo exhibition in the United States of Bispo do Rosario, an Afro-Brazilian artist who created more than one thousand objects from within his confinement at Colônia Juliano Moreira, a psychiatric institution in Rio de Janeiro where he lived most of his life.
The exhibition is bringing together iconic art-works by Bispo, including hand-embroidered textiles with assorted attached elements, mixed-media sculptures, and his signature “Annunciation Garment,” his best-known work.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Museu Bispo do Rosario Arte Contemporânea in Rio de Janeiro, and is co-curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Ricardo Resende, and Javier Téllez, with Tie Jojima.
For more information: www.as-coa.org/exhibitions/bispo-do-rosario-all-existing-materials-earth