Anna Bella Geiger
{{short description|Brazilian artist and professor}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Anna Bella Geiger
| image = Anna Bella Geiger (UNTREF - Bienal Sur 2016).jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1933}}
| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro
| field = engraving, assemblage art, painting, drawing, photography.
| training = Instituto Fayga Ostrower, Rio de Janeiro.
| alma_mater = Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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Anna Bella Geiger (born 1933, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish ancestry,{{Cite news |last=Genocchio |first=Benjamin |date=2006-12-03 |title=International Perspectives on Being Polish |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/03ctarts.html |access-date=2023-03-04 |issn=0362-4331}} and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, and her work, characterized by the use of different media, is held by galleries and private collections in the US, China, Brazil and Europe.
Biography
Her parents were raised in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland. They moved to Brazil ten years before her birth. Her father was a craftsman.{{Cite web|url=https://culture.pl/pl/artykul/anna-bella-geiger-sami-strzelilismy-sobie-w-stope-wywiad|title=Anna Bella Geiger: Sami strzeliliśmy sobie w stopę [wywiad]|last=Surał|first=Agnieszka|date=29 August 2017|website=Culture.pl|language=en|access-date=17 February 2019}}
Geiger first graduated in literature and language from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and later in the 1950s, studied art at Rio's Instituto Fayga Ostrower. In 1950, at the age of seventeen, she participated in her first exhibition at the Salão Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.{{Cite web |title=Anna Bella Geiger {{!}} Hammer Museum |url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/anna-bella-geiger |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=hammer.ucla.edu |language=en}} She moved to New York in 1954 where she took classes in Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, returning to Rio the following year. In 1965 she attended an engraving workshop at the Museo de Arte Moderno, where she began teaching three years later. She returned to New York in 1969 to teach at Columbia University, returning again to Rio in 1970.[http://www.itaucultural.org.br/aplicexternas/enciclopedia_ic/index.cfm?fuseaction=artistas_biografia_ing&cd_item=1&cd_idioma=28556&cd_verbete=3686 Anna Bella Geiger biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311032437/http://www.itaucultural.org.br/aplicexternas/enciclopedia_ic/index.cfm?fuseaction=artistas_biografia_ing&cd_item=1&cd_idioma=28556&cd_verbete=3686 |date=11 March 2012 }}, retrieved 10 March 2011
In the 1970s Geiger, an abstract artist, began to include representational elements into her work, and use photographic engraving, photomontage, assemblage, sculpture, and video. In the 1980s she concentrated on painting, and in the early 1990s on cartographic imagery cast in metal, and iron archive box constructions incorporating plaited metals and hot-wax painting (encaustic).{{Cite web |date=2011-07-19 |title=HISK |url=http://www.hisk.edu/lecturers.php?la=en&id=276&t=previous&y=2009 |access-date=2023-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719210152/http://www.hisk.edu/lecturers.php?la=en&id=276&t=previous&y=2009 |archive-date=19 July 2011 }} Besides painting and engraving, her current work combines Installation art with video. In Rio in 2006, Geiger constructed an installation, Circe, that included a scale model of Ancient Egyptian ruins and performance video; the installation was recreated in 2009.[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.zuccanet.com.br/projetos_realizados.html&ei=BwF5TcncMY2whAeo95DeBg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=6&sqi=2&ved=0CEEQ7gEwBQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtv%2Bglobo%2Balmanaque%2BAnna%2BBella%2BGeiger%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Divnso Zucca Productions: Circe], retrieved 10 March 2011
In 1983 Geiger became a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.{{Cite web |date=2011-06-28 |title=Search Results - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Anna+Bella+Geiger&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2011&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=27&y=17 |access-date=2023-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628185656/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Anna+Bella+Geiger&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2011&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=27&y=17 |archive-date=28 June 2011 }}
Publications and collections
Geiger's works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York;{{Cite web |date= |title=Anna Bella Geiger |url=https://www.moma.org/search/?query=Anna+Bella+Geiger |access-date=4 March 2023 |website=Museum of Modern Art}} the Victoria and Albert Museum, London;{{Cite web |last=Museum |first=Victoria and Albert |title=The Eye [Olho] {{!}} Geiger, Anna Bella {{!}} V&A Explore The Collections |url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O692592/ |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections |date=2 September 1967 |language=en}} Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Fogg Museum, Cambridge; The Getty Foundation, Los Angeles; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida;{{Cite web |title=Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM's Collection • Pérez Art Museum Miami |url=https://www.pamm.org/en/exhibition/narratives-in-focus/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Pérez Art Museum Miami |language=en-US}} Museu Serralves, Porto; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt;[http://www.fkv.de/frontend_en/archiv_ausstellungen_detail.php?id=148 Frankfurter Kunstverein archive] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126073842/http://www.fkv.de/frontend_en/archiv_ausstellungen_detail.php?id=148 |date=26 November 2012 }}, retrieved 10 March 2011 the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Exhibitions of her work have been held in London, Tokyo, Warsaw, Ottawa, Portugal and Puerto Rico.
Geiger's 1978 "A Pao Nosso de Cada Dia", (Our Daily Bread,) original photographic postcard of which there are five exemplars, are held at the Blanton Museum of Art Austin, Texas{{Cite web |url=http://collection.blantonmuseum.org/Obj7585?sid=63498&x=1259154 |title=Blanton Museum of Arts - Object Results |access-date=28 October 2014 |archive-date=28 October 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141028193323/http://collection.blantonmuseum.org/Obj7585?sid=63498&x=1259154 |url-status=dead }} Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts,{{Cite web |title=Tepper Takayama Fine Arts - Anna Bella Geiger |url=https://www.teppertakayamafinearts.com/anna_bella_geiger/0003.htm |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=www.teppertakayamafinearts.com}} and the Harvard Fogg Museum.{{Cite web |date=2011-07-23 |title=Harvard Art Museum / Collection |url=http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collection/detail.dot?objectid=P1998.45&globalSearchText=Anna%20Bella%20Geiger |access-date=2023-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723181056/http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collection/detail.dot?objectid=P1998.45&globalSearchText=Anna%20Bella%20Geiger |archive-date=23 July 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/527 |title=Susie Seefelt: A History of Latin American Arts at Harvard |access-date=26 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706085015/http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/527 |archive-date=6 July 2010 }}, retrieved 10 March 2011 Her prints are also held in the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi.{{Cite news |last=Galanternick |first=Mery |date=1996-12-08 |title=New Museum of Contemporary Art Near Rio |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/08/travel/new-museum-of-contemporary-art-near-rio.html |access-date=2023-03-04 |issn=0362-4331}}
In 1987, Geiger, with art critic professor Fernando Cocchiarale,{{Cite web |date=2010-01-12 |title=Fernando Cocchiarale |url=https://studytourbrazil.wordpress.com/rio-de-janeiro-2/fernando-cocchiarale/ |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=BRAZIL |language=en}} published "Abstracionismo Geometrico e Informal: a vanguard brasileira nos anos cinquenta" (Informal and Geometric Abstraction: the Brazilian avant-garde in the fifties).
In 2005, Geiger's work was included in the electronic journal Confraria do Vento, edited by Márcio-André, Victor Paes, and Ronaldo Ferrito, in collaboration with the graduate department of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
In 2025, Geiger's work was included in the international group exhibition Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM's Collection at the Pérez Art Museum Miami alongside artworks by Njaimeh Njie, Athi-Patra Ruga, Sarah Charlesworth, River Claure, Mary Sibande, Joiri Minaya, Camila Falquez, and Widline Cadet, among others.
References
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Further reading
- Shtromberg, Elena. (2016); Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s (University of Texas Press).
- Sansi-Roca, Roger (2007); Fetishes and monuments: Afro-Brazilian art and culture in the 20th century; Berghahn Books, New York. {{ISBN|978-1-84545-363-3}}.
- Ministerio da Cultura (2008); Anna Bella Geiger. BrasilArte Contemporânea. Arco Madri 3 October 2009.
- Navas, Adolfo M. (2007); Anna Bella Geiger: Territorios Passagens Situacoes; Casa Da Palavra. {{ISBN|85-7734-040-6}}.
- Butler, Cornelia; Mark, Lisa Gabrielle (2007) Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution. MIT Press. {{ISBN|978-0-914357-99-5}}.
- Amaral, Aracy A.; Toral, Andre (2005); Arte e sociedade no Brasil; São Paulo: Callis. {{ISBN|85-98750-02-6}}.
- Sullivan, Edward; Ramirez, MariCarmen (2004); "Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America". Yale University Press {{ISBN|978-0-300-10269-7}}.
- Heller; Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (1997) North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) Routledge. {{ISBN|0-8153-2584-3}}.
- Puerto, Cecilia (1996); Latin American Women Artists, Kahlo and Look Who Else: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography (Art Reference Collection) Greenwood Press. {{ISBN|0-313-28934-4}}.
- {{lang|pt|Brazil Ministério das Relações Exteriores (1980); Biennale Di Venezia '80: Antonio Dias, Anna Bella Geiger, Paulo Roberto Leal, Carlos Vergara Ministério das Rela¸ões Exteriores, Brasil}}.
External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120321062845/http://www.faygaostrower.org.br/artista.php?lang=eng Instituto Fayga Ostrower], retrieved 10 March 2011;
- [http://www.annabellageiger.com/ Anna Bella Geiger web site], retrieved 10 March 2011;
- [http://www.artnet.com/artist/20724/anna-bella-geiger.html Anna Bella Geiger in ArtNet];
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090621042754/http://www.cultura.gov.br/brasil_arte_contemporanea/?page_id=33 Anna Bella Geiger in ARCO2008] (in Portuguese);
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110715160344/http://www.re-title.com/exhibitions/archive_DagmarDePooterGallery6580.asp Dagmar De Pooter Gallery: Anna Bella Geiger biography]}}, retrieved 10 March 2011.
- [http://culture.pl/en/article/we-shot-ourselves-in-the-foot-an-interview-with-anna-bella-geiger We Shot Ourselves in the Foot: An Interview with Anna Bella Geiger]
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