Néle Azevedo

Work

In 1998, she launched a solo exhibition with an installation of iron sculptures at the Brazilian Post Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro and won the acquisition prize in the Santo André Art Hall in São Paulo. In 2002, she was awarded the Bunkyo Art Hall 1st prize with an installation of sculptures in acrylic. In 2001, Azevedo started working with the Minimum Monument Project doing interventions in urban space that discuss the contemporary public monuments in countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Japan, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy. These interventions have become known worldwide as the "Army of Melting Men".

The Minimum Monument project, along with the other urban interventions developed by Azevedo including ‘’Glory to Inglorious Fights’’ and ‘’Anhangabau: A River For The Absent Ones’’, have their genesis on local history. The aim is the political-poetical dimension that the artist can create by paralleling and referencing art and coexistence, art and exchange, and art as a currency. These ephemeral interventions have resulted in videos, pictures and drawings.

Urban interventions

2010

Torgtrappene, Stavanger, Norway, 15 September

2009

Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany, 2 September. This sculpture is called Melting Men. It represents that global warming is fast approaching and that it affects everyone.

2008

Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy, 21 October

2007

Ribeirão Preto City, 22 SeptemberVirada Cultural São Paulo, Glória a todas as lutas inglórias, (Glory to all the inglorious fights), Intervention at Pateo do Colégio-São Paulo, 5 May

2006

Burgplatz, Braunschweig, Germany, 16 JunePraça D. João I, Porto City, PT, 22 September

2005

Municipal Theatre, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 19 NovemberPlace L’Opera end Mairie du 9émè, Paris, France, 30 JunePraça da Sé, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 7 April

2004

Largo da Ordem, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, April 10–13

2003

Salvador, Bahia, BrazilTokyo and Kyoto, Japan, sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

2002

Havana, CubaSão Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Awards

2007

Winner of the Award for Experimental Video at the 15th Video festival, Teresina, Piaui, Brazil, December

2002

31st Salão Bunkyo // 31st. Bunkyo Contemporary Art Show: Golden Medal and JAL Award

1998

XXVI Contemporary Art Show, Acquisition Award. Santo André City, São Paulo, Brazil

1996

X Atibiai Art Meeting: Special Mention

Public collections

MartiusStaden Institut, São Paulo, Brazil
Bienal International, Evento of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Pinacoteca Municipal, São Paulo, Brazil
Sycomore Art Gallery, Paris, France
ACBEU Gallery, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Nipo Brasileiro Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
Cultural Center of Mail Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Espirito Santo Art Museum, Vitória, Brazil
Santo Andre Art Museum, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
Atibibaia Museum, Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil