Nationality Brazilian Known for Sculpture | Name Nele Azevedo Role Visual Artist | |
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Education MA, Visual Art, Art Institute of State University of Sao Paulo, BrazilBA, Art, Faculdade Santa MarcelinaBA, Faculdade de Educacao e Ciencias Pinheirense |
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Néle Azevedo (b. 1950) is a Brazilian sculptor and independent researcher.
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- monumento m nimo de nele azevedo para ejemplos a seguir
- Nele azevedo
- Work
- Urban interventions
- Awards
- Public collections
- References
Azevedo was born in Santos Dumont, MG. She holds a Masters in Visual Arts from São Paulo State University Arts Institute (UNESP 2003) and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Santa Marcelina College (1997).

Nele 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

Awards
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