On Wednesday November 9, Brazilian President Dilma Roussef will be officially giving Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964) one of the top awards related to that country’s culture, the 2011 Cultural Merit Medal.
The prize is annually awarded for the contribution made by a Brazilian artist to the culture in that country and the world. As part of the distinction, Varejão will be inaugurating in 2012 a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo.
Adriana Varejão presently lives and works in Rio, her hometown. Her work can be considered one of the most impressive elements of today’s Brazilian art, because of its regional and international scope. Her artworks make up prestigious collections such as those exhibited at Tate Modern in London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York; Hara Museum in Tokyo, and San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. She has attended Sydney Biennial, Venice Biennial and Sao Paulo Biennial, and has individually exhibited at Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro; Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, in Paris; Belem Cultural Center, in Lisbon; among others. She works different expressions: painting, sculpture, drawing and photography; in which she refers to the expansion and transformation of cultural identity through the colonialism, the history of Brazil, folklore, spiritual or genre traditions.
The award ceremony will be held at Santa Isabel Theater in Recife, Pernambuco.
Source: Press release
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