Comments on: making our records last http://blog.j12.org/2008/05/making-our-records-last/ Micah B's musings Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:38:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stewart Home http://blog.j12.org/2008/05/making-our-records-last/comment-page-1/#comment-16965 Stewart Home Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:59:50 +0000 http://blog.j12.org/?p=24#comment-16965 There is a Cildo Meireles show on at Tate Modern (till 11 January 2009) which includes examples of his altered Coca Cola bottles. Because they were recycled he used them to distribute messages. He also stamped messages on bank notes... something I've seen done elsewhere but not the bottles. Actually these small works are much more interesting that his big installations which for me don't really work so well.... The Tate say about Meireles: "His work inherited the legacy of Neo-concretism, a Brazilian movement of the late 1950s that rejected the extreme rationalism of geometric abstraction in favour of more sensorial, participatory works, which engage the body as well as the mind. The utopian optimism of the Neo-concrete artists foundered after the coup of 1964, which ushered in an oppressive military regime." There is a Cildo Meireles show on at Tate Modern (till 11 January 2009) which includes examples of his altered Coca Cola bottles. Because they were recycled he used them to distribute messages. He also stamped messages on bank notes… something I’ve seen done elsewhere but not the bottles. Actually these small works are much more interesting that his big installations which for me don’t really work so well….

The Tate say about Meireles: “His work inherited the legacy of Neo-concretism, a Brazilian movement of the late 1950s that rejected the extreme rationalism of geometric abstraction in favour of more sensorial, participatory works, which engage the body as well as the mind. The utopian optimism of the Neo-concrete artists foundered after the coup of 1964, which ushered in an oppressive military regime.”

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