Paulo Nazareth's work draws on language, ideas, actions and objects in order to establish or reveal the bonds that exist between people and their surroundings. His subjects are often related to race, ideology and the unequal distribution of development and are underpinned throughout by a categorical vision of ethical life itself – one which puts in relief the affective ties that connect individual life with collective life, this moment with the next, the particular with the universal. In a practice that is both interdisciplinary and participatory, Nazareth embodies the idea of the artist as a sort of connector, a performative decoder or a kind of philosopher.
Throughout Nazareth's work, simple but strong gestures are used to evoke historical memory as well as highlighting social and economic tensions and class struggle – tensions especially apparent to him in Brazil and, more widely, in South America. Nazareth frequently blends notions of social justice and peaceful resistance with a dose of the absurd – underscoring the pitfalls awaiting those who believe in progress as a mechanical process versus a holistic one.
Paulo Nazareth (b.1977, Brazil)
Banana Market/ Art Market, 2011
Serge Tiroche
Artnow (Magazine), November 2016
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Everything You Are I Am Not: Latin American Art From The Tiroche DeLeon Collection
Juxtapoze Magazine (Online), June 2016
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Sarah Cascone, Mana Contemporary Stuns With a Trifecta of Major Shows in Miami
Artnet (Online), December 2015
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Paddle8, Miami Musts: The Top 8 Unmissable Art Events for Collectors
Paddle8 (Online), December 2015
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Scout MacEachron, Spilled Bananas, Split Blades, and Books with Bullets: Eclectic Offerings at Mana Miami
Hyperallergic (Online), December 2015
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Angie Kordic, Mana Contemporary Urban Art Projects Happening in Wynwood during Miami Art Week!
Wide Walls (Online), November 2015
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Artist Spotlight: Paulo Nazareth
The Tiroche DeLeon Collection (Online), December 31, 2013
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Simon Watson, The Simple Charisma of Paulo Nazareth
The Huffington Post (Journal), July 18, 2013
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Felicitas Rohden, Interview 05: Paulo Nazareth
Goethe institute brzilien - Studio visits (Online), July 10, 2012
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Enrique Limon, Artist Paulo Nazareth’s work is bananas
San Diego City Beat (Online), February 1, 2012
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Catherine Petitgas, Contemporary Art Brazil
TransGlobe Publishing (Book), 2012
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Natalie Hopkinson, Why Art Is Bananas
The Root (Online), December 28, 2011
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Caitlin Bruce, Looking for the Political at Art Basel
Art & Threat (Online), December 19, 2011
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Karen Rosenberg, Art Fair: Business Over Activism
New York Times (Newspaper), December 2, 2011
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Ellen Gameman, Art Basel Looks South
The Wall Street Journal (Journal), November 25, 2011
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Barbara Fernandez, Paulo Nazareth’s “Banana Market/Art Market” at Art Positions
New York Times (Online), 2011
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Oliver Basciano, Paulo Nazareth Ritualism and martyrdom...
Artreview (Online),
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Edgardo Aragon
—Efectos de Familia
2007-2009Eduardo Basualdo
—Split Knife/ Infinito
2012Eduardo Basualdo
—Untitled (after Fontana)
2012Eduardo Basualdo
—Untitled (2012)
2012Eduardo Basualdo
—Damage is Done (El daño está hecho)
2011Eduardo Basualdo
—Sky
2013Diego Bianchi
—Life with no Capitalisim
2011Carlito Carvalhosa
—Untitled
2007Leda Catunda
—Cerebro
2008Leda Catunda
—Siameses
1998Marcos Chaves
—Untitled / Series "Holes"
2008Marcos Chaves
—Untitled / Series "Holes"
2008Marcos Chaves
—Untitled / Series "Holes"
2008Adriano Costa
—6 Monuments (Mão, Gala, Sahara, Human Rights, Israel, Waikiki)
2012Adriano Costa
—Banhista - Das G.O.D Captivator
2013Nicola Costantino
—‘Winged Nicola’ inspired by Bacon
2010Nicola Costantino
—Vanity
2011Nicola Costantino
—Still Life/The Dinner
2008Nicola Costantino
—After Berni
2008Abraham Cruzvillegas
—Autorretrato ciego regresando a la cordura entre gritos y sombrerazos en la plaza Taksim
2013Caetano De Almeida
—Igapó
2010Iran Do Espirito Santo
—Platform 1
2008Matías Duville
—Noche independencia
2011Os Gemeos
—Sem Titulo
2008-2010Sebastian Gordin
—Avon Fantasy Reader, The Stripping of the Death
2011Carlos Huffmann
—“Hope for the Future”
2011Carlos Huffmann
—Untitled
2006-2013Gabriel Kuri
—Waiting Spent (07)
2013Sze Tsung Leong
—Looking towards Chongqing
2003Laura Lima
—Untitled
2014Mateo López
—Tablero
2014Mateo López
—Caja Negra
2012Los Carpinteros
—Altoparlante Solimar
2008Jorge Macchi
—Extinction
2010Rodrigo Matheus
—No Background
2013Jorge Mayet
—Untitled
2011Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—Macho Alfa (Alpha male)
2012Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—Las Ratas Muertas No Abren La Boca
2014Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—No quieras cazar al cazador
2013Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—Sin Titulo (pegamento)
2016Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—Shot Into The Air 2
Marcelo Moscheta
—Anti-Gravitational Magnetic Pole 62 Stones
2009Vik Muniz
—Jackie (from Pictures of Diamond)
2005Vik Muniz
—After Barry Le Va, 1969 (from Pictures of Dust)
2000Lavar Munroe
—Boy Predator Boy Prey
2012Lavar Munroe
—Untitled
2014Jorge Pedro Nuñez
—Untitled (Smoked Walls)
2013Damian Ortega
—Estructuras de la casualidad V
2009Damian Ortega
—Falla
2014Bernardo Ortiz
—Sin Titulo
2014Bernardo Ortiz
—Sin Titulo
2014Rodolpho Parigi
—Night Clubbing
2011Nicolas Paris
—History of expandable parts / Diagram of the interaction
2011José Patrício
—Collection 2
2005Pedro Reyes
—Cuernófono
2013Pedro Reyes
—Shakers y zampoña
2013Pedro Reyes
—Navaja Suiza [Swiss Army Knife] X
2014Nicolas Robbio
—Untitled
2014Nicolas Robbio
—Untitled
2014Thiago Rocha Pitta
—Tres Nuvens De Lama (three mud clouds)
2011Regina Silveira
—Botão
2008Regina Silveira
—Punctum
2010Rodrigo Torres
—Contagalo
2011Rodrigo Torres
—Aster
2011Rodrigo Torres
—Uns Trocodos
2011Delson Uchoa
—Trinta e Quatro de Abril
2010Erika Verzutti
—Mineral
2013Adrian Villar Rojas
—Sick of Goodbyes
2011Adrian Villar Rojas
—Before My Birth 3
2012Adrian Villar Rojas
—Todo lo que vos sos yo no, (Everything you are, I am not)
2008Adrian Villar Rojas
—From the series "Lo que el fuego me trajo" (What fire has brought to me)
2008Laura Vinci
—Lux Lisboa
2010
Marina Abramovic
—Rhythm 0
1974Rina Banerjee
—With breath Taking Consumption Her Commerce Ate While She Was Being Eaten
2008Eduardo Basualdo
—Sky
2013Sheba Chhachhi
—Neelkanth: Poison/Nectar
2000-2008Adriano Costa
—6 Monuments (Mão, Gala, Sahara, Human Rights, Israel, Waikiki)
2012Vibha Galhotra
—Works in Progress
2008Weigang Gao
—Don’t Cry to Me
2011Os Gemeos
—Sem Titulo
2008-2010Guo Hongwei, Li Shurui, Yang Xinguang
—Rural Poetics
2015Shilpa Gupta
—I Keep Falling At You
2010An He
—Yoshiyoka Miho
2012Geraldine Javier
—Hysteria
2011Li Jinghu
—Rainbow
2009Li Jinghu
—Stone Feces
2006Li Jinghu
—Counting Stars
2005Gabriel Kuri
—Waiting Spent (07)
2013Fang Lijun
—2005.1.10
2005Mateo López
—Caja Negra
2012Ohad Meromi
—Screen and Totem
2001Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—Macho Alfa (Alpha male)
2012Marcelo Moscheta
—Anti-Gravitational Magnetic Pole 62 Stones
2009Donna Ong
—In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
2010Nicolas Paris
—History of expandable parts / Diagram of the interaction
2011Rashid Rana
—Desperately Seeking Paradise II
2011Duhirwe Rushemeza
—Return of the Makaned
2013Liu Shiyuan
—From “Happiness” to “Whatever”
2015Eliezer Sonnenschein
—Untitled
2010Manit Sriwanichpoom
—Pink Men vs. Pink Buddha
2007Erika Verzutti
—Mineral
2013Adrian Villar Rojas
—Before My Birth 3
2012Laura Vinci
—Lux Lisboa
2010Ai WeiWei
—Forever
2003Haegue Yang
—Escaping Transparency
2011Dong Yuan
—Grandmother's House
2013Robert Zhao Renhui
—Eskimo Wolf Trap Often Quoted in Sermons
2013Zhao Zhao
—Waterfall
2013