Beatriz Milhazes

  • Book incl. Artwork
    Beatriz Milhazes. Art Edition ‘Coaracy’
    Print: 55 x 45 cm
  • Biography

    Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes's practice includes painting, drawing and collage. Characterised by sensual colour, optical movement and energetic visual cadences, her abstract work fuses a diverse repertoire of images and forms. Combining elements from her native Brazilian culture with European abstraction, her colourful, densely layered works are held in a state of tension, balanced carefully between order and chaos, rational structure and spontaneity. Often pushed to their compositional limit, with cascading, proliferating forms overlaid across the canvas, her paintings seem at a point of collapse, ready to engulf the viewer in an explosion of form and colour.

    Part of a generation that emerged in the 1980s from Brazil, who enjoyed a return to painting after the art of the 1970s, Milhazes has said “I am an abstract painter and I speak an international language, but my interest is in things and behaviours that can only be found in Brazil”.