Cildo Meireles

Cildo Meireles (born Rio de Janeiro, 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, encourage the viewer's interaction. Cildo Meireles was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948. His father worked for the Indian Protection Service and their family travelled extensively within rural Brazil. During this time Meireles learned the beliefs of the Tupi people which he later incorporated into some of his works. Meireles began his study of art in 1963 at the District Federal Cultural Foundation in Brasilia, under the Peruvian painter and ceramist Felix Barrenechea. In 1967 he...