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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has taken part in the Wollongong Central expansion. Through the showcase of eco-friendly design principles, the project gives prospect for a sustainable centre that showcases the depth of innovation within the region.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Velvet Water Public Art at Wollongong Central Shopping Centre

Velvet Water by Cardoso introduces the buildings new feature artwork that cuts through the middle of the new look Wollongong Central. Velvet Water highlights the prominent surrounds of Wollongong – a costal region with lakes and fresh water streams within proximity. Through the use of industrial materials and the large-scale site, thousands of nylon rods sprout from the wall, covering its surface and resembling various forms of water. As people move past the wall, the rods simultaneously shift, that seemingly defies gravity and echoes the notions of water and its dynamic behaviour. 

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be speaking at a symposium on Saturday 21 March, held by the VCA and University of Melbourne. The Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) symposium is over a three-day period and is titled 'The Outstanding Field: Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy’. The symposium highlights practice-led methods used to obtain research throughout PhD projects in Australia and New Zealand.  With Cardoso having undertaken a PhD from Sydney University in Art and Science in 2013, her discussion ‘The Marriage of Art and Science’ held at Sydney College of the Arts, will offer an insight into her artistic processes and methods of practice-led research.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Pollen is Male, 2012-14, nylon, glue, desert sand, 40 x 10 x 10 cm

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been selected to participate in this year’s Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize in partnership with the National Art School in Sydney. Cardoso’s new photograph of a tiny jumping spider will be exhibited in the Art Prize, alongside 21 other works by leading Australian contemporary artists. Each leading artist has selected an emerging artist to also participate in the show, allowing for a dynamic exhibition with a Major Prize of $25,000 sponsored by Konica Minolta and an Emerging Artist Prize of $10,000. The two winning artworks will be acquired in the Redlands teaching collection.

The exhibition runs from 26 March – 23 May at the NAS Gallery and opens on Wednesday 25 March at 6pm.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Male and Female Maratus Splendens – Unrecognised Artists, 2015, inkjet print, 90 x 100 cm.

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Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Museum of Copulatory Organs.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO took part in a residency in Chocó Base, in the pacific coast of Colombia from December 2013 to January 2014. Cardoso’s experiences with water during the residency lead to the contribution of a chapter in a publication by Más Arte Más Acción, exploring ‘water’. While reflecting on the theme of water, Cardoso presented her work The Museum of Copulatory Organs. Communities of Chocó selected the theme of water for the topic of focus due to the increased contamination of rivers, affecting the indigenous communities and the region’s biodiversity.

The book launch is on 26 February at the Museo de Arte at the National University of Colombia, Bogota campus and on 11 March at the University of Antioquia, Medellín.
 

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Maria Fernanda Cardoso

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is taking part in a public commission at Green Square in Sydney – one of the largest urban redevelopments in Australia. The commission features native garden beds filled with bottle trees, built out of sandstone blocks that double as benches, arranged to spell out the words, ‘while I live I will grow’, situated at the South Sydney Hospital site.

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Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Emu next 5 Km, 2010-14

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is part of SOUTH, a group exhibition conceived as a shared response to the identity af the artists living and working in our colonised and relatively remote Southern part of the world. The work presented is personal, political and socially engaged and reflects the changes in our globalised society. 

Exhibition opens: 6-8pm Thursday 7 August 2014
Exhibition closes: 6 October 2014
Location: Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, 782 Kingsway Gymea NSW 2227 

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be part of a new exhibition, South: Contemporary Art from Australia, Mexico & South Africa, curated by David Corbet and showing at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre from 8 August to 6 October 2014.

The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, installation, video and photomedia by thirteen contemporary artists from three countries across three southern regions: Oceania, Africa and Latin America.

For this exhibition, MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO continues to explore creating work using materials from the natural world including emu parts - an animal which has come to form a potent symbol of Australia's national identity. 

For more information, visit the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre here
 

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Image: by Tamara Dean. Maria Fernanda Cardoso wins Australia Council grant to video insect sex, The Age, 22 May 2014.

Internationally-acclaimed artist MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been awarded the Australian Council Fellowship grant of $100,000. Artists are awarded the grant whose practices address the exploration and experimentation in a cross-disciplinary approach. Through the blending of art and science, Cardoso’s project depicts the sexual organs of insects in the forms of sculpture. For this work she will be focusing on Australia’s smallest spider species, the Maratus, a project that has been in development for the past two years. The grant will go towards funding the creation of a documentary on the Maratus spider, highlighting high standard elements of installation, sound and performance. Titled Dancing With Spiders, Cardoso will capture visual and auditory proof of the 3-4mm-long spiders' dance and subsonic vibrations, inaudible to the human ear but revealed to us through the use of laser vibrometer technologies in what could be called music. Using large-scale, multi-screen HD Projections, Cardoso will make a video art installation featuring the different mating dances and looks of several of the Maratus species, including the amplified sounds they make.

Read more in the articles below.

 Sydney Morning Herald

The Age

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's latest commission, Sandstone Pollen, will soon be unveiled at the new Darling Harbour precinct in 2016.

This major public artwork – a series of unique sandstone pollen sculptures – was inspired by the diversity of pollen microfossils that were found in Darling Harbour, and were later identified by palynionologist Mike Macphail. 

Her ‘pollen morphologies’, combining scientific research and beautiful, complex forms, will be placed under and near a variety of tall trees along the Boulevard Walk, invoking conversation about the story of evolution, of sexual reproduction and the generation of formal beauty.

In collaboration with two local stone masonries, each pollen grain will be 3-D modelled using the latest digital software, then carved in sandstone using a computerized milling robotic arm.

Cardoso’s works will synthesise thought about the story of place and life as it was and as it is at Darling Harbour and Cockle Bay.

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is participating in a group exhibition at Blacktown Art Centre (NSW) titled Uncovered: Hidden Pleasures of the Day. Uncovered brings together three contemporary visual artists with connections to Blacktown. Each artist explores notions of the commonplace and everyday experience, often overlooked or left uncovered or unrevealed. They share a passion and love for intricacy and complexity in what at first sight might seem common and obvious.

Cardoso’s work with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers emerged from artists’ camps in Central Australia. The resulting exhibition, Kuru Alala, toured nationally and at Blacktown Arts Centre in 2011.  Maria’s new artworks for Blacktown add to her project, the Museum of Copulatory Organs (MoCA) first shown at the Biennale of Sydney 2012.

For Uncovered, Cardoso has ‘undressed’ a variety of flowers, counted how many ‘wives and husbands’ each have, and then proceeded to photograph them ‘naked’.

The program for Uncovered also includes a workshop on Saturday 8 March between 10am to 1pm with Cardoso. In this workshop, participants will undress flowers and create small sculptures.

The workshop is $15 per person and includes workshop materials and lunch, followed by artist talks.

Exhibition dates: Thursday 27 February to Saturday 12 April 2014.

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is opening a solo exhibition at Casas Riegner Gallery in Bogota, Colombia on December 14th 2013. The exhibition includes her Museum of Copulatory Organs, which was part of the 2012 Sydney Biennale. 

Exhibition dates: 15 December  2013 - 25 January 2014

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is part of an impressive survey exhibition on Colombian Contemporary art at the Kunstmuseum Bochum in Germany.

The exhibition, titled Aliento, includes Fernando Arias, Álvaro Barrios, María Fernanda Cardoso, Antonio Caro, Juan Manuel Echavarría, Oscar Muñoz, Pareja & Chavez, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Doris Salcedo, Liliana Vélez Jaramillo.

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Exhibition dates: 23 November – 2 February 2013

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO presents her 2012 Sydney Biennale work El Museo de Órganos Copulatorios during the Art and Science conference at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota on Friday 15 November 2013. Cardoso's work is particularly concerned with the traditions of scientific illustrations and museology.

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO’s Naked Flora will be showing at the Galeria Casas Riegner in Bogota, Colombia, from October 25 – 28.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Naked Flora, 42x28cm, 2013.

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Maria Fernanda Cardoso, from the series Flores Desnudas.

A stunning image by MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been used as the poster for a Documentary Film Festival in Bogota, Colombia.

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Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Hojas Secas/Dry Leafs, 2010.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is featured in the current Camouflage Cultures: Surveillance, Communities, Aesthetic, Animals, an international exhibition presented by Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney.

EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening on Thursday 8 August, from 6 to 8pm.
CAMOUFLAGE CULTURES will be on display from Thursday 8 to Saturday 31 August.

The conference and exhibition address two key principles of camouflage - concealment and deception - in relation to four themes: surveillance, communities, aesthetics and animals. The theme of surveillance includes war, defense, militaries, and conflict; communities embraces society, the everyday, government and identity; aesthetics incorporates art, architecture, film and popular culture; animals includes human and non-human beings, nature, evolution, pattern and optics. The artists convey these themes through visual representation and the contemporary world.

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is transforming the MCA into her Museum of Copulatory Organs (MoCO) on Friday 26th July. Themed and titled: Sex Everywhere, Cardoso's installation celebrates the diversity and complexity of genitallic structures within the animal kingdom. 

This exciting event also features Isabella Rosselini, Gary Warner, Scientist Jurgen Otto, the QLD Museum's Geoff Thompson, Vert Design, Clare Grant and Nikki Hayward; and Ruark Lewis along with tropical Latin beats. 

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is included in the group exhibition, AIR BORN, 23rd of June - 6th October 2013, at the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria.

In Air Born, nineteen artists explore all things avian, inspired by the beauty, rituals and environments of birds.  Various cultural and spiritual relationships are explored in Cardoso's included works, where she pulls together themes of adornment and fashion as well as ideas of place, environment, and identity.  

More information on the exhibition can be found here.

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is included as one of ten artists in the inaugural exhibition entitled Cantos Cuentos Colombianos at the new grand scale initiative and exhibition space Casa Daros, opening on 23 March in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Casa Daros is an institution of Daros Latinamerica; one of the most comprehensive collections in the world dedicated to contemporary Latinamerican art.

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GUAN WEI / MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO / JANET LAURENCE

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

ARC ONE are pleased to announce the following acquisitions:

--NGV acquires Guan Wei--
The National Gallery of Victoria has just acquired two of Guan Wei’s Up in the Cloud sculptures—Up in the Clouds #1 (2012) and Up in the Clouds #2 (2012). As a continuation of Guan Wei's sell-out Cloud sculptures of 2009, Up in the Clouds are a series of dark bronze sculptures. The cloud, as a symbol of liberty, features prominently throughout his practice. Up in the Clouds portrays gentle figures playfully interacting with their cloud. The harmony between body and form alludes to the transience and freedom of nature.

--NGA acquires Maria Fernada Cardoso and Janet Laurence--
The National Gallery of Australia have recently acquired works by Maria Fernanda Cardoso and Janet Laurence. 

The works by Maria Fernanda Cardoso are a set of nine sculptures from her Intromitent Organs Sculptures (2008-2009) series. These works were exhibited as part of the Museum of Copulatory Organs (2012) at the Sydney Biennale 2012.

Janet Laurence’s film Sanctuaried from AFTER EDEN (2012) is compiled from footage taken at an elephant sanctuary in Aceh, Indonesia, and a panda sanctuary in Chengdu, China. Lost and endangered worlds - and the creatures in them - are the subject of Laurence’s After Eden project. 

Congratulations to Maria, Guan Wei and Janet.