MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO and JANET LAURENCE have been curated into an exhibition at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, titled Seeing Science. The exhibition includes a group of contemporary artists who engage with concepts of science in their practice.
The exhibition will be on view from 15 September to 3 November 2017.
Janet Laurence, Biologist’s Camera Trap, Aceh Camp, Fauna and Flora International, 2012
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has written an insightful article on the integration of art and science in scientific modelling. The article, Making sense of artful science: the art of model making in the natural sciences, accompanies her work in the exhibition A Working Model of the World.
Currently showing at UNSW Galleries, the exhibition explores the practical, philosophical and symbolic work that models do for us, and asks how we use models to contemplate, experiment, invent and teach.
Read the article here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Pollen is Male 2, 2014, nylon, glue, desert sand, 6.1 x 5.8 x 5.6cm.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will present work in this year's Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles.
The group exhibition, La Vuelta, highlights work by 28 artists, spanning several generations. From traditional genres of photography to experimental and research-based practices, the selected projects explore the changing cultural, social and political landscape of values and beliefs from perspectives in which a sixty-year armed conflict merged with illegal drug trafficking is very much at the surface.
The exhibition continues from 3 July – 24 September 2017.
Find out more here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Electromicroscopic scan of the Thelbunus mirabilus penis (Harvestman) Opiliones, 2010, archival pigment print on 300gsm cotton rag, 31 x 24cm.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso will be a speaker at the Bringing public art to life at Green Square: shaping an urban neighbourhood. The night will include discussions with curators, artists and architects who will talk about how public art can be integrated into the urban environment.
As part of the City Art program, several public artworks are underway that will help shape the area’s character and contribute to community life. The evening discussions will include those who been instrumental in the long-term thinking and development of public art projects in Green Square.
Tuesday 6 June 2017
6pm—9pm
The Commune, 901 Bourke Street, Waterloo
Image: Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Actual Size II, 2015, pigment print on premium photo pager 300grams, 152.4 x 152.4cm.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's work can be seen now at the UNSW Galleries as part of A Working Model of the World. The exhibition, curated by Dr Lizzie Muller (UNSW Sydney) and Holly Williams (The Curators’ Department), explores the practical and philosophical role of models to experiment and illustrate. The exhibition will be open until 22 July, and then will travel to The New School, New York from September to December 2017.
You can read an essay by MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO about the role of models in her practice here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Microfossil Pollen Found Here, 2014, nylon, sand, stone, glue, paint, 12 x 90.5 x 6 cm
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist in New York next month! They will be presenting Conversations in Colombia, a series of interviews by the Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries that began in 2010 and which draw a comprehensive map of the country's artistic landscape.
The event will take place at the Americas Society in New York on 5 May.
For more information, please click here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Seahorse Circle, 2003
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be participating in the Phillips Latin America auction in New York. The artist has donated her work Seahorse Circle, 2003, to support FLORA ars+natura, a non-profit foundation in Bogota, Colombia that explores the relationship between nature and art. FLORA's programs have had important implications for both artistic and non-artistic circles; its team works closely with local communities, considering social, environmental and political issues through contemporary art projects. For more information, please click here.
CARDOSO will also be part of A Working Model of the World, an exhibition at UNSW Galleries. This exhibition, co-curated by Lizzie Muller and Holly Williams will be open from 5 May – 22 July 2017.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO features in Hong Kong's Neptune Gallery's second instalment of their Sailor Neptune exhibition series exploring relations between fantasy and gender.
Sailor Neptune - Part II continues through to 22 May 2017.
Find out more here.
We are pleased to announce that MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been included in the book L’ABC…Z des Héroïnes Figures féminines du monde by Marilyn Degrenne. The book brings together outstanding women’s profiles from around the world.
For more information visit this link.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Museum of Copulatory Organs.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso is presenting one of her vitrines of the Museum of Copulatory Organs (MoCO) in the latest group show at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
MoCO’s collection consists of dozens of anatomically accurate models of what is dubbed by scientists as ‘genitalic extravagance’ among invertebrates. MoCO Museum is part an ongoing research project by Cardoso.
The exhibition Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital continues through to 25 June 2017.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's public commission, Sandstone Pollen, has been unveiled in the new Darling Harbour precinct.
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, can be found along the Boulevard Walk, invoking conversation about the story of evolution, of sexual reproduction and the generation of formal beauty.
Cardoso’s work synthesises thought about the story of place and life as it was and as it is at Darling Harbour and Cockle Bay.
Read the artist proposal here.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is showing two new works at the latest MONA blockbuster exhibition On the Origin of Art. These works show us the court dance of the male Maratus jumping spiders, also known as 'peacock spiders'. It intends to show us how this beautiful insects are as talented as any human visual or performance artist. The exhibition is open from 5 November to 17 April 2017.
For more information, please click here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, On the Origins of Art I & II, 2016, Single channel HD video, hyper realistic sound with tactile dimension, 6:54min
JANET LAURENCE and MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be participating in the upcoming Cuenca Biennale in Ecuador, Frágil. Laurence and Cardoso are two of the four Australian artists who have been selected to represent Australia. The Cuenca Bienal is one of Latin America's longest-standing and most established Biennials and 2016 is the first year Australian artists have been invited to participate.
The exhibition will run from 22 October to 31 December 2016.
Read the Art Almanace review here.
Image: Janet Laurence in the studio. Photograph: Fabian Jensch.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is an exhibiting artist in Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital, an exhibition from the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, showing as part of the Sydney Design Festival.
The exhibition explores the increasingly important role of digital manufacture in contemporary art, science, design and architecture, and will run from 3 September 2016 to 25 June 2017.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Museum of Copulatory Organs - Love Darts (detail), 2012.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO and CATHERINE WOO will be exhibiting in the group exhibition Fieldwork: Artist Encounters, curated by Gary Warner, held at SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts.
The exhibition creates spatial, conceptual, sonic and material conversations between recent works and decade-long practice trajectories. Cardoso's works included in the show impose order on seedpods collected during a camping trip with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, while Woo forges an evidentiary metallic interface with the coastal geology of Tasmania’s Pirates Bay.
Fieldwork runs from 7 - 30 July 2016.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Gumnuts (detail), 2009, Tartu seeds, metal pins, 245 x 190 x 6cm.
Catherine Woo, Interface, 2016, 20 panels of thin black coated aluminium, pressed and rubbed onto a geographic formation, 240 x 300 cm.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be part of the exhibition Persona - Strangely Human, curated by Emmanuel Grimaud and Anne-Christine Taylor-Descola, at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, France. The show, which explores the unusual and intimate relationships between humans and objects, will feature The Cardoso Flea Circus.
Persona - Strangely Human will be on view as of 26 January and will run until 13 November 2016.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Cardoso Flea Circus, 1996. Acrylic and oil on cotton canvas, pigment on nylon taf feta, various fabrics, steel, brass, video, various props, and fleas, 294 x 243cm.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is featured in Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America, a major group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The exhibition continues until 28 February 2016 and features a selection of major works by 21 established artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela. The exhibition highlights contemporary artists who use seductive and engaging materials to convey their social, political, and environmental concerns.
María Fernanda Cardoso, 'Woven Water: Submarine Landscape', 1994, dried starfish with metal wire.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been selected by the Green Square Public Art Program to develop an installation in the South Sydney Hospital area. The installation, called While I Live I Will Grow, is made of narrowleaf bottle trees of different ages planted among sandstone garden beds. The sandstone blocks will be sandblasted with text providing the date of birth of each tree, horticultural information and recipes for the roots, which when read from above spell out the name of the installation. While I Live I Will Grow is about the growth of Green Square as a community, as well as the personal growth of individuals, families and children in the area.
For more information, please click here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Woven Water: Submarine Landscape, 2003, starfish, metal wire, dimensions variable.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO’s work Woven Water: Submarine Landscape has been selected to feature in a major exhibition titled, Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In conjunction with the 2015 Latin American Experience weekend, the exhibition presents work by renowned artists that have addressed issues regarding the social and political status of Latin America within their practice.
The exhibition opens in November 2015.
