From March 29th to June 9th 2019, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan will host O AMOR SE FAZ REVOLUCIONÁRIO, the first Italian exhibition of Italian-Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino to be held at a public institution.

With a selection of over 400 works, ranging from Maiolino's early drawings - back when she was an art student in Caracas - to her latest creations, the exhibition curated by Diego Sileo will be the most extensive retrospective of the artist ever held, comprising works from the most important Brazilian museums, such as MAM Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, MASP Art Museum of Sao Paulo, and the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo. A unique opportunity to understand the eclectic and revolutionary path of an artist who has managed to combine Italian creativity with the experimentations of Brazilian avant-gardes in her unmistakable and inimitable style.

Drawing inspiration from the everyday female consciousness and an oppressive, censorial dictatorship – as experienced in 1970s and 1980s Brazil – Italian-born Anna Maria Maiolino, who moved to Brazil in her late teens, has produced works steeped in vital force, embracing a wide range of languages and media throughout her artistic career: from performance to sculpture, from videos to photography, from installation to drawing. Her works study human relationships and the difficulty underlying communication and expression, travelling the faint boundary between an attention to human physicality and corporeity and a more intimate, spiritual sphere.