Cildo Meireles

Born in 1948 in Rio de Janeiro, Cildo Meireles belongs to a generation of Brazilian artists who came of age at the onset of the 1970s under the dual influence of conceptual art and the Brazilian Neo-Concrete Movement. Aiming to fully engage its audience, Meireles’ work smartly plays with physicality and the senses. Although often directly inspired by specific news events and political contexts – especially in relation to censorship and the repression of individual freedoms –, his art addresses universal themes and issues.

Cildo Meireles’ recent exhibitions include Cildo Meireles: Installations, at HangarBicocca in Milan (2014); Cildo Meireles, at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid (2013), then at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Porto (2013-2014); Cildo Meireles, at the MACBA in Barcelona (2009); Cildo Meireles, at the Tate Modern in London (2008); Cildo Meireles, at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg (2003); and Cildo Meireles — retrospective at the New Museum in New York (1999).

Cildo Meireles was awarded the 2008 Velazquez Prize for Plastic Arts for his career achievements as well as the 2023 Roswitha Haftmann Prize.

In 2024, The Laughing Cow® is celebrating the release of its 11th Collector’s Edition Box. Created by the artist Cildo Meireles, it directly evokes one of the masterpieces of Western art: the Mona Lisa. It also ties in with many of Meireles’ themes of predilection: the issue of authorship, the relationship between original artworks and copies, the insertion of artistic objects in different networks and channels of society and the symbolic dimension of images.

Curator of Cildo Meireles’ Collector’s Edition Box: Silvia Guerra.

Get your Cildo Meireles Collector’s Edition:

– at the Paris Internationale art fair (17 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, Paris 9e.
www.parisinternationale.com) from 16 to 20 October 2024
– at the Grande Épicerie de Paris (24 rue de Sèvres, Paris 7e. www.lagrandeepicerie.com)
from 14 to 27 October 2024

and from mid-October, within the limit of available stock:
– at the bookshop of the Palais de Tokyo (13 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris 16e,
www.palaisdetokyo.com)
– at Galleria Continua (87 rue du Temple, Paris 3e. www.galleriacontinua.com)
– at the FRAC Franche-Comté (2 passage des arts, Besançon. www.frac-franche-comte.fr)
– at the Maison de La Vache qui rit (25 rue de Richebourg, Lons-le-Saunier. www.lamaisondelavachequirit.com)
– at Gare de Lyon (Place Louis Armand, Paris 12e, voie A)
– at Gare du Nord (112 rue de Maubeuge, Paris 10e, voies 3, 19, and Mezzanine sud)
– at Gare Montparnasse (17 boulevard de Vaugirard, Paris 14e, voie 11)
– at Gare de Chessy Marne la Vallée (Place des passagers du Vent, Chessy)
– at Aéroport de Paris-Charles de Gaulle (at Relay stores and Air de Paris in Terminal E)
– at Aéroport de Paris-Orly (at the Relay-Monop store in Terminal 4)
– and at the online boutique: www.boutique.lavachequirit.com