Jeanete Musatti ( Sao Paulo, SP, 1944). Lives and works in São Paulo.
São Paulo-born artist Jeanete Musatti became better known in the contemporary art scene in Brazil with the 1984 collective exhibit Como vai você, geração 80?, at the Parque Lage, in Rio. The previous year, however, she had already come to the fore in São Paulo, being awarded the São Paulo Art Critics’ Association (APCA) prize for best newcomer.
Having participated in five editions of the traditional Panorama da arte brasileira, at the MAM-SP, since 1985 Musatti has “worked with apparently banal situations, that no longer hold importance in the daily life of contemporary society, and transformed them into objects of art, small installations, miniature art”, as the art critic and curator Ricardo Resende asserts.
Drawing parallels with artists who portray an inseparable link between memory and the banal, such as Farnese de Andrade (1926-1996), Musatti creates her own language, delicate in works such as the series Solitárias (Lonely), made of plastic boxes, and more vigorous in works where she uses less “light” materials, like lead. The artist has works in important collections in Brazil, such as that of João Carlos Figueiredo Ferraz, and in museums including the State Pinacoteca, MAC-USP, MAM-SP, MAM-RJ and MASP.
São Paulo-born artist Jeanete Musatti became better known in the contemporary art scene in Brazil with the 1984 collective exhibit Como vai você, geração 80?, at the Parque Lage, in Rio. The previous year, however, she had already come to the fore in São Paulo, being awarded the São Paulo Art Critics’ Association (APCA) prize for best newcomer.
Having participated in five editions of the traditional Panorama da arte brasileira, at the MAM-SP, since 1985 Musatti has “worked with apparently banal situations, that no longer hold importance in the daily life of contemporary society, and transformed them into objects of art, small installations, miniature art”, as the art critic and curator Ricardo Resende asserts.
Drawing parallels with artists who portray an inseparable link between memory and the banal, such as Farnese de Andrade (1926-1996), Musatti creates her own language, delicate in works such as the series Solitárias (Lonely), made of plastic boxes, and more vigorous in works where she uses less “light” materials, like lead. The artist has works in important collections in Brazil, such as that of João Carlos Figueiredo Ferraz, and in museums including the State Pinacoteca, MAC-USP, MAM-SP, MAM-RJ and MASP.
