Antonio Dias is perhaps Brazilian’s most prominent contemporary artist. His art is a lush, sensual and ironic fusion, reflecting on topics such as political oppression, sex, violence, the police state and war. He uses a wide array of media – including drawing, sculpture, video, performance, installation and painting – to convey political and societal critique. Antonio Dias was a part of the neo-concrete, tropicália and minimalism movements, and although he had no knowledge of American pop art until he moved to Milan, his work greatly resembles some of the key features of the movement. Originally working with abstract sculptures, the Brazilian artist’s media of choice became paper and canvas after taking engraving lessons with Oswaldo Goeldi in the late 1950s. Shortly after, his art career took off with works eminent for their red, black and white colourings, and three-dimensional elements. He actively took part in the neo-concrete and tropicália movements before migrating to Paris in 1966, and Milan in 1968. There, Antonio Diaz continued to explore sex, violence and war through his artwork, and eventually went on to release Anywhere Is My Land, a monograph detailing the Brazilian artist’s expansive career. (Artist website) Read Less