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Marcos Chaves was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1961 and began his artistic endeavours in the early 1980’s. By using appropriation and intervention parameters, the artist works in diverse media, openly moving between the production of objects, photographs, videos, drawings, words and sounds. |
Marcos Chaves was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1961 and began his artistic endeavours in the early 1980’s. By using appropriation and intervention parameters, the artist works in diverse media, openly moving between the production of objects, photographs, videos, drawings, words and sounds.
“Marcos Chaves surprises meanings and values that are immersed in vulgar things, dissimulated by habit or convention. He makes unpredictable displacements and produces assemblages in a tone of parody distilling his acute observations of the world, from technology to rubbish.”
