Artur Barrio

1945

WA-00012869

Paintingmodernism

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WikidataQ4801601

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Artur Barrio creates installation works that dissolve the boundary between art and lived experience, often engaging viewers as unwitting participants. Based in Rio de Janeiro, his practice incorporates refuse and discarded materials, inviting confrontation with overlooked aspects of reality stripped of symbolic overlay. Rather than presenting art as a separate object to be contemplated, Barrio treats everyday encounter and material detritus as fundamental to aesthetic experience, positioning the viewer's unguarded participation as the work itself.

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