Brazil
Sao Paulo, 1967
Caio Reisewitz’s research has photography as its main support. Through technical refinement, his compositions show a particular interest in human action and its social and political effects, whether in natural or in architectural space. While his photographic technique works on therelation between light and shadow (or even the homogenization of them), shapes, colours and textures, his artistic poetics builds a repertoire that can both put us in the face of humanharshness or plastic poetry of urban and natural environment.
Reisewitz’s works often place using a dichotomous dialogue between the real (that characteristic of the photographic record)and the illusory (our own repertoires).Throughout his career, Reisewitz has been developing studies about specific themes in photography and its various possibilities within the visual arts, putting into question both space as landscape and landscape as space. While his interest in nature explores the power of untouched exuberance, his investigation in architecture has been unfolding in subjects focused on Brazilian Baroque and Modernism and their relations of power, an issue that led the artist develop the work “Threatened Utopias”, one of the highlights of the Venice Biennale, in 2010.On many occasions, the artist promotes the intersection between these two aspects, making collages compositions that can criticize the system, human actions, the disdain for natural reserves, hectic urbanization and its consequences, as well as promote aesthetic dialogues between them, as in how to associate the minimalist lines of modernist architecture with the power of nature.Graduated in Visual Arts from the University of Mainz (Germany), Reisewitz has a specialization in Visual Poetics and a master’s degree from the University of São Paulo.
Among the biennials in which he participated are the 26th Sao Paulo Biennial (2004, Brazil), 51st Biennale di Venezia(2005, Italy) and Nanjin Biennale (2010, China). MUSAC–Museo de Arte Contemporáneo deCastilla y León (Spain), Instituto Moreira SallesRio de Janeiro (Brazil), Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin(Germany), Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection Miami (USA) are among the institutions where he has exhibited. His work can be also found in collections such as Cisneros Fontanals ArtFoundation (USA), Fundación ARCO Madrid (Spain), Collezione Fondazione Guastalla (Italy),Fond National d’Art Contemporain (France), MUSAC (Spain), Museum of Modern Art(SaoPaulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil), Mark von Moerkerke Collection Brussels (Belgium),Musée Malraux (France), among others. In 2014, he held a solo exhibition at the ICP–International Center of Photography, in New York (USA), one of the most important venues for photography in the world. In 2015, he presented four solo exhibitions across Europe, including at Maison Europeénne de la Photographie in(2016 Paris). He also featured at the Pinacoteca doEstado de Sao Paulo (Brazil), in 2017, and at Photo Beijing,Beijing China, in 2019.Recently represent Brasil at: Chengdu Biennale (2021,China) Biennale des Artsde Nice (2022,France)and 23rdSydney Biennial (2022, Australia),forMai2024, the installation:(desmontando em silencio) at iconic Lina Bo Bardi glass house: (2024 São Paulo) Casa de VidroandatMies Van der RohePavillionSept 2024, Barcelona.
