Independência ou Morte
After China, Italy and the USA, now my home country Brazil is the worlds new coronavirus hotspot. I am worried about my family and the close friends I have living there. In Brazil, education was always a big problem, even among the so-called elite. President Bolsonaro is a good example. A disaster as a national leader, he has fired two Secretaries of Health in the middle of this crisis for wanting to follow the WHO social isolation policy and for refusing to approve Chloroquine drugs as treatment. Thousands of people have already died unnecessarily as a result of the country's lack of health policies. This drawing is a re-interpretation of perhaps the most famous painting in Brazil. The original painting, created by Pedro Américo in 1888, is called ”Independence or Death” and represents the proclamation of Brazilian independence.(23.5.2020)
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Oscar Oiwa
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New York, NY, USA
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Oscar Oiwa was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He received his B.F.A. (1989) from the School of Architecture and Urbanism, São Paulo University. He experienced contemporary art during this time in nearby galleries and became an assistant at the São Paulo Art Biennial. Oiwa held his first solo exhibition while he was still in college and thereafter participated in the 21st São Paulo Art Biennial (1991). He has received several awards including Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2001) and Asian Cultural Council in 2002. Recently (2019) receive the Medal of Honor from His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Japan. He currently lives and works in New York City. His works has been shown widely throughout the United States, South America, Asia, and Europe., including solo exhibitions in institutions like: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2007), Japan House São Paulo (2019) , Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (2019), California Southern University Pacific Asia Museum(2020), Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris (2020), among others. Selected public collections: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Tokyo), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa), Toyota Municipal Museum(Aichi), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art(Hiroshima), Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art(Hyogo), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa(Ishikawa), Utsunomiya Museum of Art (Tochigi), Phoenix Museum of Art(Arizona), Arizona State University Art Museum (Arizona), California Southern University Pacific Asia Museum, University of São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art (São Paulo).
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