(Re)discovering Lina Bo Bardi: Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at MCA Chicago Carla Acevedo-Yates and
The55Project is pleased to announce the first edition of a new series of lives.
Tracing a dialogue between architecture and art, our first conversation will be between the educator, writer, curator and architect Zeuler Lima, Phd and the researcher, art critic and Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at MCA Chicago, Carla Acevedo-Yates.
About the participants:
Zeuler R. Lima: received graduate degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism from the University of São Paulo, with postdoctoral education in comparative literature from Columbia University. Currently an associate professor at the School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, he has conducted research and taught in several institutions in the US, Brazil, France, Italy, and Japan.
For the past two decades, he has been deeply dedicated to the study of Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi's life and work, for which he received the prestigious 2007 International Bruno Zevi Prize for architecture history and criticism. He is the author of the monograph Lina Bo Bardi (Yale University Press, 2013), Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings (Princeton University Press / Fondació Joan Miró, 2019), and Lina Bo Bardi, Biografia de uma solidão (Biography of a Solitude) (Companhia das Letras, forthcoming).
He also curated exhibitions about the architect’s oeuvre presented at the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Fondación Joan Miró, and the Carnegie Museum of Art (2017-2020) with respective catalogues.He has served on several curatorial advisory committees, including the MoMA (New York), the Museu da Casa Brasileira (São Paulo), LACMA (Los Angeles), the Architekturmuseum (Munich), and the Johann Jacobs Museum (Zurich).
As a designer, he codirected an architectural office that won several national design awards for Brazil, including those for the Legislative Assembly of Brasília, inaugurated on the Monumental Axis in 2010. Lima speaks seven languages and also practices drawing with training in painting, printmaking, and book making and has participated in several collective and solo exhibitions.
Carla Acevedo-Yates: was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and has worked as a curator, researcher, and art critic across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. She is Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at MCA Chicago.
She earned her MA in Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where she received the Ramapo Curatorial Prize, and a BA in Spanish and Latin American Cultures from Barnard College, where she received the Clara Schifrin Memorial Spanish Prize in Poetry. In 2015, she was awarded a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for an article on Cuban painter Zilia Sánchez.
She recently organized Fiction of a Production, a major exhibition of work by Argentinian conceptual art pioneer David Lamelas and co-curated Michigan Stories: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw.
