Artist Monograph

Cildo Meireles, Brazilian

Brazilian, born 1948

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Sculpture	4	25%
Lithography	4	25%
Printmaking	4	25%
Other Media	3	18.8%
Drawing	1	6.3%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	11	68.8%
Painting & Sculpture	5	31.3%

Production by Decade

1

1960s

11

1970s

4

1990s

Classification Types

Print — 7
Sculpture — 4
Multiple — 3
Installation — 1
Drawing — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	9	75%
Medium (30–100 cm)	1	8.3%
Large (1–3 m)	2	16.7%

Range: 14.0 cm → 299.7 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1993	7
1999	1
2001	2
2006	1
2012	1
2017	3

Brazilian Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 16 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Virtual Spaces: Corners 1 Sculpture Acc. 781.2012.a-g	1967-68/1983	Canvas, paint, and parquet on wood	118 x 60 x 60" (299.7 x 152.4 x 152.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Banknote Project (Inserções em circuitos ideológicos: Projeto Cédula) Print Acc. 113.1993	1970	Rubber stamp, printed on both sides of a Brazilian one cruziero bill	composition and sheet: 2 9/16 x 5 13/16" (6.5 x 14.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Paulo Herkenhoff
Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Banknote Project (Inserções em circuitos ideológicos: Projeto Cédula) Print Acc. 114.1993	1970	Rubber stamp, printed on one side of a Brazilian fifty cruzados novos bill	composition and sheet: 2 1/2 x 5 1/2" (6.4 x 14 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Paulo Herkenhoff
Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project (Inserções em Circuitos Ideológicos: Projeto Coca-Cola) Multiple Acc. 822.2019.a-d	1970	Printed pressure-sensitive labels on three commercial glass bottles	Dimensions variable ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Lilian Tone
To Be Curved with the Eyes Sculpture Acc. 567.2017	1970/78	Wood box, iron bars, enamel plaque, glass and graph paper	4 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 9 7/8" (11.4 x 49.5 x 25.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Andrea and José Olympio Pereira
Zero Cruzeiro Print Acc. 116.1993	1974–78	Double-sided offset lithograph	composition and sheet: 2 3/4 x 6 1/8" (7.1 x 15.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Paulo Herkenhoff
Zero Cruzeiro Print Acc. 117.1993	1974–78	Double-sided offset lithograph	composition and sheet: 2 3/4 x 6 1/8" (7.1 x 15.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Paulo Herkenhoff
Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Banknote Project: Who Killed Herzog? (Inserções em circuitos ideológicos: Projeto Cédula: Quem matou Herzog?) Print Acc. 115.1993	1975	Rubber stamp, printed on both sides of a Brazilian five hundred cruzados novos bill	composition and sheet: 2 1/2 x 5 1/2" (6.4 x 14 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Paulo Herkenhoff
Meshes of Freedom Sculpture Acc. 569.2017	1976/77	Iron and glass	47 1/4 x 48 1/4 x 1 1/2" (120 x 122.6 x 3.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Paulo Herkenhoff
The Difference between the Circle and the Sphere Is the Weight Installation Acc. 568.2017	1976	Paper and paper bags	Overall dimensions approximately 2 3/8 x 25 x 15" (6 x 63.5 x 38.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Paulo Herkenhoff
Zero Dollar Print Acc. 118.1993	1978–84	Double-sided offset lithograph	composition and sheet: 2 11/16 × 6 1/4" (6.8 × 15.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Paulo Herkenhoff
Zero Dollar Print Acc. 119.1993	1978–84	Double-sided offset lithograph	composition and sheet: 2 11/16 × 6 1/4" (6.8 × 15.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Paulo Herkenhoff
Thread Sculpture Acc. 1175.2001.a-c	1990-95	48 bales of hay, 1 18-carat gold needle, 100 meters of gold thread	Dimensions variable, approximately 7' 1" x 6' 1 1/16" x 72" (215.9 x 185.5 x 182.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Fontes Multiple Acc. 430.1999.1-4	1992	Multiple of four wood rulers	Composition (each extend): 9/16 x 78 3/4" (1.5 x 200 cm) Each (extend composition): 1/4" (0.6 cm) Composition (each folded): 9/16 x 8 1/8" (1.5 x 20.7 cm) Each (folded composition): 1 9/16" (4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Paulo Herkenhoff in memory of Alfredo Fontes
Glove-Trotter Drawing Acc. 591.2006	1992	Pencil and felt-tip pen on transparentized paper	8 1/4 x 11 5/8" (21 x 29.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Camelô (Street Vendor) Multiple Acc. 1493.2001	1998	Multiple of 1000 pins, 1000 collar stays, 2 miniature tables, puppet, motor, box, string and screws in a wooden box	installation composition varies; composition (box): 2 13/16 × 15 3/16 × 11 5/8" (7.2 × 38.5 × 29.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Luisa Strina