Art – Portable Architecture – City

Daniel Acosta’s project, which is a site-specific work for the garden of the palace, is hybrid architecture, on a small scale. It presents the concepts that define this architecture, which, with the characteristics of portable architecture and of urban furniture aims to give an account of exclusion in the context of the city. His work articulates reflexions on the potential relationships between art, architecture and design.

Daniel Acosta was born in Rio Grande, Brazil in 1965. Lives and works at Pelotas/RS. Completed a Bachelor of the Arts in Sculpture at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria/RS (1987). He studied for a Masters in Art at ECA/USP under the instruction of Maria do Carmo Gross. His first solo exhibition, Projecto Macunaíma 92, took place at Espaço Alternativo, IBAC/FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro. 1995 presents his first exhibition at Galeria Casa Triângulo, São Paulo. He participated in large, group exhibitions such as Ao Cubo (1996, Paço das Artes, SP) and Panorama da Arte Brasileira (1999, MAM/SP). In addition he has worked on specific projects for the Torreão in Porto Alegre (1998) and the Capela do Morumbi in São Paulo (2000), and has participated three times in the Mercosul Biennial. Acosta was invited to present an important piece at the 25th São Paolo Biennial from his series Paisagens Portáteis, which formed the subject of his doctoral thesis in Arts at ECA/USP (2005). 2011, built the piece Cavurba, a freestanding shelter/furniture piece from the series Fantasia Arquitectónica Urbana for Paralela V. In addition to his artistic practice, he currently lectures in Sculpture at Federal University Art Centre of Pelotas/RS.