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Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, Lia Menna Barreto is a Brazilian artist currently based in Rio Grande do Sul. Her formal education occurred at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Design in 1985. She is most famous (or infamous, rather) for her deconstruction of childhood through the transmogrification of dolls and plastic toys. Katia Kanton, writing in Poliester Magazine, describes her work this way: : "In her strange formal operations, Lia Menna Barreto defies the sweetened way of looking at the world of children. Her radical vision engenders a relevant social commentary that is involved with and questions the oppression of the everyday experience, full of mutilations and losses and feelings of safety and danger." Several galleries have featured solo exhibitions of Lia Menna Barreto’s work. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Galeria Fortes Vilaça has hosted her '' ==References== * Katia Kanton. "Lia Menna Barreto defies the sweetened way of looking at the world of children." Poliester Magazine, vol 6, n 21, 1997/98 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lia Menna Barreto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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