Meet the artist Antonio Sergio Moreira

Name: Meet the artist Antonio Sergio Moreira
Start: 2023-09-17T13:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T14:30:00+02:00
Location: Ambassade du Brésil - Hôtel Schneider

On the occasion of the JEP, Brazilian artist Antonio Sergio Moreira will be at the Brazilian Embassy to talk about his work. Visitors who plan to visit us on Sunday (17.09) will be able to...

Sunday 17 September 2023, 13:30Passed

Conditions

Free access, subject to availability (capacity = 70 people). Free entry, without reservation. For further information, please contact [cultural.paris@itamaraty.gov.br](mailto:cultural.paris@itamaraty.gov.br).

On the occasion of the JEP, Brazilian artist Antonio Sergio Moreira will be at the Brazilian Embassy to talk about his work. Visitors who plan to visit us on Sunday (17.09) will be able to exchange with the artist who works drawing, sculpture and painting, among others. For more than 40 years, his work has highlighted the legacy of the African diaspora in Brazilian culture.
If you do not have the opportunity to meet him on Sunday, know that the artist is the subject of an exhibition entitled "Okoto - J'existe!" , which is currently on display at the Ricardo Fernandes Gallery in Saint-Ouen until October 10, 2023.
To discover the work of Antonio Sergio Moreira, visit the artist’s website (https://antoniosergiomoreira.com/).

About the location

Ambassade du Brésil - Hôtel Schneider

34 cours Albert-Ier 75008 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Since 1971, the Brazilian embassy in Paris has occupied a mansion that belonged to the Schneider family, industrialists of the Creusot steel industry. Located in a protected area of a historic monument, within an urban complex listed in the inventory of historic and picturesque sites of Paris, the Hotel Schneider is located on the right bank of the Seine, in the 8th arrondissement, between the Pont de l'Alma and the Pont des Invalides. The building, built in the first half of the 19th century in the eclectic style of the Second Empire, underwent major restoration and expansion work around 1900, commissioned by the Schneider family to Ernest Sanson, the favourite architect of the great families of the time. The public will have the opportunity to discover the exterior and interior of this beautiful example of emblematic architecture of Paris, to know its intimate history by visiting its reception rooms, and to appreciate paintings, photographs, tapestries and sculptures by renowned Braz