My name is Heleno Bernardi..
I was born on 1967 in Pouso Alegre. I live in Rio de Janeiro.
My favourite websites are online radio websites.
My presence at The Olympic Museum means the opportunity to approach art and sport through the body.
My plans for the future are to continue working with the body as a core component and power measurement in art. I would like to take this work to more places, to investigate and try to understand how people interact in different contexts.
I have exhibited since 2003 and I have exhibited at
I explore the clash between the body and the city in interpersonal relationships.
My influences in contemporary art are artists who worked with the urban space and others who worked with the body as support for the clash with the space. Gordon Matta-Clark, Walter de Maria, Hélio Oiticica, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Serra, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto, Humberto Costa Barros and many others, as well as choreographers and architects.
I use a wide variety of materials in my work, because I work with different situations, especially in site-specific projects.
The city of Rio de Janeiro inspires me, because it is a city where people's bodies have very strong communication power.
Sport inspires me, because movement is a political state of the body.
For me, the Rio Olympic Games are an opportunity for the city to increase its degree of exchange with other people, letting itself be invaded by different cultures and offering our way of life for experimentation by visitors.
For Heleno Bernardi, his multi-coloured mattresses are both the beds and the people sleeping on them. Piled and mixed up by visitors, they are constantly reinvented works.
Following an approach that is both regressive and festive, the artist uses the symbol of the body to remind us that it is our common denominator, whatever our background, status or beliefs.
