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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 1971. |
| About the Artist | |
My work is an experimental, intellectually complex investigation of language and cultural translation. It is presented in a variety of media, ranging from installation to video, from photography to participatory art. |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Alberto & Ricardo e-mails + their game
2007 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Alberto & Ricardo e-mails + their game
2007 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: their game
2007 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Alberto & Ricardo e-mails + their game
2007 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Alberto C.'s drawings for Ricardo
2008 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Alberto C.'s drawings for Ricardo
2008 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Alberto C.'s drawings for Ricardo
2008 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Alberto C.'s drawings for Ricardo
2008 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Ricardo R.'s drawings for Alberto
2008 |
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CORRESPONDENCES: Ricardo R.'s drawings for Alberto
2008 |
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Lovers & Saints [Criminals]
2007 |
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| A video: images of criminals taken from newspapers and the Internet used to evoke
famous lovers (Gilgamesh + Enkidu, Apollo + Hyacinth, David + Jonathan) and saints
(Saint Francis, Saint Patrick, etc).
Please visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVw-m22kMY
for the complete piece (7’) |
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Celestial Bodies – A Sci-Fi Adventure
2004 |
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| “There are works that pay even more sensory tribute to the human organism, like
''Celestial Bodies: A Sci-Fi Adventure'' by the Brazilian artist Cyríaco Lopes. It narrates a
journey through a fantastic world, which turns out to be the artist's own body. His nipples
are planets; his closed eyes indicate an eclipse; his tongue, oozing out between his lips, is
the lava spewed by a volcano.” (Grace Glueck, The New York Times, 10-01-2004)
Please visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBCHiHLEpW8
for the complete piece (5’) |
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REALDOLLAR
2003 |
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| I returned a grant from the Contemporary Art museum, Saint Louis as the donation of an art collection: US$ 1000 of
Brazilian art (8 pieces) and R$ 1000 of U.S. art (1 piece). At the museum I showed only the wrapping paper and prices in US$ and R$. A parallel between the unequal exchange
rate both for currency and culture.
At Hunt Gallery I showed the works I bought and created a lounge where people could
listen to Brazilian music played by US musicians and vice-versa. |
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The Big Slip
2005 |
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| A two-channel video of images of Brazilian movies portraying the U.S. and its people, and
vice-versa. Misrepresentations and projections from both sides create distorted,
humorous images.
Please see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K35xriy7SA
for an excerpt (2’) |
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The Catalogue
2002 |
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| Catalogue of my second MFA (UMBC_MD_USA) show as the piece itself. I wrote the text as if a curator. The text
was a collage of English speaking critics and historians on Brazilian art. I switched “Latins”
for “Anglo Saxons,” “Brazil” for “the U.S.,” and so on. Disguised to reveal (like a spy). |
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Curupira
1999 - ongoing |
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| The viewer puts a hood and is invited to walk by the space. Inside the hood there are Video-Glasses connected with a live-feed mini camera directed to the back of the participant (it is like having your eyes in the back of your head). Each step is an adventure and the entire body is mobilized.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UZlVaGWaAao
(for a 2 minutes excerpt) |
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Thesis
1999 |
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| All the paintings and sculptures of Rio's Dom João VI Museum turned to the wall. |
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Photo Graphics (LIttle Ghosts)
1998 |
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| My reflection drawn in mirrors with electric tape.
spotlights project the reflections in the wall. The mirrors spin and so does their light projections. |
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Order and Progress
1997 |
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| 100 blue balls spread through out the gardens of the Museum of Republic, Rio.
50 had words that sound like Order,
50 had words that sound like Progress.
The balls were a reference to the blue globe at the center of the Brazilian flag, which is crossed by the Positivist motto Order and Progress.
Order and Progress was a re-appropriation of the biggest visual symbol of Brazil by the people that it represents: a loving desecration by an artist that grew up under a military dictatorship. |
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Sunset
1997 |
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| I squeezed a soda’s cap into my hand as hard as possible. I walked to the audience and
said: The sunset. I opened my hand and we watched the mark slowly disappear. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Selected Exhibitions (* indicates solo shows): 2008 - JEMA at The Cottage Industry (Contemporary Art Museum/Baltimore, MD) 2007 - Faculty Biennial (Duncan Art Gallery / FL); 2006 - EBA 10 Anos (Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica / Rio, Brazil); 2006 - A Palavra Peregrina (Museu do Estado do Pará / Belém, Brazil / Curator: Paulo Herkenhoff); 2006 - Carioca Video (Warsaw, Poland / Curator: Alberto Saraiva); 2006 - VideoLab (Universidade de Coimbra / Portugal / Curator: Alberto Saraiva); 2005 - T/HERE (Artforum 3 / Freiburg, Germany / Curator: Björn Barg); * 2005 - Scratch Projection (Centre Wallonie Bruxelles / Paris, France / Curator: Yann Beauvais); 2005 - Made in Brazil (Centre D’Art Contemporain Faux Mouvement / Metz, France / Curators: Édson Barrus and Maryse Jeanguyot); 2004 - Don't Call It Performance (El Museo del Barrio / NYC / Curators: Deborah Cullen and Paco Barrágan); 2003 - AS A SATELLITE >> Rés do Chão (organized by The America’s Society / NYC / Curator: Édson Barrus); 2003 - RealDollar (Museum of Contemporary Art/Saint Louis,MO/ Curator: Shannon Fitzgerald); * 2003 - Aliens in America - Others in the U.S.A. (Lamont Art Gallery, Exeter Academy / NH / Curator: Barbara Rita Jenny); 2003 - Bandeiras do Brasil (Museu da República / Rio,Brazil / Curators: Martha Niklaus and Ernandes Fernandes); 2001 - The Classroom (School 33 Art Center / Baltimore, MD / Curator: Janine Antoni); * 2001 - Artscape (Maryland Institute, College of Art - Decker Gallery / Baltimore, MD); 2001 - Campo Minado (Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto / Rio / Curator: Cláudia Saldanha); 2000 - Iniciativas/Grupos de Artistas (Centro Cultural São Paulo / Brazil); 1999 - V Salão da Bahía (Museu de Arte Moderna de Salvador / Brazil / Curators: Denise Mattar, Gilberto Chateaubriand, Heitor Reis, Marcos Lontra and Pablo Rico); 1998 - ABRA (Centro Cultural São Paulo / Brazil / Curators: Agnaldo Farias, Angélica de Moraes, João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz, Ricardo Trevisan and Tadeu Chiarelli); 1998 - Ubiquitá-Ripetere Milano (Casa Degli Artisti / Milan, Italy / Curator: Luciano Fabro); 1998 - Programa de Exposições (Centro Cultural São Paulo / Brazil / Curators: Adriano Pedrosa, Jac Leirner, Marcantonio Villaça, Maria Camila Duprat and Miriam Bolsoni); * 1997 - Second International Meeting in Esthetics (State University of Rio de Janeiro / Brazil / Curator: Lygia Pape). Selected Awards: 2007 - Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity (Stetson University, FL); 2003 - Project’s Room Grant (Museum of Contemporary Art / Saint Louis, MO); 2001 - World Studio Foundation (NYC); 2001 - RTKL Award (Baltimore, MD); 1997 - Prêmio Phillips /1st place/Trip to Europe (Exhibition at the Museum of Art of São Paulo, MASP). Education: 2002 - M.F.A. in Imaging and Digital Arts (University of Maryland, Baltimore County). 1999 - M.F.A. in Visual Languages (School of Fine Arts - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). 1993 - B.F.A. in Painting (School of Fine Arts - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). 2007 - Summer residency in installation and New Media, School of Visual Arts, NYC. 2002 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. 1995 - Nucleus of Advanced Studies in Painting, School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio, Brazil. 1994 - London Project. Recent selected talks at the College Art Association (2008 and 2005), University of Florida, Gainesville (2006), Miami Art Museum (2005), University of California, Davis (2005), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2005). Professor of art, digital art and art history at Stetson University, DeLand/FL. |
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