Nunes InLiquid Member Portfolio

Résumé

Artist Statement

"Gilvan Nunes began painting in the 1980s at the prestigious School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro; epicenter of the resurrection of painting in Brazil. Since then, his work has evolved into a robust and colorful explosion of a fantastic nature. Like other artists who flourished at this time, Nunes continues to investigate alternatives to painting in his own time, free of collective principles; as the artist that found his own pictorial system.

Gilvan's art is a vigorous painting that erupts without a project, whose results of the procedure suggest floral motifs and landscapes. The beauty of these paintings despite their trivial reasons does not contradict the complexity of the true pictorial action of his work. The manual process is, therefore, for the artist today, the way he expresses his visual thought and lets his poetic sense flow, resulting in his poetic works of art."

- Fernando Cocchiarale, Art Critic and Curator, Director of the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Artist Biography

Born and raised in Brazil, Gilvan Nunes is living and working in Philadelphia since 2017.

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Education

1986 - 1991
Escola de Artes Visuais (EAV) Parque Lage, no Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Professors: Charles Watson, Hilton Berredo, Daniel Senise, Beatriz Milhazes, Milton Machado

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Collections

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Institutional

Collection of the Brazilian Presidential Republic, Brasilia, DF, Brazil

Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand – MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Coleção Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

Fundação Rômulo Maiorama, Belém, Brazil

Debenhams, Ben de Lisi, London, UK

Fundación AMBA Arte, London, UK & Ilhas Canarias, Espanha

Fundación Ankaria, Madrid, Espanha

Exhibitions

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Solo‍

2017
Individual, Galeria Patrícia Costa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2016
Jenny Harper on Tregunter Rd, London, UK

Dausch Art Loft, New York, NY

2015
Galeria Patrícia Costa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2014
Individual, Galeria Lemos de Sá, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Poesia íntima, Galeria Patrícia Costa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2013
Paixões Alegres, Galeria Oscar Cruz, Sāo Paulo, Brazil

2012
Ciclo, Galeria SIM, Curitiba, Puerto Rico

Últimos trabalhos, Galeria Paula Darzé, Salvador, Brazil

2011
Delírios e Verā, Galeria Oscar Cruz, Sāo Paulo, Brazil

Favelão, Celeiro Patriarcal de Vila Franca de Xira, Lisboa, Portugal

Trabalhos recentes, Galeria Patrícia Costa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2010
Trabalhos Recentes, Largo das Artes, Brazil

Favelão, Galeria do Espaço de Intervenção Cultural Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal

2009
Galeria Patricia Costa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2008
Favelão, Espaço Furnas Cultural, Brazil

2007
Art Gallery 100, Antwerp, Belgium

2006
Galeria Monica Filgueiras, São Paulo, Brazil

2004
Solo at Christoff van Staden Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2001
Individual, Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo, Brazil

Trabalhos em bastão a óleo, Galeria Coletânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1998
A caixa rendada, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Brazil

1995
Galeria do Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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