It is proposed in this work to discuss the contemporary image reception on the visual means (being on television, internet, advertise boards or on artistic objects) through concept questioning such as perception, identity, passivity, dormancy and mainly between pleasure and repulsion. In a grotesque image, the beauty disguises the improbable, sordid and stupidity. When it is looked at a grotesque image, the pleasure and happiness present themselves at the first moment. The same does not happen with most of the images entailed by the publicity that hide behind the glamour the economical system perversities and contradictions? And, it does not happen equally with the way as the images are entailed on television news, they are always aseptic and pleasurable the same? I think it is what happens. Therefore, the grotesque was never so contemporaneous.

Born: Brazil, 1961.
Education: Facultad de Bellas Artes /Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Spain , PhD (1992)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul-UFRGS-Brazil (1986)
Media: sculpture, painting, digital print, multimidia, costume, scenography.

Contact information: Av. Madre Benvenuta 1903/Centro de Artes-UDESC
88035-001 Florianópolis, SC-Brazil.
e-mail: acvargass@gamil.com
Skype: acvargass
Phone: 1-647-9933593

Award:
2009 - XV Bienal de Cerveira/Portugal - Guest Artist
1995 Scholarship Postdoctoral in Barcelona-Spain- by CAPES- Brazil
1991 Mention honours XV Salón Nacional de Escultura Caja, Madri-Spain
1990 Mcholarship PhD in Madrid-Spain- by CNPq-Brazil
1988 Mention honours IV Salão de Arte de Curitiba/Brasil

Solo Exhibitions
2008 - Galeria da Funarte, São Paulo/Brasil
2008 - Galeria Municipal Pedro Paulo Viechetti, Florianópolis/Brasil
2008 - Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina-MASC, Florianópolis/Brasil
2006 - Galeria Gallas & Mayer, Goldkronach, Alemanha
2005 - Galeria Gallas & Mayer, Goldkronach, Alemanha
2005 - Galeria La Peña, Austin/Estados Unidos

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