Award in Art Halls
a) 3rd Award in Engraving at 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art with "Raz en la Tierra", Chapingo, Mexico, 2008.
b) Award in Sculpture at II State Hall of Plastic Arts. Institution: Casa de Artes e Ofcios Paulo VI. Period: November 1984. Location: Ibipor (PR).
c) Award in Painting at 29th Hall of Plastic Arts for the Younger. Institution: Contemporary Art Museum of Paran (MAC-PR). Period: May 1985. Location: Arapongas (PR).
d) Sculpture Acquisition Award at I Art Exhibition "Zumbi dos Palmares. Period: November 1986. Location: Londrina (PR).

Participation in Art Exhibitions
2009 - LACDA 2009, "DigitalArt.LA". Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles (CA), August 13 to September 05.
2008 - 3rd Award in Engraving at 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art with "Raz en la Tierra", Chapingo, Mexico, November 07-19.
2008 - "Ugly, Dirty and Bad", digital painting exhibition. Londrina (PR), September 12-26.
2007 - 6th International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Fortezze da Basso, Firenze, Italy, December 01-09.
2007 - "Digital Painting", Ambientare Interiores, Londrina PR, October 29 to November 10.
2007 - "Cinzas", Jos Antnio Teodoro Hall, Art Museum of Londrina, September 20 to October 13, Londrina, PR.
2005 - I Brazilian Art Circuit, Congress Center of Estoril, August 22-31, Estoril, Portugal.
2005 - "Individual Exhibition", Mali Villas Bas Gallery, August 09-28, So Paulo, SP.
2005 - "Individual Exhibition", Jos A. Teodoro Hall, Art Museum of Londrina, April 16 to May 13, Londrina, PR.
2004 - "Collective Light", Mali Villas Bas Gallery, July 30 to August 09, So Paulo, SP.
2004 - "Individual Exhibition", Arqui.tec, Architecture and Design Fair, September 23 to October 03, Londrina, PR.
1988 - "Versions of Human Figure", Contemporary Art Museum, March, Curitiba, PR.
1987 - "Levitation Club", Municipal Department of Culture, July, Londrina, PR.
1987 - "Sculpture and Painting", Municipal Office of Culture, June, Maring, PR.
1987 - "Sculpture and Painting", Municipal Culture House, May, Rolndia, PR.
1987 - "Autumn Collection", Banestado Art Gallery, April to May, Londrina, PR.
1986 - "Gestures, Colors and Lights", Historic Museum of Camb, October, Camb, PR.
1986 - "Sculpture and Painting", Municipal Department of Culture, July, Londrina, PR.
1986 - "Awarded Artists 1985/1986", Gignone Bookstore, December, Londrina, PR.
1986 - "Plastic Arts at XXVI Industrial and Agriculture and Cattle Raising Exhibition", Ney Braga Exhibition Park, April, Londrina, PR.

Participation in Exhibitions on Internet
2008 - Saatchi Gallery Online (http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/27582.html)
2007 - ArtNow Online (http://www.artnowonline.com/)
2007 - WEB Biennal 2007, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum (http://webbiennial.org/galleries/g1.htm)
2007 -Kunstmaler Jesper Schytt, (http://kunstmaler.dk/artistW.htm)
2007 - Erotic Art Gallery (http://eroticartgallery.blogspot.com/2007/03/artist-joao-werner.html)
2006 - CompelloArt (http://www.compelloart.com/)
2005 - AbsolutArts (http://www.absolutearts.com/)
2005 - ViaArte (http://www.viaarte.com/)

Private and Public Monuments
a) Carved wood mural "Allegory for Life of Untitled Place". Dimensions: 18m. Period: July 1982 to December 1983. Location: Ibipor (PR).
b) Concrete mural "Shikasta" (front). Dimensions: 8 m. Period: November 1985 to January 1986. Location: Ibipor (PR).
c) Concrete sculpture "Tribute for Rural Worker" (currently disappeared). Dimensions: 100 x 100 x 250cm. Period: July to December 1986. Location: Camb (PR).
d) Wood sculpture "Dead Christ". Dimensions: 80 x 60 x 200cm. Period: October 1987 to April 1988. Location: Mother Church of Nossa Senhora da Paz, Ibipor (PR).
e) Concrete sculpture "Abstrata". Dimensions: 80 x 80 x 150cm. Period: June to September 1987. Location: Londrina (PR).

Critical Fortune Texts of Art Critics
Adalice Arajo, "Sculptures and Paintings of Joo Werner", Gazeta do Povo Newspaper, Curitiba (PR), April 05, 1987.
Oscar D'Ambrosio, "Between the cistern and the fountain", about the Cinzas painting series, published in the exhibition invitation, Jos Antnio Teodoro Hall, Municipal Office of Culture, Londrina, September 20, 2007.

Critical Fortune Texts of Journalists
Nelson Sato, "From canvas to paper", Folha de Londrina Newspaper, "Folha 2" Section, p. 1, Londrina, July 19, 2009.
Paulo Briguet, "Images of city and field", Jornal de Londrina Newspaper, "Enjoy yourself" Section, p. 18, Londrina, July 16, 2009.
Deanne Lee Meiresonne, "Brazil Artist Joao Werner Weaves Stories, Emotions", published at NewsBlaze.com and The Student Operated Press.
Paulo Briguet, "Travel to the capital of great art", Jornal de Londrina Newspaper, p. 19, December 18, 2007.
Nelson Sato, "Visual futurism - Digital paintings are an international highlight", Folha de Londrina Newspaper, Folha 2 Section, p. 1, December 18, 2007.
Ranulfo Pedreiro, "Digital art conquers Florence", Jornal de Londrina Newspaper, p. 17, November 18, 2007.
Adriana Marques, "The residues are 'Cinzas'", Perfil Magazine, year 3 no. 8, Londrina (PR), October 2007, p. 22-23.
Nelson Sato, "Aesthetics contrary", Folha de Londrina Newspaper, Folha 2 Section, p. 1, September 20, 2007.
Paulo Briguet, "Variations around one color", Jornal de Londrina Newspaper, p. 17, September 20, 2007, Londrina (PR).
Paulo Briguet, "From figurativeness to abstract", Jornal de Londrina Newspaper, Culture Section, p. 1, October 09, 2005.
Nelson Sato, "The mature harvest of Joo Werner", Folha de Londrina Newspaper, Folha 2 Section, p. 1, April 15, 2005.
Ranulfo Pedreiro, "Man in art center", Jornal de Londrina Newspaper, Culture Section, p. 12, April 15, 2005.
Ranulfo Pedreiro, "Figures in evidence", Jornal de Londrina Newspaper, Culture Section, p. 4c, March 31, 2004.
Dulcinia Novaes, "Joo artist", Folha de Londrina Newspaper, Section 2, p. 13, August 09, 1984.

Critical Fortune Other Authors
Henrique Arago, "Joo Werner", Text for presenting the invitation from the "Sculpture and Painting" exhibition, Londrina, 1986.
JosJlio Azevedo, "Homage to the rural worker", Sculpture catalog presentation, 12/30/1986, Camb (PR).
Klber Ferraz Monteiro, "The finger of Gutei", Sculpture presentation in the Catalog at II State Hall of Plastic Arts. November 1984, Ibipor (PR).

Entry
Encyclopedia of Visual Arts, Instituto Ita Cultural
Encyclopedia of Visual Arts, Jlio Louzada

I have worked with paintings and sculptures for 27 years (since 1982). I started as a woodcarver and then I learnt many techniques, specially the cement sculpture and oil on canvas. Although these techniques are different in expression, I feel comfortable with both of them.

In 2006, I started to try digital art that is directly made with software. In my opinion, digital art is expressively similar to the traditional painting techniques. Many times, a digital painting seems to have been made with brushes and paint, for example. I am not a traditionalist or even an apocalyptic. I believe that the traditional techniques are going to live together with the new digital techniques, as it has always been in art history.

All my work is based on how I imagine and intuit the human being. I am not able to work on a made-to-order basis, unless this order consists of total freedom. I am not able to dream the peoples dream. Even though my paintings seem to show the opposite, I do not make an art of social denunciation. I define my work as a result of moving imagination, that is, as a fruit of the attention I dedicate to the flow of images running on me that are emotionally tinged by the human drama, poverty and cheap fun.
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