Paulo Almeida

About

Paulo Almeida develops a work that is largely conceptual, procedural and in close relationship with the environments that surround him - notably, the art one. The artist has been working mainly with painting, linking it directly to the space-time context that involves it using constructive strategies usually related to other languages - such as photography, video, performance, installation and site specific practices -, and using it as a way to critically position himself over the art system when revealing its commonly implicit mechanisms of visibility and legitimacy.

Focused on a metalinguistic approach to art and its social system, the artist has been keeping a work process that consists in the research and bring to the present of the history - recent or not - of the site where it will be displayed, procedure performed by adaptation to the specific context of each work, always incorporating new strategies and giving to his paintings a strong site specific nature, where the construction process is emphasized rather than the final product. In paintings developed through the constant overlapping of images resulting from their own exhibition’s contexts, the artist shows the polyphony of the art and the world, metaphorizing the usually complex network of efforts that compounds it and that tends to cancel memories rather than news, by a permanent selection dynamic, combination, overlapping and erasure, in accordance with the globalization procedures.

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Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Work

São Paulo, 1977. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Residencies

2009

Centro Nacional de las Artes and Centro de las Artes San Agustin Etla, Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico. Supported by Programa de Residencias Artisticas para Creadores de Iberoamerica y Haiti en México - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes - FONCA - and Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo - AECI

2008

El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Solo Exhibitions

2012

Reflecting the Museums, Galeria Leme - São Paulo, Brazil.

2008

Individual Simultânea, Project Room Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil.

2007

Coletiva 17.11.2004_13.01.2007, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil.

Group Exhibitions

2012

Espelho Refletido, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Arte Visual Iberoamericano , Universidad del Arte Ganexa, Panamá

Arte Visual Iberoamericano, Centro Cultural Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Embaixada do Mexico, Guatemala

63° Salão de Abril – A Cidade e suas Desconexões Antrópicas, Museu de Arte Contempôranea do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Black Market / 2ª Temporada de Projetos 2012, Paço das Artes – São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2011

Reflecting The Collection, 15º Cultura Inglesa Festival, Centro Brasileiro Britânico, São Paulo, Brazil

Sem Limites, Sim Galeria, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Arte Visual Iberoamericano, Sala Nacional de Exposiciones Salarrué, San Salvador, El Salvador

Arte Visual Iberoamericano, Instituto Cultural Mexicano, San José,Costa Rica

Arte Visual Americano, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, El Salvador

Carnavalesque – wrestling with a mirror image created by others, World Bank Art Program “About Change”, Washington D.C, USA

Hermes, Ateliê Carla Chaim, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2010

II Mostra Iberoamericana de Arte, Centro Cultural de España en México – CCE-MX, Mexico City, Mexico

Carnavalesque - wrestling with a mirror image created by others, World Bank Art Program "About Change", Washington D.C, USA

2009

II Mostra Iberoamericana de Arte -Centro Nacional de las Artes - CENARTE

Cidade do México, Mexico

Taller Abierto - Centro de Artes de San Agutín – CASA, San Agustin de Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico

63º Salão Paranaense, MAC Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Obra Menor, Ateliê 397, São Paulo, Brazil

2008

III Mostra da Temporada de exposições do CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil

Arte pela Amazônia – Arte e Atitude, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2007

La Espiral de Moebius o los Limites de la Pintura, curated by Claudia Laudanno, Centro Cultural Parque de Espanha / Agencia Espanhola de Coperación Internacional / CCPE / AECI, Rosario, Argentina

Recortar e Colar | CRTL+C_ CRTL+V, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo

Biennial of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador

2006

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiânia, Centro Cultural Oscar Niemayer, Goiânia, Brazil

Paralela 2006, Pavillhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.

Outros Lugares, Casa das Onze Janelas, Bélem do Pará, Brazil.

Exposição Paradoxos Brasil, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

Exposição Paradoxos, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tinta, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

2005

3rd Programa Rumos de Artes Visuais, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

2004

36th Anual de Artes Plásticas, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil

Convíveo, DAAM-FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil

Casa dos Doces, Espaço Cultural Casa do Lago, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil

LABOR III, São Paulo, Brazil

Special Projects

2008

Mapa de Las Artes BA: /01.08.2008-30.09.2008/, El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Das Curadorias: /1986-2008/, Redes de Criação, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

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