Photo Paulo Dourado
Marcelo Solá was born in Goiânia, Brazil in 1971
The territory of Solá’s work is an expanded drawing beyond its habitual semantic coordinates. It´s origin and destine. With an invasion of size, scale, support and space, calligraphy becoming drawing and vice-versa, he interchanges the graphic signs and free space where it is made, often a huge piece of paper (almost like a poster) and in a state of installation.
All his profuse activity usually transpires on all sides a personal and contextual questioning, since that, like in a seismography that at the same time is invasive and malleable, mutant and metaphorical, it dialogues with gaps, empty spaces and rough, dirty, scratched representations (with a hint of street graffiti ), freely and almost chaotically connected , as if there was a heteronomy between reality and origins, contracting into the aesthetical questioning of a journal, a stained biography, invaded by that which it registers. His Caderno de Viagem, Nova York (Traveling notebook, New York) (2007), for instance, lives from this open, multiple, polyphonic tension. His large-size drawings (always allied to several techniques), also present her, keep the same biographical trend.
Text by Adolfo Montejo Navas for the exhibition Heteronomy Brazil, Casa de America Museum. May/September, Madrid 2008
Main Individual Exhibitions
2017
Goiânia Art Museum (MAG), Goiânia, Brazil
Orlando Lemos Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Karla Osório Gallery, Brasília, Brazil
2015
Luciana Caravello Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
Karla Osório Gallery, Brasília, Brazil
2010
Goiás Contemporary Art Museum (MAC Goiás), Goiânia, Brazil
Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center, Goiânia, Brazil
Casa de Cultura Laura Alvin Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009
Novaartenova, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Novaartenova, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB), São Paulo, Brazil
Virgilio Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Aloísio Magalhães Modern Art Museum (MAMAM), Recife, Brazil
2005
National Art Foundation – Funarte, Brasília, Brazil
1999
Casa Triângulo Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
1997
Fine Arts National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
São Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
Main Collective Exhibitions
2018
aestival 2018, Ricardo Fernandes Gallery at Centre Culturel Cloître des Billettes, Paris, France
2017
Luciana Caravello Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
O Útero do Mundo (The Womb of the World), Modern Art Museum of São Paulo (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil
2013
Blind Field, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA
2009
Heteronímia, Casa de América Museum, Madrid, Spain
2006
10+1: Os Anos Recentes da Arte Brasileira (Recent Years of Brazilian Art), Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
2004
New Acquisitions of Gilberto Chateaubriand’s Art Collection, Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MAM RIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2002
25º São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
2001
Drawing Center, New York, USA
1999
Panorama of Contemporary Brazilian Art on Paper, Modern Art Museum of São Paulo (MAM SP), São Paulo, Brazil
1998
XVI Fine Art National Salon, Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brasília Visual Arts Prize, Brasília Art Museum, Brazil
Main Prizes
1998
Brasília Visual Arts Prize, Brasília Art Museum, Brazil
1992
II Biennial Arts Prize of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
Main Museums, Institutions and Galleries Collections
Gilberto Chateaubriant Collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Figueiredo Ferraz Institute, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Casa Triângulo Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Luciana Caravello Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio Art Museum (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aloísio Magalhães Modern Art Museum (MAMAM), Recife, Brazil
São Paulo Modern Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Main Private Collections
Fernanda Montenegro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sérgio Carvalho, Brasília, Brazil
Museum Catalogues
Goiás Contemporary Art Museum 2014 (English + Português Brasileiro)
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás 2014
Goiás Contemporary Art Museum 2017 (English + Português Brasileiro)