Marcelo Solá


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)

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás 2017