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Cuiabá, Brazil, 1978.
Lives and works in Cuiabá, Brazil.
Represented by Galeria Mirante das Artes.
PIPA Prize 2018 nominee.
Works in the PIPA Institute Collection
BABU78 (Adão Silva Segundo), is a draughtsman, graffiti and visual artist, and also an art educator in graffiti workshops. Currently, BABU78’s production is divided between street murals and studio paintings, drawings and illustrations. Amongst his recent solo exhibitions, in Brazil, are: “Abissal”, Blaze Gallery, São Paulo, 2016; “A Casa do Parque”, Cuiabá; “Caótico”, SESC Amazônia das Artes, Galeria do SESC, Palmas, Rondônia, Teresina, Macapá and Boa Vista, 2012. He has participated in several group shows, including the most recent: “Irigaray Arte Cidade”, Palácio da Instrução, Cuiabá, MT; 2016; 25º Salão Jovem Arte Matogrossense, Palácio da Instrução, Cuiabá, MT, 2016; “Projeto Liberdade Assistida”, Galeria Silva Freire OAB-MT, Cuiabá, MT, 2015.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2018:
BABU78 (Adão Silva Segundo), is a draughtsman, graffiti and visual artist, and also an art educator in graffiti workshops. Currently, BABU78’s production is divided between street murals and studio paintings, drawings and illustrations.He participated in the group shows: “Chapada Mostra Suas Cores”, Galeria da Secretaria de Turismo, Chapada dos Guimarães, MT. 2002; “Projeto Artífice”, Galeria da Secretaria de Estado de Cultura de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, MT, 2003; 1o Salão Hélio Melo Rio Branco, AC, 2005; “Arte no Acre”, Galeria do SESC, Rio Branco, AC, 2006; 3º Salão Hélio Melo Galeria Juvenal Antunes, Rio Branco, AC, 2008; “Marginal Graffiti”, SESC Arsenal, Cuiabá, MT, 2011; “Invisíveis”, Museu de Arte e de Cultura Popular da UFMT, Cuiabá, MT, 2012; Mostra de Arte Contemporânea de Mato Grosso, Palácio da Instrução, Cuiabá, MT, 2013; “EX10CIL”, Galeria A7MA, São Paulo- SP, 2013; Salão de Arte Mato-grossense, Palácio da Instrução, Cuiabá, MT, 2013; “Projeto Liberdade Assistida”, Galeria Silva Freire OAB-MT, Cuiabá, MT, 2015; “Irigaray Arte Cidade”, Palácio da Instrução, Cuiabá, MT; 2016; 25º Salão Jovem Arte Matogrossense, Palácio da Instrução, Cuiabá, MT, 2016. Amongst his solo exhibitions are: “Cotidiano”, Galeria da Secretaria de Estado de Cultura de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá – MT, 2003; “Povo Brasileiro”, Galeria do SESC, Rio Branco, AC, 2006; “Impressões”, Galeria Juvenal Antunes, Rio Branco, AC, 2007; Caótico, Galeria do SESC, Rio Branco AC, 2011; Caótico (SESC Amazônia das Artes), Galeria do SESC, Palma, TO, Rondônia, RO, Teresina, PI, Macapá, AM, Boa Vista, RR, 2012; “Profundidade”, A Casa do Parque, Cuiabá, MT, 2016; “Abissal”, Blaze Gallery, São Paulo, SP, 2016.
Participation as graffiti artist or graffiti workshop trainer in the following events:
2018
– “Street of Style”, Curitiba, Brazil
– “BTC (Bahia de Todas as Cores) “, Candeias, Brazil
2017
– “Meeting of Favela 12 anos”, Vila Operária, Brazil
– “Meeting Of Style-Bolivia”, Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia
– “ACK (Arte e Cultura na Kebrada) 11 anos”, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Amazônia Walls”, Manaus, Brazil
– “UNC (União Nacional Crew)”, Manaus, Brazil
– “BTC (Bahia de Todas as Cores)”, Salvador, Brazil
2016
– “Meeting of Favela 10 anos”, Vila Operária, Brazil
– “Pimp My Carroça”, Cuiabá, Brazil
– “Pimp My Carroça”, Campo Limpo, Brazil
– “Arte e Cultura na Kebrada 11 anos”, São Miguel Paulista, Brazil
2015
– Oficina de Graffiti no “Projeto Liberdade Assistida” Centro de Ressocialização de Cuiabá, Cuiabá, Brazil
– “Setembro Freire”, Cuiabá, Brazil
– Festival “#SUBIU”, Cuiabá, Brazil
– Painel da Casa Coletiva, Cuiabá, Brazil
– Performance no Aniversário de Mato Grosso na Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá, Brazil
– Painel da Escola Adventista do CPA II, Cuiabá, Brazil
– Painel da Fachada do Grupo de Teatro Cena Onze,Cuiabá, Brazil
– Performance Ellus shoppings Pantanal e Goiabeiras, Cuiabá, Brazil
2014
– Performance Luciula Goiabeias Shopping, Cuiabá, Brazil
– Painel e Oficina Colégio Notre Dame de Lourdes, Cuiabá, Brazil
– Painel Academia PHIDIAS, Cuiabá, Brazil
– “Bailinho”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Painel do Centro Cultural da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil
– Painel Gráfica DefantiCuiabá, Brazil
– Painel “Universo das Letras”Academia Mato-grossense de Letras, Cuiabá, Brazil
2013
– Festival de Graffiti Morro Doce, São Bernardo, Brazil
– Festival de Graffiti Niggaz, Grajaú, Brazil
2011
– Pintura Painéis dos Coletivos Coca-Cola, Cuiabá e Várzea Grande, Brazil
– Oficina de Estêncil Art Marginal Graffiti, Cuiabá, Brazil
2010
– Oficina de Estêncil no Festival Chico Pop, Sala de Arte do CERB, Cuiabá, Brazil
2009
– “Colorindo Limites”, Presídio Francisco de Oliveira Conde, ala feminina, Rio Branco, Brazil
– “Rompendo Limites”, Presídio Francisco de Oliveira Conde, ala masculina, Rio Branco, Brazil
2006-2007
– Salvador Grafita, Salvador, Brazil
2004
– Centro Cultural Tucumã, Rio Branco, Brazil
BABU78 – Exhibition “PROFUNDIDADE” [“DEEPNESS”]
By Amanda Gama and Willian Gama
Art in the center, breaking the boundaries of the social isolation in the city’s outskirts – this is GRAFFITI. Known by its critical voracity, its origin comes from the Roman Empire times, although it became popular in New York, at the end of the 60s’. Graffiti was connected to street movements, urban tribes, marking their territories as well as posting complains in walls and subways through art. In Brazil, it became popular in the 70s’ with improved Brazilian styles and techniques.
Babu 78 is an urban open heart provoker, full of attitude. Babu78 carries a ‘statement-work’, self-conscious and politically active, that reflects the daily reality of a non-centered society. Denouncements posted on walls, canvas, paper or any other surface that can handle the cry for help of those living on the outskirts of luck and their own rights.
The graffiti that the artist produces locates, questions and opens a dialogue with the community, in a deep manner. The theme, not always a clear one, requires the spectator’s attention not only to the image presented but to the depicted issue that needs attention.
Babu78 quotes: “I may be a paper boat, but the sea will not swallow me.” He looks at himself and examines his own painting. All of a sudden, he faces the word DEEPNESS and realizes he was always exploring deeper meanings in his production, pushing the superficial approach of a theme. That is the starting point of one of the biggest depths known to the artist: the sea, the space, and the heart.
If “Art is the experimental exercise of freedom”, we may say that the libertarian Babu 78 exists today in Mato Grosso. His work goes beyond the canvas and the walls. In the grayish Cuiabá, it is peace in the middle of chaos. His authentic Brazilian graffiti is like the Manifesto Pau-Brasil from Oswald de Andrade; “the millionaire contribution of all mistakes. As we speak. As we are”. This is the work produced by this artist; the daily picture of our Brazil.
Amanda Gama and Willian Gama
Art Curators
July 2016
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