(this page was last updated in November 2021)
Brasília, Brazil, 1986.
Lives and works in Brasília, Brazil.
Represented by Foro.Space and Raquel Arnaud Gallery.
PIPA 2019 and 2020 nominee.
João Trevisan holds a bachelor’s degree in Law. His work consists in exploring questions related to the inherent characteristics of matter, weight, lightness, articulation, balance and politics. As a Visual artist, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions since 2014. In 2019, he showed his third solo show “Corpo, breveinstante”, at the Karla Osório gallery, in Brasilia, curated by Malu Serafim. In the year 2018 he held his second solo exhibition curated by the artist Bené Fonteles at Galeria Decurators; he also participated in the exhibition Brasília Extemporânea curated by Ana Avellar; participated in the 43rd Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Nacional Contemporâneo; and 46th Luiz Sacilotto Salão de Arte Contemporânea, in Santo André / SP; 15th Salão de Arte de Ubatuba, SP; exhibition at the Ouro Preto Art Foundation – FAOP in Ouro Preto / MG.
Website: joaotrevisan.carbonmade.com
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA Prize 2020:
“Objeto que comporta pelo diálogo”, 2018. Duration: 10’16’’
“Estrutura articulado que curva pela força”, 2017. Duration: 10’55’’
“Ensaio sobre a curva nº2”, 2018. Duration: 11’37’’
Making use of elements found on the railroad tracks, João puts them together and organizes them in different ways originating new bodies; his pieces, either they are created by the space between iron plates that stand with the help of nails, by his paintings with black backgrounds and vertical lines of diverse densities or even by small slats with oil paint, reflect on gaps.
Almost as a music score, in which the reading of what is present happens through the empty space, the gap. Among the solo exhibitions are: “Corpo-trajeto”, Instituto Adelina (São Paulo, SP, 2019) curated by Mario Gioia; “Corpo, breve instante”, Galeria Karla Osório (Brasília, DF, 2019) curated by Malu Serafim; “Descarrilho, decurators” (Brasília, DF, 2018) and “Estrutura gestual”, Galeria xxx arte contemporânea (Brasília, DF, 2017).
Among the group shows are: “Eu o outro”, Galeria Manoóbra (Brasília, DF, 2019); “Métrica”, Galeria Oma (Brasília, DF, 2018); “[Re]invenções”, Elefante Centro Cultural (Brasília, DF, 2018); “Brasília extemporânea”, Casa Niemeyer (Brasília, DF, 2018); 43º Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Nacional Contemporâneo, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (Ribeirão Preto, SP, 2018); Eixo do Fora, Salão / Residência, Museu Nacional da República (Brasília, DF, 2017), and more.
Among the prizes, scholarships and residencies that participated in are: Casero, artistic residency – guest artist (Itatiaia, RJ, 2019), nominated for the PIPA Prize 2019 and Eixo do Fora, prêmio aquisição (Brasília, DF, 2017).
Among the public collections are: MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; MUN – Museu Nacional da República de Brasília – Brasília, DF; MARP – Museu de arte de Ribeirão Preto – Ribeirão Preto, SP.
Critical Texts:
– ‘Corpo-trajeto (Body-journey)’, by Mario Gioia (English)
– ‘Descarrilho’, by Bené Fonteles (English)
Education
– Bachelor’s Degree in Law
– License Degree in Geography
Solo Exhibitions
2021
– Das conversar noturnas – curator Bené Fonteles – Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo – São Paulo, Brazil
– Body and Soul – curator Simon Watson, MAS – São Paulo Museum of Sacred Art – São Paulo, Brazil
2020
– ‘Das Noites percorridas’, curadoria Carollina Lauriano, Galeria Karla Osório, Brasília, Brazil
– ‘Das noites uma livre sensação’, curated by Ulisses Carillho, Galeria Central, São Paulo, Brazil
– ‘Da repetição ao silêncio’, curated by Ana Avelar, Foro.space, Bogotá, Colombia
2019
– “Corpo, Trajeto”, curated by Mario Gioia, Instituto Adelina Cultural, SP
– “Corpo, Breve instante”, curated by Malu Serafim, Galeria Karla Osório, Brasília, Brazil
2018
– “Descarrilho”, curated by Bené Fonteles, Decurators, Brasília, Brazil
2017
– “Estrutura Gestual”, curated by Renato Lins, Galeria XXX Arte contemporânea, Brasília, Brazil
Group shows
2021
– “Rising Bodies” – Forever is Now Art D’ Égypyte – Cairo, Egypt.
– “Tangled Structures” – Downton, Cairo, Egypt.
– “Esperança” – Museum of Sacred Art of São Paulo – MAS -SP
– “O Sertão” – Slag Gallery – New York, United States – USA.
– “25th Anapolino Art Salon” – curated by Paulo Henrique Silva, CCUFG, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
2020
– “The Substance of the Earth: The Sertão” – curated Simon Watson, National Museum of the Republic, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil.
– “Terra”, curated Simon Watson, Central Gallery, São Paulo, SP , Brazil.
– “25th Anapolino Art Salon” – curated Paulo Henrique Silva, Antônio sibasolly Gallery, Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil.
– “Curare”, occupation 12. Casa Gallery, curated by Gisel Carriconde and Mariana Destro, Brasilia, Brazil.
2019
– ‘Triangular – arte deste século’, curated by Ana Avelar e Gisele Lima, Casa Niemeyer, Brasília, Brazil
– ‘Doações’, curated by Charles Cosac, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
– “Sobrefalas”, curated by Cínara Barbosa, Galeria Casa
– “Abraço coletivo”, curated by Paula Borghi, Ateliê 397
– “Eu, e outros”, curated by Bené Fonteles, Galeria Manoobra
2018
– “Métrica”, curated by Gisele Lima, Galeria Oma, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
– “[RE]INVENÇÕES”, Elefante Centro Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
– “Brasília Extemporânea”, curated by Ana Avelar, Casa Niemeyer, Casa de Cultura da América Latina, CAL, Brasília, Brazil
– 15º Salão de Ubatuba de Artes Visuais, Ubatuba, Brazil
– “A forma é matéria”, Galeria Nello Nuno, FAOP, Ouro Preto, Brazil
– “A forma é sempre ideológica, Pinacoteca da Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
– “Acervo coletivo de artistas”, Galeria Referencia, Brasília, Brazil
– “Possíveis Geometrias”, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
– 43º Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Nacional Contemporâneo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
– “Onde anda a onda III”, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, Brazil
– 46º Salão de Arte Contemporânea Luiz Sacilotto, Santo André, Brazil
– “A Você Mostrarei”, Elefante Centro Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
2017
– “Eixo do Fora”, Salão/residência, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
2016
– “Onde anda a onda II”. Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
2015
– “NOMEN”, Galeria objeto encontrado, Brasília, Brazil
– “Onde anda a onda de novo”, Galeria objeto encontrado, Brasília, Brazil
– “Onde anda a onda I”, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
– “Acervo Coletivo de artistas”, Galeria Objeto Encontrado, Brasília, Brazil
2014
– “INACTU”, 3ª Edição, Galeria 406 norte, UNB, Brasília, Brazil
Awards and Residences
2021
– AIR – residence project – São Paulo – SP
– Installation project at pinheiros river bike path – SP
2020
– Nominated for the PIPA Award – RJ
2019
– IV Reynaldo Roels Jr. Park Laje Award, 1st phase, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Nominated for the PIPA Prize – RJ
– Casero – artistic residence – invited artist – Itatiaia, Brazil
2017
– Eixo do fora – acquisition award – Brasília, Brazil
– Residency olhos D’agua, Goiás, Brazil.
Works in collection.
– MAR – Rio de Janeiro Art Museum – RJ
– MUN – National Museum of the Republic of Brasilia – DF
– MARP – Ribeirao Preto Museum of Art – SP
– CAL – House of Culture of Latin America – DF
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