(this page was last updated in May 2024)
Brasília, Brazil, 1986
Lives and works in between Brasília and São Paulo, Brazil
Represented by Foro.Space and Raquel Arnaud Gallery
PIPA 2019 and 2020 nominee
He currently works developing works on painting, sculpture and performance. He holds a Law degree and a Geography degree, having started his artistic work on 2014. His practice aims to explore issues related to objects and materials in their expression through attentive observation. On painting, Trevisan has a meticulous and prolonged process through numerous layers of preparation, paint and velatura. He explores abstract expressions of a dense analysis of spatial and temporal intervals, resulting in a personal and recognizable aesthetic system. The minor details as the brushstrokes and the dilution of paints and solvents are as thoughtful as the major decision as composition and size, on paintings that focus their concerns on the relations between light, color, depth, time, meditation and perception.
On sculpture, installation and performance, these questions are redirected to the material and immaterial features of the discarded wood beams and metal objects collected by the artist on monastic walks on the railroad bed near his house in Brasília. Using these gathered objects, Trevisan groups and orders them in different ways producing new bodies, although respecting their previous states of existence, in a dialogue between the materiality and spirituality of things and human perception and relation with the cosmos. By a deep connection with the land and with his hometown landscape, Trevisan positions these wooden bodies in arrangements that articulate about order, individuality and repetition.
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’’
João Trevisan was born in 1986 in Brasília. He currently lives and works between Brasília and São Paulo, developing works on painting, sculpture and performance. He holds a Law degree and a Geography degree, having started his artistic work on 2014. His practice aims to explore issues related to objects and materials in their expression through attentive observation. On painting, Trevisan has a meticulous and prolonged process through numerous layers of preparation, paint and velatura. He explores abstract expressions of a dense analysis of spatial and temporal intervals, resulting in a personal and recognizable aesthetic system. The minor details as the brushstrokes and the dilution of paints and solvents are as thoughtful as the major decision as composition and size, on paintings that focus their concerns on the relations between light, color, depth, time, meditation and perception.
On sculpture, installation and performance, these questions are redirected to the material and immaterial features of the discarded wood beams and metal objects collected by the artist on monastic walks on the railroad bed near his house in Brasília. Using these gathered objects, Trevisan groups and orders them in different ways producing new bodies, although respecting their previous states of existence, in a dialogue between the materiality and spirituality of things and human perception and relation with the cosmos. By a deep connection with the land and with his hometown landscape, Trevisan positions these wooden bodies in arrangements that articulate about order, individuality and repetition.
Intertwining the fields of painting and sculpture, the artist proposes a hybridism of platforms when composing paintings amongst flanking wooden objects, exploring the possibilities of opening the bidimensional aspect of the canvas to a tridimensional space, requiring the same level of time to the observer as the long period of production of the works.
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
2024
– “Strangers at Dawn”, Galerie RX, Paris, France
2023
– “O Dorso Do Tigre”. Galeria Raquel Arnaud. São Paulo, Brazil.
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
2023
– “Aos ventos que hão de vir”, Museu Nacional de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
– “O mar que eu sou, Simões de Assis”, Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
– “The Art of Disruption”, Espaço Cultura e Educacional Egípcio, Mayfair. Londres, Brazil.
– “I miss the future”, Foreland. Catskill, New York, USA.
2022
– “Um dia abri os olhos e era Brasília”. Museu de Arte de Brasília (MAB). Brasília, Brazil.
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
2022
– SWA Residency Project. New York City, USA.
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.
– Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR). Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
– Museu de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
– Museu Nacional da República. Brasília, DF.
– Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto. Ribeirão Preto, SP.
– Casa de Cultura da América Latina. Brasília, DF.
– Museu de Artes Plásticas de Anápolis. Anápolis, GO.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA Prize 2019:
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