Cabo Frio, Brazil, 1984.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Jonas Arrabal is a Visual Artist graduated in Theater Theory from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (UNIRIO) and holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He started his artistic production in 2011 using various visual languages, such as video, installation and sculpture, setting a dialog between theater, cinema and literature. He begins his research with an investigation encompassing writing and voice, elements which compose the materiality of his works, in order to bring a reflection on a sculptural gesture, tensioning other means of image creation through narrative. In his poetical research, issues putting in evidence a different perception of temporality become relevant, in an attempt to make time visible, either through the very process of creation of the work or through the choice of materials which emphasizes the transition and the constant change of the work. It’s in the artist’s interest how the transformation of places and the continuous disappearing of things affect new perceptions and the arising of different possibilities. In Arrabal’s work, there is a shift between invisibility and visibility, between transitions and tangible erasures (either conscious or not), all in an approximation with elements of nature, putting together industrial and organic materials, proposing new mutations.
Formation
2018 – 2020
– School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EBA – UFRJ)
– Substitute Teacher, Visual Arts and Sculpture Department
2015
– Master’s degree in Visual Arts – Artistic Processes, Rio de Janeiro State University, UERJ
2014
– Development Program (School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage – Anna Bella Geiger, Fernando Cochiaralle and Marcelo Campo)
2012
– Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts/Theater Theory, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, UNIRIO
2011 – 2013
– Scholarship holder at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage
Solo Exhibitions
2019
– “The living and the dead” (Os Vivos e os Mortos), Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Vacant sea” (Mar Baldio), Marquês 456, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– “Dead volume” (Volume Morto), FIEP Cultural Center, Curitiba, Brazil
2014
– “Time symphony” (Sinfonia Tempo), Ibeu Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Foundation” (Fundação), Cultural Center of the Federal Justice, CCJF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
– “Hypothetical” (Hipotética), in collaboration with Felippe Moraes, Largo da Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “The hours don’t go by for the happy people” (As Horas Não Passam Para as Pessoas Felizes), Casamata, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2020
– “How to inhabit the present? Third act” (Como habitar o Presente? Ato 3), Simone Cadinelli Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Carioca House” (Casa Carioca), Art Museum of Rio, MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019
– “Flooding” (Inundação), Casa do Pontal Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Life is not only about the convenience of things” (A vida não é só praticidade das coisas), Silvia Cintra Gallery + Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Collection (Acervo), Luciana Caravello Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018
– “Juannio 2018”, Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Arts, Guatemala
2017
– “The sun teaches us that history is not everything”, Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong
– “From inhabiting structures” (Do Habitar Estruturas), Sancovsky Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– “The table, experience #13” (A Mesa, Experiência #13), Morro da Conceição, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Reply All” (Responder a tod_s), Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
– “Reply All”, Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester School of Art. Manchester, England
– “Disorder” (Desordem), Galpão Baró, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Permanencies and destructions” (Permanências e Destruições), Urban intervention project at the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– 10th Biennial of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “Transpoetics” (Transpoéticas), Sesc Ramos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Transitions and falls” (Transição e Queda), Ecarta Foundation, Porto Alegre; Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Abre Alas” 11, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Fifth exhibition”, School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
– “Cracks” (Frestas), Triennial of Arts, Sesc Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil
– “The father’s house” (A Casa do Pai), Casa Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Surf Skate/Slip” (Deslize), Art Museum of Rio, MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
– “Love” (Amor), Benjamin Constant House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– XIII National Art Fair of Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil
– “Venus” (Vênus), Terra, Ipanema Theater, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011
– 42nd Novíssimos Fair, Ibeu Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Works in Collections
– Osage Art Foundation
– Mar – Art Museum of Rio
– Ibeu Gallery
Awards, Art Fairs, Public Notices and Residencies
2019
– “Vacancy” (Temos Vagas), Atelier 397, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
– Encouragement to creation, experimentation and artistic creation program – FAPERJ/Culture Department of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
2015
– Live the art (Viva a Arte)
– Mayor’s Office of Rio de Janeiro (with Luiza Baldan)
– Selected by Funarte’s National Program, Visual Arts, 11th Edition (with Eduardo Montelli and Mayra Martins Redin)
– Selected to “Abre Alas 11” – A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
– Selected by the Public Notice of Contemporary Arts, SESI Curitiba, Brazil
– Selected by the Development Program – EAV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
– Selected to the Art Fair of Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil
– Selected by the Exhibition Program of Ibeu Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
– Selected to NOVÍSSIMOS Art Fair – Ibeu Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Publication of the short story “All of the ways” by Oito e Meio publisher, in “A Polêmica Vida do Amor” collection
– Honorable Mention – 42nd Novíssimos Visual Art Fair, Ibeu Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Publications
2016
– “Derivers” (Derivadores), with Luiza Baldan, Automática Publisher (October of 2016)
2015
– “Transitions and falls” (Transição e Queda), with Eduardo Montelli and Mayra Martins Redin, Pingado Prés Publisher
