Born in São Gonçalo, Brazil, 1980.
Lives and works in Salvador, Brazil.
Born in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, Arthur Scovino moved to Salvador, Bahia, in 2008 to study at the School of Fine Arts of Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Since then, he has pursued artistic research regarding the environment, culture, and social-affective relations in Bahia, especially in Salvador. Working with many medias such as performance, installation, photography, video and drawings, Scovino investigates aesthetics and contemporary artistic thinking through performative and relational actions. His recent works talk about symbols of religion and Brazilian miscegenation.
He has participated in performance art shows, solo, and group exhibitions. In 2013, he received the award from the Visual Arts Salon of Bahia. In 2014 participated in the 3rd Bahia Biennial and the 31st São Paulo Biennial.
“Scovino’s artistic thougth conveys a unique experiential tonality, and, as a whole, his imagery creates different aesthetic shades. Almost liturgically, he plunges in an ambiguous territory, like an offering, a religious rite that jumbles eroticism, ritualism and the incorporation of mythologies as a learning strategy and a way to be in the world. He seeks an interactive advance towards the onlooker’s regard and triggers a drive through the hybrid character of his work, in a performance-bound aesthetic effort”.
-Vanda Klablin, Curator.
Solo Exhibitions
2013
-“Nhanderudson – at hidden speed”, Café & Cognac, Salvador, Brazil.
2012
-“Taking Gal Costa’s vinyls for a walk…” ACBEU Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
Group Exhibitions and Performance Art Shows
2015
-“Novos Talentos”, Contemporary Photography in Brazil, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Brazil.
-31st São Paulo Biennial – Selected works, Belo Horizonte, Cuiabá, Brazil.
-Visual Arts Salon of Bahia – Special Edition, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
2014
-31st São Paulo Biennial, Brazil.
-3rd Bahia Biennial, Salvador, Brazil.
-Visual Arts Salon of Bahia, Barreiras, Brazil.
-“30 × 30 – small formats”, Senac Pelourinho, Salvador, Bahia, and CUCA Gallery, Feira de Santana, Brazil.
2013
-Visual Arts Salon of Bahia, Teixeira de Freitas, Brazil.
-“Poeformances”, ACBEU GAllery, Salvador, Brazil.
-Visual Arts Salon of Bahia, Feira de Santana, Brazil.
-III Performance Art Show of Cañizares Gallery, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Reform and Reinvention”, project “Director’s Office”, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“LeGAL Service”, Rectory of Federal University of São Francisco Valley, Petrolina, Brazil.
– “José Dirson Argolo – o garimpeiro da arte”, Cañizares Gallery, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
2012
-“IX Franco-Brazilian Colloquium aesthetics: Image and performative body”, Cañizares Gallery, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“VISIO. redux”, ACBEU Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Paraconsistents, 25 contemporary artists of Bahia”, Goethe Institute – ICBA, Salvador, Brazil.
-“II Performance Arts Show of Cañizares Gallery”, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Mulheres de Renda Performance art Show – MAMETO Group”, Ilha de Maré, Brazil.
2011
-“Opening Kirimurê Week – BTS Project”, Museum of Religious Art, Salvador, Brazil.
-“X Apartament Festival”, Campinas, Brazil.
-“I Performance Art Show of Cañizares Gallery”, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-“Antônio, tempo, amor e tradição”, Cañizares Gallery, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
Awards
2014
-Visual Art Salon of Bahia, public prize, Barreiras, Brazil.
2013
-Visual Art Salon of Bahia, Feira de Santana, Brazil.
Collections
-Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
-ACBEU Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
