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Feira de Santana, Brazil, 1959.
Lives and works in Salvador, Brazil.
Represented by Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte.
PIPA 2011, 2015 nominee.
Caetano Dias is a multi-media artist with more than twenty years’ experience. He began his career with experimentations in painting, using skin as a reference. In the 1990s, he began using photography to express his developing poetics. He approximated the erotic and the sacred with images appropriated from the Internet in his photographic series Santos Populares (Folk Saints).
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, Caetano began producing a series of installations, sculptures and videos that more deeply explored the body/identity and sacred/sexuality relationship. He did this by working with world cultural icons in dialogue with serious social-cultural issues of the state of Bahia and Brazil. With his video Uma (One) depicting scenes between a couple caught on a beach in Salvador, he took part in the First Latin-American Film Festival of São Paulo, in 2005, and in the Interconnect exhibit, organized by ZKM, a German media and art center, in 2006.
Caetano has taken part in the Mercosur, Valencia and Buenos Aires Biennials and the BelleVille/Nuit Blanche Biennial in Paris, and exhibited at group and solo shows in Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Spain, Cuba, the United States and Canada. His work has been acquired by institutions like the Inter-American Development Bank (Brasília), the Assis Chateaubriand Collection, Casa de las Américas (Cuba), the Museums of Modern Art in Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, the Afro-Brazil Museum (São Paulo), and the Berardo Museum (Lisbon), among others.
Video produced by Matrioska Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2011:
“1978 – Cidade Submersa” (“Submerged City”), Teaser. Duration: 57″
“Passeio Neoconcreto I” (“Neoconcrete Walk”), Recording of video installation. Duration: 2’02”
“Passeio Neoconcreto II” (“Neoconcrete Walk”), Recording of video installation. Duration: 24″
“O Mundo de Janiele” (“Janiele’s World”). Duration: 56″
“O Mundo de Janiele” (“Janiele’s World”), Recording of video installation. Duration: 3’05”
“Rebeca”, Teaser. Duration: 3′
“Águas” (“Water”). Duration:1’20”
“Lago” (“Lake”), Teaser. Duration: 48″
“Oxalá”. Duration: 1’05”
“Canto Doce Pequeno Labirinto – parte 1” (“Sweet Song Small Labyrinth – part 1”). Duration: 8’26”
“Canto Doce Pequeno Labirinto – parte 2” (“Sweet Song Small Labyrinth – part 2”). Duration: 9’59”
“Bicho Geográfico” (“Geographic Beast”), Teaser. Duration: 3’22”
Solo Exhibitions
2010
-Marília Razuk Art Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Paulo Darzé Art Gallery, Salvador, Brazil.
-Museum of Contemporary Art of Fortaleza, Brazil.
-Museum Palácio da Aclamação, Salvador, Brazil.
2006
-Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2004
-Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2003
-Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2001
-Marília Razuk Art Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
Group Exhibitions
2015
-“Alimentário – Arte e patrimônio alimentar brasileiro”, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro and Oca Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Frestas” – I Visual Arts Trienal, SESC, Sorocaba, Brazil.
-“Do Valongo à Favela – Imaginario e periferia”, Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Expedição Terra”, III Biennial of Bahia, Canudos, Brazil.
2013
-XVIII SESC/Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012
-“Eu fui o que tu és e tu serás o que eu sou”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Da solidão do lugar a um horizonte de fugas”, Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.
2011
-XVI Biennial de Arte de Cerveira, Portugal.
-“Art In Brazil (1950/2011)”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Belgium.
2010
-“Tékhne”, Museu de Arte Brasileira da Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.
-II Triennial of Luanda, Angola.
2009
-“Continents à La derive”, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussilon, Séte, France.
-“Paisagens Oblíquas”, Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.
2007
-“Art Supernova”, Art Basel Miami, USA.
-Biennial of Valencia, Spain.
2006
-29th Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Interconnect@between attention and immersion”, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany.
-“Panorama da Arte Brasileira”, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
2005
-“Discover Brazil”, Ludwig Museum, Coblence, Germany.
2001
-III Visual Arts Biennial of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-“Rede de Tensão”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
Awards & Residencies
-Residency LabMIS, São Paulo, Brazil.
-XVI SESC/Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Le Fresnoy, France.
-Award, VII Salão, Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, Brazil with the video “Rebeca”.
-XVIII SESC/Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Fundação Itabunense de Cultura e Cidadania da Bahia and Associação Brasileira de Cinematografia, VII Salão Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, Brazil.
Caetano has carried out urban interventions and videos that engage in a dialogue with the public, such as Pequeno Labirinto – Canto Doce (Small Labyrinth – Sweet Corner), included in the 2007 Videobrasil International Festival, in which the artist built two walls made of sugar in the middle of a busy urban train station on the outskirts of Salvador.
Together with Paulo Darzé Art Gallery, his representative in Bahia, and Marília Razuk Art Gallery, his former representative in São Paulo, the artist has exhibited many times at ARCO – International Contemporary Art Fair, in Madrid, and at Art Basel Miami Beach, in the United States. In 2009, he won the Le Fresnoy Audiovisual Creation Award (France) through the Videobrazil Association. With his video O Mundo de Janiele (Janiele’s World) he took part in the “Por um Fio” (By a Thread) exhibit at CPFL Cultural Center (Campinas, Brazil), “Continentes a deriva” (Continents Adrift – Sète, France), “Paisagens Obliquas” (Oblique Landscapes – Faro, Portugal), and at the Paço das Artes museum (São Paulo, Brazil).
In 2010, he had two solo shows: Bicho Geográfico (Geographic Beast), a site- specific installation at Acclamation Palace, an eighteenth century building, in which the artist gave a unique reading of Brazilian historical icons; and Transverso (Transverse), at Paulo Darzé Gallery, which gathered projects about the end of modernist utopias.
In the 2010 video-art piece 1978 – Cidade Submersa (1978 – Submerged City), the artist used the former city of Remanso, submerged after the construction of the Sobradinho dam, as the background for discussing memory- and identity-related questions. He has been featured by the Bahia Museum of Modern Art’s Cinema de Artista film project. Also in 2010, he took part in several group shows, such as the Second Triennial of Luanda and “Ponto de Equilíbrio” (Balance Point), at Tomie Otake Institute. The artist also participated in the Los Angeles Art Fair, in 2011.
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