B.A. in Art by the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation Education, Henrique Cézar debuted his in collective exhibitions in 2008. The artist participated at the 2012 edition of the EDP Award in the Arts at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo; was selected for the 2012 exhibition program in the MARP – Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto; During 2011, Henrique integrated the collective exhibition Wabi-sabi at Galeria Mendes Wood, in São Paulo, curated by Thereza Farkas. In 2010, one of the members of the Second Edition of Red Bull House of Art, curated by Luisa Duarte; and in 2009 he joined the First Edition of the Open Studio, a specific program of artistic and critical monitoring of Casa Tomada, also in São Paulo.
My work approaches two very specific issues: Bringing visibility to what is not visible, and how our body relates to what apparently has no physicality. During my career, I have tried ways of shaping forces, the spaces and the seemingly invisible structures. The search for this universe of what is hidden or ignored leads me to flirt with different supports and plastic constructions. Therefore, drawing, painting, video production, and objects not only connect with the aesthetics of architecture and engineering design, but also with the visual representations of fields such as the exact and biochemical sciences.
My interest is not limited only in the power of the unknown – or what is known only by its effects – but also by images that materialize these hidden structures. Endoscopies, X-rays or even white noise can exemplify. My research is also curious about the forces that surround us, cross and invade our bodies. Dust, sound, electromagnetic waves, the supernatural, and everything about what is speculated: These are a few reasons that drive my work.
The relationship between these forces and resistance to them has been the subject of recent works. How these relationships generate voltage spaces? How do they represent social and political contexts within my daily life? The creative process also investigates this uncertain reverse about what is clear. In this context, I develop my work in an unheard-of reality, sometimes much more “real” than the one we are used to seeing.
Education 2017 – MFA, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 2008 – BFA, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil Solo Exhibittions 2015 – “Cosmologia Composta”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil 2014 – “O Vácuo e o Nada”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil – “O informante”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil 2013 – “U=RI”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil 2010 – “Trial run for a thriller”, TeTo Projects, Amsterdam, Holland Colective Exibittions 2018 – “Sobre el terra i sota”, Petit Galeria, Lleida, Spain – “Sobrecarga”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazill – “P/B”, Acervo Museu de Arte Brasileira, MAB/FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil 2017 – “Arte Atual Festival. ‘QAP: tá na escuta?'”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil – “Synthesis”, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, MNAC, Barcelona, Spain 2016 – “Coletiva 2016 – 2017″, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil – “COLETIVA*”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil 2015 – “Cidade Inquieta”, SESC São João do Rio Preto, São João do Rio Petro, Brazil 2014 – Arte Pará, Fundação Rômulo Maiorana,Belém, Brazil – “URRA”, Galeria del Infinito, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013 – “Oasis”, Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil – 44th Anual de Arte FAAP (envited artist), MAB/FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil 2012 – 44th Salão de Piracicaba, Pinacoteca, Piracicaba, Brazil – EDP Prize for the Arts, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil – Project Season, MARP, Ribeirão Preto, SP – “É preciso confrontar as imagens vagas com gestos claros”, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil 2011 – “Wabi-Sabi: nada é ensaiado”, Galeria Mendes Wood, São Paulo, Brazil 2010 – Red Bull House of Art (II Edition), São Paulo, Brazil – “Vão”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil – “EX-IT”, travelling exibittion resulting from the RAPACE residency, MARTE, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador; Alianza Francesa, Managua, Nicaragua; Centro Cultural de España, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala; Centro Cultural de España, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Institute of Mexico, San Jose, Costa Rica 2009 – “Ateliê Aberto #1″, Casa Tomada, São Paulo, Brazil 2008 – “Anarcademia”, project by Dora Longo Bahia, 28th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Residencys 2014 – “URRA”, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012 “Anarcademia”, Teto Projects in collaboration with W139 and De Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam, Holland 2011/2012 – Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France 2009 – “RAPACES”, EspIRA La Espora, Granada, Nicaragua
