(this page was last updated in August 2023)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Represented by Lemos de Sá Art Gallery
PIPA Prize 2023 nominee
René’s work is part of a lineage of artists who seek to explore the possibilities of painting after the technical, visual and conceptual upheavals caused by Pop Art or, even, by the tragicomic paintings of the neo-expressionists of the 1980s. Some of the names that in current art have ventured to evoke and reprocess the works of names like Warhol or Polke, without, however, fearing their singular figures and historical conquests. Prince and Wool can be seen, respectively, as a cowboy and a punk who act, with the healthy carelessness of any artist, on the pictorial plane.
René Machado acts in a similar way in “despair city”. Locked in his studio, at Casa Arlette, in Rio de Janeiro, during his intense weeks of work, he searches his own professional origins as an advertiser, and his experiences as a child of the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, assimilating them to the varied and lively imagery of urban art and , more recently, to the artistic possibilities surrounding the idea of “abstract painting” today.
His works have toured several countries and art institutions such as: Brazil, USA, Italy, Spain and France. They appear in important collections, highlighting Luciano Benetton and the Fadel collection. In 2020, he creates Casa Arlette, a center for contemporary artistic production, which, in addition to the resident artists, has become a meeting space for intellectuals from the art genres.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2023:
“ René Machado / E Daí?”, 2023. Duration 2’01”
Solo Exhibitions
2022
– “ESPAÇO CULTURAL CORREIOS / IMERSION”, Curator: Vanda Klabin, Niterói, Brazil
– “MARTHA PAGY GALLERY / RITMES”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019
– “CASA DE CULTURA LAURA ALVIM / LABUTA”, curator: Vanda Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
– “Marques 456 / ENTRE”, curator: Fernanda Lopes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “CASA DE CULTURA LAURA ALVIM /APROXIMAÇÕES”, critic: Zalinda Cartaxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
– “CASA DE CULTURA LAURA ALVIM / GESTOS”, critic: Alvaro Seixas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
– “ART BASEL”, San Paul Gallery, Miami, USA
2013
– “MUHPAN”, Museum of Pantanal History, capture, Corumbá, Brazil
2012
– “CCJF / Capture”, curator: Marco Teobaldo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2022
– “ESPAÇO TALANTE” / 7 SEPTEMBER, curator: Antonio Grassi, Lisbon, Portugal
– “CCJF – CENTRO CULTURAL JUSTIÇA FEDERAL // CENTRO MUNICIPAL DE ARTE HÉLIO OITICICA”, PARADE 7, curated by: César Oiticica Filho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “ROCK IN RIO / PALCO SUNSET”, art installation, Evandro Salles and Luiza Interlenghi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “ARTSAMPA / OCA IBIRAPUERA”, Martha Pagy Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– “GALERIA CELMA ALBUQUERQUE / APROXIMAÇÕES”, critic: Zalinda Cartaxo, Belo Horizinte, Brazil
2015
– “EXPOSIÇÃO MAPPA DELL’ARTE NUOVA DO PROJETO IMAGO MUNDI”, Luciano Benetton Collection – BRAZIL: Land of the future / CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM BRAZIL, Veneza, Italy
2013
– “CCJF / Deslocamentos SARA17”, curator: Ivair Reinaldim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
– “Galeria TAL / Coletiva Acervo Aberto”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011
– “EAV – Parque Lage, Urban Territory”, curator: Marco Teobaldo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
– “CCJF / Wall”, curator: Marco Teobaldo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009
– “Casarão do Carmo / 2.234”, curator: Gustavo Moreno ( itinerant – traveled through USA, Italy, Spain and France), Salvador, Brazil
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