Campinas, Brazil, 1967.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Rodrigo Bueno is the creator of the atelier Mata Adentro (Jungle Inside), name of a home/workspace, located in Lapa in São Paulo. Mata Adentro is an invitation to sensitize the dynamics of the natural space, a laboratory for the production of supports for experimentation of occult languages in the subconscious, in the multidimensions of the surroundings, in the diversity of life contained in the legacy of the natural world, source of cultivation and resilience. The studio has broken part of its concrete floor so that time and land are comfortable with each other, a place where recovered materials, mainly wood, iron, dirt and plants collected from urban waste, are transformed into installations, sculptures, paintings and environments around meeting technologies, species of gardens that speak of the continuity of life, the axis that sustains the whole, of culture in constant movement. Mata Adentro is a name chosen to expand the authorship of a single artist in actions of collective processes since we are individuals inserted in collaborative environments. The studio has shown its work in the country and abroad for more than twenty years of mostly three-dimensional, vivid and immersive works that relate to the bond of nature and humans, superimposing ancestral narratives and fluid energies.
Born in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Visual artist coordinator of the atelier Mata Adentro, a home and working space, located at Lapa districts in São Paulo.
Mata Adentro is a name chosen to expand the authorship of a single artist into actions of collective processes. The words Mata Adentro stand as a call to the inner woods, an invitation to the essencial nature seen as symbolic matter and as the subconscious as well. Mata Adentro is a lab of languages risen out of nature’s memory activations. It creates art as objects, installations and as experiences to sensitize the human to the dynamics of life. Art as keys of multidimensional senses that blossom in the diversity of identities, contained in the legacy of the natural world, source of culture and resilience.
The studio has broken part of its concrete floors so time and soil are comfortable with each other, a place where reclaimed materials, mainly wood, iron, water and plants collected from urban waste, are transformed into installations, sculptures, paintings and environments set to nurture technologies of the encounter and other tools that speak of the continuity of life, the axis that sustains wholeness and culture as constant movement.
The studio has been showing its work in Brazil and abroad for over twenty years, it is a production of mostly three-dimensional, vivid and immersive works that relate to the oneness of nature and humans, interweaving ancestral narratives and fluid energies.
Solo shows
2020
– Itinerância Prêmio Marco Antonio Vilaça, Palácio da Artes, Belo horizonte, Brazil
2019
– “Clareira”, Loja Hermés, Shopping Iguatemi, Brazil
– “SOLO MOITAS”, Art Rio, curated y Sandra Hegedus, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Convivio”, Sesc Ribeirão Preto, Feira Literaria Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2018
– “Hora do Levante”, curated by Josué Mattos, CAC W Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
– “Sai da moita, arte, resistência e ancestralidade”, curated by Fábio Delduque, SESC Presidente Prudente, Brazil
2017
– “The Revenant Room (Recanto Catiço)”, Solo project at Miami Basel, USA
2016
– “Zona da Mata”, Goethe Institut, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Solo project Art Bo”, Bogotá, Colombia
– “A Ferro e Fogo”, Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil
– Solo Art Lima “Lo que no tiene de Inga, tiene de de Mandinga”, Lima, Peru
2015
– “Rebentos – Work.in.Process”, Galeria Emma Thomas, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– Selected finalist for the Arcos Dorados Prize, ART BA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013
– “Vida Nova”, curated by Agnaldo Farias, Galeria Emma Thomas, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Sangoma”, Capulanas Cia de Arte Negra, Jardim São Luis, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Terra Prometida”, SESC Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
– “Matuto ao Cubo”, Estúdio Buck, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Festival Encantado”, Alto da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011
– “Trato Letrado”, SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Proyecto 100 años Bellas Artes”, Medellín, Colombia
2007
– “Jardín del Encuentro”, MDE07, Medellín, Colombia
2003
– “Batida Sagrada”, Mata Adentro, São Paulo, Brazil
2002
– “Ageum do Batuque”, Favela Chic, Paris, France
1997
– “Gêmeos”, Galeria Passado Composto, São Paulo, Brazil
Group shows
2021
-“Zona da Mata”, curated by Ana Magalhaes, Marta Bogéa, and Cauê Alves, MAM glass room, from October 26, 2021 to February 2022 and at MAC USP from June 2021 to February 2022
-“Enciclopédia Negra”, curated by Lilia Schwarcz, Jaime Lauriano and Flávio dos Santos Gomes, Pinacoteca
2019
– “Vencedor 7o Prêmio Marco Antonio Vilaça”, FAAP, Brazil
– “Curupira”, curated by Cauê Alves, Arte Ambiental, MUBE, Brazil
– “Vai Vém”, curated by Raphael Fonseca, CCBB, SP, Brasil + 5 CAPITAIS
– “OUNJÉ Alimento dos Orixas”, Sesc Ipiranga, Brazil
– “Diálogos Imprevistos com Ruy Teixeira”, Passado Composto Século XX, Brazil
– “O que não é floresta, é preso politico”, collective curatorship, Galeria Ocupa, Ocupação 9 de julho, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
– “Symbol l”, curated by Maria Catarina Duncan, Leme Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– “Implosão, Trans(relacion)ando Hubert Fichte”, Museum of Modern Art of Salvador and Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Nada levarei quando morrer, aqueles que me devem cobrarei no inferno”, curated by Solange Farkas and Gabriel Bogosian, Associação Vídeo Brasil, Galpão Vila Leopoldina, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
– “Transparência e Reflexo”, curated by Cauê Alves, MUBE, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Barravento”, installation, “Provocar Urbanos”, SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
– “Cruzeiro do Sul”, curated by Gabriel Bogosian, Paço das Artes, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Made By….Feito por Brasileiros”, curated by Marc Pottier, Antigo Hospital Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil
– SAM Art Projects au Centre d’Art de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
– “Experimentando Espaços”, curated by Agnaldo Farias, Museum of Brazilian Home, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Repentista”, Nosco Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013
– “Nosco Gallery VISTA Project”, Nosco Gallery, Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Parque das Transgressões”, curated by Agnaldo Farias, Galeria SIM, Curitiba, Brazil
– “My waste is your waste”, curated by Joanna van der Zanden and Mara Gama, MOTI Museum of Breda, Netherlands
2012
– “Arte e Gastronomia, Oferenda”, curated by Felipe Chaimovitch, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil
– “Em Aberto”, Phosphurus, curated by Maria Monteiro, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Quilombo de Solano”, Alceu Amoroso Lima Library, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Ponto de Equilíbrio”, curated by Agnaldo Farias and Jacopo Visconti Criveli, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Ecológica”, curated by Felipe Chaimovitch, Museu of Modern Art of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
– “Visumix”, curated by Fábio Delduque, Praça Roosevelt, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Installation and Live painting”, São Paulo Fashion Week, Bienal Building, São Paulo, Brazil
2008
– Cape Africa Platforms, Cape Town, South Africa
– 28o Bienal of São Paulo, SP, Bienal – OFF Bienal collective performance “Bate Folha para Zumbi”, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Mboraí Ocara”, Galeria Vermelho gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
– “Homens Trabalhando”, Florenceantonio gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Casa dos Macacos”, Florenceantonio gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– Centenário Solano Trindade, Teatro Popular, Embu das Artes, Brazil
2006
– Espaço SPFW/TIM/Julho, SP Fashion Week, São Paulo, Brazil
2003
– “Passado Composto Século XX”, São Paulo, Brazil
2002
– 10o Salão de Arte Contemporânea, Edificio Copan, São Paulo, Brazil
1998
– “ReFavela”, Favela Chic, Paris, France
– “Hybrid Time Art Festival”, JFKU Art Annex, Berkeley, USA
1997
– “Open Studios”, San Francisco, USA
Residencies
2007
– Encuentro Internacional de Medellin, Prácticas Artísticas Contemporâneas, Castilla, Medelin, Colombia
2003
– Instituto Sacatar, Itaparica, Brazil
– Contemporary Art Center of the Caribean, Port of Spain, Trinidad e Tobago
Workshops
2018
– “Territórios de Cura”, Festival Arte da Usina, Zona da Mata, Brazil
– “Afro Lab”, Creative talks and practice and teenager students workshop Five elements of life, both at Ateliê Mata Adentro, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
– “Criança é Vida”, Associação Cairuçu, Ponta Negra, Parati, Brazil
2009
– “A Cabana”, Centro Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil
2002
– Coordination Music and Graffiti, Fundação Gol de Letra + Federation Lèo Lagrange, França), São Paulo, Brazil
2000
– Hip Hop and its Elements, Associação Cultural Monte Azul, São Paulo, Brazil
