Santídio Pereira

Experimentation in the study of colors has become an important vector to express his memories, feelings and senses, which are also inherent to the culture and popular practices of the places where he has been. The artist felt the need to increase the surface of color appreciation by increasing the scale of his works. There are two series of woodcuts representing Santídio: “Birds” (2018) and “Bromeliads” (2019). The affective memory led the artist to invest in an iconographic research on the birds of the Caatinga of Piauí. In addition to trying to understand popular knowledge and the relationship of people with these animals, Santídio went to study biology and mythology. Later, from the Kaaysá artistic residency held in Boiçucanga, on the coast of São Paulo, the series of bromeliads emerged. In the same way that it inspired Roberto Burle Marx, this typically Brazilian tropical plant was also a major object of investigation by Santídio, who invested in traveling around the country for the exercise of observation, in addition to scientific study. In both series the sensitive body of popular knowledge was associated with a meticulous study of colors, which normally emerge from the visual memory and sensations that the artist preserves from life experiences. For him, recognizing the relevance of popular knowledge is as important as understanding the importance of nature in Brazil, especially these days.

Since the beginning of the artist’s career research with engraving has been opening doors to other techniques and supports, always attracting materiality and its representativeness in the visual arts. The series of paintings “Morros” / Hills (2021) emerged with the feeling of freedom when faced with the visuality of the natural landscape of Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Serra da Bocaina and Cantareira, all in the state of São Paulo, and how it rescues reminiscences of colors, images and sensations. Using offset ink, the same used in the production of woodcuts, Santídio also starts from the principle of “incision, cut and fitting” to create compositions in painting on Hahnemühle paper, translating sensations through color shades and juxtapositions. Lately, Santídio has been researching and developing works in Watercolor, Offset ink, Woodcut and Monotype.

“Santídio Pereira: Botany”, by Tiago Mesquita

Santídio Pereira’s artwork on the cover of Elle Decoration magazine, 2022

Education
2019-2022
– Studying Visual Arts, FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
2016-2017
– Art direction, Instituto criar de TV cinema e novas mídias, São Paulo, Brazil
2010-2015
– Woodcut and Typography with the guidance of Fabricio Lopez, Instituto Acaia, São Paulo, Brazil
2014-2015
– Art History with Rodrigo Naves, Rn. Difusão Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– Graphic Design with the guidance of Mariana Bernd, Instituto Acaia, São Paulo, SP
2013
– Ukiyo-e course with Madalena Hashimoto, Instituto Acaia, São Paulo, SP

Profissional experience
2010-2022
– Participant of the XILOCEASA group, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
– Kaaysa artistic residency, Boiçucanga, Brazil
2017- 2021
– Participant of SP Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
– AnnexB artistic residency, Brooklyn, NY
– Workshop for children: “Flora, color and form between two tropics”, Anne Fontaine Foundation, New York, USA
– Idealization of the exhibition “Madeira nova”, São Paulo, Brazil
– Idealization of the exhibition “Xilo body and landscape” together with Fabrício Lopez, São Paulo, Brazil
– Demonstration of the artistic process, SESC Guarulhos, Guarulhos, Brazil
2016-2019
– ArtRio participant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018
– Workshop, woodcut in black on white”, UFT, Palmas, Brazil
– Workshop, woodcut in black on white, MAES, Vitória, Brazil
2017
– Workshop “Woodcut, overlapping and nuances”, SESC Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
2015
– Production and installation of the woodcut panel at Instituto Análise, São Paulo, Brazil
2010-2015
– Woodcut illustration for Letra da Cidade Collection, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
– Illustration for Samuel Magazine, São Paulo, Brazil
– Exchange program with the artist Zé Bezerra, Serra do Catimbau, Brazil
2012
– Woodcut illustration for the Arte e Letra Collection, Curitiba, Brazil
2010
– Acquisition Award 5th International Engraving Biennial of Santo André, SP, Brazil

Solo shows
2022
– “Santídio Pereira: Botany”, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil
2022
– “Santídio Pereira: incisions cuts and fittings”, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2020
– “Hills”, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
– “Between two skies”, b[x] Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2018
– Exhibition “Program Show – Black on white, overlapping and nuances”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “A look of memory – Santídio Pereira”, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
– “Santídio Pereira: Colors in black and white”, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil

Group shows
2022
– “Modernismo Desde Aqui”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “A shared experience”, Instituto Ling, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
– “Varios 22”, Galeria de Arte 123, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
– “If you put your feet on the ground: relationships between humans and plants”, Museu de Arte Paranaense (MUPA), Curitiba, Brazil
2021 – 2022
– “Xilographically”, SESI São José do Rio Preto, Sāo Paulo, Brazil
2021
– “Burle Marx | Santídio Pereira”, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA
– “Xilographically”, SESI Campinas Amoreiras, Sāo Paulo, Brazil
– “Xilographically”, SESI São José Campos, Sāo Paulo, Brazil
– “Xilographically”, SESI Itapetininga, Sāo Paulo, Brazil
– “Trees”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2020
– “Pretatitude, Insurgencies, Emergencies and Affirmations in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Art”, Sesc, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
– “Xilographically”, SESI Itapetininga, Itapetininga, Brazil
2019-2020
– “Trees”, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
– “Pretatitude, Insurgencies, Emergencies and Affirmations in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Art”, Sesc, Santos, Santos, Brazil
– “Printing: Body and Landscape”, Sesc, Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
– “Printing: Body and Landscape”, Sesc Guarulhos, Guarulhos, Brazil
– 36th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Hinterland, MAM – São Paulo, Brazil
– Madeira Nova, SESC São Carlos, Brazil
2018 – 2019
– “New wood”, SESC Santo Amaro, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
– 5th International Print Biennial Livio Abramo, Araraquara, Brazil

Public collections
– Fondation Cartier pouel’art comtemporain, Paris, France
– Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– Colección Cisneros, Miami, USA
– Acervo Sesc de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
– Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Selected publications
2022
– “Santídio Pereira: Botânica” exhibition catalogue, Lis Gráfica, São Paulo, Brasil
– “Incisões, recorte e encaixes” exhibition catalogue, Fundação Iberê Camargo
2019
– “Trees”, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporian and Power Station, publishing company People’s Fine Arts, China
– “Printing: Body and Landscape”, Claudio Mubarac, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Bom crioulo”, Adolfo Caminha, Editora Todavia, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Trees” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, EBS, Verona, Italy
– “36th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Hinterland”, MAM, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
– “Brazilian Popular Art: contemporary looks” book, Vilma Eid and Germana Monte-Mor, WMF Martins Fontes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Santídio Pereira – A look from memory”, Vilma Eid and Luisa Duarte, Lis Grafica, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
– “Santídio”, Rodrigo Naves, Lis Gráfica, São Paulo, Brazil