Cleber Machado
| Cleber Machado | |
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| File:Cleber Machado Neto.jpgCleber Machado Neto.jpg Retrato de Cleber para exposição de Eddy Novarro, abril de 1988 | |
| Born | Cleber Machado Neto June 25, 1937 Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Brazilian |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | sculpture |
| Notable work | |
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Cleber Machado (born June 25, 1937) is a Brazilian artist, sculptor and painter. Today he lives and works in São Paulo. Exhibits individually since 1971 and in group since 1968. The artist's literature includes texts by leading critics. He received several national and international awards and his work is part of important public and private collections.
Early life and education[edit]
Machado was born on June 25, 1937 in Porto Alegre, the son of Marina Machado Neto and João Pedro Pereira Neto. In 1960, Cleber moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro, where he joined the student movement, alongside his friends and fellow artists of the School of Fine Arts of Rio, Artur Barrio and Rubens Gerchman.
In 1968, amid demonstrations and the National Salon of Modern Art, he was arrested and released within 24 hours – influenced by his father's friend. The fright took him away from street demonstrations, but did not take his political interest and engagement.
Career[edit]
Prior to expressing himself as a sculptor, while living in the neighborhood of Santa Tereza, Cleber began designing and producing jewelry in silver and acrylic. This excursion earned him the Jewelry Research award of the XI São Paulo Art Biennial. Years later, he resumed jewelry production, this time strongly influenced by sculpture, with the creation of the Sculpture to Wear Collection, composed of true sculptures to be worn on fingers as rings.
Between 1970 and 1974, he had a studio in the neighborhood of Botafogo, where he taught several courses and, at the invitation of the Biennial of São Paulo, participated in the Brasília Room, where his work was acquired by the President Juscelino Kubitschek to compose the collection of the future Brazilian Art Museum, built in the federal capital. After a visit to Guaratiba, a beach 40 kilometers from Rio, where he resumed an old passion for submarine hunting, he moves to São Paulo and performs an exhibition on the shores of Ibirapuera Park Lake with the Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo.
From São Paulo he moved to New York and then to Mexico City for three years where he exhibited his installation "Archeology of the Year 4000" = according to him, a great responsibility, since his work was exhibited shortly after the closing of Henry Moore's exhibition.
After moving back to Rio de Janeiro, Cleber built a studio in the neighborhood of São Critovão, where he worked for the next two years. His participation at the 20th International Biennial of São Paulo is highlighted by "Earth, Water and Air" performance, where a helicopter simulates the presence and landing of a UFO in Ibirapuera Park lake.
In the early 90s[vague] he moved back to São Paulo and, after recovering from of a period of depression, vigorously resumed his original language, as he likes to call it, "oneiric geometry". His comeback was highlighted by an exposition in the Casa das Rosas (currently Haroldo de Campos Poetry Space).
Individual Expositions[edit]
- 1971 – Rio de Janeiro Art Museum – MAM Rio
- 1980 – São Paulo Modern Art Museum – MASP
- 1983 – Museo de Arte Moderno – México
- 1984 – Rio de Janeiro Art Museum – MAM Rio
- 1997–98 – House of Roses – São Paulo
- 1999 – Ricardo Camargo Gallery – São Paulo
- 2000 – The Greenhouse – São Paulo
Collective Expositions[edit]
- 1968–1971 – National Salon of Modern Art – Brazil
- 1970 – BankBoston – Brazilian Contemporary Art – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
- 1970 – Pre-Biennial of São Paulo – Brasil
- 1971 – XI International Biennial of São Paulo – Brazil
- 1971 – Pan American Festival of Culture – Cali, Colombia
- 1972 – Brazil Plastic 72 – Biennial of São Paulo – Brasil
- 1972 – 1991 – Brazilian Sculpture Overview – MAM – São Paulo, Brazil
- 1975 – XIII International Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil
- 1979 – XV International Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil
- 1979 – Alternative Space "Galpão" – São Paulo, Brazil
- 1982 – 12th International Sculpture Conference – San Francisco, EUA
- 1982 – 100 Years of Brazilian Sculpture – MASP – São Paulo, Brazil
- 1987 – Brazilian Contemporary Art – Trends – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 1989 – XX International Biennial of São Paulo – Special Events, São Paulo, Brazil
- 1991 – Montesanti Gallery, International Art Fair, Bogotá, Colombia
- 1991 – International Biennial of Makurazaki, Japan
- 1996 – Brazilian Museum of Sculpture – Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 1998 – Campinas Contemporary Art Museum – Master's Touch – São Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo Project[edit]
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Projeto São Paulo – 1989, p. 77
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Projeto São Paulo – 1989, p. 77
An UFO in São Paulo
To be presented in the Special Events of 20th International Biennial of São Paulo (1989), Cleber Machado prepares an urban interference from outer world. From Congonhas Airport (SP), a helicopter disguised as an UFO takes off, equipped with 20 green and blue light beams. The "disk" flies over the city for about 40 minutes, describing symmetrical routes and spiraling down over the Ibirapuera Park lake. According to Cleber, the purpose of this interference is to enable a dive of fantasy into reality, provoking individuals, stimulating them into new sensations or a new perception of reality.
Selected Collections[edit]
- Rio de Janeiro Modern Art Museum – MAM Rio
- São Paulo Modern Art Museum – MAM SP
- Museo de Arte Moderno – México
- Brazilian Art Museum from Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation – MAB FAAP – SP
- Museo Rayo – Roldenibe Del Vale – Colombia
- Brazilian Art Museum – Brasília, Brasil
- Latin American Art Center – México, DF
- Museo de Arte Americano – Manágua, Nicarágua
- Stado of São Paulo Archive – Brasil
- Museo de Arte Moderna – La Tertulia – Cali, Colômbia
- Museo Casa Del Lago – México, DF
- Nanmeikan Modern Art – Makurazaki, Japão
- Museo El Chopo – México, DF
- Londrina Art Museum – Paraná, Brasil
Awards[edit]
- 1970 Brazilian Contemporary Art – Bank Boston
- 1971 Jewelry Research – XI International Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil
- 1972 Research – I National Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil
- 1991 Special Sculpture – II International Biennial of Makurazaki, Japan
External Links[edit]
- Art Bonobo
- Bolsa de Arte
- Galeria Espaço Arte
- MAM - Jardins das Esculturas
- Ricardo Camargo Galeria
- Itaú Cultural
- D'Ambrosio
- MAM-SP
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