Roberto Magalhães

Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan

Casa Triângulo

Silvia Cintra Galeria de Arte + Box 4

Organizaciones con obra

Instituto Cultural Roberto Marinho - Casa Roberto Marinho - Fundação Roberto Marinho

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói - MAC Niteroi

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP)

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Profesionales con obra

Colección João Sattamini

Descripción del Artista

The oeuvre of Roberto Magalhães is characterized by a distortion of the real, through which he makes us perceive how grotesque and yet paradoxically hilarious reality can be. The shapes of his characters, portraits, self-portraits, objects and landscapes appear dissolved, extended, contracted, monstrous, funny and notoriously out of order. They are fictional characters and scenes that nonetheless construct a strong associative link with reality. Indeed, fiction and reality do not find very clear distinctions in his work; they blend together, even as they complement and feed off one another. Roberto has constructed an autonomous place in Brazilian art, producing an oeuvre running against the grain of spectacularization and the schools that would otherwise delineate a style for his work. His politics is authorial and independent from any specific art movement. Under the shadow of the expressionism that marked his outset, he went through a period of insightful criticism of the dictatorship, with prints that evinced the acerbic humor that was to characterize him in the following years. The smile – an element of his work – is converted into a sneer, often at himself, as we see in an extensive production of self-portraits. In the 1960s the smile became a powerful mechanism of reflection on a terrified society, and in the 1980s – when we saw the beginning of a return to democracy, after a little more than 20 years of dictatorship – the smile continued being a weapon for the raising of awareness. Roberto’s work, and his jesting, therefore, circulate on this tightrope between tragedy and the smile, violence and mockery. Felipe Scovino

Exposiciones en las que ha participado como artista

Quimeras – 100 anos do Surrealismo

Colectiva

Roberto Magalhães

Individual

Petite Galerie: Franco Terranova e as vanguardas brasileiras

Colectiva

4 exposiciones individuales

5 exposiciones colectivas