Jabim Nunes - "Modular Surface" by Edmundo Cavalcanti

Edmundo Cavalcanti is Art Columnist. — Edmundo Cavalcanti is a Visual Artist, Art Columnist and Poet.

Jabin search on Matisse the indentations to sign forms the creations, in Malevich Anglo-Saxon colors and spatial possibilities, already in Tattin the abandonment of the frame, in Van Gogh textures and arabesques, uses the new acrylic pigments to produce shiny effects of his work.

Where did you born?

In Parati, the southern region of Rio de Janeiro.

What's your academic training?

I have a degree in art education from the Instituto Metodista Bennett.

Jabim Nunes é Artista Plástico. — Jabim Nunes is a Visual Artist.

How and when you give your first contact with the Arts?

When small, collect the twigs of wood peeled by the sea currents to unite them with vine, promoted interesting shapes.

What are your main influences?

My influences range from the great Russian artists led by Vladimir Tatlin, Europeans Matisse and Van Gogh, coming to Brazilians Volpi, Ligia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Jorge Guinle, Renato Sant'Ana, Eduardo Sued, among others.

What is your creative process itself?

At first my first formal creations are small pencil drawings, then rebuild with cut out of colored paper and magazine, which to group them, upgrade even small collages that when you find the ideal composition, large in size for best contemplation.

What inspires you?

The favela is my source of inspiration.

When you started effectively to produce or create your works?

Was in 97, when I was working on visual merchandising display of a large department store, here in Rio. When watching the movie in the Largo do Machado the movie “A cry of freedom” I took advantage of the lunch break and the multiple possibilities of techniques and materials that the site offered me, to create my first work, Although academic proposal on exercise class bi and three-dimensional given by professor and artist Emilio Gonçalves.

Art is an intellectual production exquisite, where emotions are embedded in the context of creation, but in art history, we see that many artists are derived from other, following technical and artistic movements through time, you own any model or influence of any artist? Who would be?

Seek in Matisse the indentations to sign forms my creations, in Malevich the colors and spatial possibilities, already in Tattin the abandonment of frame and in Van Gogh textures and arabesques.

What does art mean to you? If you were to summarize in a few words the meaning of Arts in your life.

Means for me the pinnacle of human sensitivity.

What techniques do you use to express their ideas, feelings and perception about the world?

I make my first studies with drawing and collage, then upgrade the painting.

Every artist has his mentor, that person whom you mirrored that encouraged and inspired you to follow this career you, going ahead and taking your dreams the other expression levels, who this person is and how it introduced you in the art world?

I was privileged to be a pupil of grandmasters in the period between them; Pedral, Professor of sculpture, Yolanda Freire of figures and scenarios, Raul Marques fashion creation, they drove all my ideas, together with my classmates, I always love my creations, could also count with the company where he worked, with the financial support, to defray part of my tuition in school and with her my immediate leadership, that media efforts to see never achieved all my creations.

Do you have another job besides painting? You give lessons, lectures etc.?

Yes! Parallel to my artistic production I am a teacher of Visual Arts of the City of Rio: There go almost 20 years! I feel privileged to be able to be part of the team founder art core, in an area with the lowest HDI of Brazil, "if it's not of Latin America". Location during the day – to – day, can I propose artistic productions to students who attend the school and shift into space along with them we learn, We researched, opine and produce, going against the most varied aspects of contemporary art, Although in education.

Its major national and international exhibitions and their awards?

I'm still beginner in exhibition spaces, could participate throughout these years of collective exhibitions in Rio and in 2015, to present my new creations on the internet was that I had the privilege to be invited by a gallery in Finland, to represent my work in that country and also in its New York Office. When I had the privilege in April of that year debut at Galleria Helzin in Finland in AVA and now in may at the Consulate General of Brazil in New York and with double thrill of having my work as part of the permanent collection of that institution.

Your plans for the future.

This time, I'm creating new works that to terminate them, I would like to finally, submit to the carioca public, My first individual.

Testimonial by art critic Janae Nunes, on the work of the artist.

"Art as a trained Falcon, fly high and returns to the Falconer: He can fly high and never come back, but he needs to come back, so is the art. In these paintings, colors spread to 17 in geometric shapes, overlapping the colors game, luminous paint and clean, allows you to establish a dialogue between the work and the Viewer.

Jabin don't want to reinvent the wheel and just wants her turn. The painting is constructed in such a way that it becomes organic. A rectangle is a rectangle here in Japan and Iran also. But the context – partner – – environmental politician – is architectural ranging…

Is perfect your balanced overlay of figures (not always rectangular) the support jagged, reflected in our look cards addict, the desire to find them is in construction, condos and slums on the edge of roads. The Organization of the figures inside the support jagged allows a figure game and tireless Fund. The architecture is present; inevitable; impossible not to be remitted to a slum on the painting of Jabin, but it's not that simple. The seam look the scene, unifying pictorially the elements of space. The painting follows its course, slow and joyful, so Sisera makes solar paint in the present tense, your time is your…, There is no time, There is the space to be filled and that makes Jabin wisely, filling in the spaces with clean and bright colors in a solar and spiritual painting, the color makes the form and vice versa.“