“Tamoia-Caliph”, by Marcus Andre

Gaby Indio da Costa expands exhibition space with individual curated by Heloisa Amaral Peixoto

Completing a decade of activity, the Gaby Indio da Costa Arte Contemporânea gallery is expanding the exhibition space and celebrates, no day 9 July, Saturday, with the opening of exhibition “Tamoia-Caliph”, by artist Marcus André. The individual has approx. 25 unpublished works and the launch of the multiple serigraphic “California”, developed by Heloisa Amaral Peixoto, who signs the curatorial project.

“Based on his experience of technical and aesthetic training in engraving, especially in his permanent practice with woodcut, the artist Marcus André rearticulates his research for new paintings in an interchangeable poetics where he emphasizes the surface of his support, wood. Leaving your subject/matrix more exposed, the artist explores its texture and natural appearance, as well as determines the areas of chromatic intervention, applying their combined techniques”, says curator.

about the gallery

Gaby Indio da Costa has been at the art market since 2009, opening your space in 2012. Since then, closely follows the production of various artists. For ten years, it has held several exhibitions, most curated by renowned critics and curators. The Gaby Indio da Costa Arte Contemporânea gallery's main objective is to publicize the production of the artists it represents and their proposals., promote projects and exhibitions and maintain a constant dialogue with critics, curators and collectors, encouraging the formation of new collections and seeking to strengthen those that already exist. Works with young and established artists, some with a consolidated trajectory, all of them committed to experimentation and daring within the scope of the language that defines contemporary art.

About Marcus Andre

Born in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1961 Lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and Búzios, RJ Attends the course of drawing and introduction to painting at the Oficina do Corpo at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro between 1978-79. Between 1981 to 1985, studying Industrial Design at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with Roberto Verscheisser and Gilberto Strunke as professors and at the same time attending the Engraving Workshop at Palácio do Ingá in Niterói with the guidance of Anna Letycia Quadros and Edith Behring, receives award at the IV Salão Carioca de Arte and participates in the V National Engraving Exhibition in Curitiba. In 1984 holds his first solo show at Galeria Contemporânea and participates in the exhibitions; How are you doing, Generation 80 ?, Current Brazilian Art and V National Salon of Plastic Arts at MAM in Rio de Janeiro. Travel to New York in 1985 attending Parson’s New School Of Social Reaserch Printing Studio with artist Roberto DeLamonica 1985-88, internship at Osiris Priting Co. and later is hired as a printer-colorist at Ruppert J. Smith Printing Co. in New York, participating in the editions of artists such as James Rosenquist, Larry Rivers, Kenny Scharf e Andy Warhol, under the coordination of the printer Jean-Paul Russell, currently Durham Press, Pennsylvania. Participates in the Latin exhibition? ABC Notorious Gallery in the East Village. In 1988 returns to Brazil, receives an award at the XIII National Salon of Plastic Arts and performs individual paintings at Funarte Projeto Macunaíma/ Espaço Alternativo RJ, São Paulo Cultural Center Project / Pavilion of the Bienal Ibirapuera and MASP SP and in the Brazilian representations of the Bienal Ibero-Americana Mexico City, Biennial of Havana Cuba, Biennial of Painting Cuenca Ecuador 2001 and at Machida Tokyo Museum Japan. Receives the awards for acquisition in painting at the Museu de Arte de Brasília DF and at the Mostra Internacional de Gravura Curitiba PR. From 1995 is awarded with scholarships: First RioArte Scholarship Program 1995-96, having in the commission the critics and professors Heloisa Buarque de Holanda and Ronaldo Britto, The Research Artist MAC Niterói RJ 1998, FAPERJ Scholarship / Research Support Foundation 1998 e The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc. Grant NY 2007. Marcus André invests in the construction and deconstruction of affective spaces, establishing organic narratives of traces and lines, mental spaces of a nature contaminated by the advent of industrial and social organization, traces of everyday human. The artist reaches the sublime, extracting from painting two basic and millenary techniques; encaustic paint and tempera, a result in which you see what you touch, result of the sum of several layers, overlapping pictorial skins giving a contemporary narrative that brings to the present the use of such laborious techniques.

Tamoia-Caliph in the words of curator Heloisa Amaral Peixoto

The decision to choose a serigraphic multiple by the artist Marcus André had inspiration in his installation work, which won the award “Projéteis Funarte 2006” held in the hall of the iconic modernist building Palácio Capanema, in the center of Rio de Janeiro. Since the artist set out to execute a large-scale mural painting, panoramic and spatial, using tempering and encaustic, two millennial techniques, a type of formal narrative ritual of quite unique interpretation of what we understand as “landscapes” was established in his production.. In the experience of conducting its expression in an integrated way with the architectural aspects of the surroundings, the artist incorporated the premises of the muralist context and took to his paintings a series of proposals structured in the superposition of lines and other graphics.. Aware that his path is understood within an interchangeable poetics, in the dialogue between procedures and methods produced for different purposes, and in your case in particular, in intimate practice with woodcut, Marcus André starts to rearticulate his research, bringing back the surface of his support, wood. Leaving the matter more exposed, it exploits its texture and natural appearance, as well as determines the areas of chromatic intervention, applying their combined techniques. This procedure is accompanied this time by more expanded geometric elements., that gain more contours and volumes, and even suggest a third-dimensional plan. His recent works produce a sense of appropriation of ingredients of popular cultural roots., however there is a presence of the metropolis invading the painting. In this double contact with artisan tradition and mass culture, typical of the urban setting, its shapes and signs settle into the wood. The material support is also poetic. Starting from nature, creation is chained, transformation and synthesis, and an unprecedented visuality is revealed in simple and eloquent events.

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“Tamoia-Califa” – individual by the artist Marcus André

Curated By: Heloisa Amaral Peixoto

Opening: day 9 July, Saturday, 15h to 19h

Exhibition: from 11 from July to 19 August 2022

Visitation: from Monday to Friday, from 11 am to 6 pm or by appointment

Local: Gaby Indio da Costa Contemporary Art

Address: Gavea Road 712/ 4º andar, Sao Conrado