GERVANE DE PAULA | CUIABÁ – MT (1961)
Independent Curator, Cultural Animator, Plastic Artist and Objetist.
Integrated in the 80 ‘Pintura Cabocla’ movement presented in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília. V National Prize of Plastic Arts Hall, 1981. His expressive figuration of strong connotation is echoed in the painting called ‘Geração 80’, incorporating a mystical and savage reality of the Brazilian Midwest, establishing a sensible dialogue between the regional popular culture and International scholars movements. Participates in the collective: ‘Como vai você, Geração 80?” (Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, 1984); ‘A mão Afro-Brasileira’ (São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, 1988); ‘Introspectives Contemporany Art By Americans And Brazilians’ (African Museun, Los Angeles, USA, 1989). ‘Eco 92’ and ‘Imagens dos anos 80 e 90’, both in the Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro (1982/94), the latter also presented at the Art Museun of America in Seattle, USA (1984) and ‘Arte em Campo’ (Cultural Center of the Federal Court, Rio de Janeiro 2002). In Cuiaba, organizes and participates in collective ‘Grandeolhar’; ‘Artists of the Century’ (MACP – UFMT, 2000), involving 32 artists. It presents in Cuiaba individual ‘Acerto de Contas’ in Studio Centro Histórico e ‘Campo Minado – Reflexão de um artista’ (MACP – UFMT, 2005), with plastic trajectory, with new and varied media. Collective Várias Paisagens in 2010 – Portugal, curated by Marcus Lontra and Denise Mattar. Conexão Nacional de Artes in Mato Grosso – Department of Art Gallery of State for Culture – Cuiaba – MT (2012). Individual Boca de Arte – SESC Arsenal, Cuaibá / MT. New Collective Novas Aquisições Gilberto Chateuabriand – MAM / RJ (2014).
