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2014 Art season
Bee Barn

F. Henrique Oliveira

"Momento fecundo"

published at 21/02/2017
Momento fecundo, installation d'Henrique Oliveira au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2014 - © Éric Sander

Both a painter and sculptor who produces pieces that pack an exceptional visual and artistic punch, Henrique Oliveira uses a cheap material that is commonplace in Brazil: plywood, or wood used in hoardings. He usually weaves the subject of architecture somewhere into his work, marrying its forms, hollows and cracks, and his sculptures share common ground with collage and assemblage. More flexible than the wood of his first creations, plywood can easily be adapted to the spectacular organic shapes he designs. “My installations are more like living walls built out of flesh, damaged skin, or large paintings.” Like tree trunks or roots torn up by powerful forces or fantastic telluric waves, Oliveira's sculptures are also paintings that seem to move before our very eyes, whisking us up into a fascinating swirl of forms.

Henrique Oliveira has chosen one of the big barns in the Farmyard of the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire to erect a hybrid, almost living work of art that seems literally to rise up from the stone walls. He has designed an impressive spiral coiling around the framework and stairways of the building like a huge snake or a root that has been buried for decades in the stone and suddenly begins to grow impulsively, out of any control. The work wavers between animal and plant – its creator sees it as a reference to the snake in the story of Le Petit Prince, which swallows an elephant. But as with Gaston Bachelard (who wrote The Poetics of Space), for Oliveira the barn is the lair of the unconscious, and dark, unknown forces. For no one knows where the work begins and where it ends, or when this giant root or reptile will cease its inexorable growth.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Henrique OLIVEIRA
BRAZIL

Born in 1973 in Ourinhos, Brazil, Henrique Oliveira lives and works in São Paulo. Graduating from the University of São Paulo in 1997, since 2003 he has been developing installations in situ, for which he usually uses materials connected with the urban context – especially “tapumes” or fencing wood from hoardings collected in the streets of São Paulo.

As a spearhead of the young generation of Brazilian artists, Henrique Oliveira exhibits at regular intervals in Brazil, the US and Europe. In 2013, he was in residence for the SAM Art Projects, at the end of which he presented the monumental installation “Baitogogo” at the Palais de Tokyo.

His work is represented by the Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris and Galeria Millan, São Paulo.

AWARDS

2018
Enku Grand Award, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
 
2016
Prize Pierre Cardin (sculpture), Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, France
 

2010
Prize APCA (Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte), Destaque do Ano, São Paulo, Brazil

2009
Prize CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art, Brazil

2007
Prize, 11th English Culture Festival, British Council, São Paulo, Brazil
Water Tower Trophy, 11th English Culture Festival, São Paulo, Brazil

2006
Acquisition Prize, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil
Prêmio Projéteis FUNARTE, Nacional Prize, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fiat Mostra Brasil, National Prize, São Paulo, Brazil

2005
Prize, Visualidade Nascente, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Afro-Brazilian Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Collection Cultural Centre of the Federal University of Goiás - Goiânia, Brazil
Edson Queiroz Foundation, Fortaleza, Brazil
Houston Civic Art Program, William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, USA
Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Centre, Prato, Italy
Metrópolis Collection / TV Cultura, São Paulo, Brazil
MGM Resorts Art Collection - MGM Park, Las Vegas, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto Alegre, brazil
São Paulo Cultural Centre, Art Collection of the City of São Paulo, Brazil
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2018
IX Enku Grand Award, Gifu Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
 
2017
Van de Weghe Gallery, New York, USA
 
2016
Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2015
McClain Gallery, Houston, USA
Fissure, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
 
2014
Adenocalcinoma Poliresidual, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Transarquitetonica, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
Projective Eye Gallery, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
 
2013
Henrique Oliveira : Baitogogo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
 
2012
Realidade Liquida, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
Ursulinen Prolapse, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
Henrique Oliveira, Centro Helio Oiticia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
2011
Henrique Oliveira, Galerie G-P & N Vallois, Paris, France
Henrique Oliveira, Tapumes, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, USA
 
2010
Colagens, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, USA
Henrique Oliveira, Galeria Silvia Cintra & Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
2009
Tapumes, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA
Henrique Oliveira, Flying Circus Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
 
2008
Temporada de Projetos, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Henrique Oliveira, Baró Cruz Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2007
11th English Culture Festival, British Council, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2006
11th Show of Annual Program, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2006
Henrique Oliveira, Baró Cruz Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2005
Tapumes, House of Latin America Culture, Brasília, Brazil
 
2000
Desenhos e Pinturas, FUNARTE, São Paulo, Brazil
 
1998
Pinturas, Université de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2017
Stage of Being, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Troposphere: Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Other Side: narratives of the unconscious, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
 
2016
XIII Bienal de Cuenca: Impermanence, Cuenca, Ecuador
Bizarre Spaces: Attacks, Transformations, Explosions, MARTA Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
The End of the World, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
The Many and the One: Brazilian Contemporary Art, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Small Gestures, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

Momento fecundo, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France (permanent installation)

2015
Crafted: Object in Flux, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
4th Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of Congo
FIAC Hors les Murs, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Quando Piso em Folhas Secas, Sala de Arte Santander, São Paulo, Brazil

Momento fecundo, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France (permanent installation)

2014
Momento fecundo, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Do Valongo à Favela: imaginário e periferia, MAR / Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
2013
Brasiliana : installations from 1960 to the present, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfort, Germany
La distance juste, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
L’arbre de vie, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France
 
2012
Inside Out and from the Ground Up, Musée d’Art Contemporain / MoCa, Cleveland, USA
Sculpture is Everything, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
OIR - Outras Idéias para o Rio, Parque da Madureira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
2011
Art in Brazil (1950 – 2011), Festival Europalia, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Bozar), Brussels, Belgium
 
2010
29th São Paulo International Biennial, Brazil
9th Monterrey Biennial, FEMSA, Casa de la Cultura de Puebla; Centre Culturel de Tijuana, Mexique
3rd edition Prize CNI/SESI Marcantonio Vilaça for art, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo; Galeria Juvenal Antunes, Rio Branco ; Centro Cultural da Universidade de Goiás, Brazil
One of each one, Galeria Silvia Cintra & Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
2009
7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Gabinete, Museu Vítor Meireles, Florianópolis, Brazil
 
2008
Nova Arte Nova, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
Seja Marginal, Seja Herói, Galerie G-P & N Vallois et Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
Something from Nothing, Contemporary Arts Center, La Nouvelle-Orléans, USA
Summer Show, Silvia Cintra/ Box4 Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Studio Project, Galerie Baró Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2007
Future of the Present, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
CTRL _ C + CTRL_V/ Recortar e Colar, Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
La Espiral de Moebius o los limites de la pintura, Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosário, Argentina
Ut pictura diversitas, Marta Traba Gallery, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil
Coleção Itaú Contemporâneo – Arte no Brasil 1981-2006, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Arte BA (Open Space), Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2006
13th Bahia Salon, Salvador, Brazil
Fiat Mostra Brésil, Porão das Artes, Pavilion of the Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Paralela 2006, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Coletiva do programa de exposições, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Viva cultura viva do povo brasileiro - um olhar sobre a arte brasileira, Museu Afro Brazil, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Prêmio Projéteis FUNARTE de arte contemporânea, Palácio da Cultura Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
2005
Projectiles d’Art Contemporain, Espace Brésil / FUNARTE / Year of Brazil in France, Paris, France
5th Flamboyant Prize, National Art Salon of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
Visualidade Nascente, University Center Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil
In Transit - graduated artists from ECA/USP, Olido Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2004
Projéteis FUNARTE, Palácio da Cultura Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9th Biennial of Visual Arts of Santos, Brazil
Annual Program, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
 
2003
Art of the New Millennium, Guimarães Rosa Art Center, Jundiaí, Brazil
Interiors, FUNARTE, São Paulo, Brazil
 
2002
5th Show Revelation Prize, Contemporary Art Museum of Americana, Americana, USA
Group Show, Espaço Miolo, São Paulo, Brazil
Miolo, FUNARTE, São Paulo, Brazil
 
1999
31st Art Salon of Piracicaba, Brazil
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Momento fecundo, installation d'Henrique Oliveira au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2014 - © Éric Sander
Momento fecundo, installation d'Henrique Oliveira au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2014 - © Éric Sander
Momento fecundo, installation d'Henrique Oliveira au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2014 - © Éric Sander
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