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born in são paulo_ brazil_ 1955_ lives and works in são paulo

www.celiaeuvaldo.com

Célia Euvaldo’s work, initially recognized for its chromatic restriction, reveals its authenticity in the confluence of gesture and matter, elements that are in constant negotiation not only with the procedures defined by the artist but also with some chance. The amalgamation of the loose gesture and the geometry, explored by the artist since the investigation into the time the ink remains on the brush that moves across the canvas, reveals the intention to reach maximum density with a limited number of elements – gesture and matter –, as if creating a poem, as blunt as concise. The most recent paintings by Euvaldo highlight the usual contrast between blacks and whites, which she has explored since the 1980s, with lively and vibrant colors. Now, painting is resolved in the convergence of intention and action, where color does not define the subject, but rather the temperament and vibration of each canvas.

Célia Euvaldo graduated in Visual Communication with a Fine Arts degree from the Pontifical Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She moved to Paris at the beginning of the 1980s, where she studied painting and engraving, and participated in her first collective exhibition, at Salon de La Jeune Peinture, in 1985. She returned to Brazil at the end of the 1980s, where she began to dedicate herself intensely to her plastic research and participate in several exhibitions.

In 1989, she was awarded at 11º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas da Funarte. Among other exhibitions, she participated in the Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca (Ecuador, 2001) and the Bienal do Mercosul (2005). She had individual exhibitions at Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro (1995, 1999, and 2015/16), Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2006), Museu de Gravura da Cidade de Curitiba (2011) and Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2013), among other galleries and institutions. Her works are part of the collection of Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, the Museu do Estado do Pará, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the Centro Cultural São Paulo

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