André Ricardo
1985, São Paulo | SP - Brazil
André Ricardo was born in 1985 in the city of São Paulo where he currently lives and works. Graduated in Visual Arts at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo, he held several individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal and Spain. For the modernist tradition and contemporary practices, he works against the most current trends in contemporary art. But this support translates for him into an artistic creation of his own time, in which he seeks to operate a synthesis of the elements of the urban space through color.
His motives emerge from aspects and objects seen on routes around the city: between 2011 and 2012, with his series of buckets and excavators he tried to perceive them as words for the construction of a new painting. It was mainly its shape and color that suggested compositions to him. From them he extracted - as we noticed with his most recent work - the grammar of his works until they resulted in fully abstract forms.
Individual Exhibitions:
2020 André Ricardo Viewing Room, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil
2019 CAIACA!. Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2016 Campo a través, Addaya Centre d' Art Contemporany, Alaró / Mallorca, Spain
2015 Elemento Vazado, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2014 Elemento Vazado, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
2012 Caçambas e Escavadeiras, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2012 Annual Exhibitions Program, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Collective Exhibitions:
2018 - 2019 PretAtitude - Insurgências, emergências e afirmações na arte afro-brasileira contemporânea, SESC, Santos, SP, Brazil
2018 Desde o Apego: Memória e Gesto, Ateliê Fidalga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2017 Reactions in Equilibrium, Feira de Arte Contemporânea da Bologna, Italy
2016 in Situ, Casal Son Tugores, Mallorca, Spain
2013 Futuro – National Salon of Visual Arts, Pinacoteca Municipal de Jundiaí, SP, Brazil
2013 Pintura | MARP 20 Anos. Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
2013 É Sempre Bom Estar Bem Acompanhado, W Espaço de Arte, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
2012 28 Nós – art graduates from ECA/USP, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2012 Risco#1 Arte como trabalho, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2011 ADUANA – Antigo Picadeiro do Colégio dos Nobres, MNHNC, Lisboa, Portugal
2011 Espaços da Cor, organized by the Color Research Group from the Department of Visual Arts of the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo,Paço das Artes, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2011 15th Biennale Internationale de La Gravure, Sarcelles, France
2011 Comboio Ferroviário, Conjunto Nacional, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2011 Objeto em Estudo, Fine Arts Museum of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
2011 Aconteceu Dentro Delas, Espaço Lofté, Porto, Portugal
2009 Programa Anual de Exposições, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
2009 15th Salon of Contemporary Art Graça Landeira, UNAMA, Belém, PA, Brazil
2009 Coletiva Código, Studio OÇO/CINESOL Galeria, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Public Collections:
Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Museu Casa do Olhar Luiz Sacilotto, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
Casa da Cultura da América Latina da Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
Selected Publications:
2018 Catálogo da Exposição PretAtitude - Insurgências, emergências e afirmações na arte afro-brasileira contemporânea, SESC-SP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2014 Catálogo da Exposição Elemento Vazado. Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
2012 Catálogo da Exposição RISCO #1. SESC Belenzinho. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2011 Catálogo da exposição Espaços da Cor. Paço das Artes. São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2011 Catálogo do 36ª SARP – Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto. Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
