Almandrade

Almandrade

1953, São Felipe, Bahia, Brazil
Lives and works in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil

Almandrade | Homenagem a arquitetura moderna, 1979-2012 | Painted wood | 320 x 310 x 380 cm

Almandrade | Estudo/maquete para escultura, 1978 | 22 × 20 × 12 cm

Almandrade | Poema – Objeto, 2019 | acrylic on wood | 50 x 22 cm

Almandrade | Objeto, 2019 | Painted wood | 320 x 310 x 380 cm

Almandrade | Relevo, 2019 | Acrylic on wood (MDF) | 40 x 25 x 25 cm

Almandrade | Poema – “Objeto”, 1975-1997 | Acrylic on wood | 30 x 15 cm

Almandrade | Objeto, 1994 | acrylic on wood | 30 x 20 cm

Almandrade | Untitled, 2019 | Acrylic on wood (Eucatex) | 30 × 25 cm

Almandrade | Caverna da Geometria, 1998 | Acrylic on canvas | 50 x 30 cm

Almandrade | Poema visual, 1993 | Ink on paper – 20 × 30 cm

Almandrade | Poema visual, 1978 | Ink on paper – 30 × 20 cm

Almandrade | Poema visual, 1973 | Ink on paper – 20 × 30 cm

Almandrade | Poema visual, 1988 | Ink on paper – 30 × 42 cm

Almandrade

1953, São Felipe, Bahia, Brazil
Lives and works in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil

Almandrade (1953, São Felipe, Bahía, Brazil). Since the 1970s, the artist has produced works in different media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and visual poems. Over the five decades of production, Almandrade has been interested in a practice based on the interplay between words and architecture, and it is precisely within this framework and structure that the artist establishes his numerous visual and literary references: from the concrete poetry to the comics, from the constructive tradition to the conceptual object, from the intimate scale of a prototype to the political relevance of a public work.

Almandrade currently lives and works in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil and is part of a generation that has lived between the Brazilian military-civil dictatorship and the democratic political opening of the 1980s. He began his body of work after graduating in Architecture from the Universidade Federal da Bahía and, since then, it has been part of numerous biennials and exhibitions, including three editions of the São Paulo Biennial, Brazil; 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil; 3rd Bahia Biennial, Brazil; Museu de Arte da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Mexic-Art Museum, Austin, USA; Instituto Goethe, Salvador, Brazil; Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil, among others.

His work can be found in numerous public and private collections, such as: MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Brazil; Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil; Museu Afro, São Paulo, Brazil; Museu Nacional de Brasília, Brazil; Museu da Cidade de Salvador, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil.