FABIO MIGUEZ: PLACAS

PLACAS - Fabio Miguez

This individual showing will have on display twoseries of paintings made by Fabio Miguez in 2010/2011. “Placas” is a series ofeight, large and medium oil canvas in which the artist appropriates words(excerpts) from two of João Cabral de Melo Neto’s poems: O Engenheiro andPsicologia da Composicão. For the first time, we can witness Miguez introduce the formal semantic  universe to give poetic meaning to painting.  

The second series, “Índice”, comprising ten, small (40x 50 cm) oil canvasses, is a deeper exploration of work first undertaken by the artist in 2004, which bears the same title and   presents his formal vocabulary: designs of spatial representation.  

In addition to painting, which forms the crux of his work, over the last few years Fabio Miguez has produced an extensive repertoire of photographs and a three dimensional series that is represented in the exhibition by two pieces in wood, glass and paint. 

Fábio Miguez (1962, São Paulo) is determined in his quest to create contemporary, Brazilian paintings, as can be seen from his trajectory. In the artist’s own words: “What I strive for is that my finished pieces reveal how they were elaborated, their dilemmas, adjustments and its impasses”.

Miguez has taken part in noteworthy collective exhibitions, such as: the Bienal do Mercosul, in 2005; Bienal Brasil Século XX, in 1994; 3ª Bienal de Pintura em Cuenca, Ecuador, in 1991; XX Bienal de SãoPaulo, in 1989; Bienal Latino-Americana de Arte sobre o Papel, in Buenos Aires, in 1986; and the Bienal de Havana, also in 1986.  

Since 1988, the artist has also held individual exhibitions at galleries and institutions, of which Temas e Variações, at theInstituto Tomie Ohtake, in 2008, is an example. In addition, his works have been integrated into important collections such as those belonging to: MAC-USP,MAM-SP, Pinacoteca do Estado de SP, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Gilberto Chateaubriand MAM-Rio and João Sattamini MAC-Niterói, among others.