Adão Pinheiro (Santa Maria da Boca do Monte RS 1938)
Painter, draftsman, graphic artist, printmaker, wood carver and set designer.
In Pernambuco, Adão Odacir Pinheiro joined the Ateliê Coletivo [Collective Studio] of the Sociedade de Arte Moderna do Recife in 1956, alongside Abelardo da Hora (1924 - 2014) and Wellington Virgolino (1929 - 1988), and organized the Ateliê Ribeira in 1964, in Olinda. In that city, he taught drawing and wood carving at the Escolinha de Arte in the Palácio dos Bispos. In Rio de Janeiro, he devoted himself to the study of Northeastern popular crafts and African culture around 1968. In the 1980s, he was director of the Fundação de Cultura, Turismo e Esportes de Olinda, PE.
Critiques
"Adão Pinheiro paints, along tortuous and difficult paths, a social landscape; he criticizes academic forms, implicitly mocks the haste to change styles, and knows that art repeats and renews itself ceaselessly, regardless of the 'latest truths'. (...) His painting is also a stance toward these conflicts of the world, of the bourgeois classes that carry in their makeup a grotesque and sometimes tragic comedy. His landscape - and here the landscape is not only local but universal - is a collision between figures who seek, with him, the Archimedean point from which to raise themselves and, with themselves, lift the world. (...) A Northeastern landscape, with universal connections, up to date, which presupposes a nervous drawing, neither accidental nor picturesque, but meditated and expressive. (...)"
Gastão de Holanda
CAVALCANTI, Carlos; AYALA, Walmir, org. Dicionário brasileiro de artistas plásticos. Apresentação de Maria Alice Barroso. Brasília: MEC/INL, 1973-1980. (Dicionários especializados, 5).
Solo Exhibitions
1962 - Recife PE - Solo, at Galeria de Arte do Recife
1964 - Salvador BA - Solo, at Galeria Querino
1965 - Olinda PE - Solo, at Galeria Ribeira
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Goeldi
Group Exhibitions
1956 - Recife PE - Salão de Pintura do Museu do Estado de Pernambuco [Painting Salon of the Museu do Estado de Pernambuco]
1958 - Recife PE - 17º Salão Anual de Pintura [17th Annual Painting Salon], at Museu do Estado de Pernambuco - 1st prize
1959 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8º Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna [8th National Salon of Modern Art]
1963 - Salvador BA - Civilização do Nordeste [Civilization of the Northeast], at Museu de Arte Popular da Bahia
1964 - Olinda PE - Exposição do Atelier da Ribeira [Atelier da Ribeira Exhibition], at Atelier da Ribeira
1965 - Recife PE - Artistas do Recife [Artists from Recife], at Ateliê de Arte Sacra da Igreja do Rosário
1965 - Recife PE - 24º Salão Anual de Pintura [24th Annual Painting Salon], at Museu do Estado de Pernambuco - 1st prize
1966 - Salvador BA - 1ª Bienal Nacional de Artes Plásticas [1st National Visual Arts Biennial]
1976 - Recife PE - O Desenho em Pernambuco [Drawing in Pernambuco], at Gatsby Arte
1978 - Recife PE - Ateliê Coletivo [Collective Studio], at Galeria Artespaço
1987 - São Paulo SP - 18º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira [18th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
1988 - Olinda PE - 41º Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Pernambuco [41st Pernambuco Contemporary Art Salon], at Centro de Convenções de Pernambuco
1991 - São Paulo SP - Projeto: 100 anos de Paulista [Project: 100 Years of Avenida Paulista], at Casa das Rosas
1998 - São Paulo SP - Os Colecionadores - Guita e José Mindlin: matrizes e gravuras [The Collectors - Guita and José Mindlin: Matrices and Prints], at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
Source: Itaú Cultural
