Adelina Gomes (Rio de Janeiro RJ, 1916 - Idem 1984)
Pinter and sculptor.
He is hospitalized in 1937, at the age of 21, at the Center Psychiatric D. Pedro II, at Engenho de Dentro, Rio de Janeiro. He frequents the painting and modeling studio of this center from its creation, in 1946, in the Occupational Therapeutics Section. There he is initially dedicated to clay work and then painting. It produces until its death about 17,500 works that are the subject of an important study by Dr. Nise da Silveira, creator of the workshops and the Museum of Images of the Unconscious, founded in 1952 to preserve these works.
Exhibitions Collectives
1949 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 9 artists from Engenho de Dentro, in the main hall of the City Council
1950 - São Paulo SP - 9 artists from Engenho de Dentro, at MAM/SP
1955 - Neuchâtel (Switzerland) - Brazilian Primitive and Modern Arts Exhibition, at the Ethnography Museum
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Show, at Galeria Vila Rica
1981 - São Paulo SP - 16th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
Posthumous exhibitions
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Innumerable States of Being, in the Paço Imperial
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brazil + 500 rediscovery show. Images of the unconscious, in Ibirapuera Park
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition. Images of the unconscious, in the Imperial Palace
Source: Itaú Cultural
