Antonio Hélio Cabral (Marília SP 1948)
Antonio Hélio Cabral is a painter, draftsman, engraver and sculptor. He worked as a professor at Arstudium, at the Lasar Segall Museum and at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. In the early 1960s, he attended the workshop of Fausto Boghi, with whom he learned chisel techniques and carried out reliefs in Copper, in São Paulo. He studied Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU/USP) between 1970 and 1974. In 1973, he began teaching drawing at Arstudium, in São Paulo.
From the second half From the 1970s, he attended sessions of a live model in the studio of Antônio Carelli (1926) and studied modeling and casting in plaster in the studio of Raphael Galvez (1907–1998). Between 1974 and 1984, he worked as a professor and coordinator of the art workshops at the Lasar Segall Museum and, from 1981 to 1984, he taught drawing and painting at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (PESP). In 1994, he was the curator of the exhibition Raphael Galvez: The City in the Shadow of the 40 – Paintings, held at PESP. authored by Leon Kossovitch. Cabral is mainly dedicated to painting, but also works with drawing, engraving and sculpture.
Critical Comment
With a background in Architecture, in the 1970s, Antonio Cabral studies with the artists Antônio Carelli (1926) and Raphael Galvez (1907-1998). Between 1974 and 1984, he works as a professor and coordinator of the Art Studio at the Lasar Segall Museum and, from 1981 to 1984, he teaches at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo - PESP. In his production, he seeks to expand issues raised by expressionism and also by the works of the painters Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997). It performs a game of construction and deconstruction of the figure, created based on colored traces, as in the red figure (1986). In 1988 screens, he presents sensual female figures, carried out through irregular traces and color spots. The backgrounds have a great chromatic vibration, given by the rhythm of the brush strokes, as in violet or horizontal figures. It often uses mixed and changing colors.
In frames on display in 1999, as a portrait 7, Antonio Cabral builds the image from the handling of oily matter: the volumes of the face are perceived when changing the direction of the brush strokes. In this series, it eliminates the opposition between figure and background in works of great chromatic vibration.
Criticism
"Antonio Hélio Cabral has a rare and manifest pleasure in painting. ink, in destroying and reconstructing the image, and in shuffling the conventional visuality. He invents his palette and organizes a scale of apparently dirty tones. It is part of his fun. It is the lonely to make a cheerful and discreet artist. illuminations, chromatic revelations, and discusses the idea of form and its possibilities in contemporary art. It is endowed with its own light and these works, somewhat nocturnal bathed by the cold and silvery light of the moon, are pictorial to the core. Painter Experiential artist, he has successfully experimented with the invention of objects from urban debris, drawing, engraving, sculpture and ceramics, and his painting also reveals to us the reconstruction of the image from visual debris. And the artist, with the patience that the craft requires, organizes the images and proposes to us the game of observing them on a pulsating background of life". Craft of Art: Painting. 2. Ed. São Paulo: SESC, 1987.
"In Cabral, the figure appears and disappears, springs and deriving from the drive. tropic, it is in matter that it is configured and disfigured; avoiding the obvious of the figurative and the excluded from the antifigurative. Cabral dedicates the figure to matter, its end and its source. It thins in lithography, thick in oil, matter is imperishable because it sips and expels the figure, preexisting it: therefore, potency, but also act, matter is virtuality, thus, in etymological derivation, virtue; In the loop, the figure itself exalts itself, since it makes the matter know in the blast of its hatching and its eclipse. ostentation and concealment thus intertwine matter and figure, being the night of one another's day, an intercurement that explains one as the support of the other, or even the knowledge of one such as the obscuration of the other".
Leon Kossovitch (1999)
KOSSOVITCH, Leon. [Untitled]. In: Engraving: Brazilian art of the 20th century. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural: Cosac & Naify, 2000, p. 156.
Individual exhibitions
1973 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Foca Galeria
1975 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria Atelier
1976 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at MASP
1977 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
1978 - São Paulo SP - Kit Caras, at Lacio Galeria de Arte
1980 - São Paulo SP - Individual, Galeria Seta
1981 - Marília SP - Individual, at Galeria Flexor
1983 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Seta
1985 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Espaço 1030
1986 - São Paulo SP - Cabral. Paintings and sculptures, at the Millan Gallery
1988 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Millan Gallery
1988 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Seta
1991 - Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Paulo Vasconcellos
1993 - São Paulo SP - Individual, in Cabinet 144
1995 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at MAC/USP
1996 - Uberlândia MG - Cabral/Antônio Hélio Cabral, at the Elizabeth Nasser Gallery
1998 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Casa das Artes Gallery
1999 - São Paulo SP - Antônio Hélio Cabral: recent paintings, at the Pinacoteca of the State
2002 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Casa das Artes Galeria
2003 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Applied Art Gallery
Collective exhibitions
1970 - São Paulo SP - 1st Exhibition of Plastic Arts for Students and Students at FAU/USP
1972 - São Paulo SP - 4th São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon, at MASP
1972 - São Paulo SP - 6th Young Contemporary Art, at MAC/USP
1973 - Santos SP - 2nd Biennial of Fine Arts
1973 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Exhibition of Plastic Arts for Students and Students of FAU/USP, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1973 - São Paulo SP - Collective, at MAM/SP
1974 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Exhibition of Plastic Arts for Students and Students at FAU/USP, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1976 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Nacional 76, at the Bienal
1978 - São Paulo SP - A friendship and a studio at the Lasar Segall Museum
1985 - São Paulo SP - 18th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1987 - Brasília DF - Paulistas in Brasília, at MAB/DF
1987 - Caraguatatuba SP - Art Litoral Norte: 9 contemporary artists, at Espaço Setur
1987 - São Paulo SP - 18 Contemporaries, at Dan Gallery
1987 - São Paulo SP - 19th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1987 - São Paulo SP - The plot of taste: another look at everyday life, at the Bienal Foundation
1987 - São Paulo SP - The Craft of Art: Painting, at SESC
1988 - São Paulo SP - Action, at MAM/SP
1990 - Atami (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Brasília DF - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - São Paulo SP - 9th Brazil-Japão Exhibition of Contemporary Art, at the Brazil-Japan Foundation
1990 - Sapporo (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1990 - Tokyo (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Exhibition of Contemporary Art
1992 - Tokyo (Japan) - Collective, at the Tokyo Central Museum
1994 - São Paulo SP - Flags: 60 artists honor the 60th anniversary of USP, in the MAC/USP 
1994 - São Paulo SP - The new travelers, at Sesc Pompéia
1994 - São Paulo SP - Senses: a sensitive look at the current art, at Renato Magalhães Gouvêa Art Office
1996 - São Paulo SP - Bandeiras, at the SESI Art Gallery
1998 - São Paulo SP - Impressions: The Art of Brazilian Engraving, at the Banespa-Paulista Cultural Space
2000 - Porto Alegre RS - Between centuries, at Galeria Tina Zapolli
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazil + 500 rediscovery show. Letter from Pero Vaz de Caminha, at the National Historical Museum
2000 - São Paulo SP - Almeida Júnior: A revisited artist, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brazil + 500 Rediscovery Show, in the Biennial Foundation
2000 - São Paulo SP - Investigations. The Brazilian engraving, at Itaú Cultural
2000 - São Paulo SP - Os Anjos are back, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
2001 - Brasília DF - Investigations. The Brazilian engraving, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
2001 - Penápolis SP - Investigations. The Brazilian engraving, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
2002 - São Paulo SP - Genius Loci: the spirit of the place, in the streets of the neighborhood of Vila Buarque
2003 - Porto Alegre RS - Humanities, at Galeria Tina Zappoli
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilianart Project, at Almacén Art Gallery
Source: Itaú Cultural
