Carlos Mélo (Riacho das Almas PE 1969)
Visual artist.
Between 1989 and 2000, José Carlos de Mélo took courses in art history and visual research at the Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, IAC [Institute of Contemporary Art], Recife; in multimedia, with Paulo Bruscky, at the Associação Brasil-América, ABA, Recife; as well as a course at the Barbican Centre, London. His work presents a phenomenological reflection on themes such as art, religion and the sacred today, sex, memory, death and the dimension of what escapes us in the everyday imagination. He works in the interstice in which the characteristics of things are perceived on condition that they are translated into signs, without necessarily resembling the very things to which they refer.
Solo Exhibitions
1998 - Recife PE - Carlos Mélo - Desenhos e Colagens [Carlos Mélo - Drawings and Collages], at IAC
2000 - Recife PE - Solo, at Galeria Vicente do Rego Monteiro
2001 - João Pessoa PB - Solo, at Centro Cultural São Francisco
2003 - Recife PE - Solo, at Mamam
Group Exhibitions
1998 - Salvador BA - 5º Salão da Bahia [5th Bahia Salon], at MAM/BA
1999 - Olinda PE - Prêmio Pernambuco de Artes Plásticas - Novos Talentos/1999 [Pernambuco Visual Arts Prize - New Talents/1999], at MAC/Olinda
1999 - Recife PE - Arte Contemporânea [2000-1] Pernambuco [Contemporary Art 2000-1 Pernambuco], at Mamam
1999 - Salvador BA - Arte Contemporânea [2000-1] Pernambuco [Contemporary Art 2000-1 Pernambuco], at MAM/BA
2001 - Belém PA - 20º Salão Arte Pará [20th Arte Pará Salon], at Museu do Estado do Pará
2001 - Recife PE - Permanências e Rupturas [Permanences and Ruptures], at Observatório Cultural Malakoff
2002 - Belo Horizonte MG - Rumos Itaú Cultural Artes Visuais - Rumos da Nova Arte Contemporânea Brasileira [Rumos Itaú Cultural Visual Arts - Directions of New Brazilian Contemporary Art], at Fundação Clóvis Salgado - Palácio das Artes
2002 - Fortaleza CE - Rumos Itaú Cultural Artes Visuais - Arte: sistema e redes [Rumos Itaú Cultural Visual Arts - Art: System and Networks], at MAUC
2002 - Goiânia GO - 2º Salão Nacional de Arte de Goiás [2nd Goiás National Art Salon], at Flamboyant Shopping Center
2002 - São Paulo SP - Rumos Itaú Cultural Artes Visuais - Vertentes da Produção Contemporânea [Rumos Itaú Cultural Visual Arts - Strands of Contemporary Production], at Itaú Cultural
2003 - Curitiba PR - 60º Salão Paranaense [60th Paraná Salon], at MAC/PR
2003 - Goiânia GO - 3º Salão Nacional de Arte de Goiás [3rd Goiás National Art Salon], at Flamboyant Shopping Center
2004 - Fortaleza CE - Heterodoxia: edição Fortaleza [Heterodoxy: Fortaleza Edition], at Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura
2004 - São Paulo SP - Temporada de Projetos 2003-2004 [Projects Season 2003-2004], at Paço das Artes
2004 - Vitória ES - Heterodoxia: edição Vitória [Heterodoxy: Vitória Edition], at Casa Porto das Artes Plásticas
Source: Itaú Cultural
