Carlos Scliar (Santa Maria RS 1920 - Rio de Janeiro RJ 2001)
Carlos Scliar was a painter, draftsman, printmaker, illustrator, set designer, screenwriter and graphic designer. In 1934, he studied with Gustav Epstein in Porto Alegre. In 1938, he took part in founding the Associação Riograndense de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa. Between 1939 and 1947, while living in São Paulo, he was a member of the Família Artística Paulista (FAP). In 1942, he published his first album of lithographs, Fábula. He made illustrations for books and sets for the theater. In Rio de Janeiro, in 1944, he wrote and directed the documentary Escadas, about the painters Arpad Szenes and Vieira da Silva. Drafted into the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB), he served in the Second World War, in Italy, between 1944 and 1945. While living in Paris from 1947 to 1950, he came into contact with the Mexican printmaker Leopoldo Méndez. Back in Brazil, he founded the Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre with Vasco Prado. In 1956, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he was director of the art department of the magazine Senhor between 1958 and 1960. He founded the publishing house Ediarte in 1962, with the collectors Gilberto Chateaubriand, Michel Loeb and Carlos Nicolaievski and the painter José Paulo Moreira da Fonseca. In 1969, Caderno de Guerra de Carlos Scliar was published, with the drawings he made during the war. In the 1970s, he produced panels for the Porto Alegre City Hall. Between 1992 and 1999, the exhibition Ouro Preto, Saudades de Quem Te Ama toured several Brazilian cities. In 1999, he produced the silkscreen album 1500/2000 - A Redescoberta do Brasil.
Critical Commentary
In his drawings, prints and paintings from the beginning of his career, the artist shows affinities with expressionist currents, as well as closeness to the works of Candido Portinari (1903 - 1962) and Lasar Segall (1891 - 1957).
During the 1940s, his research centers on printmaking, working mainly with lithography and linocut. In 1944, the artist fights in the Second World War (1939-1945), remaining in Italy for almost a year. During this period, he makes more than a hundred India ink drawings, which show no record of war or heroism, but rather desolate landscapes or anonymous soldiers at rest.
In 1949, he publishes an album with the illustrations he made for the French edition of Jorge Amado's novel Seara Vermelha. In these prints, he comes close to popular woodcut and seeks to match the arid and violent atmosphere of the novel. With the founding of the Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre, he travels, like other members of the group, through the land of Rio Grande do Sul in order to record regional customs. Later, besides graphic work for newspapers, he devotes himself once again to painting and collage. His most constant subjects are still lifes, in which he engages in dialogue with the work of Giorgio Morandi (1890 - 1964) and also with that of Picasso (1881 - 1973) and Braque (1882 - 1963).
Critiques
"Talking about Carlos Scliar is not very easy for me. The tendency toward the human subject, which I have just commented on, has its greatest example in his painting, not only for its constancy but for the grandeur of the plastic sense in which it is expressed (...). He does not make social painting because he wishes to make social painting. The social, that is, a certain manifestation of the human, is in him merely a contingency, an accident of experience. He simply sees human images, which happen to embody a social drama. And the proof that, in his case, all discussion is useless is that he is convinced that the subject is secondary, even though his plastic and human instinct leads him to the images of drama. It is not a matter of voluntary preference, but of instinctive sympathy".
Ruben Navarra (1943)
PONTUAL, Roberto. Roteiro biográfico. In: ___. Scliar: o real em reflexo e transfiguração. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1970. p. 167-214.
"Scliar's position is singular: he has always stood out as an independent, ever since his decision to return to painting, (...) a professional composure opposed to what was fashionable in his youth, when the general concern was to fit into one of the trends in use in Europe, as was seen in the 1960s and '70s. Scliar preferred not to depart from the spontaneous manner that led him to the faithful observation of the reality of nature and objects, an intention to communicate in order to be understood, without sowing enigmas and hermeticism, proposing a subject matter made of purely recognizable components, simple images legible at first sight, from which a personal chromatic inventiveness emerges.
His manner, from the beginning to the most recent phase, is the traditional one, characterized by an evident pleasure in drawing, showing the spirit of forms wrapped in calm and serene colors, expressions of convincing appeal, giving a uniform visual value and a concise, well-defined consistency to what it represents. Reality can contain infinite variations".
Pietro Maria Bardi
BARDI, Pietro Maria. Carlos Scliar. In: CARLOS Scliar. São Paulo: Raízes, 1983. p. 3.
"The presence and work of Carlos Scliar shed light on some important situations in Brazilian visual art over the last nearly five decades. In the early 1940s, coming from his native Rio Grande do Sul to São Paulo, he joined the Família Artística Paulista, producing paintings and prints marked by socially committed expressionism. (...) After his return to Rio, in 1956, and his initial practice as a graphic artist, ever since always stimulating, he concentrated more and more on painting, together with intense work in silkscreen from 1967 on. Diversified into still lifes, landscapes, seascapes and portraits, Carlos Scliar's work as a painter over the last 25 years has been a patient attempt to grasp reality in its pulse of time and silence. To this end, he made reflection and discipline his foundations/instruments. But, sure of his internal structure and his executive skill, he never ceased to make room, in the act of painting, for chance, surprise and deviation. His landscapes thus came closer to abstractions supported by precise planes and apparent geometric solids. (...)"
Roberto Pontual
PONTUAL, Roberto. Carlos Scliar. In: ___. Entre dois séculos: arte brasileira do século XX na coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand. Rio de Janeiro: Jornal do Brasil, 1987. p. 180.
Testimonials
"In 1949, I met the Mexican printmaker Leopoldo Mendez.
We were taking part in the World Peace Congress in Paris. I already knew his works and I consider him one of the great contemporary printmakers. We became friends, and when he returned to Mexico he sent me a beautiful collection of originals with works by all the artists who made up the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Leopoldo Mendez was president of this printmaking workshop together with Hannes Meyer, one of the directors of the Bauhaus, of the Weimar Republic in pre-Hitler Germany.
I was already preparing my return to Brazil. If Europe really served me in one thing, it was to make me aware of the fact that my country, my childhood, my upbringing - however much European influence there may have been - were fundamental in setting out what my path would be.
I received permission from Leopoldo Mendez to bring the prints. Rio and São Paulo, in the late 1940s, were in total cultural and political ferment. In both cities, almost simultaneously, several Museums of Modern Art were even being organized".
Carlos Scliar
SCLIAR, Carlos. Carlos Scliar. In: OS CLUBES de Gravura do Brasil. São Paulo: Pinacoteca do Estado, 1994. p. 11.
"I must say that, at that moment, there was only one Communist Party militant in the group. It was me. All the others might have been sympathizers, but they were not members. [...] But they all thought in a similar way: they had a generous idea of the world. There was an elite position, crystallized in São Paulo, that art should reach a certain segment of the public, an impenetrable segment. For us, art was communication. [...] In 1955, we held an exhibition in a public square called Por uma Arte Nacional. To make the public look - people came in and looked around somewhat startled -, we invented a vote. We asked people to give a rating to each print [...] When I came back from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, I joined the PC. At that time, the party was illegal. I was coming back from the war, I considered myself indebted to a whole situation unfolding in Brazil, and so I joined the party. Next, I was given the task of reorganizing the publication of the magazine Horizonte. The magazine already existed, but it had practically come to an end. Vasco Prado and I created the Associação dos Amigos da Gravura especially to finance the magazine".
Carlos Scliar to Eduardo Veras - 1999
SCLIAR, Carlos; VERAS, Eduardo. Carlos Scliar. In: GRAVURA: arte brasileira do século XX. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural: Cosac & Naify, 2000. p. 90.
"I set out to make a realist art, in the first place, because I do not wish to talk to myself. Everything I make aims to convey something. Leonardo's concepts (all art must be useful, and being tired of being useful is a first death) were my bedside concepts.
Everyone warns me of the limitation my orientation may involve. But after fifteen years shut in my room, wanting to know the problems of life through books, to know people through paintings, I found myself without a solution. Visiting the museums of Europe (from 1947 to 1950), I realized the communicability of works whose measure was the human. I learned that one must draw in contact with reality. Nature is much richer than any museum or library.
I chose Rio Grande do Sul, where I was born, to attempt this path. There were two or three of us at the beginning and soon after ten young artists, concerned with making a national and realist art. Printmaking presented itself, at first, as the most suitable technique for a wide dissemination of the works".
Carlos Scliar
CARLOS Scliar. In: GRAVURA: arte brasileira do século XX. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural: Cosac & Naify, 2000. p. 90.
Solo Exhibitions
1940 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Edifício São Diogo
1944 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Ibeu
1945 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Ibeu
1945 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Comitê Democrático Progressista dos Artistas Plásticos
1950 - Porto Alegre RS - Prints for Seara Vermelha, at Auditório Jornal do Correio do Povo
1955 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre
1956 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: Retrospective, at Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
1956 - Santos SP - Solo, at Clube de Arte
1956 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Retrospective, at MAM/SP
1957 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: Drawings, at Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
1960 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria Tenreiro
1961 - Porto Alegre RS - Carlos Scliar: 22 Years of Painting, at Pavilhão Setur
1961 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: Paintings, at Petite Galerie
1962 - Belo Horizonte MG - Paintings by Scliar, at UFMG. Faculdade de Letras
1963 - Milan (Italy) - Solo, at Galeria Profilli
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: 25 Years of Painting, at Galeria Relevo
1963 - Rome (Italy) - Solo, at Galleria d'Arte della Casa do Brasil
1964 - Düsseldorf (Germany) - Solo, at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
1964 - Frankfurt (Germany) - Solo, at Nebbienscher Pavillon
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: Recent Drawings and Paintings, at Galeria Relevo
1964 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria Astréia
1965 - Porto Alegre RS - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria Portinari
1965 - Salvador BA - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria Querino
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria Relevo
1966 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Paintings, at Galeria Astréia
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: Drawings, Collages and Silkscreens, at Galeria Santa Rosa
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar, at Galeria Relevo
1969 - Brasília DF - Carlos Scliar: Gouaches, Drawings, Watercolors, Silkscreens and Collages, at Galeria O Paiol
1969 - Recife PE - Carlos Scliar: Paintings, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1969 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Paintings, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1970 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Scliar Retrospective, at MAM/RJ
1971 - Curitiba PR - Carlos Scliar: Silkscreens, at Galeria Largo Comendador
1971 - Curitiba PR - Retrospective, at Departamento de Cultura do Sesc
1971 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Esphera Galeria de Arte
1971 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Portal
1971 - São Paulo SP - Scliar: Retrospective, at MAM/SP
1974 - Porto Alegre RS - Porto Alegre/Scliar: The City and Its Image, at TV Usina do Gasômetro
1976 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Scliar: Ouro Preto 360º, at MAM/RJ
1977 - Niterói RJ - Carlos Scliar: Retrospective 1940-1977, at Museu Histórico do Ingá
1977 - Salvador BA - Carlos Scliar: Retrospective, at Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia
1978 - Recife PE - Scliar's Flowers, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1979 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Itaugaleria
1979 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria de Arte André
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Scliar: Recent Works, at Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer
1982 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria de Arte André
1983 - Brasília DF - Carlos Scliar: Silkscreens, at Oscar Seraphico Galeria de Arte
1983 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Paintings and Silkscreens, at Galeria de Arte André
1983 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Retrospective 1939-1983, at MAB/Faap
1983 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at MAB/Faap
1984 - Porto Alegre RS - Carlos Scliar: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, at Masson Galeria de Arte
1985 - Joinville SC - Carlos Scliar: Retrospective 1939-1985, at Museu de Arte de Joinville
1985 - Juiz de Fora MG - Solo, at Galeria Artenossa
1985 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria de Arte André
1991 - Belo Horizonte MG - Scliar: 50 Years of Art, at Novo Tempo Galeria de Arte
1991 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Scliar - The Persistence of Landscape: A Modern Adventure in Brazil, at MAM/RJ
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Minas Contemporânea Gabinete de Arte
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer
1993 - Porto Alegre RS - Ouro Preto, Saudades de Quem Te Ama, at Espaço Cultural BFB
1994 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Pinacoteca do Estado
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - Scliar: 50 Years of Artistic Production, at Margs
1995 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Galeria de Arte André
1996 - Niterói RJ - Eternal Mills - Salinas, at Museu de Ingá
1996 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar: War Notebooks, at Pinacoteca do Estado
1997 - Goiânia GO - Solo, at Galeria de Arte da Fundação Jaime Câmara
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: 55 Years of Graphic Work, at Galeria Sesc Copacabana
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at MNBA
1998 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Carlos Scliar: el collage como lenguaje, at Galeria Portinari
1998 - Salvador BA - Carlos Scliar: Flowers and Objects, at MCR Galeria de Arte
1998 - Timóteo MG - Carlos Scliar: Recent Paintings, at Fundação Acesita para o Desenvolvimento Social
2000 - Bologna (Italy) - War Notebook 1944-1945, at Museo Morandi
2000 - Bologna (Italy) - 1500-2000 The Rediscovery of Brazil, at Palazzo Malvezzi
2000 - Brasília DF - 1500-2000 The Rediscovery of Brazil, at Galeria de Artes do Tênis Clube
2000 - Porto Alegre RS - 1500-2000 The Rediscovery of Brazil, at Usina do Gasômetro
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar: 80 Years, at MNBA
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Recent Paintings, at MNBA
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1500-2000 The Rediscovery of Brazil, at MNBA
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carlos Scliar 80 Years: Recent Paintings and the Artist as a Young Man, at MNBA
2000 - Rome (Italy) - 1500-2000 The Rediscovery of Brazil, at Embaixada do Brasil na Itália
2000 - São Paulo SP - The Young Painter Carlos Scliar, at Pinacoteca do Estado
2001 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar 80 Years: Recent Paintings and the Artist as a Young Man, at Pinacoteca do Estado
Group Exhibitions
1935 - Porto Alegre RS - Farroupilha Centennial Exhibition
1938 - Porto Alegre RS - 1st Salon of the Associação de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa - silver medal
1939 - Porto Alegre RS - 2nd Salon of the Associação de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa
1939 - Porto Alegre RS - 1st Salon of the Instituto de Belas Artes do Rio Grande do Sul, at Instituto de Belas Artes
1940 - Porto Alegre RS - 2nd Salon of the Instituto de Belas Artes do Rio Grande do Sul
1940 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 3rd Salon of the Família Artística Paulista
1940 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 46th National Salon of Fine Arts, at MNBA - silver medal
1940 - São Paulo SP - 6th Salon of the Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1941 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 47th National Salon of Fine Arts, at MNBA - bronze medal in drawing
1942 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 48th National Salon of Fine Arts, at MNBA
1942 - São Paulo SP - 7th Salon of the Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1943 - Porto Alegre RS - 3rd Salon of the Instituto de Belas Artes do Rio Grande do Sul
1943 - São Paulo SP - 8th Salon of the Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos
1944 - Belo Horizonte MG - Modern Art Exhibition, at Edifício Mariana
1944 - London (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Royal Academy of Arts
1944 - Norwich (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Norwich Castle and Museum
1944 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - North American and Brazilian Painters
1944 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 50th National Salon of Fine Arts, at MNBA
1944 - São Paulo SP - 8th Salon of the Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1945 - Bath (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Victoria Art Gallery
1945 - Bristol (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
1945 - Edinburgh (Scotland) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at National Gallery
1945 - Glasgow (Scotland) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Kelvingrove Art Gallery
1945 - Manchester (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Manchester Art Gallery
1945 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Brazilian Artists
1945 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Visual Artists of the Communist Party, at Casa do Estudante
1946 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Tribute to the Spanish People
1946 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Painters Go to the People's School, at Enba. Diretório Acadêmico
1946 - Santiago (Chile) - Brazilian Artists
1946 - São Paulo SP - 10th Salon of the Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1948 - Paris (France) - 1st Exposition d'Oeuvres d'Artistes Latin-Américains
1948 - Paris (France) - 8th Salon des Moins de 30 Ans
1949 - Paris (France) - 2nd Exposition d'Oeuvres d'Artistes Latin-Américains
1949 - Paris (France) - Tribute to Stalin
1950 - Paris (France) - La Gravure de Dürer a nos Jours
1950 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 56th National Salon of Fine Arts, at MNBA
1951 - Porto Alegre RS - The History of Printmaking
1951 - Bagé RS - The History of Printmaking
1951 - Porto Alegre RS - 5th Salon of the Associação de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa - silver medal in graphic arts
1951 - Porto Alegre RS - Printmaking from Rio Grande do Sul
1952 - Feira de Santana BA - 1st Feira de Santana Modern Art Exhibition, at Banco Econômico
1952 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Printmakers from Rio Grande do Sul
1952 - Beijing (China) - Printmakers from Rio Grande do Sul
1952 - Porto Alegre RS - Clube da Gravura de Porto Alegre
1952 - Porto Alegre RS - Printmakers from Rio Grande do Sul
1952 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Printmakers from Rio Grande do Sul
1952 - São Paulo SP - Printmakers from Rio Grande do Sul
1952 - Vienna (Austria) - Printmakers from Rio Grande do Sul
1953 - Asia - Exhibits with the Clube de Gravura
1953 - Curicica RJ - 1st Art Salon of the Conjunto Sanatorial
1953 - Porto Alegre RS - 1st Porto Alegre City Council Salon
1953 - Porto Alegre RS - 4th Salon of the Instituto de Belas Artes do Rio Grande do Sul - bronze medal
1953 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd National Salon of Modern Art, at MNBA
1954 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Grabadores Americanos
1954 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Grabadores Brasileños
1954 - Curitiba PR - Brazilian Prints
1954 - Goiânia GO - Exhibition of the National Congress of Intellectuals
1954 - Porto Alegre RS - 2nd Porto Alegre City Council Salon
1954 - Porto Alegre RS - 6th Salon of the Associação de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa - silver medals in drawing and printmaking
1954 - Prague (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) - Brasilská Grafika
1954 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Black and White Salon, at Palácio da Cultura
1954 - Salvador BA - 4th Bahia Salon of Fine Arts, at Hotel Bahia - silver medal in printmaking
1955 - Porto Alegre RS - 3rd Porto Alegre City Council Salon - award in drawing and printmaking
1955 - Porto Alegre RS - 7th Salon of the Associação de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa - gold medals in printmaking
1955 - Porto Alegre RS - 6th Salon of the Instituto de Belas Artes do Rio Grande do Sul
1955 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th National Salon of Modern Art - domestic travel award
1955 - Salvador BA - 5th Bahia Salon of Fine Arts, at Belvedere da Sé
1956 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Contemporary Printmaking
1956 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5th National Salon of Modern Art
1956 - São Paulo SP - Contribution to Realism, at MAM/SP
1957 - Berlin (Germany) - Brazilian Printmaking
1957 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Grabados Brasileños, at Instituto de Cultura Uruguayo-Brasileño
1957 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th National Salon of Modern Art
1957 - Vitória ES - Modern Art
1957 - Berlin (Germany) and Montevideo (Uruguay) - Brazilian Printmaking
1958 - Mexico City (Mexico) - 1st Bienal Interamericana de Pintura y Grabado, at Instituto Nacional de Belas Artes
1958 - Curitiba PR - 15th Paraná Salon of Fine Arts, at Biblioteca Pública do Paraná
1958 - Macaé RJ - Modern Salon
1958 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 7th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1958 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Labor in Art, at MNBA
1958 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Mother and Child Art Salon
1959 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1959 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 30 Years of Brazilian Art, at Funarte. Galeria Macunaíma
1960 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 9th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1962 - Rabat (Morocco) - Brazilian Artists Exhibition
1962 - Spoleto (Italy) - Brazilian Prints and Drawings, at Festival dei Due Mondi
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd The Face and the Work, at Galeria Ibeu Copacabana
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd JB Art Summary
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Nude in Contemporary Art, at Galeria Ibeu Copacabana
1965 - Athens (Greece) - Brazilian Contemporary Paintings
1965 - Beirut (Lebanon) - Four Contemporary Brazilian Painters
1965 - Cairo (Egypt) - Four Brazilian Artists
1965 - London (England) - Brazilian Art Today, at Royal Academy of Arts
1965 - New Orleans (United States) - 2nd Brazilian Contemporary Art
1965 - Paris (France) - Salon Comparaisons
1965 - Tel Aviv (Israel) - 7 Brazilian Painters
1965 - Vienna (Austria) - Brazilian Art Today, at Museum für Angewandte Kunst
1965 - London (England) - Brazilian Art Today, at Royal College of Art
1966 - Bonn (Germany) - Brazilian Art Today, at Sala Beethovenhalle
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Self-Portraits, at Galeria Ibeu Copacabana
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5th JB Art Summary, at MAM/RJ
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st Rio de Janeiro Art Fair, at MAM/RJ
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Paintings by Great National Artists: Small Formats, at Galeria Irlandini
1968 - São Paulo SP - Família Artística Paulista, at Auditório Itália
1969 - São Paulo SP - 1st Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1969 - São Paulo SP - Paço das Artes Inaugural Exhibition, at Paço das Artes
1972 - São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 Years Later, at Galeria da Collectio
1973 - Bagé RS - Four from Bagé, at Fundação Attila Taborda
1974 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Sea, at Galeria Ibeu Copacabana
1976 - Bagé RS - 2nd Meeting of Visual Artists, at Museu Dom Diogo de Souza
1976 - Penápolis SP - 2nd Noroeste Visual Arts Salon, at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - For a Brazilian Art: Grupo de Bagé, at UFRGS
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Gaúcho Traditions, at UFRGS
1976 - São Paulo SP - Artists from Rio, at Azulão Galeria
1976 - São Paulo SP - Young Drawing of the 1940s, at Pinacoteca do Estado
1977 - Washington (United States) - The Original and its Reproduction: a Melhoramentos project, at Brazilian-American Cultural Institute
1978 - Curitiba PR - 1st Curitiba Annual Printmaking Show, at Centro de Criatividade
1980 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Ochenta Años de Arte Brasileño, at Banco Itaú
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Pablo, Pablo! A Brazilian Interpretation of Guernica, at Funarte
1982 - Bauru SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art
1982 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
1982 - London (England) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at Barbican Art Gallery
1982 - Marília SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art
1982 - Penápolis SP - 5th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon, at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1982 - Salvador BA - Brazilian Art from the Odorico Tavares Collection, at Museu Carlos Costa Pinto
1982 - São Paulo SP - 80 Years of Art, at MAB/Faap
1982 - São Paulo SP - From Modernism to the Bienal, at MAM/SP
1983 - Atami (Japan) - 6th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
1983 - Belo Horizonte MG - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at Fundação Clóvis Salgado. Palácio das Artes
1983 - Campinas SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at MACC
1983 - Curitiba PR - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at MAC/PR
1983 - Kyoto (Japan) - 6th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
1983 - Porto Alegre RS - From Past to Present: The Visual Arts in Rio Grande do Sul, at Cambona Centro
1983 - Porto Alegre RS - Gaúcho Art Book: 1950/1983, at Margs
1983 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th National Salon of Visual Arts, at MAM/RJ
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Self-Portraits, at Galeria de Arte Banerj
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, at MNBA
1983 - Santo André SP - 80 Years of Brazilian Art, at Prefeitura Municipal de Santo André
1983 - São Paulo SP - 6th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, at Masp
1983 - Tokyo (Japan) - 6th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
1984 - Curitiba PR - Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte: Inaugural Exhibition, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Recent Donations 1982-1984, at MNBA
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Active Brazilian Painting, at Espaço Petrobrás
1984 - São Paulo SP - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection: Portrait and Self-Portrait of Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1984 - São Paulo SP - Tradition and Rupture: A Synthesis of Brazilian Art and Culture, at Fundação Bienal
1985 - Penápolis SP - 6th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon, at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Portrait of the Collector in His Collection, at Galeria de Arte Banerj
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Six Decades of Modern Art: Roberto Marinho Collection, at Paço Imperial
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th National Salon of Visual Arts, at MAM/RJ
1985 - São Paulo SP - 100 Itaú Works, at Masp
1985 - São Paulo SP - Aldemir Martins, Raspoport, Satyro, Scliar, Virgolino, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1985 - São Paulo SP - Mothers and the Flower in the Vision of 33 Painters, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1986 - Curitiba PR - 7th Collection of the Museu Nacional da Gravura - Casa da Gravura, at Museu Guido Viaro
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Wartime: Hotel Internacional, at Galeria de Arte Banerj
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Wartime: Pensão Mauá, at Galeria de Arte Banerj
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Occupied Territory, at EAV/Parque Lage
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - To the Collector: Tribute to Gilberto Chateaubriand, at MAM/RJ
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Working with the Support: Painting, Cutout and Object, at Documenta Galeria de Arte
1987 - Salvador BA - Twelve Brazilian Artists, at Anarte Galeria
1987 - São Paulo SP - The Craft of Art: Painting, at Sesc
1988 - Curitiba PR - 8th Curitiba Printmaking Show
1988 - Curitiba PR - Fayga Ostrower and Carlos Scliar, at Museu Guido Viaro
1988 - Novo Hamburgo RS - Carlos Scliar, Glauco Pinto de Moraes and Glauco Rodrigues, at Galeria Contemporânea
1988 - Salvador BA - The Illustrators of Jorge Amado, at Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado
1988 - São Paulo SP - 15 Years of the Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, at Fundação Mokiti Okada
1988 - Vitória ES - Ten Lustrums: Deane, Moraes, Scliar, at Ana Terra Galeria de Arte
1989 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Six Decades of Brazilian Modern Art: Roberto Marinho Collection, at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
1989 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Six Decades of Brazilian Modern Art: Roberto Marinho Collection, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
1989 - Porto Alegre RS - 2nd Rio Grande do Sul Printmaking Show, at Centro Municipal de Cultura Lupicínio Rodrigues
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Printmaking: 4 Themes, at EAV/Parque Lage
1989 - São Paulo SP - The Tables, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1989 - São Paulo SP - Thirty-Three Ways of Seeing the World, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1990 - Goiânia GO - 20 Years of the Museu de Arte de Goiânia, at Museu de Arte
1990 - São Paulo SP - Fruits, Flowers and Colors, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1990 - São Paulo SP - Painted Cats, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1991 - São Paulo SP - 22nd Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1991 - São Paulo SP - Music in Painting, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1991 - São Paulo SP - Siron, Reynaldo and Scliar, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - Icons of Utopia, at Fundação Palácio das Artes
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Art Printmaking in Brazil: A Proposal for a Mapping, at CCBB
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Nature: Four Centuries of Art in Brazil, at CCBB
1992 - Zurich (Switzerland) - Brasilien: entdeckung und selbstentdeckung, at Kunsthaus
1993 - Brasília DF - A Look at Joseph Beuys, at Fundação Athos Bulcão
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Erotic Art, at MAM/RJ
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Passion of the Gaze, at MAM/RJ
1993 - Santos SP - 4th Santos National Biennial
1993 - São Paulo SP - Modern Drawing in Brazil: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1993 - São Paulo SP - Masp at Morumbi Shopping, at Shopping Morumbi
1994 - Ouro Preto MG - The Virtual Identity, at Museu da Inconfidência
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modern Drawing in Brazil: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at MAM/RJ
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Trenches: Art and Politics in Brazil, at MAM/RJ
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século XX, at Fundação Bienal
1994 - São Paulo SP - The Printmaking Clubs of Brazil, at Pinacoteca do Estado
1994 - São Paulo SP - Poetics of Resistance: Aspects of Brazilian Printmaking, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1994 - São Paulo SP - Prints: Subtleties and Mysteries, Printing Techniques, at Pinacoteca do Estado
1995 - Brasília DF - Brasília Collections, at Ministério das Relações Exteriores. Palácio do Itamaraty
1996 - Bagé RS - Grupo de Bagé: Printmaking Retrospective, at Museu da Gravura Brasileira
1996 - Barra Mansa RJ - 12 Names in Brazilian Painting, at Centro Universitário de Barra Mansa
1996 - Belo Horizonte MG - Traveling Impressions, at Palácio das Artes
1996 - Brasília DF - Art and Urban Space: Fifteen Proposals, at Palácio Itamaraty
1996 - Passo Fundo RS - Museu de Artes Visuais Ruth Schneider: Inaugural Exhibition, at Museu de Artes Visuais Ruth Schneider
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé in the Margs Collection, at Margs
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé: Printmaking and the Present, at Centro Municipal de Cultura
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé: Painting and the Present, at Galeria de Arte Mosaico
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé at the Clube de Gravura, at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - Barra Mansa RJ - The Museum Visits the Gallery, at Centro Universitário de Barra Mansa
1997 - Brasília DF - Grupo de Bagé at the Clube de Gravura: The 1950s, at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - Curitiba PR - Casa Cor Sul, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
1997 - Curitiba PR - Grupo de Bagé at the Clube de Gravura: The 1950s, at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - Porto Alegre RS - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
1997 - Porto Alegre RS - Parallel Exhibition, at Museu da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - Porto Alegre RS - Parallel Exhibition, at Galeria da Vera
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Visited Poems, at Espaço Cultural dos Correios
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Grupo de Bagé at the Clube de Gravura: The 1950s, at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - São Paulo SP - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
1997 - São Paulo SP - Grupo de Bagé at the Clube de Gravura: The 1950s, at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - São Paulo SP, Porto Alegre RS - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Emmanuel Nassar, Leda Catunda, Marcos Benjamim, at Kolams Galeria de Arte
1998 - Curitiba PR - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
1998 - Niterói RJ - Mirror of the Bienal, at MAC/Niterói
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Negotiated Images: Portraits of the Brazilian Elite, at CCBB
1998 - São Paulo SP - Impressions: The Art of Brazilian Printmaking, at Espaço Cultural Banespa
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Modern and the Contemporary in Brazilian Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection-MAM/RJ, at Masp
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Collectors - Guita and José Mindlin: Matrices and Prints, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1998 - São Paulo SP - Impressions: The Art of Brazilian Printmaking, Espaço Cultural Banespa-Paulista
1999 - Curitiba PR - Highlights of Brazilian Painting, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
1999 - Porto Alegre RS - Garagem de Arte: Inaugural Exhibition, at Garagem de Arte
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Winter Full of Art, at Galeria Atualidades Oscar Seraphico
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Mostra Rio Gravura. Brazilian Modern Printmaking: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Collection, at MNBA
1999 - Salvador BA - 60 Years of Brazilian Art, at Espaço Cultural da Caixa Econômica Federal
1999 - São Paulo SP - Everyday Life/Art. Consumption, at Itaú Cultural
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazil 500 Years. Contemporary Art, at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - When Brazil Was Modern: Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro from 1905 to 1960, at Paço Imperial
2000 - São Paulo SP - Almeida Júnior: An Artist Revisited, at Pinacoteca do Estado
2000 - São Paulo SP - Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking, at Itaú Cultural
2000 - Valencia (Spain) - De la Antropofagia a Brasília: Brasil 1920-1950, at IVAM. Centre Julio González
2001 - Brasília DF - Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
2001 - Penápolis SP - Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking, at Galeria Itaú Cultural
2001 - Uberlândia MG - Brazilian Prints from the MUnA Collection: The 1960s, 70s and 80s, at MUnA
Posthumous Exhibitions
2001 - Brasília DF - Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking, Itaugaleria
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Collections of the Modern: Hecilda and Sergio Fadel at Chácara do Céu, Museus Castro Maya. Museu da Chácara do Céu
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Treading the Path of Printmaking, Museu da Chácara do Céu
2001 - São Paulo SP - 4 Decades, Nova André Galeria
2002 - Brasília DF - JK - An Aesthetic Adventure, Caixa Cultural
2002 - Niterói RJ - The Recent MAC Collection, Museu de Arte Contemporânea
2002 - Porto Alegre RS - Drawings, Prints, Sculptures and Watercolors, Garagem de Arte
2002 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Scliar, Museu de Arte Brasileira
2002 - São Paulo SP - From Anthropophagy to Brasília: Brazil 1920-1950, Museu de Arte Brasileira
2003 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Carlos Scliar: Painting from 1948 to 1983
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Art: From the 1930 Revolution to the Postwar Period, Museu de Arte Moderna
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Art in Motion, Espaço BNDES
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Autonomy of Drawing, Museu de Arte Moderna
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Caixa Treasures: Brazilian Modern Art in the Caixa Collection, Caixa Cultural
2003 - São Paulo SP - 7 Visions, Nova André Galeria
2003 - São Paulo SP - Art and Society: A Controversial Relationship, Itaú Cultural
2004 - Brasília DF - JK's Modernist Gaze, Ministério das Relações Exteriores. Palácio do Itamaraty
2004 - São Paulo SP - New Acquisitions: 1995 - 2003, Museu de Arte Brasileira - FAAP
2005 - Campo Grande MS - Brazilian Forms, MARCO
2005 - Curitiba PR - 10 Brazilian Painters, Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
2005 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Prints and Matrices from the Guita and José Mindlin Collection, Centro Cultural Correios
2005 - São Paulo SP - Various Paths, Nova André Galeria
2005 - São Paulo SP - Homo Ludens: From Make-Believe to Vertigo, Itaú Cultural
2006 - Florianópolis SC - Traces of the Caixa Collection, Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina
2006 - Porto Alegre RS - Carlos Scliar in the MARGS Collection, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli
2006 - Recife PE - Modern Art in Context: ABN AMRO Real Collection, Instituto Cultural Banco Real
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modern Art in Context: ABN AMRO Real Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Modern Drawing 1917-1950, Museu de Arte Moderna
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna
2006 - São Paulo SP - Modern Art in Context: ABN AMRO Real Collection, Banco Real
2006 - São Paulo SP - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Pinacoteca do Estado
2007 - Curitiba PR - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museu Oscar Niemeyer
2007 - Salvador BA - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia
2007 - São Paulo SP - Il Guarani, Estação Corinthians-Itaquera do Metrô
2007 - São Paulo SP - Il Guarany, Estação Imigrantes do Metrô
2008 - Resende RJ - Carlos Scliar 80 Years, MAM
2009 - Campo Grande MS - The Art of Collecting You, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Mato Grosso do Sul
2009 - São Paulo SP - 40th Chapel Art Show, Escola Maria Imaculada - Chapel School
Source: Itaú Cultural
