César Romero (Feira de Santana BA 1950)
Graphic artist, illustrator, photographer, critic.
César Romero de Oliveira Cordeiro began his career as a painter in Bahia, in 1967. participates in several salons in Brazil. It makes posters, logos for companies, graphic projects and disc covers. In the late 1970s, he wrote regularly about art in newspapers and magazines in Bahia. At that time, he is a member of the jury of several official halls in the region. He exhibits at Primitive Paintings from Bahia, at the Art Gallery of the Brazilian American Cultural Institute, in Washington DC, United States, 1973. Member of the Association International des Arts Plastiques/AIAP and the International Association of Art, from UNESCO. In 1979, he received the Personality of the Year Award, a prominent man from the Northeast 78, in Recife. In 1980 and 1981, he participated in collective exhibitions in Hannover, Cologne and Berlin (Germany); Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao (Spain); and Lisbon (Portugal). In 2001, he opened an individual exhibition at MAM in Bahia, when he released a CD-ROM, two videos and a book signed by art critic Jacob Klintowitz
Criticism
"The art of César Romero Se It is based on a constant process of synthesis around its symbols, created not to show the spiritual problems of man, but as a particular writing to say what he thinks of them and the way they live today. (...) Opting for symbolism, César Romero avoids the obvious of direct illustration and takes the spectator deciphering his motives because he affirms his themes so accurately, that his intent prevails of course. His work is an investigator and tries to discover inherent ironies when transmitting ideas, without despising the secondary aspects that contribute to the aesthetic experience. Unpredictable and, although its process is of synthesis, its technique is cumulative, using well-known forms that it adopts, adapts, modifies and combines, to give them a significant existence. (...) to accommodate the multiplicity of its messages invades other territories of creativity and will incorporate legacies of literary components or popular music. (...) also schemes of geometric and optical origin are often elaborated by their thinking. The richness of these references is deliberate and tends to balance the inspiration, exposed to the rigorous test of the conditioned experiment, which predetermines its results. What first draws attention to César Romero's work is the clean technique, the beautiful chromatic combinations that just look like that. Only then, slowly, do we pay attention to the meaning of what at first seems only form (...)".
Matilde Matos
Cesar Romero: Approach: Paintings. Presentation by Matilde Matos. S.L.: Galeria da Pousada do Carmo, 1976.
Individual exhibitions
1972 - Aracaju SE - Individual, at Galeria Álvaro Santos
1976 - Salvador BA - Individual, at the Museum of Art of Bahia
1978 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Portal Galeria de Arte
1986 - Brasília DF - Emblematic Tracks, at La Galleria
1989 - Salvador BA - Emblematic Tracks, at Maba
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Emblematic Tracks, at the Bonino Gallery
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Toulouse Art Gallery
Collective exhibitions
1971 - Salvador BA - 1st Salon of New Artists of the Northeast, at the Castro Alves Theater - Honorable Mention
1972 - Salvador BA - Bahia 70's - I.C.B.A.
1973 - Santo André SP - 6th Salon of Contemporary Art of Santo André, at the City Hall
1973 - Washington (United States) - Primitive paintings from Bahia, at the Art Gallery of the Brazilian American Cultural Institute
1975 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Instinct and popular creativity, at MNBA
1975 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Bahian painters, at Petite Galerie
1978 - Brasília DF - Santeiros do Brasil in Bahia de Todos os Santos, at MAB/DF
1978 - Salvador BA - Santeiros do Brasil in Bahia de Todos os Santos, in Maba
1980 - Berlin (Germany) - Moderne Brasilianische Kunst
1980 - Cologne (Germany) - Moderne Brasilianische Kunst
1980 - Feira de Santana BA - 1st Hall of Plastic Arts, at the Regional Museum - Honorable Mention
1980 - Hannover (Germany) - Moderne Brasilianische Kunst
1980 - Salvador BA - Proposal 80, at MAM/BA - Guest Artist
1981 - Barcelona (Spain) - 20th Premi International de Dibuix Joan Miró - Fundación Joan Miró
1981 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Exhibition, at the Mairie de Vila Real Exhibition Room
1981 - Madrid (Spain) - Shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Artists from Bahia, at the IBEU Gallery
1982 - Bilbao (Spain) - International Muestra of Graphic Art of Bilbao
1983 - Salvador BA - Bahia-África-Bahia, at the Museum of Art of Bahia
1983 - São Paulo SP - Contemporary artists from Bahia and Projeto Arte na Rua, at MAC/USP
1984 - Feira de Santana BA - 2nd Salon of Plastic Arts, at the Regional Museum - Special Room
1984 - Fortaleza CE - 7th National Salon of Plastic Arts
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 7th National Salon of Plastic Arts, at MAM/RJ
1985 - Campinas SP - 12th Contemporary Art Salon of Campinas
1985 - São Paulo SP - O Popular as Headquarters, at MAC/USP
1985 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Pirelli Painting Youth Award, at MASP
1987 - Santiago (Chile) - 5th Contest del Prealc, at the gallery Carmem Waugh
1987 - São Paulo SP - 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Chapel Art Show
1988 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Bahia en El Centro, at the Centro Cultural de Buenos Aires
1988 - Olinda PE - 41st Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Pernambuco, at the Pernambuco Convention Center
1988 - Paris (France) - Man and his beliefs, at Brasil Inter Art Galerie
1996 - São Paulo SP - Norfest´96: Visual Arts, at D&d Shopping
1997 - Salvador BA - a toast to the coffee, at Espaço Cafelier
1998 - Paris (France) - Bahia to Paris: Arts Plastiques d'Aujourd'hui, at the Galerie Debret
1998 - Salvador BA - Tropicália 30 years: 40 Bahian artists, at MAM/BA
1999 - Curitiba PR - Arte-Arte Salvador 450 years, at the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba. Solar do Barão
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Arte-Arte Salvador 450 years old, at the Historical Museum of the City of Rio de Janeiro
1999 - Salvador BA - 100 plastic artists from Bahia, at the Museum of Sacred Art
1999 - Salvador BA - Arte-Arte Salvador 450 years old, at MAM/BA
2002 - São Paulo SP - Contemporary Artists: ABCA Award 2000/2001, at CCBB
Source: Itaú cultural
