Cleber Gouvêa (Uberlândia MG 1942 - Brasília DF 2000)
Cleber Gouvêa was a painter, engraver, sculptor and teacher. In 1954, he studied mural with Geraldo Queiroz and, in 1957, met the sculptor Franz Weissmann and his work. The following year, he perfected himself in painting with Alberto da Veiga Guignard and studied ceramics, lithography and engraving. He worked as a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts of Goiânia in 1962 and, from 1979, at the Institute of Arts of the Federal University of Goiás. Gouvêa does not result only from a sensory emotion, so it acts and communicates as if it were a magical work, encompassing optical and paraoptic vision; it is not restricted to the dimension and contour of shapes and the rhythmic harmony of colors because it extends to Sensations, anguish and depressions, which lends physical and psychic versatility to his compositions. For this reason, Cleber Gouvêa is perhaps the only painter who explores a theme based on cosmogony, in the insofar as it reaches the mystery of all beings in formation, given its tendency towards agitating organic forms that are transfigured into the depths of their inner universe. (...) They cause dramatic effects, especially when the symbols lose their connotations with the real and turn calligraphically into structures coated with a rare force of expression. Cleber Gouvêa is, of course, the man and the artist who lives, day by day, in the alchemical conquest of form, texture and color (...)".
Hugo Auler
FIGUEREDO, Aline. Fine Arts in the Midwest. Aline Figueredo Cuiabá, UFMT, MACP, 1979. BIBLIOGRAPHY.
"Cleber Gouvêa has been performing an abstractionist result painting, through a constant research of textures and of shapes. These forms, however, are not always detached from a figurative representation, since they can establish different connotations. Often, for example, it starts from associations of mineral or vegetable shapes, making close-ups of small details that resemble inner pieces of stones or leaves, whose texture and color are taken to the canvas. In fact, the artist claims that his painting is influenced by his daily life. After doing a study on geology, he developed a series of paintings that could be compared to fossilized crustaceans, cut and embedded in stone. In the same way it can be seen, more recently, in the series of wings, where it starts exactly from the texture, shape and color of the dragonfly's wing. These suggestions, however, are just motivations from where the artist starts for his painting (...). At the same time as it takes care of the forms, Cleber lends them meticulous textures elaboration (...)".
Aline Figueiredo
FIGUEREDO, Aline. Plastic Arts in the Midwest. Aline Figueredo. Cuiabá, UFMT, MACP, 1979. Bibliography.
Individual exhibitions
1961 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at IAB/MG
1962 - Goiânia GO - Individual, at the unfinished theater of AGT
1965 - Goiânia GO - Individual, in the gallery of the newspaper O Popular
1973 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Guimar
1974 - Brasília DF - Individual, at Galeria Oscar Seraphico
1976 - Goiânia Go - Individual, in the Brown Hall of the Hotel Bandeirantes
1977 - Brasília DF - Individual, at the Cultural Foundation of the Federal District
1977 - Brasília DF - Individual, in the Galeria Oscar Seraphico
1977 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Sala Cecília Meirelles
1978 - Goiânia GO - Individual, at Casagrande Art Gallery
1981 - Goiânia GO - Retrospective Cleber Gouvêa: paintings from 1963 to 1981, at the Palácio de Cultura
1982 - Brasília DF - Individual, at the Cultural Foundation of the Federal District
1982 - São José dos Campos SP - Individual, at the Galeria do Sol
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Bonino Gallery
1984 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Paulo Prado Gallery
1986 - Porto Alegre RS - Individual, at Galeria Cambona
1986 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Dan Galeria
1987 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Dan Galeria
1987 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at Manuel Macedo Galeria de Arte
1993 - Goiânia GO - Individual, Casa Grande Art Gallery
1996 - Brasília DF - Individual, at the Marlene Gastal Gallery
1997 - Goiânia GO - Individual, at the Jaime Câmara Foundation
Collective exhibitions
1959 - Belo Horizonte MG - 14th Municipal Salon of Fine Arts - 1st Prize
1959 - Belo Horizonte MG - University Hall - 2nd Prize
1963 - Goiânia GO - 1st Fine Arts Hall of the Federal University of Goiás - 3rd Prize
1964 - Goiânia GO - 1st Salon of the Goiás Artist - 3rd Prize
1966 - São Paulo SP - Collective of Goiás Artists, at Masp
1967 - Wyoming (States United States) - Collective, at the Faculty of Art of Wyoming
1969 - Goiânia GO - 1st Biennial of Visual Arts - 1st Prize
1970 - New Orleans (United States) - Collective, at the Salomé
1970 - São Paulo SP - Pre-Bienal of São Paulo, at the Bienal Foundation
1971 - São Paulo SP - 11th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Fundação Bienal - Itamaraty Acquisition Award
1972 - Brasília DF - Collective of artists from Goiás, at Galeria Porta do Sol
1973 - Brasília DF - 1st Global Spring Hall - Award for travel abroad - 1st Prize
1975 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 24th Salon of Modern Art
1975 - São Paulo SP - 13th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Biennial Foundation
1975 - São Paulo SP - Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1976 - São Paulo SP - National Biennial 76, at Fundação Bienal
1976 - São Paulo SP - 8th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1977 - Goiânia GO - 4th Art Salon Frei Confaloni
1977 - Goiânia GO - Collective of Artist Artists from Goiás, at the Frei Confaloni Gallery
1978 - Milan (Italy) - Artists Goiás
1978 - Paris (France) - Artists from Goiás
1978 - Rome (Italy) - Artists from Goiás
1979 - São Paulo SP - 11th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art MAM/SP
1981 - São Paulo SP - Expo Arte Goiás, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5th National Salon of Plastic Arts, at MAM/RJ - Travel Award abroad
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th National Salon of Plastic Arts, at MAM/RJ
1983 - São Paulo SP - 14th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP - Acquisition Award
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Acting Brazilian painting, at Espaço Petrobras
1987 - São Paulo SP - 18 contemporaries, at Dan Galeria
1987 - São Paulo SP - The craft of art: painting, at SESC
1990 - Goiânia GO - 20 years of the Museum of Art of Goiânia, at the Museum of Art
1998 - Catalão GO - 60 artists in the 60th anniversary of the newspaper O Popular, at the Municipal Forum
1998 - Goiânia GO - 60 artists In the 60th anniversary of the newspaper O Popular, at Fundação Jaime Câmara
1998 - Itumbiara GO - 60 artists in the 60th anniversary of the newspaper O Popular, at the Casa de Cultura de Itumbiara
1998 - Rio Verde GO - 60 artists in the 60th anniversary of the newspaper O Popular, at the Municipal Department of Science, Technology and Culture. Palace of the Intendency
Source: Itaú Cultural
