Danúbio Villamil Gonçalves (Bagé RS 1925 - Porto Alegre RS 2019)
Printmaker, draftsman, painter and teacher.
He attended the studio of Candido Portinari (1903 - 1962) with Iberê Camargo (1914 - 1994). He studied printmaking and drawing at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV in Rio de Janeiro with Carlos Oswald (1882 - 1971) and Axel Leskoschek (1889 - 1975) in the 1940s. He traveled to Paris and, between 1949 and 1951, attended the Académie Julian. Back in Brazil, he founded the Clube de Gravura de Bagé [Bagé Print Club], in Rio Grande do Sul, with Glauco Rodrigues (1929 - 2004), Glênio Bianchetti (1928 - 2014) and Carlos Scliar (1920 - 2001). With these artists, he was a member of the Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club] between 1951 and 1955. From 1963, he taught students in the lithography course of the Ateliê Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre City Open Studio], an institution he directed until 1978. Between 1969 and 1971, he taught printmaking at the Instituto de Artes of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - IA/UFRGS. He published the books Do Conteúdo à Pós-Vanguarda [From Content to the Post-Avant-Garde], issued by the Porto Alegre Municipal Department of Culture in 1995, and Processos Básicos da Pintura [Basic Processes of Painting], by the publisher AGE, in 1996. In 2000, a retrospective of his production was held at the Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli - Margs, and the book Danúbio Gonçalves: Caminhos e Vivências [Danúbio Gonçalves: Paths and Experiences] was published by Fumproarte, with texts by Paulo Gomes and Stori (1946).
Critical Commentary
Danúbio Gonçalves is known mainly for his work as a printmaker. A co-founder of the Clube de Gravura de Bagé, his artistic activity and his political engagement are inseparable. With other artists, he visited countries of the communist bloc, rejected the São Paulo Biennial and abstraction, and defended a regional art of a social nature, close to Socialist Realism.
His most characteristic production consists of woodcuts, above all from the 1950s. He portrays peasants and workers, their daily life and their festivities. Some works emphasize events, instruments, dances and typical clothing, such as Festa do Mundo [Festival of the World], from 1953. In others, there is a more expressionist and angular line, which conveys the violence of the workers' activity. The best known are the series Charqueadas and Mineiros de Butiá [Butiá Miners]. The first presents the stages of producing charque (jerked beef), from the slaughter of the cattle to the drying of the meat. The second depicts the life of miners, in clear reference to the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) on the same theme. In all of them, he expresses anguish and misery through marked contrasts, and strength and movement through carving that highlights the grain of the wood with several parallel lines. For the writer Érico Veríssimo, Danúbio manages to go beyond documentary interest and give his subjects a universal meaning.1
Gradually, Danúbio left regionalism and the expressionist line behind and, during the 1960s, made more abstract paintings, with subdued tones and forms that are sometimes recognizable but not realistic, such as plants, insects and animals. There is no depth or texture. Commentators speak of "...image of universal man, his deformation and alarm..."2 and of "...expression of an ambiguous cosmos..."2
In the following years, he went through a more Pop phase. He used varied techniques, such as acrylic paint, watercolor and printmaking. Recently, in addition to erotic themes, he has painted ballooning scenes, in which he takes advantage of the large areas of color of the balloons, the grass and the sky.
Notes
1 PONTUAL, Roberto. Dicionário das artes plásticas no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1969, p. 246.
2 PONTUAL, idem.
3 SCARINCI, Carlos. A gravura no Rio Grande do Sul: 1900 - 1980. Porto Alegre: Mercado Aberto, 1982, p.147-148.
Critiques
"Danúbio Villamil Gonçalves has a tendency toward the figure. Figures in groups, face to face and confronted in a dense human atmosphere. A violent life circulates among them, giving them their condition. Figures charged with vitality in environments impregnated with force. He never falsifies. Always faithful to the inviolable content. This direct and affectionate treatment, although of a sometimes violent affection, does not harm the painter's fundamentals, does not disturb his visual language. Never a concession to rhetoric, to the literary. Always the arduous path."
Clovis Assumpção
DANÚBIO Gonçalves: desenho, gravura, pintura 1964-1976. Apresentação de Quirino Campofiorito et al. São Paulo: MAM, 1976.
"Among the founders of the Clube da Gravura and their heirs, few had Danúbio's maturation and long research. There are certainly few lithographers like him in Brazil. Despite the rigorous path traveled by a painting, it seems to me that the artist's graphic work is weightier and of greater scope. His natural tendency is graphic. Even the paintings - when at their best - have a strong graphic accent, with defined drawing, established planes and evident values of light and dark. Color does not hold vital interest for this artist. His world runs along the lines of drawing and the printed work. It is perhaps a little unfair to insist on the graphic part of the exhibition, when his painting has followed its own course for at least 30 years. But the importance of this sober and discreet artist in the Brazilian graphic universe must, finally, be remembered. His work records a way of life and folklore on the verge of disappearing; then this work moves into abstraction to return, at last, to a magical figuration in which the artist finds all his mismatches and creates a mature and serene body of work. Following this long period of work, we have the pleasure of finding before us a serene, mature artist with full knowledge of his creative powers. Capable of uniting in the same spatial moment his universe of social and formal concerns and also the emergence of the unconscious with its symbols, lyricisms and fantasies."
Jacob Klintowitz
KLINTOWITZ, Jacob. Versus: dez anos de crítica de arte. Prefácio Jacob Klintowitz; apresentação Pietro Maria Bardi. São Paulo: André Galeria de Arte, 1978. 143 p. il.
"Between the slick academic painting, 'well done', that photographs the world, and the colorful geometric or chaotic labyrinths of a certain kind of abstract art devoid of humanity, there are - of course - a thousand other paths and byways. I have the impression that, to use a good popular expression, Danúbio 'got it right' and reached full artistic maturity in this new phase, in which he does not flee the objective world or the human image, nor disfigure them, but transfigures them poetically and dramatically. This artist's vision is neither that of the faithful camera nor that of the concave or convex mirror that recreates the world and humanity in grotesque terms of caricature. An admirable draftsman - nowadays, saying that a painter knows how to draw is a horrendous heresy! -, Danúbio manages to give regional themes (see, for example, Picador and O Guri das Cabeças) a universal interest and meaning, disregarding details of a purely documentary nature. (...) Another very appealing aspect of Danúbio Gonçalves's artistic personality is his activity as a craftsman. Like the Renaissance painters, he prepares his own paints, his canvases, the wood in which he makes his prints; and it is he himself who transfers his drawings to the stone and then prints his reproductions. And with what joy and loving patience he does all these things! Certain art critics are very concerned with knowing what MESSAGE the artist conveys in his pictures. Others go so far as to demand that he suffer greatly in the act of painting (...) Good God! Does no one ever think of the pure playful pleasure the artist experiences in the act of creation? Consider the incomparable example of Picasso, that adolescent of over eighty. He may have made dramatic protests with his unforgettable Guernica, but his entire work is above all a hymn to life and to the pleasure of the senses, a lesson in hope, courage and love. With his countryman's manner, withdrawn and somewhat shy, Danúbio lives his life in the tone in which he speaks, that is, sotto voce. He saves himself entirely - strength, tenderness, passion, lyricism - for his art. He spreads, so to speak, in his pictures all the savings he makes in daily life. And the result is there (...)".
Erico Verissimo
Catálogo de exposição no ICBNA de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, outubro de 1971 citado por: GONÇALVES, Danúbio. Danúbio Gonçalves: caminhos e vivências. Texto Paulo Gomes, Norberto Stori; fotografia Fernando Zago. Porto Alegre: FUMPROARTE, 2000. P. 134-135.
Solo Exhibitions
1944 - Bagé RS - Solo, at Instituto de Belas Artes
1945 - Bagé RS - Solo, at Instituto Municipal de Música
1955 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Círculo Bageense
1959 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Pavilhão da Avenida Borges de Medeiros
1963 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Margs
1964 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Instituto Cultural Brasileiro Norte-Americano
1965 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Espaço Galeria
1967 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at IAB/RS
1968 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Margs
1971 - Salvador BA - Solo, at MAM/BA
1972 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Esphera Galeria de Arte
1976 - Curitiba PR - Solo, at Museu Guido Viaro
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Retrospectiva 12 Anos de Carreira [Retrospective: 12 Years of Career], at Margs
1976 - São Paulo SP - Retrospectiva [Retrospective], at MAM/SP
1979 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Independência
1980 - Bagé RS - Solo, at Museu da Gravura Brasileira
1980 - Novo Hamburgo RS - Solo, at Galeria Casa Velha Convívio de Arte
1980 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Clube do Comércio
1981 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Galeria Imagem
1981 - Santa Maria RS - Solo, at Sala de Exposições da UFSM
1981 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at MAM/SP
1982 - Camboriú SC - Solo, at Galeria Lascaux
1982 - Casablanca (Morocco) - Solo, at Galeria Oukade
1982 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Clube do Comércio
1982 - Porto Alegre RS - Retrospectiva de Gravura [Printmaking Retrospective], at Margs
1982 - São Leopoldo RS - Solo, at Galeria Liana Brandão
1986 - São Leopoldo RS - Solo, at Galeria Liana Brandão
1987 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Masc
1987 - Porto Alegre RS - Retrospectiva [Retrospective], at Galeria de Arte da CEE
1987 - Santa Maria RS - Solo, at AB Galeria de Arte
1988 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Centro Municipal da Cultura
1989 - São Leopoldo RS - Solo, at Galeria Liana Brandão
1990 - Porto Alegre RS - Hommage à Torres [Tribute to Torres], at Galeria de Arte Mosaico
1991 - Bagé RS - Solo, at Museu da Gravura Brasileira, Fundação Áttila Taborda
1991 - Caxias do Sul RS - Solo, at Galeria de Arte do Sesc
1991 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Atelier Livre da Prefeitura
1991 - Torres RS - Solo, at Sociedade Amigos da Praia de Torres
1992 - Cachoeira do Sul RS - Solo, at Atelier Livre Municipal de Cachoeira do Sul
1992 - Paris (France) - Solo, at Galeria L'Oeil de Boeuf
1992 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Mosaico
1992 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Margs
1992 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Salão Municipal de Cultura
1993 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Mosaico
1993 - Torres RS - Solo, at Associação dos Artistas Plásticos de Torres
1995 - Bagé RS - Solo, at Museu da Gravura Brasileira
1995 - Pelotas RS - Solo, at Museu Leopoldo Gotuzzo
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - Danúbio e a Imprensa, Mostra de Caricaturas de 1939 a 1941 [Danúbio and the Press, Exhibition of Caricatures from 1939 to 1941], at Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito da Costa
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - Homenagem dos 70 Anos [70th Birthday Tribute], at Galeria Iberê Camargo, Usina do Gasômetro
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - Projeto A Gravura no Rio Grande do Sul [Printmaking in Rio Grande do Sul Project], at Margs
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - Retrospectiva 70 Anos, Pinturas de 1948 a 1993 [70th Birthday Retrospective, Paintings from 1948 to 1993], at Margs
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Homenagem a Anestor José Tavares [Tribute to Anestor José Tavares], at Galeria Marisa Soibelmann
1998 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Mosaico
2000 - Bagé RS - Danúbio Gonçalves: retrospectiva [Danúbio Gonçalves: Retrospective], at Casa de Cultura Pedro Wayne
2000 - Caxias do Sul RS - Danúbio Gonçalves: retrospectiva [Danúbio Gonçalves: Retrospective], at Centro de Cultura Dr. Henrique Ordovás Filho
2000 - Pelotas RS - Danúbio Gonçalves: retrospectiva [Danúbio Gonçalves: Retrospective], at Museu de Arte Leopoldo Gotuzzo
2000 - Porto Alegre RS - Danúbio Gonçalves: retrospectiva [Danúbio Gonçalves: Retrospective], at Museu dos Correios
2000 - Brasília DF - Danúbio Gonçalves: retrospectiva [Danúbio Gonçalves: Retrospective], at Espaço Cultural dos Correios
2008 - Porto Alegre RS - Balonismo II [Ballooning II], at Centro Cultural CEEE - Érico Veríssimo
2008 - Porto Alegre RS - Balonismo II [Ballooning II], at Parque Odilo Webber Rodrigues
2009 - Bagé RS - Aos Grandes: Danúbio Gonçalves [To the Great: Danúbio Gonçalves], at Palacete Pedro Osório
2009 - Pelotas RS - Aos Grandes Mestres: Danúbio Gonçalves [To the Great Masters: Danúbio Gonçalves], at MALG
2010 - Porto Alegre RS - Aos Grandes Mestres: Danúbio Gonçalves [To the Great Masters: Danúbio Gonçalves], at Centro Cultural CEEE - Érico Veríssimo
2010 - Porto Alegre RS - Xarqueadas [Charqueadas], at Parque da Harmonia, Centro de Eventos Almir Azeredo Ramos
2010 - Uruguaiana RS - Aos Grandes Mestres: Danúbio Gonçalves [To the Great Masters: Danúbio Gonçalves], at Sesc Uruguaiana
2012 - Porto Alegre RS - Arte Pública - Murais de Danúbio Gonçalves [Public Art - Murals by Danúbio Gonçalves], at Paço dos Açorianos
2012 - Santa Maria RS - Aos Grandes Mestres: Danúbio Gonçalves [To the Great Masters: Danúbio Gonçalves], at Museu de Arte de Santa Maria
Group Exhibitions
1945 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exposição de Arte Moderna [Modern Art Exhibition], at ABI/RJ
1948 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Auditório do Correio do Povo
1948 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 53º Salão Nacional de Belas Artes [53rd National Fine Arts Salon] - honorable mention and silver medal
1951 - Bagé RS - Group show, at Galeria de Arte
1951 - Porto Alegre RS - 5º Salão de Artes Plásticas da Associação Francisco Lisboa [5th Associação Francisco Lisboa Visual Arts Salon] - silver medal
1952 - Berlin (Germany) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Bucharest (Romania) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Curitiba PR - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Florianópolis SC - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Goiânia GO - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Moscow (Soviet Union, now Russia) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - New York (United States) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Beijing (China) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Porto Alegre RS - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Prague (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1º Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna [1st National Salon of Modern Art]
1952 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Santiago (Chile) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - São Paulo SP - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Warsaw (Poland) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Vienna (Austria) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1952 - Viña del Mar (Chile) - Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Print Club]
1953 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2º Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna [2nd National Salon of Modern Art] - domestic travel prize
1954 - Goiânia GO - Exposição do Congresso Nacional de Intelectuais [Exhibition of the National Congress of Intellectuals]
1954 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Salão Preto e Branco [Black and White Salon], at Palácio da Cultura
1954 - Salvador BA - 4º Salão Baiano de Belas Artes [4th Bahia Fine Arts Salon]
1955 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4º Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna [4th National Salon of Modern Art]
1956 - São Paulo SP - Contribuição ao Realismo [Contribution to Realism], at MAM/SP
1959 - Porto Alegre RS - 2ª Feira da Gravura de Porto Alegre [2nd Porto Alegre Print Fair]
1961 - Denver (United States) - Gravadores Gaúchos [Rio Grande do Sul Printmakers]
1961 - Porto Alegre RS - Salão de Arte Rio-Grandense [Rio Grande do Sul Art Salon] - gold medal
1962 - Curitiba PR - Artistas do Atelier Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre [Artists of the Porto Alegre City Open Studio], at Salão da Biblioteca de Curitiba
1962 - Porto Alegre RS - 4º Salão de Artes Plásticas de Porto Alegre [4th Porto Alegre Visual Arts Salon] - silver medal
1962 - Porto Alegre RS - 9º Salão de Artes Plásticas do Instituto de Belas Artes [9th Visual Arts Salon of the Instituto de Belas Artes]
1962 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Faculdade de Arquitetura
1962 - Washington D. C. (United States) - Group show, at Graphic Arts Gallery
1963 - Belo Horizonte MG - 18º Salão Municipal de Belas Artes de Belo Horizonte [18th Belo Horizonte Municipal Fine Arts Salon] - 3rd prize
1963 - Curitiba PR - 14 Artistas Gaúchos [14 Rio Grande do Sul Artists], at Galeria Macunaíma, Departamento de Cultura do Estado do Paraná
1963 - Porto Alegre RS - 1º Salão da Cidade de Porto Alegre [1st Porto Alegre City Salon] - 1st printmaking prize
1963 - Porto Alegre RS - Gravuras [Prints], at Margs
1964 - Porto Alegre RS - Artistas do Rio Grande do Sul [Artists from Rio Grande do Sul], at Galeria Portinari
1964 - Porto Alegre RS - Feira do Artista Gaúcho [Rio Grande do Sul Artist Fair] - first prize
1965 - Belo Horizonte MG - Premiados do 30º Salão de Belas Artes [Prizewinners of the 30th Fine Arts Salon], at Galeria do ICBEU
1965 - Curitiba PR - Gravura Brasileira Contemporânea [Brazilian Contemporary Printmaking]
1965 - Porto Alegre RS - 2º Salão da Cidade de Porto Alegre [2nd Porto Alegre City Salon], at Margs - 1st drawing prize
1965 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Leopoldina Galeria de Arte
1966 - Belo Horizonte MG - Group show, at Galeria Guignard
1966 - Curitiba PR - 23º Salão Paranaense de Belas Artes [23rd Paraná Fine Arts Salon], at Biblioteca Pública do Paraná
1966 - Porto Alegre RS - Arte Hoje no Rio Grande do Sul [Art Today in Rio Grande do Sul], at Margs
1966 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Instituto Cultural Brasileiro Norte-Americano
1966 - Porto Alegre RS - Tendências 66 [Trends 66], at Galeria do IAB
1966 - Salvador BA - 1ª Bienal Nacional de Artes Plásticas da Bahia [1st Bahia National Visual Arts Biennial]
1967 - São Paulo SP - 4 artistas do Rio Grande do Sul [4 Artists from Rio Grande do Sul], at Galeria 4 Planetas
1967 - Tokyo, Sakata, Katsuragitar, Nikko, Kanazawa and Suzu (Japan) - Gravadores Gaúchos no Japão [Rio Grande do Sul Printmakers in Japan], at the Brazilian Embassy, at International Society of Plastic and Audio Visual Art Homma
1968 - Campinas SP - 4º Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas [4th Campinas Contemporary Art Salon], at MACC
1968 - Curitiba PR - 25º Salão Paranaense [25th Paraná Salon], at Biblioteca Pública do Paraná
1968 - Florianópolis SC - 1ª Exposição Nacional de Artes Plásticas [1st National Visual Arts Exhibition], at Masc
1968 - Londrina PR - 4º Salão de Arte Religiosa Brasileira [4th Brazilian Religious Art Salon]
1968 - Porto Alegre RS - 4º Salão Cidade de Porto Alegre [4th Porto Alegre City Salon]
1968 - Porto Alegre RS - Estande Artes Plásticas da Expositur [Visual Arts Stand at Expositur]
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Mostra Artistas Gaúchos: a imagem do Rio Grande [Rio Grande do Sul Artists Exhibition: The Image of Rio Grande], organized by Revista Cultural Contemporânea
1968 - Salvador BA - 2ª Bienal Nacional de Artes Plásticas da Bahia [2nd Bahia National Visual Arts Biennial]
1968 - São Paulo SP - Núcleo de Gravadores de Porto Alegre [Porto Alegre Printmakers Group]
1969 - Curitiba PR - Salão Paranaense [Paraná Salon], at Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Paraná
1970 - San Juan (Puerto Rico) - 1ª Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [1st San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Printmaking]
1970 - São Paulo SP - Pré-Bienal de São Paulo [São Paulo Pre-Biennial], at Fundação Bienal
1971 - Curitiba PR - 28º Salão Paranaense [28th Paraná Salon], at Biblioteca Pública do Paraná
1971 - Porto Alegre RS - 1º Salão de Artes Visuais da UFRGS [1st UFRGS Visual Arts Salon]
1971 - São Paulo SP - 11ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo [11th São Paulo International Biennial], at Fundação Bienal
1971 - São Paulo SP - 3º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira [3rd Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
1972 - New York (United States) - Selecionados na 2ª Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano de Porto Rico [Selected Artists from the 2nd Puerto Rico Latin American Printmaking Biennial], at Galeria do Pratt Graphics Center
1972 - São Paulo SP - 2ª Exposição Internacional de Gravura [2nd International Print Exhibition], at MAM/SP
1972 - São Paulo SP - Mostra de Arte Sesquicentenário da Independência e Brasil Plástica - 72 [Art Exhibition for the Sesquicentennial of Independence and Brasil Plástica - 72], at Fundação Bienal
1973 - Bagé RS - Quatro de Bagé [Four from Bagé], at Fundação Áttila Taborda
1973 - Curitiba PR - 30º Salão Paranaense [30th Paraná Salon], at Teatro Guaíra
1973 - Curitiba PR - 30º Salão Paranaense [30th Paraná Salon], at MAC/PR - acquisition prize de pintura
1973 - Porto Alegre RS - 2º Salão de Artes Visuais da UFRGS [2nd UFRGS Visual Arts Salon]
1973 - Porto Alegre RS - Atelier Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre: professor e alunos [Porto Alegre City Open Studio: Teacher and Students]
1973 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Galeria Ponto de Arte
1973 - Porto Alegre RS - Lançamento de Álbuns de Gravuras de Artistas Gaúchos [Launch of Print Albums by Rio Grande do Sul Artists], at Galeria Gerdau
1973 - San Francisco (United States) - World Prints Entrants, at Museu de San Francisco
1973 - São Paulo SP - 12ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo [12th São Paulo International Biennial], at Fundação Bienal
1974 - San Juan (Puerto Rico) - 3ª Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [3rd San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Printmaking]
1974 - São Paulo SP - 6º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira [6th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP - printmaking prize
1974 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Nacional 74 - Sala Didática da Gravura Brasileira [National Biennial 74 - Educational Room of Brazilian Printmaking], at Fundação Bienal
1975 - Brasília DF - Arte Gaúcha 74 [Rio Grande do Sul Art 74]
1975 - Porto Alegre RS - Panorama da Arte Gaúcha [Panorama of Rio Grande do Sul Art], at Galeria EucatExpo
1976 - Bagé and Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé [Bagé Group], at Projeto Cultur - Secretaria de Turismo e Educação
1976 - Bagé RS - 1º Encontro Nacional de Artistas Plásticos [1st National Meeting of Visual Artists], at Museu Dom Diogo de Souza
1976 - Bagé RS - 2º Encontro de Artistas Plásticos [2nd Meeting of Visual Artists], at Museu Dom Diogo de Souza
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - 9 Artistas Gaúchos [9 Rio Grande do Sul Artists], at Posto de Informações Turísticas Açorianos (Epatur). The exhibition opened the Information Center.
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Álbum 5 Serigrafias [Album of 5 Screen Prints], at Galeria IAB
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Epatur
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Galeria EucatExpo
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Pinacoteca Aplub de Arte Riograndense
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - O Museu Vai à Indústria [The Museum Goes to Industry], at Aços Finos Piratini
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Por uma Arte Brasileira: Grupo de Bagé [For a Brazilian Art: Bagé Group], at UFRGS. Instituto de Artes
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Tradições Gaúchas [Gaúcho Traditions], at Instituto de Artes da UFRGS
1976 - San Juan (Puerto Rico) - 4ª Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [4th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Printmaking]
1977 - São Paulo SP - 9º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira [9th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
1978 - Curitiba PR - 1ª Mostra Anual de Gravura Cidade de Curitiba [1st Curitiba City Annual Printmaking Exhibition], at Centro de Criatividade de Curitiba
1979 - Curitiba PR - 2ª Mostra Anual de Gravura Cidade de Curitiba [2nd Curitiba City Annual Printmaking Exhibition], at Centro de Criatividade de Curitiba
1979 - Curitiba PR - 36º Salão Paranaense [36th Paraná Salon]
1979 - Porto Alegre RS - O Museu vai à Indústria [The Museum Goes to Industry], at Grupo Olvebra
1980 - Santa Maria RS - Group show, at Sala de Exposições da UFSM
1980 - São Paulo SP - 12º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira [12th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
1981 - Beirut and Jounieh (Lebanon) - Pintores Brasileiros [Brazilian Painters]
1981 - Curitiba PR - 4ª Mostra Anual de Gravura Cidade de Curitiba [4th Curitiba City Annual Printmaking Exhibition], at Casa da Gravura Solar do Barão
1981 - Gramado RS - Aquarelistas Gaúchos [Rio Grande do Sul Watercolorists], at Fearte
1981 - San Juan (Puerto Rico) - 5ª Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [5th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Printmaking]
1982 - Penápolis SP - 5º Salão de Artes Plásticas da Noroeste [5th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1983 - Porto Alegre RS - Arte Livro Gaúcho: 1950/1983 [Rio Grande do Sul Art Book: 1950/1983], at Margs
1983 - Porto Alegre RS - Do Passado ao Presente: as artes plásticas no Rio Grande do Sul [From the Past to the Present: the Visual Arts in Rio Grande do Sul], at Cambona Centro de Arte
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [6th National Visual Arts Salon], at MAM/RJ
1984 - Caracas (Venezuela) - 2ª Bienal del Grabado de América [2nd Biennial of American Printmaking]
1984 - Curitiba PR - 6ª Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba [6th Curitiba City Printmaking Exhibition], at Fundação Cultural de Curitiba
1984 - Curitiba PR - 6º A Xilogravura na História da Arte Brasileira [6th Woodcut in the History of Brazilian Art], at Casa Romário Martins
1984 - Porto Alegre RS - Gravuras: uma trajetória no tempo [Prints: A Trajectory in Time], at Cambona Centro de Artes
1984 - Porto Alegre RS - Lixo de Atelier [Studio Trash], at Espaço Cultural Yázigi
1984 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Gravadores Brasileiros Anos 50/60 [Brazilian Printmakers of the 1950s/60s], at Galeria Campus USP - Banespa
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - A Xilogravura na História da Arte Brasileira [Woodcut in the History of Brazilian Art], at Galeria Sérgio Milliet da Funarte
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Doações Recentes 82-84 [Recent Donations 82-84], at MNBA
1985 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Galeria de Arte Masson
1985 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Galeria Tina Presser
1985 - Porto Alegre RS - Gravura no Rio Grande do Sul: atualidade [Printmaking in Rio Grande do Sul: Current Work], at Margs
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [8th National Visual Arts Salon], at MAM/RJ
1985 - São Paulo SP - 18ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo [18th São Paulo International Biennial], at Fundação Bienal
1985 - São Paulo SP - Gravura no Rio Grande do Sul: atualidade [Printmaking in Rio Grande do Sul: Current Work], at MAC/USP
1986 - Curitiba PR - 7ª Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba [7th Curitiba City Printmaking Exhibition], at Casa da Gravura Solar do Barão
1986 - Porto Alegre RS - O Automóvel Faz Cem Anos [The Automobile Turns One Hundred], at Galeria Bolsa de Arte
1986 - Porto Alegre RS - Projeto Pinta Brasil, exposição mural [Paint Brazil Project, Mural Exhibition]
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gravura no Rio Grande do Sul: atualidade [Printmaking in Rio Grande do Sul: Current Work], at Solar Grandjean de Montigny
1987 - Paris (France) - La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine et Ses Invités du Brésil [Young Contemporary Printmaking and Its Guests from Brazil]
1987 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at CEE
1988 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Trinta Dias de Cultura [Thirty Days of Culture]
1988 - Novo Hamburgo RS - Group show, at Semec
1988 - Porto Alegre and Gramado RS - Group show, at Museu do Trabalho
1988 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Galeria Galpão Crioulo
1988 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Grêmio Náutico União
1989 - Alegrete RS - Group show, at Museu de Arte Dr. José Pinto Bicca de Medeiros
1989 - Paris (France) - Coletiva Centenário de Van Gogh [Van Gogh Centenary Group Show]
1989 - Porto Alegre RS - 2ª Mostra Gaúcha de Gravura [2nd Rio Grande do Sul Printmaking Exhibition], at Centro Municipal de Cultura Lupicínio Rodrigues
1989 - Porto Alegre RS - Arte Sul 89 [Art South 89], at Margs
1989 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Grêmio Náutico União
1990 - Curitiba PR - 9ª Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba [9th Curitiba City Printmaking Exhibition], at Museu da Gravura
1990 - Curitiba PR - 9º Artistas Convidados: litografias [9th Invited Artists: Lithographs], at Casa Romário Martins
1990 - Porto Alegre RS - 2º Encontro Gaúcho de Gravura [2nd Rio Grande do Sul Printmaking Meeting]
1990 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Galeria Mosaico
1990 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Centro Gráfico do Museu do Trabalho
1990 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Grêmio Náutico União
1991 - Porto Alegre RS - Atelier Livre 30 Anos [Atelier Livre 30 Years]
1991 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Grêmio Náutico União
1991 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Instituto Cultural Brasileiro Norte-Americano
1991 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Margs
1991 - São Jerônimo RS - Group show, at Museu do Carvão
1992 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana
1992 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Atelier Livre da Prefeitura
1992 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Centro Gráfico do Museu do Trabalho
1992 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Edel Trade Center
1992 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Grêmio Náutico União
1993 - Canela RS - Pontos de Encontro [Meeting Points], at Fundação Cultural de Canela
1993 - João Pessoa PB - Xilogravura: do cordel à galeria [Woodcut: From Cordel to Gallery], at Funesc
1993 - Porto Alegre RS - Arte Sul [Art South], at Margs
1993 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Grêmio Náutico União
1993 - Porto Alegre RS - Gravura [Printmaking], at Margs
1993 - Porto Alegre RS - Retrospectiva 20 Anos do Desenho Gaúcho [Retrospective: 20 Years of Rio Grande do Sul Drawing], at Centro Cultural Brasil-Espanha
1994 - Porto Alegre and Pelotas RS - Litografia Hoje [Lithography Today], at Margs and at Sala Frederico Trebbi, Prefeitura de Pelotas
1994 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Atelier Livre da Prefeitura
1994 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Grêmio Náutico União
1994 - São Paulo SP - Os Clubes de Gravura do Brasil [The Print Clubs of Brazil], at Pinacoteca do Estado
1994 - São Paulo SP - Poética da Resistência: aspectos da gravura brasileira [Poetics of Resistance: Aspects of Brazilian Printmaking], at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1994 - São Paulo SP - Xilogravura: do cordel à galeria [Woodcut: From Cordel to Gallery], at Metrô
1995 - Pelotas RS - Group show, at Fundação Municipal de Integração, Museu do Charque
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - 6º Salão Cidade de Porto Alegre [6th Porto Alegre City Salon] - honored artist
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - A Arte Vê a Moda [Art Looks at Fashion], organized by the newspaper Zero Hora, at Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Centro Gráfico do Museu do Trabalho
1995 - Porto Alegre RS - Gravuras: Mestres e Alunos [Prints: Masters and Students], at Instituto Goethe
1995 - Porto Alegre RS and Haifa (Israel) - Printing Today
1996 - Bagé RS - Grupo de Bagé: retrospectiva de gravura [Bagé Group: Printmaking Retrospective], at Museu da Gravura Brasileira
1996 - Novo Hamburgo, Pelotas, Bagé, Santa Maria and Passo Fundo RS - A Arte Vê a Moda [Art Looks at Fashion], traveling exhibition organized by the newspaper Zero Hora
1996 - Passo Fundo RS - Museu de Artes Visuais Ruth Schneider: exposição inaugural [Museu de Artes Visuais Ruth Schneider: Opening Exhibition], at Museu de Artes Visuais Ruth Schneider
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé no Acervo do Margs [Bagé Group in the Margs Collection], at Margs
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé no Clube de Gravura [Bagé Group at the Print Club], at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé: gravura e atualidade [Bagé Group: Printmaking and the Present], at Centro Municipal de Cultura
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Grupo de Bagé: pintura e atualidade [Bagé Group: Painting and the Present], at Galeria de Arte Mosaico
1997 - Brasília DF - Grupo de Bagé no Clube de Gravura: década de 50 [Bagé Group at the Print Club: The 1950s], at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - Curitiba PR - Grupo de Bagé no Clube de Gravura: década de 50 [Bagé Group at the Print Club: The 1950s], at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Grupo de Bagé no Clube de Gravura: década de 50 [Bagé Group at the Print Club: The 1950s], at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1997 - São Paulo SP - Grupo de Bagé no Clube de Gravura: década de 50 [Bagé Group at the Print Club: The 1950s], at Galeria da Caixa Econômica Federal
1998 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Arte en la Calle [Art in the Street]
1998 - Porto Alegre RS - Arte Erótica [Erotic Art], at Margs
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Litografia 200 Anos [Lithography 200 Years], at Galeria Sesc
1998 - Santo Ângelo RS - Exposição URI - Desenhos e Gravuras [URI Exhibition - Drawings and Prints]
1998 - São Paulo SP - Os Colecionadores. Guita e José Mindlin: matrizes e gravuras [The Collectors. Guita and José Mindlin: Matrices and Prints], at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
1999 - Porto Alegre RS - Garagem de Arte: mostra inaugural [Garagem de Arte: Opening Exhibition], at Garagem de Arte
1999 - Porto Alegre RS - Gravura Gaúcha [Rio Grande do Sul Printmaking], at Centro Municipal de Cultura
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Mostra Rio Gravura. Gravura Moderna Brasileira: acervo do Museu Nacional de Belas Artes [Rio Printmaking Exhibition. Modern Brazilian Printmaking: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Collection], at MNBA
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Mostra Rio Gravura. Porto Alegre Gravura [Rio Printmaking Exhibition. Porto Alegre Printmaking], at IAB
2000 - Bento Gonçalves RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show], at Universidade de Caxias do Sul
2000 - Canela RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show], at Universidade de Caxias do Sul
2000 - Caxias do Sul RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show], at Universidade de Caxias do Sul
2000 - Caxias do Sul RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show], at Universidade de Caxias do Sul. Centro de Convivência
2000 - Farroupilha RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show], at Universidade de Caxias do Sul
2000 - Guaporé RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show]
2000 - Nova Prata RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show], at Universidade de Caxias do Sul
2000 - Porto Alegre RS - Brasil 500 Anos - Navegadores de Imagens [Brazil 500 Years - Navigators of Images], at Centro Cultural Usina do Gasômetro
2000 - São Paulo SP - Investigações. A Gravura Brasileira [Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking], at Itaú Cultural
2000 - Vacaria RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show], at Universidade de Caxias do Sul
2000 - Veranópolis RS - Coletiva de Gravura [Printmaking Group Show], at Universidade de Caxias do Sul
2001 - Brasília DF - Investigações. A Gravura Brasileira [Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking], at Itaugaleria
2001 - Penápolis SP - Investigações. A Gravura Brasileira [Investigations. Brazilian Printmaking], at Galeria Itaú Cultural
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Trilhando a Gravura [Treading the Path of Printmaking], at Museu da Chácara do Céu
2002 - Passo Fundo RS - Gravuras: Coleção Paulo Dalacorte [Prints: Paulo Dalacorte Collection], at Museu de Artes Visuais Ruth Schneider
2002 - Porto Alegre RS - Desenhos, Gravuras, Esculturas e Aquarelas [Drawings, Prints, Sculptures and Watercolors], at Garagem de Arte
2002 - Porto Alegre RS - Gravuras: Coleção Paulo Dalacorte [Prints: Paulo Dalacorte Collection], at Museu do Trabalho
2003 - Porto Alegre RS - Vida, Povo, Fome, Trabalho e Religião [Life, People, Hunger, Work and Religion], at Garagem de Arte
2003 - São Paulo SP - Arte e Sociedade: uma relação polêmica [Art and Society: A Controversial Relationship], at Itaú Cultural
2008 - São Paulo SP - Panorama dos Panoramas [Panorama of Panoramas], at Museu de Arte Moderna
2011 - Porto Alegre RS - Do Atelier ao Cubo Branco [From the Studio to the White Cube], at MARGS
2011 - Porto Alegre RS - Labirintos da Iconografia [Labyrinths of Iconography], at MARGS
Source: Itaú Cultural
