Darlan Rosa (Coromandel MG 1947)
Painter, sculptor, draftsman, graphic designer and teacher.
Darlan Manoel Rosa graduated in advertising from the Centro de Ensino Universitário de Brasília. Between 1960 and 1965, in Uberlândia, he devoted himself to marble sculptures and reliefs. Alongside his work in the visual arts, he published humorous drawings in Status magazine and hosted a children's program on TV Brasília. He joined the planning team and coordinated the graphic design of the publications issued by the Departamento de Documentação e Divulgação [Department of Documentation and Dissemination] of the MEC [Ministry of Education].
Critiques
"(...) Darlan Rosa creates elements that remind us of headdresses, weapons of war, everyday objects of the man who inhabited this land before colonization. However, what really counts - and gives value to the work - is that the artist sensitively captures the harmony, the playful, affectionate, almost childlike atmosphere, the permanent celebration of the life of natural man, integrated into the landscape, part of the world, and not a land-grabber and agent of destruction. Darlan conveys this entire discourse with a deliberately simple, schematic vocabulary that values form and color. And it is there, at the moment color comes in, that the artist lets the emotional charge of art flow: his colors are natural, spontaneous, plays of the eye. (...) It is in this kind of lyrical-symbolic geometry that reason and emotion blend, thus allowing Darlan Rosa to build a sensitive and questioning visual discourse, bringing together the particular and the general, the regional and the universal, in a single field, in this troubled - yet unsettling - arena that makes up the picture of contemporary art in our region."
Marcus de Lontra Costa
DARLAN Rosa. Texto de Marcus de Lontra Costa. Brasília: ECT Galeria de Arte, 1989.
Solo Exhibitions
1981 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Funarte
1982 - Brasília DF - Solo, at ECT Galeria de Arte
1983 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Anexo do Teatro Nacional
1984 - Brasília DF - Solo, at ECT Galeria de Arte
1986 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Itaugaleria
1989 - Brasília DF - Solo, at ECT Galeria de Arte
1992 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Performance Galeria de Arte
Group Exhibitions
n.d. - Fortaleza CE - 7th Ceará Visual Arts Salon - award winner
1965 - Uberlândia MG - Coletiva Artistas Mineiros [Group Show of Artists from Minas Gerais]
1976 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Nacional 76 [National Biennial 76], at Fundação Bienal
1978 - Piracicaba SP - International Humor Salon
1981 - Brasília DF - 3º Documento de Arte do Centro-Oeste [3rd Central-West Art Document]
1981 - Recife PE - 34th Pernambuco Visual Arts Salon, at Museu do Estado de Pernambuco
1982 - Brasília DF - 4º Documento de Arte do Centro-Oeste [4th Central-West Art Document]
1982 - Recife PE - Pernambuco Visual Arts Salon
1984 - Brasília DF - Itinerante de artistas plásticos de Brasília [Traveling Exhibition of Visual Artists from Brasília]
1985 - Goiânia GO - 2nd Visual Arts Salon
1986 - Brasília DF - Brasília Visual Arts Salon
1986 - Mexico City (Mexico) - Group show, at Galeria Rafael de Matos
1987 - Brasília DF - 1st Brasília National Visual Arts Salon
1987 - Curitiba PR - 44th Paraná Salon, at MAC/PR
1989 - Brasília DF - Os 11 de Brasília [The 11 from Brasília], at Itaugaleria
1998 - Brasília DF - Cien Recuerdos para García Lorca [One Hundred Memories for García Lorca], at Espaço Cultural 508 Sul
1998 - Brasília DF - Panorama das Artes Visuais no Distrito Federal [Panorama of the Visual Arts in the Federal District], at Visual Galeria de Arte
1998 - Brasília DF - Panorama das Artes Visuais no Distrito Federal [Panorama of the Visual Arts in the Federal District], at Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro
1998 - Brasília DF - Panorama das Artes Visuais no Distrito Federal [Panorama of the Visual Arts in the Federal District], at Espaço Cultural 508 Sul. Galeria Rubem Valentim
1998 - Brasília DF - Panorama das Artes Visuais no Distrito Federal [Panorama of the Visual Arts in the Federal District], at Espaço Cultural 508 Sul. Galeria Parangolé
2000 - Brasília DF - Athos Criativos [Creative Athos], at Conjunto Nacional Brasília
2000 - São Bento do Sapucaí SP - Athos Criativos [Creative Athos], at O Casarão
2002 - Brasília DF - JK - Uma Aventura Estética [JK - An Aesthetic Adventure], at Conjunto Cultural da Caixa
Source: Itaú Cultural
