Dorian Gray (Christmas RN 1930)
Designer, sculptor, ceramist, upholsterer, poet and essayist.
Next to Newton Navarro , is one of the artists which contributes to the modernization of the visual arts in its state. Between 1967 and 1974, he served as an advisor to the Secretary of Education and Culture of Rio Grande do Norte, as a counselor at the José Augusto Foundation and as director of the Alberto Maranhão Theater and the Escolinha de Arte Cândido Portinari. In 1983, he launched the book Feiras e Merceiras and, in 1989, Plastic Arts of Rio Grande do Norte - 1920/1989.
Criticism
"It is understood that Dorian Gray, painter and designer facing the composition, have the pictorial vocation for the Brazilian reality, unable to deform it, under the pretext of personal interpretation. Irresistible of Spontiety, constituting an anticline, a collective figure, throbbing and logical, in the personality of the artist (The Creator of Beautiful Things). Haunting and truth".
Luís da Câmara Cascudo
CAVALCANTI, Carlos; Ayala, Walmir, ed. Brazilian Dictionary of Plastic Artists. Presentation by Maria Alice Barroso. Brasília: MEC/INL, 1973-1980. (Specialized Dictionaries, 5).
"National-level artist, Dorian Gray Caldas has a very good quality and efficient painting and a perfectly competitive level with what is produced, and with the advantage of having that aspect of the anchoring in the Genuíno, who many others have already lost sight of by a feeling of internationalization. Dorian Gray uses the resources of the technique in much of self-taught, but for the well-founded time and exercise it exerts an artistic creation referencedly from the place, but in terms of the universal painting of the erudite man". Clarival do Prado Valadares
CAVALCANTI, Carlos; Ayala, Walmir, ed. Brazilian Dictionary of Plastic Artists. Presentation by Maria Alice Barroso. Brasília: MEC/INL, 1973-1980. (Specialized Dictionaries, 5).
Individual exhibitions
1952 - Brasília DF - Individual, sponsored by Letras magazine
1956 - Brasília DF - Individual, at the Masonic Lodge 21 of March
1967 - Olinda PE - Individual, at Galeria Sobrado 7
1967 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria Goeldi
1968 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Azulão
1969 - Brasília DF - Individual, in the Gallery of the Hotel Nacional Mezzanino, under the sponsorship of the Cultural Foundation of the Federal District
1969 - Olinda PE - Individual, at MAC/OLINDA
1970 - Natal RN - Individual, At the State Public Library
1982 - Brasília DF - Individual, at the Hotel Nacional/Cultural Foundation of the Federal District
1985 - João Pessoa PB - Individual, at the Archedi Picado Gallery
Collective exhibitions
1950 - Natal RN - Salon of Modern Art, at the former headquarters of the Red Cross (considered the landmark of the modernization of the fine arts in the state)
1952 - Natal RN - Salão de Arte Moderno, at the former headquarters of the Red Cross
1955 - Natal RN - Modern Art Salon, at the former headquarters of the Red Cross
1958 - Natal RN - Collective, at the Brazil-United States Society
1958 - Natal RN - Permanent Art Hall of Rio Grande do Norte
1964 - Natal RN - Shows, in the main hall of the Government Palace
1973 - Natal RN - Mostra, at UFRN
1973 - João Pessoa PB - Mostra, at UFPB
1973 - Washington (United States) - Shows, at the Inter-American Development Bank of Washington
1975 - Natal RN - Retrospective 25 years of painting, at SESC
1980 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - El Arte de La Tapiçaria en Brasil, at the National Museum of Decorative Art
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Painters Norte-Riograndenses, at ABL
Source: Itaú Cultural
