Dudu Santos (São Paulo SP 1943)
Dudu Santos is a painter, set designer, illustrator, curator and teacher. Between 1959 and 1963, he attended the drawing teacher training course at FAAP, where he studied painting with Eduardo Sued (1925 - 2020), Mário Gruber (1927 - 2011) and Yolanda Mohalyi (1909 - 1978); drawing with Nelson Nóbrega (1900 - 1997) and Renina Katz (1926); mosaic and fresco with Joaquim Rocha Ferreira (1900 - 1965); printmaking with Marcelo Grassmann (1925 - 2013), Darel (1924 - 2017) and Mário Gruber; and sculpture with Caciporé Torres (1935). In 1966, he began teaching drawing and painting at Nieta Lex's Ateliê Via Veneto.
In addition to these activities, he created the sets for the plays Knock ou Triunfo da Medicina [Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine], by Jules Romains, in 1960, and Tríade [Triad], in 1993. He also produced book covers for authors such as Paulo Bonfim, Leila Gouvea, Arruda Camargo and Antônio Penteado Mendonça.
Critiques
"The works Dudu presents at Denis Perri Galeria de Arte show great vitality and pleasure and even a certain lack of commitment to languages and styles. This can be seen, on the one hand, in the lavish use of strong and soft colors, in the endless repetition of small, rhythmic brushstrokes set against broad gestures and, on the other, in the refusal to place himself exclusively in the figurative or the abstract school, since, in modern fashion, Dudu Santos does not let himself be tied to either one. As Dudu is a man accustomed to tensions and contradictions, his current works manage to express constructive and expressionist tendencies at the same time. The constructive element comes from his works made around 1976, when he let himself be influenced by Cubism. Freedom and closeness to color were already hinted at in his last exhibition, at Galeria Documenta, in 1984. (...) The current paintings, which in their making convey the joy of rediscovery, can be grouped into two sets. One group of works consists of paintings linked to figurative art - men, women, flowers, landscapes. (...)"
Miguel W. Chaia
SANTOS, Dudu. Dudu Santos. São Paulo: Denis Perri Galeria de Arte, 1988.
Collections
São Paulo SP - Fundação Padre Anchieta TV Cultura
São Paulo SP - MAC
São Paulo SP - MAB (Museu de Arte Brasileira/FAAP)
São Paulo SP - Academia Lusíadas de Ciências, Letras e Artes
São Paulo SP - Bank Boston
Japan - MOA - Museu de Arte Japão
São Paulo SP - FIEO
São Paulo SP - SEMP Toshiba S/A
São Paulo SP - Tunibra Travel
Solo Exhibitions
1961 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Clube dos Artistas e Amigos da Arte
1963 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Casa do Artista Plástico
1966 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Atrium
1969 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Atrium
1973 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Astréia
1975 - Salvador BA - Solo, at MAM/BA
1975 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Azulão
1976 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro
1984 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Documenta Galeria de Arte
1988 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Denis Perri Galeria de Arte
1991 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Solo, at Moira Galeria de Arte
1991 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Paulo Vasconcellos
1993 - São Paulo SP - Dudu Santos: pinxit, at Dan Galeria
1993 - São Paulo SP - Dudu Santos: pinxit, at Mônica Filgueiras Galeria de Arte
1994 - São Paulo SP - Dudu Santos: pinturas [Dudu Santos: Paintings], at MAB/Faap
1994 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Gabinete 144
1996 - São Paulo SP - Homenagem aos 35 anos de Exposições [Tribute to 35 Years of Exhibitions], at Espaço Movida
1998 - Salvador BA - Dudu Santos: pinturas [Dudu Santos: Paintings], at Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte
1998 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Mônica Filgueiras Galeria de Arte
1999 - Madrid (Spain) - Solo, at Galeria de Arte da Casa do Brasil
1999 - São Paulo SP - Dudu Santos: os doze passos da paixão [Dudu Santos: The Twelve Steps of the Passion], at Renot Escritório de Arte, painting
Group Exhibitions
1962 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Atelier Labirinto
1964 - São Paulo SP - 1º Salão do Trabalho [1st Labor Salon], at Galeria de Arte das Folhas
1964 - São Paulo SP - Seis Gravadores [Six Printmakers], at Galeria Atrium
1965 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria Atrium
1976 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria Grifo
1990 - Atami (Japan) - 9ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Museu de Belas Artes de Atami - MOA
1990 - Brasília DF - 9ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Salão Negro do Congresso Nacional
1990 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 9ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at MNBA
1990 - São Paulo SP - 9ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Fundação Brasil-Japão, at Masp
1990 - Sapporo (Japan) - 9ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Salão de Sapporo
1990 - Tokyo (Japan) - 9ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Museu Central de Tóquio
1992 - Atami (Japan) - 10ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [10th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Museu de Belas Artes de Atami - MOA
1992 - Nagoya (Japan) - 10ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [10th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Museu de Nagoia
1992 - Osasco SP - 1ª Mostra de Arte [1st Art Exhibition], at Fundação Instituto de Ensino para Osasco - Fieo
1992 - Osasco SP - Group show, at FIEO
1992 - Sapporo (Japan) - 10ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [10th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Salão de Sapporo
1992 - Tokyo (Japan) - 10ª Exposição Brasil-Japão de Arte Contemporânea [10th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition], at Museu Central de Tóquio
1993 - São Paulo SP - Exposição Luso-Nipo-Brasileira [Portuguese-Japanese-Brazilian Exhibition], at MAB/Faap
1995 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria A Lanterna
1998 - São Paulo SP - Anos 80 e 90 [The 1980s and 1990s], at MAC/USP
1999 - Blumenau SC - Contemporaneidade Alemã-Brasileira [German-Brazilian Contemporaneity], at Fundação Cultural de Blumenau
1999 - São Paulo SP - 29ª Coletiva de Artes Plásticas [29th Visual Arts Group Show], at Centro Cultural Tao Sigulda
1999 - São Paulo SP - Projeto Primavera [Spring Project], at Academia Brasileira de Arte, Cultura e História
1999 - São Paulo SP - Sig Joelle - desenhos, gestos e nus [Sig Joelle - Drawings, Gestures and Nudes]
2001 - Itajaí SC - Group show, at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
2001 - São Paulo SP - Arte & Esportes 2 [Art & Sports 2], at Unearte-Valle Sports
Source: Itaú Cultural
