Gonçalo Ivo (Rio de Janeiro RJ 1958)
Gonçalo Ivo is a painter, aquarellist, designer, illustrator and engraver. Son of the writer Lêdo Ivo (1924), he had the opportunity to live with writers and artists since childhood. In 1973, he attended the studios of artists Augusto Rodrigues, Abelardo Zaluar (1924-1987) and Iberê Camargo (1914-1994). In 1975, he studied painting at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ), under the guidance of Aluísio Carvão (1920-2001) and Sérgio Campos Melo. Graduated in Architecture from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), he worked as a professor at the Department of Educational Activities at MAM/RJ between 1984 and 1986, in addition to a visiting professor at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EBA/UFRJ) in 1986.
He also worked as an illustrator and visual programmer for the publishers Global, Record and Pine Press. Throughout his career, he held several individual and collective exhibitions, both in Brazil and abroad. In 2000, he made the scene for the program Metrópolis, on TV Cultura. In the same year, he moved with his family to Paris, where he set up his studio.
Critiques
"(...) we can place Gonçalo Ivo, João Magalhães, Carlo Mascarenhas and Livia Flores as members of a group of new artists who seek their sources of inspiration directly from the lyrical abstractionism (João Magalhães) and in the sensitive geometry (Gonçalo Ivo and Carlo Mascarenhas) of the 1950s. A contemplative and formal 'sensitivity' unites these works that transit in the peculiar spiritual and lyrical atmosphere of the 1950s. However, we cannot stick only to this aspect in the work of these four artists. Geometrical distortions of Carlo Mascarenhas' sculptures introduce a biting humor note, foreign to the theoretical concerns of previous generations, dissolving in a certain way the rigorous contours that guided their theoretical-artistic practices. In the case of the three artists we can talk about A neo-abstractionism (lyrical or concrete, does not matter) that is reborn in the 80s (...)".
Jorge Guinle
Generation 80: Núcleo Jovem Mp2 Art. Presentation by Jorge Guinle. Rio de Janeiro: MP2 Arte, 1984.
"Gonçalo Ivo is an artist substantially in tune with the 1980s carapace. Not because his career has debuted with an individual at the exact moment of the opening of the decade and proceeded with an intense step throughout it, marking it with each advance with a little more secure statement of language. Nor is it justified to define it by a possible militancy in the explicit ranks of the so-called generation *), whose youthful stings reignited momentarily the agoras of the galleries and the bins of the newspapers: in this regard, he preferred the silence of the margin, already warned that his affiliation to the time then corresponded to less epidermal and tonitruating motifs. (...)".
Roberto Pontual
PONTUAL, Roberto. "A painting of pleasure and modesty". In: Gonçalo Ivo. Rio de Janeiro: Galeria Saramenha, 1990.
"(...) The taste for manipulation of matter feeds its painting made of alchemical mutation. The profusion of possibilities exists in the economic use of resources. It works extensive series, both in watercolor and in oil. They are experimental sequences, where closely conjugated line and color articulate infinity rhythms to infinity. Each work is a segment of a hypothetical set because it always It can be magnified. The flow of language is well exemplified in the watercolor books where stains and graphics replace words. Gonçalo Ivo's painting is inserted in the modern tradition, in the language that dates back to Cézanne and Braque and in the Brazil, has in Volpi a paradigm: the plastic construction impregnated with a sensed reality. (...)".
Maria Alice Milliet
MILLIET, Maria Alice. "The Poetics of Gonçalo Ivo". In: Gonçalo Ivo. São Paulo: Dan Galeria, 1994.
Individual exhibitions
1980 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Funarte Gallery, Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade Gallery
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Funarte. Gallery Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Aquarelas, at the gallery Disclosure and Research
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Contemporary Gallery
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at ArtesPaço Art Office
1985 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Aquarelas, at Arco Art Contemporâneo Galeria Bruno Musatti
1985 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Arco Contemporânea
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Candido Mendes Cultural Center. Small gallery
1986 - Vitória ES - Individual, at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Gallery of Art and Research
1986 - Vitória ES - Individual, at the Contemporary Art Plant
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Centro Empresarial Rio Galeria
1987 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Aquarelas and Objects, at Arco Contemporary Art Gallery Bruno Musatti
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Paintings, at Galeria Saramenha
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria Saramenha
1990 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Paintings and Objects, at Galeria Saramenha
1990 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Aquarelas, at Artespaço Art Office
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at MAM/RJ
1994 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Paintings and Objects, at Dan Galeria
1994 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Aquarelas, at Paço Imperial
1997 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Aquarelas, at Dan Galeria
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: paintings, MAM/RJ
1998 - Vancouver (Canada) - Recent Works, at Lewarne Galleries
1999 - Paris (France) - Fête Brésilienne, at Galerie Flak
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Recent paintings, at Anita Schwartz Gallery
2000 - São Paulo SP - As Trees, at Dan Galeria
2001 - Paris (France) - Les Temps des Arbres, at Galerie Flak
2002 - Venice (Italy) - Individual, at Venice Design Art Gallery San Samuele
2003 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Moreira Salles Institute
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Moreira Salles Institute
2007 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Recent paintings, at Dan Galeria
Collective exhibitions
1978 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st National Salon of Plastic Arts, at the National Museum of Fine Arts
1979 - Atami (Japan) - 4th Exhibition of Fine Arts Brazil-Japan
1979 - Kyoto (Japan) - 4th Exhibition of Fine Arts Brazil-Japan
1979 - São Paulo SP - 4th Exhibition of Fine Arts Brazil-Japan
1979 - Tokyo (Japan) - 4th Exhibition of Fine Arts Brazil-Japan
1980 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th Carioca Salon of Art, at the General Archive of the City of Rio de Janeiro
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th National Salon of Plastic Arts, at MAM/RJ 
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5th Carioca Salon of Art, at the Carioca Metro Station
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5th National Salon of Plastic Arts, at MAM/RJ
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th Carioca Art Salon, at the Carioca Metro Station
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Funarte Collection, at the Macunaíma Gallery
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Interiors: Homage to Jacinto de Morais, at the Italian Institute of culture. Piccolla Galeria
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 7th Carioca Art Salon, at the Carioca Metro Station
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Artes no Parque, at EAV/Parque Lage
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Six artists and the small format, at the UFF Gallery
1984 - Mexico City (Mexico) - Art Contemporanea en Latin America, at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas
1984 - Fortaleza CE - 7th National Salon of Plastic Arts
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 7th National Salon of Plastic Arts, at MAM/RJ
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Carioca Salon of Art, at the Carioca Metro Station - 3rd Drawing Award
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Como Vai Você, Geração 80?, at EAV/Parque Lage
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Geração 80: Núcleo Jovem MP2 Arte, on MP2 Arte
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Six artists and the small format
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Meetings, at Petite Galerie
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Nova Geometry, at Galeria Saramenha
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The doing and its modes, at the museum
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Velha Mania: Brazilian design, at EAV/Parque Lage
1986 - California (United States) - Brazil Works on Paper (Traveling Exhibition), at Sonoma University
1986 - Los Angeles (United States) - Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair
1986 - New York (United States) - Six Brazilian Artists
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Art and Education; Exhibition of the works of MAM professors, at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics - IMPA
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Contemporary Art Salon, at MNBA
1986 - Vitória ES - Inaugural Exhibition of Galeria Plane, at Galeria Usina de Contemporary
1986 - California (United States) - Brazil Works on Paper, at the University of Sonoma
1987 - California (United States) - 66th National Watercolor Society
1988 - Brasília, DF - Four abstracts, at Oscar Seraphico Art Gallery
1988 - Los Angeles (United States) - Los Angeles International Art Fair
1988 - Memphis (United States) - Six Contemporary Brazilian Artists, at the Memphis College of Art
1988 - New York (United States) - Brazil
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 12th Carioca Salon of Art, at the Rio de Janeiro station of the Metro
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Abolíção, at the Ipanema Art Gallery
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st on the way to Niterói: João Sattamini Collection, in the Imperial Palace
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Collection of the Cândido Mendes Cultural Center, at MAM/RJ
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Eco Art, at MAM/RJ
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo, José Maria Dias da Cruz: Paintings, at Funarte. Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade Gallery
1992 - São Paulo SP - João Sattamini Collection, at CCSP
1993 - Chicago (United States) - Art Chicago 93
1993 - Chicago (United States) - Art of Brazil
1993 - Paris (France) - Gonçalo Ivo and George Isso, at Galerie Debret
1994 - Chicago (United States) - Art of Brazil
1994 - Miami (United States) - Art Miami 94
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo, José Maria Dias da Cruz and Ronaldo Macedo, at the Paço Imperial
1995 - Bilbao (Spain) - International Watercolor Exhibition
1996 - Niterói RJ - Brazilian Contemporary Art at the João Sattamini Collection, at MAC-Niterói
1996 - Niterói RJ - Inauguration of MAC/Niterói
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Imaginary Facades Project, in Arcos da Lapa
1997 - Vancouver (Canada) - Art 97, at Lewarne Galleries
1997 - Vancouver (Canada) - Texture and sensuality, at Lewarne Galleries
1998 - São Paulo SP - Featured works, at Dan Galeria
1998 - Vancouver (Canada) - Art International New York, at Lewarne Galleries
1999 - Grenoble (France) - Imaginary Facades Project, Urban Laboratory
1999 - Laussanne (Switzerland) - Gonçalo Ivo and George this, at the Galerie Collis
1999 - São Paulo SP - Imaginary Facades Project, Urban Laboratory
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Three years, at Anita Schwartz Galeria
2000 - Niterói RJ - Paintings in the João Sattamini Collection, at MAC-Niterói
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Watercolor, at the Light Cultural Center
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Blind mirror: selections from a collection Contemporary, at Paço Imperial
2001 - São Paulo SP - Blind Mirror: Selections from a Contemporary Collection, at MAM/SP
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - BrazilianArt Project, at Almacén Art Gallery
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Twenty-five years: Art Gallery Cândido Mendes, at Galeria Candido Mendes
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Where are you, Geração 80?, at the Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil
2004 - São Paulo SP - Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, at Esporte Clube Sírio
2005 - Curitiba PR - 10 Brazilian painters, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
Source: Itaú Cultural
