Gonçalo Ivo (Rio de Janeiro RJ 1958)
Gonçalo Ivo is a painter, watercolorist, draftsman, illustrator and printmaker. The son of the writer Lêdo Ivo (1924), he had the opportunity to mix with writers and artists from childhood. In 1973, he attended the studios of the artists Augusto Rodrigues, Abelardo Zaluar (1924-1987) and Iberê Camargo (1914-1994). In 1975, he studied painting at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ), under Aluísio Carvão (1920-2001) and Sérgio Campos Melo. A graduate in architecture from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), he taught in the Department of Educational Activities at MAM/RJ between 1984 and 1986, and was a visiting professor at the Escola de Belas Artes of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (EBA/UFRJ) in 1986.
He also worked as an illustrator and graphic designer for the publishers Global, Record and Pine Press. Throughout his career, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. In 2000, he designed the set for the TV Cultura program Metrópolis. That 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 draw their sources of inspiration directly from the lyrical abstraction (João Magalhães) and the sensitive geometry (Gonçalo Ivo and Carlo Mascarenhas) of the 1950s. A contemplative, formal 'sensibility' unites these works, which move within the peculiar spiritual and lyrical atmosphere of the 1950s. However, we cannot limit ourselves to this aspect alone in the work of these four artists. The aggressive wooden support of Gonçalo Ivo's paintings contrasts with the lyrical forms placed upon it, and the geometric distortions of Carlo Mascarenhas's sculptures introduce a note of biting humor, foreign to the theoretical concerns of earlier generations, dissolving to some extent the rigorous outlines that guided their theoretical and artistic practices. In the case of the three artists, we can speak of a neo-abstraction (lyrical or concrete, it hardly matters) reborn in the 1980s (...)."
Jorge Guinle
GERAÇÃO 80: núcleo jovem MP2 Arte. Apresentação de Jorge Guinle. Rio de Janeiro: MP2 Arte, 1984.
"Gonçalo Ivo is an artist substantially attuned to the shell of the 1980s. Not because his career debuted with a solo show at the very moment the decade opened and continued at an intense pace throughout it, marking each step forward with a slightly more assured affirmation of language. Nor is it justified to define him so because of any possible militancy in the explicit ranks of the so-called Geração 80, whose youthful ardor momentarily rekindled the agoras of the galleries and the pigeonholes of the newspapers: in this respect, he preferred the silence of the margin, already aware that his affiliation with the time corresponded to less skin-deep and thunderous motives. (...)."
Roberto Pontual
PONTUAL, Roberto. "Uma pintura de prazer e pudor". In: Gonçalo Ivo. Rio de Janeiro: Galeria Saramenha, 1990.
"(...) A taste for handling matter feeds his painting, made of alchemical mutation. The insistent exploration of subtle structural and chromatic variations does not seek to exhaust, but to confirm the profusion of possibilities that exists in an economical use of means. He works in extensive series, both in watercolor and in oil. They are experimental sequences in which closely combined line and color articulate rhythms that can unfold infinitely. Each work is a segment of a hypothetical whole, since it can always be extended. The flow of language is well exemplified in the books of watercolors in which patches and marks replace words. Gonçalo Ivo's painting belongs to the modern tradition, to the language that goes back to Cézanne and Braque and that, in Brazil, has Volpi as its paradigm: plastic construction imbued with a sensed reality. (...)."
Maria Alice Milliet
MILLIET, Maria Alice. "A Poética de Gonçalo Ivo". In: Gonçalo Ivo. São Paulo: Dan Galeria, 1994.
Solo Exhibitions
1980 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Funarte, Galeria Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Funarte. Galeria Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Watercolors, at Galeria Divulgação e Pesquisa
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Contemporânea
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Artespaço Escritório de Arte
1985 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Watercolors, at Arco Arte Contemporânea Galeria Bruno Musatti
1985 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Arco Arte Contemporânea
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Centro Cultural Cândido Mendes. Pequena Galeria
1986 - Vitória ES - Solo, at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Galeria de Arte e Pesquisa
1986 - Vitória ES - Solo, at Usina de Arte Contemporânea
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Centro Empresarial Rio
1987 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Watercolors and Objects, at Arco Arte Contemporânea Galeria Bruno Musatti
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Paintings, at Galeria Saramenha
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Saramenha
1990 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Paintings and Objects, at Galeria Saramenha
1990 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Watercolors, at Artespaço Escritório de Arte
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at MAM/RJ
1994 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Paintings and Objects, at Dan Galeria
1994 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Pinacoteca do Estado
1997 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Watercolors, at Paço Imperial
1997 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Watercolors, at Dan Galeria
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gonçalo Ivo: Paintings, at 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 Galeria
2000 - São Paulo SP - The Trees, at Dan Galeria
2001 - Paris (France) - Les temps des arbres, at Galerie Flak
2002 - Venice (Italy) - Solo, at Venice Design Art Gallery San Samuele
2003 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Instituto Moreira Salles
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Instituto Moreira Salles
2007 - São Paulo SP - Gonçalo Ivo: Recent Paintings, at Dan Galeria
Group Exhibitions
1978 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st National Visual Arts Salon, at Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
1979 - Atami (Japan) - 4th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
1979 - Kyoto (Japan) - 4th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
1979 - São Paulo SP - 4th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
1979 - Tokyo (Japan) - 4th Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition
1980 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th Rio Art Salon, at Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5th Rio Art Salon, at Estação Carioca do Metrô
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th Rio Art Salon, at Estação Carioca do Metrô
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Funarte Collection, at Galeria Macunaíma
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Interiors: Tribute to Jacinto de Morais, at Instituto Italiano de Cultura. Piccola Galeria
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 7th Rio Art Salon, at Estação Carioca do Metrô
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Arts in the Park, at EAV/Parque Lage
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Six Artists and the Small Format, at Galeria da UFF
1984 - Mexico City (Mexico) - Arte Contemporanea en Latino America, at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas
1984 - Fortaleza CE - 7th National Visual Arts Salon
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 7th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th Rio Art Salon, at Estação Carioca do Metrô - 3rd drawing prize
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - How Are You, Geração 80?, at EAV/Parque Lage
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Geração 80: MP2 Arte Young Core, at MP2 Arte
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Six Artists and the Small Format
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Encounters, at Petite Galerie
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - New Geometry, at Galeria Saramenha
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Making and Its Modes, at Museum
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Old Habit: Brazilian Drawing, 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 Works by MAM Teachers, at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada - IMPA
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Contemporary Art Salon, at MNBA
1986 - Vitória ES - Inaugural Exhibition of Galeria Usina, at Galeria Usina de Arte Contemporânea
1986 - California (United States) - Brazil Works on Paper, at University of Sonoma
1987 - California (United States) - 66th National Watercolor Society
1988 - Brasília DF - Four Abstracts, at Oscar Seraphico Galeria de Arte
1988 - Los Angeles (United States) - Los Angeles International Art Fair
1988 - Memphis (United States) - Six Contemporary Brazilian Artists, at Memphis College of Art
1988 - New York (United States) - Brazil
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 12th Rio Art Salon, at Estação Carioca do Metrô
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Abolition, at Galeria de Arte Ipanema
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st On the Way to Niterói: João Sattamini Collection, at Paço Imperial
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Centro Cultural Cândido Mendes Collection, 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. Galeria Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade
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 Paço Imperial
1995 - Bilbao (Spain) - International Watercolor Exhibition
1996 - Niterói RJ - Brazilian Contemporary Art in the João Sattamini Collection, at MAC-Niterói
1996 - Niterói RJ - Opening of MAC/Niterói
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Imaginary Façades Project, at 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 Façades Project, Urban Laboratory
1999 - Lausanne (Switzerland) - Gonçalo Ivo and George Isso, at Galerie Collis
1999 - São Paulo SP - Imaginary Façades 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 Centro Cultural Light
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Blind Mirror: Selections from a Contemporary Collection, 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 Galeria de Arte
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Twenty-Five Years: Galeria de Arte Cândido Mendes, at Galeria Cândido Mendes
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Where Are You, Geração 80?, at 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
