Lotus Lobo (Belo Horizonte MG 1943)
recorder, draftsman and painter.
In Belo Horizonte, Lotus Amanda Maria Lobo de Alvarenga is studying Fine Arts at Guignard School, 1962 to 1965. In 1963, he studied lithography with João Quaglia (1928) and mural technique with Inimá de Paula (1918 - 1999) and, between 1964 and 1966, participates in the Experimental Atelier Grupo Oficina. He lives in Rio de Janeiro in 1968, and does an internship at Planus, a lithographic workshop specializing in copies for artists. The following year, he discovers a collection of lithographic matrices with product labels from former mining industries and develops a series of engravings on which he prints these marks on transparent materials. With these works, he wins the Itamaraty Award at the 10th International Biennial of São Paulo, in 1969. He receives a scholarship from the French government and lives in Paris from 1971 to 1972, and studies at the École Supérieure des Arts et. Industries Graphiques [School of Arts and Graphic Industries] and at the École d'Arts-Plastiques et Sciences de l'Art, University of Paris. He teaches engraving at Escola Guignard from 1966 to 1984, and then transferred to Tiradentes, Minas Gerais. In this city, he is responsible for the assembly and direction of the Casa de Engravura Largo do Ó lithographic workshop, and for the coordination of the Memory of Lithography project in the state. He returned to Belo Horizonte in 1991, and continues to teach at the Guignard school. From 1993 onwards, he dedicated himself to the work of a studio and to projects on the history of industrial lithography in Minas Gerais.
Critical commentary
The first prints by Lotus Lobo start from architectural motifs. Linked to mining cities: doors, balconies or church towers, however, maintaining dialogue with abstraction. In the studio of the Guignard School, he discovers lithographic stones and zinc plates, old matrices for the stamping of maps, diplomas and labels. Interested in the graphic and memorialistic aspects of those images, she began to carry out a research aimed at the rescue of these industrial mining lithographic marks, carrying out interventions and using the most diverse supports. Subsequently, it creates abstract and organic shapes based on these matrices.
The artist also stands out for dedicating herself, from 1988 onwards, to a broad project for the restoration, preservation and dissemination of the lithographic memory of Minas Gerais, carried out in the Engraving House. of the Ó, in Tiradentes.
Criticism
"Lotus, without fear or apprehension, driven by a lot of courage and breath, knowing perfectly well what he wants, with a cultural basis arising from much study and Reading, he gives himself body and soul to the effort of communication and, in tune with our technological age, he seeks more representative symbols and signifiers through them and seeks through them a renewal of his art in all latitudes, in an insatiable attempt to signify in manufacturing codes the present civilization industrialist, whose 'pathos', living elsewhere in universal human intentions, is easily apprehensible by the public. (...) and, a legitimate product of the 'image civilization', of which René Huyghe, born under the aegis of his tyranny, it is understandable that the artist bowed to her instances; However, miner by state of grace, integrated in a process of acculturation that, protected between mountains, enters through the pores, is also understandable that it would turn to the things of Minas, selecting among them the best regional distinctive images, appropriating them and elevating them, by magic. of art, to universal and permanent expression (...)".
Pierre Santos
Winter Festival, 5. , Ouro Preto, 1971. Artistas Mineiros 60/70. Text by Pierre Santos. Preto: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 1971.
"For Lotus Lobo, the label that matters is the one produced by deactivated printers, in zinc or stone, in which a memory is printed, with which it works. In the discarded matrices, Lotus looks for solutions so that the images do not come out inverted; For this, use parchment or acrylic paper. Its lithographs printed on transparent paper are produced as label overlays. In the acrylic works, he proposes a game for the spectator: Lotus prints labels on two acrylic plates that, mounted on parallel rails, are superimposed, and the observer can manipulate them and form the most diverse overlaps. In these works, Lotus does not interfere with the matrices, which he does in other lithographs. Although it always prints the labels, it can intervene in them, and does so often, keeping the product's chromatic code; The label of the butter can follows the code of red and yellow."
Leon Kossovitch and Mayra Laudanna
Kossovitch, Leon and Laudanna, Mayra. The City: Encounters. In: Engraving: Brazilian art of the 20th century. Presentation Ricardo Ribenboim; Text Leon Kossovitch, Mayra Laudanna, Ricardo Resende; Design Rodney Schunck, Ricardo Ribenboim; Cover Photography Romulo Fialdini. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural: Cosac & Naify, 2000, p. 29.
Individual exhibitions
1970 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at Galeria Guignard
1979 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria Engravura Brasileira
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at Fernando Pedro Art Office
2001 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at the Guignard School Gallery
Collective exhibitions
1963 - Belo Horizonte MG - 13th Municipal Salon of Fine Arts
1963 - Juiz de Fora MG - 13th Salão de Belas Artes de Juiz de Fora - Honorable Mention
1963 - Belo Horizonte MG - 12th University Festival of Art, at UEE - Awarded
1964 - Belo Horizonte MG - 13th University Salon of Arts, at UEE - 1st Prize
1964 - Belo Horizonte MG - Artistas Mineiros, at Amap
1964 - Belo Horizonte MG - Collective Grupo Oficina
1964 - Belo Horizonte MG - Collective, at the Grupiara Gallery
1964 - Belo Horizonte MG - Fourteen Minas Gerais artists, at Galeria Guignard
1964 - Brasília DF - 1st Federal District Modern Art Salon
1964 - Curitiba PR - 21st Salão Paranaense de Belas Artes
1965 - Belo Horizonte MG - Collective, at the Marília Theater
1965 - Brasília DF - 2nd Salon of Modern Art of the Federal District
1965 - Porto Alegre RS - Six artists from Minas
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Young Recorders, at Galeria do Icbeu
1966 - Belo Horizonte MG - 21st Municipal Hall of Fine Arts
1966 - Belo Horizonte MG - Designers and Engravers of Minas Gerais, at the UFMG rectory
1967 - Belo Horizonte MG - 1st Exhibition of the Engraving Museum of Belo Horizonte, at Palácio das Artes
1967 - Belo Horizonte MG - 22nd Municipal Salon of Fine Arts
1968 - Brasília DF - Contemporary international engraving, at the Gallery of the Meeting
1968 - Brasília DF - Three Aspects of Grabado Contemporary Brasileño, Itinerant for South and Central America, organized by Itamaraty
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The national engraving, MNBA
1969 - Belo Horizonte MG - 1st National Salon of Contemporary Art of Belo Horizonte map
1969 - Ouro Preto MG - Artistas Mineiros, at the 3rd UFMG Winter Festival
1969 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition Final Selection of the 6th Bienal de Paris, at MAM/RJ
1969 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Pre-Bienal de Paris, at MAM/RJ
1969 - São Paulo SP - 10th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Bienal Foundation - Itamaraty Acquisition Award
1970 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4th French Salon of Culture
1970 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4th National Hall of the French Alliance - Grand Prix (Scholarship in Paris)
1970 - Belo Horizonte MG - From Corpo à Terra, in Belo Municipal Park Horizonte
1970 - Belo Horizonte MG - The evolutionary process of art in Minas from 1900 to 1970, at Palácio das Artes
1970 - Belo Horizonte MG - Vanguard Week. From Corpo à Terra, in the Municipal Park
1970 - Campinas SP - 6th Contemporary Art Salon of Campinas, at MACC
1971 - Ouro Preto MG - Artistas Mineiros 60/70, at the 5th Winter Festival - UFMG
1971 - Ouro Preto MG - Artistas Mineiros, at the 5th UFMG Winter Festival
1971 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Panorama of Current Art, at MAM/SP
1971 - Tokyo (Japan) - Tokyo Biennial
1972 - Belo Horizonte MG - Guignard Generation, at the Palace of the Arts
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Art/Brazil/Today - 50 years later, at MAM/RJ
1972 - São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 years later, at the Collectio Gallery
1972 - Tokyo (Japan) - The 8th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo
1973 - Juiz de Fora MG - Artistas Mineiros, at Galeria de Arte Celina
1976 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Arte Agora I, at MAM/RJ
1977 - Belo Horizonte MG - Any point between Alfa and omega, at Palácio das Artes
1977 - Juiz de Fora MG - lithographs, at the Pro-Música Gallery
1978 - Belo Horizonte MG - The Minas Gerais landscape, at the Palácio das Artes
1978 - Belo Horizonte MG - collective, in the lithographic house
1978 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Brazilians from Minas Gerais, in the Salon de Arte de C.A.N.T.V.
1978 - Vitória ES - Engravers Mineiros, in the Homero Massena Gallery
1979 - Belém PA - Lótus Lobo and Antônio Grosso, at the Angelus Gallery, Theater of Peace
1979 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4th Nello Nuno Salon, at the Clóvis Salgado Foundation. Palácio das Artes
1979 - Belo Horizonte MG - Brazilian lithography, at Palácio das Artes
1979 - Belo Horizonte MG - Global Winter Salon, at the Clóvis Salgado Foundation
1979 - Curitiba PR - 2nd Annual Exhibition of Engraving City of Curitiba, at the Creativity Center
1979 - São Paulo SP - 6th Global Winter Salon, at MASP - Special Room
1979 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4th Nello Nuno Salon, at Palácio das Artes
1980 - Mexico City (Mexico) - 2nd Ibero-American Biennial of Art, Drawing and Engraving, at the Domecq Cultural Institute
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4th Plastic Arts Hall of the State Council of Culture of Minas General
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - 8th Global Winter Hall, at the Palácio das Artes Foundation
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th Global Winter Hall at MAM/RJ
1981 - San Juan (Porto Rico) - 5th Latin American Engraving Biennial - Grand Prix
1981 - São Paulo SP - 8th Global Winter Salon, at MASP
1982 - Penápolis SP - 1st Meeting of National Recorders
1982 - Penápolis SP - 5th Northwest Plastic Arts Hall, at the Educational Foundation of Penápolis. Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Penápolis
1983 - Curitiba PR - 4th Engraving Exhibition City of Curitiba, at the Engraving Museum
1983 - London (England) - Brazilian Festival of Arts, 6 Artists from Minas Gerais, Dixon Gallery
1984 - Belo Horizonte MG - The Brazilian Engraving, at the UFMG Rectory
1984 - Curitiba PR - 6th Pan-American Engraving Exhibition of the City of Curitiba
1984 - Curitiba PR - Engraving Exhibition City of Curitiba, at the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba
1986 - Albuquerque (United States) - Brazilian tape recorders, at the University of New Mexico
1986 - Belo Horizonte MG - Largo Engraving House do Ó and Oficina Guaianases, two centers of Brazilian lithography, in the cultural space of Cemig
1986 - Juiz de Fora and Belo Horizonte MG - 25 years of art lithography in Minas, at Espaço Mascarenhas and at Palácio das Artes
1986 - London (England) - 9th International Engraving Biennial of England
1986 - Santa Fe (United States) - Brazilian Contemporary Prints, at the Gallery of the Saint John's College
1987 - Athens (United States) - Brazilian Contemporary Prints, at Gallery Tate Student Center University of Georgia
1987 - Brasília DF - Largo do Engraving House ó: Drawings and engravings, at the French Embassy
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Aspects of lithography, at the Carlos Oswald Room of the MNBA
1988 - Belo Horizonte MG - Lithographic memory in Minas, at the Minas Gerais Museum
1988 - Juiz de Fora MG - Person, People, at UFJF
1989 - Juiz de Fora MG - Each head a sentence, at UFJF
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - Icons of Utopia, at Palácio das Artes
1993 - Belo Horizonte MG - Lithography Center of the Guignard School, UFMG Cultural Center
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - Guignard: 50 years of an art school, at Galeria Vidyã
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - The Ephemeral in Brazilian Art: 60's/70's
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - Retrospective: 5 years of Fernando Pedro Art Office, at the Mineiro Museum
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - Lithographic Ink: Production and Application, Cultural Center UFMG
1994 - Mariana MG - Os Bracher, Sala Afonso Ávila
1994 - Ouro Preto MG - Virtual identity, at the Inconfidência Museum
1994 - Penápolis SP - The ephemeral in Brazilian art: 60s/70s, at the Itaú Cultural Gallery
1994 - Porto Alegre RS - Porto Alegre City Hall Free Atelier
1994 - Florianópolis SC - Atelier Livre, in the hall of the Rectory of UFSC
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século 20th, at the Bienal Foundation
1994 - São Paulo SP - The ephemeral in Brazilian art: years 60/70, at Itaú Cultural
1995 - Belo Horizonte MG - Derived image: a look at the unfolding of the engraving today, in the map
1995 - Belo Horizonte MG - second annual, in the Fernando Pedro collection Art
1996 - Brasília DF - The ephemeral in Brazilian art: 60's/70's, at Itaugaleria
1997 - Belo Horizonte MG - Formation of Contemporary Art in Belo Horizonte, at MAP
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Graphic Thinking: The engraving of language, at the Paço Imperial
1999 - Belo Horizonte MG - Centro Cultural UFMG - 10 years, at the UFMG Cultural Center
2000 - Belo Horizonte MG - ARS Brasilis, at the Galeria de Minas Tênis Clube
2000 - São Paulo SP - Investigations. The Brazilian engraving, at Itaú Cultural
2001 - Belo Horizonte MG - From the body to land: a radical landmark in Brazilian art, at Itaú Cultural
2001 - Penápolis SP - Investigations. The Brazilian engraving, at Itaú Cultural
2001 - Brasília DF - Investigations. The Brazilian engraving, at Itaú Cultural
2004 - Belo Horizonte MG - Pampulha, work collected: 1943-2003, at MAP
2005 - Belo Horizonte MG - 40/80: an art show Brazilian, at Léo Bahia Contemporary Art
Source: Itaú Cultural
