Marco Tulio Resende (Belo Horizonte MG 1950)
Marco Tulio Resende is a painter, draftsman and teacher. He studied visual arts at the Escola Guignard in Belo Horizonte between 1971 and 1974, a period in which he was in contact with Amilcar de Castro (1920 - 2002), Sara Ávila (1932) and Lotus Lobo (1943). He took part in the 12th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo [São Paulo International Biennial] in 1973. In 1975, he held his first solo exhibition at the gallery of the Instituto Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos [Brazil-United States Cultural Institute] in Belo Horizonte. Between 1975 and 1979, he completed a master's degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Artic), in the United States, as a Fulbright Commission grantee. In 1977, he received the drawing prize at the 9th Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte [Belo Horizonte National Contemporary Art Salon] and, in 1978, an honorable mention in the Fellowship Contest promoted by Artic.
Back in Belo Horizonte in 1979, he began teaching at the Escola Guignard. In 1990, he obtained a Goethe Institut grant to study in Germany. In 1998, he was invited to take part as a visiting artist at Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England.
Critical Commentary
Marco Tulio Resende has a diverse production, working with painting, drawing, printmaking, objects, installations and book-objects. His work is marked by an intimate character which, according to the artist himself, stems from the attempt to see himself in the world, to mirror himself and recognize himself in it.
The artist creates book-objects built from paintings and drawings. For the visual artist and art critic Márcio Sampaio (1941), in these works Resende also writes his own story: his work requires great concentration from the viewer, to follow each of the moments of his life presented there and to continue reading. For Sampaio, the forms he makes, such as bone, hammer, tower, hand, carnation or flower, allude to feelings experienced by the artist, such as losses, fears, desires and renunciations.
Resende creates works from everyday materials such as wood, fabric, earth, crystals and pieces of iron. According to the art historian Aracy Amaral, in Carro [Car], 1999, the artist alludes to the means of transport through a construction of wood and clay, thus recreating it in a precarious way. In Ilha [Island], 1999, he presents a wooden basket closed with metal straps, inside which he places stones. In Jardim [Garden], 1999, he builds mounds of clay of similar shape on a wooden base. The works generate a certain disconcertment in the observer. They are unusual images, composed of objects the artist comes across in his daily life and which can take on diverse meanings. They also represent fragments of his personal memory, recovered in his works.
For the art historian Tadeu Chiarelli, in his works on paper the artist creates a specific exploratory field for the formulation of his own imagery. In these works, amputated forms of the human body become modular elements endowed with a strong dramatic concentration.
Critiques
"Through continuous research, Marco Túlio Resende engages with nature, with things and with beings in a mysterious dialogue, through which a constant permutation takes place and his vocabulary is established, his dense and severe inner monologue. Using banal objects, Marco Túlio does not intend to give them a new aesthetic category or to alter their condition in any way. No. The artist intends to discover the magic of things, the rite hidden behind the mask, and to reinvent gesture and gaze. This is the meaning of his work: to give a new vision of things we no longer even see or, further, to recover the magic of neglected forms and make them evident to our eyes. This, perhaps, is the artist's mission par excellence: not to alter existing aesthetic categories, but to illuminate them; not to create new categories, but to rediscover them. His works express this stance well: through synthesis rather than analysis of the forms worked, the artist carries out his game, his reason and his vision. It is up to us to follow him in his arrangements, which do not seek to modify the existing order, but rather to perceive it, grasp it and communicate its most secret meaning. With their suggestions of relics, of strange incantatory elements and their totemic allusions, these works do not impose themselves on the viewer's eyes. Rather, they invite us to travel an unknown, uncertain itinerary, but one always full of what is so dear to man: the discovery of the imponderable, of the mystery whose key we sometimes lose but always long to find again".
Affonso Renault
DEZ artistas mineiros. São Paulo: MAC/USP, 1984.
Solo Exhibitions
1975 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Galeria do Ibeu
1979 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Galeria do Ibeu
1982 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Grande Galeria do Palácio das Artes
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Macunaíma
1984 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at IAB/BH
1986 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Gesto Gráfico Galeria de Arte
1986 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Itaugaleria
1987 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Galeria Oscar Seraphico
1987 - Vitória ES - Solo, at Itaugaleria
1988 - Belo Horizonte MG - Marco Tulio Resende: pinturas [Marco Tulio Resende: Paintings], at Manoel Macedo Galeria de Arte
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at CCCM
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer
1989 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Galeria Corpo
1991 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Itaú Cultural
1992 - Vitória ES - Solo, at Galeria de Arte e Pesquisa do Centro de Artes/UFES
1993 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Kolams Galeria de Arte
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer
1994 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
1996 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Fundação Athos Bulcão
1996 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Marília Razuk
2001 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
Group Exhibitions
1973 - São Paulo SP - 12ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo [12th São Paulo International Biennial], at Fundação Bienal
1975 - São Paulo SP - Coletiva Novas Tendências [New Trends Group Show], at Paço das Artes
1977 - Belo Horizonte MG - 9º Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte [9th Belo Horizonte National Contemporary Art Salon], at MAP - drawing prize
1978 - Chicago (United States) - Fellowship Contest da School of the Art Institute of Chicago [School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fellowship Contest] - honorable mention
1979 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [2nd National Visual Arts Salon], at MAM/RJ
1980 - Belo Horizonte MG - 12º Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte [12th Belo Horizonte National Contemporary Art Salon], at MAP - drawing prize
1980 - Curitiba PR - 37º Salão Paranaense [37th Paraná Salon], at Teatro Guaíra
1980 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 3º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [3rd National Visual Arts Salon], at MNBA
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - 8º Salão Global de Inverno [8th Global Winter Salon], at Fundação Palácio das Artes
1981 - Curitiba PR - 3ª Mostra do Desenho Brasileiro [3rd Brazilian Drawing Exhibition] - award winner
1981 - Recife PE - 34º Salão de Artes Plásticas de Pernambuco [34th Pernambuco Visual Arts Salon], at Museu do Estado de Pernambuco
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [4th National Visual Arts Salon], at MAM/RJ
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8º Salão Global de Inverno [8th Global Winter Salon], at MAM/RJ
1981 - São Paulo SP - 8º Salão Global de Inverno [8th Global Winter Salon], at Masp
1982 - Belo Horizonte MG - 14º Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte [14th Belo Horizonte National Contemporary Art Salon], at MAP
1982 - Penápolis SP - 5º Salão de Artes Plásticas da Noroeste [5th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis - Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [5th National Visual Arts Salon], at MAM/RJ
1983 - Brasília DF - 4 Artistas Mineiros [4 Minas Gerais Artists], at Itaugaleria
1983 - Campo Grande MS - 4 Artistas Mineiros [4 Minas Gerais Artists], at Itaugaleria
1983 - London (England) - 6 Artists from Brazil, at Dixon Gallery of the Institute of Education at the University of London
1983 - São Paulo SP - 4 Artistas Mineiros [4 Minas Gerais Artists], at Itaugaleria
1984 - Belo Horizonte MG - 1º Salão de Artes Visuais da Fundação Clóvis Salgado [1st Fundação Clóvis Salgado Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Clóvis Salgado - Palácio das Artes
1984 - Curitiba PR - 6ª Mostra do Desenho Brasileiro [6th Brazilian Drawing Exhibition]
1984 - São Paulo SP - 10 Artistas Mineiros [10 Minas Gerais Artists], at MAC/USP
1985 - Belo Horizonte MG - 17º Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte [17th Belo Horizonte National Contemporary Art Salon], at MAP - acquisition prize
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [8th National Visual Arts Salon], at MAM/RJ
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Velha Mania: desenho brasileiro [Old Habit: Brazilian Drawing], at EAV/Parque Lage
1986 - Belo Horizonte MG - 9º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas: sudeste [9th National Visual Arts Salon: Southeast], at Fundação Clóvis Salgado - Palácio das Artes
1986 - Curitiba PR - 7ª Mostra do Desenho Brasileiro [7th Brazilian Drawing Show], at MAC/PR
1986 - São Paulo SP - 17º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira [17th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
1986 - São Paulo SP - 4º Salão Paulista de Arte Contemporânea [4th São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon], at Fundação Bienal
1987 - Belo Horizonte MG - 19º Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte [19th Belo Horizonte National Contemporary Art Salon], at MAP
1987 - São Paulo SP - 5º Salão Paulista de Arte Contemporânea [5th São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon], at Pinacoteca do Estado
1988 - Belo Horizonte MG - Um Espelho no Escuro [A Mirror in the Dark], at Palácio das Artes
1988 - Juiz de Fora MG - Um Espelho no Escuro [A Mirror in the Dark], at Espaço Mascarenhas
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 10º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [10th National Visual Arts Salon], at Funarte
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [National Visual Arts Salon] - domestic travel prize
1989 - Bonn (Germany) - 6 Artistas Brasileiros [6 Brazilian Artists], at Galeria Rave
1989 - France - Mostra itinerante Estandartes da Liberdade - Bicentenário da Revolução Francesa [Banners of Freedom Traveling Exhibition - Bicentennial of the French Revolution]
1989 - Recife PE - Minas em Traços Gerais [Minas in General Lines], at Museu de Arte do Recife
1990 - Belo Horizonte MG - Da Forma à Forma - Notícias da Terra 10 Anos Depois [From Form to Form - News from the Earth 10 Years Later], at Palácio das Artes
1990 - Freiburg (Germany) - Aspectos da Arte Latino-Americana [Aspects of Latin American Art], at Ruta Correa Galerie
1990 - São Paulo SP - 21º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira [21st Panorama of Current Brazilian Art], at MAM/SP
1991 - Belo Horizonte MG - BR/80: pintura Brasil década 80 [BR/80: Brazilian Painting of the 1980s], at Núcleo de Informática e Cultura Belo Horizonte
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - Utopias Contemporâneas [Contemporary Utopias], at Fundação Clóvis Salgado - Palácio das Artes
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - Cor e Luz [Color and Light], at Cemig Galeria de Arte
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - Guignard: 50 anos de uma escola de arte [Guignard: 50 Years of an Art School], at Galeria Vidyã
1995 - São Paulo SP - Minerações [Minings], at LR Escritório de Arte
1996 - Freiburg (Germany) - Group show, at Ruta Correa Galerie
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Terra e Mar à Vista [Land and Sea in Sight], at Itaú Cultural
1998 - Brasília DF - Cien Recuerdos para García Lorca [A Hundred Memories for García Lorca], at Espaço Cultural 508 Sul
1998 - Brasília DF - Terra e Mar à Vista [Land and Sea in Sight], at Galeria Itaú Cultural
1998 - Penápolis SP - Terra e Mar à Vista [Land and Sea in Sight], at Galeria Itaú Cultural
1998 - São Paulo SP - Viagens [Journeys], at Itaú Cultural
1999 - São Paulo SP - Arte Brasileira sobre Papel na Coleção do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo [Brazilian Art on Paper in the Collection of the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art], at MAM/SP
1999 - São Paulo SP - Marcos Benjamim, Fernando Lucchesi and Marco Tulio Resende, at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
2000 - Belo Horizonte MG - Belo Horizonte-Leiria: um encontro de culturas [Belo Horizonte-Leiria: A Meeting of Cultures], at Fundação Clóvis Salgado - Companhia de Dança de Minas Gerais
2000 - Belo Horizonte MG - Presente de Reis [Epiphany Gift], at Kolams Galeria de Arte
2000 - Leiria (Portugal) - Belo Horizonte-Leiria: um encontro de culturas [Belo Horizonte-Leiria: A Meeting of Cultures], at Galeria57 - arte contemporânea
2002 - Curitiba PR - Obras do Faxinal das Artes [Works from Faxinal das Artes], at MAC/PR
2002 - Niterói RJ - Diálogo, Antagonismo e Replicação na Coleção Sattamini [Dialogue, Antagonism and Replication in the Sattamini Collection], at MAC/Niterói
2002 - São Paulo SP - 10 Anos Marília Razuk [10 Years of Marília Razuk], at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Projeto Brazilianart [Brazilianart Project], at Almacén Galeria de Arte
2003 - São Paulo SP - Coletiva Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte [Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte Group Show], at Marília Razuk Galeria de Arte
Source: Itaú Cultural
