Maria Auxiliadora (Campo Belo MG 1938 - São Paulo SP 1974)
Maria Auxiliadora was a painter. Self-taught in the visual arts, she began her artistic production around 1954. In 1968, she joined Solano Trindade's group in Embu, São Paulo, and held her first solo exhibition. Posthumously, the artist's work was featured in the book Mitopoética de 9 Artistas Brasileiros [Mythopoetics of 9 Brazilian Artists], by Lélia Coelho Frota.
Critiques
"Maria Auxiliadora's pictures are characterized by their great vitality and chromatic vibrancy. She has the Afro-Brazilian magical sense and one of the most fascinating wealths of rhythmic and coloristic creation. Her work combines authentic, deep experiences of popular life with an imagination that builds chromatic and linear architectures, fusing a fine decorative ability with a convincing and genuine popular feeling. She manages to unite reality and dream. For more than two years now, Maria Auxiliadora has enriched her oil painting with collage elements. She later gave up collage and began using only relief obtained with modeling paste. She was thus able to considerably intensify the dynamism of her compositions and give them the delightful character of popular handicraft, becoming one of the striking figures of our primitivism".
Mário Schenberg
SCHENBERG, Mário. Pensando a arte. São Paulo: Nova Stella, 1988.
Solo Exhibitions
1968 - São Paulo SP - First solo exhibition
Group Exhibitions
1968 - Embu SP - 5th Embu Visual Arts Salon - 1st prize
1968 - Santo André SP - 1st Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal
1968 - São Paulo SP - 17th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art
ca.1968 - Salvador BA - 2nd National Visual Arts Biennial
1969 - Atibaia SP - 2nd Atibaia Visual Arts Meeting - bronze medal
1969 - Curitiba PR - 26th Paraná Salon, at Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Paraná
1969 - Santo André SP - 2nd Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal
1970 - Campinas SP - 6th Campinas Contemporary Art Salon, at MACC - acquisition prize
1970 - Santana do Parnaíba SP - 1st Santana do Parnaíba Salon - small silver medal
1970 - Santo André SP - 3rd Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal - large silver medal
1970 - São José dos Campos SP - 1st São José dos Campos Salon - honorable mention
1971 - Santo André SP - 4th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal
1971 - São Paulo SP - 17 Naive Painters of São Paulo
1971 - Indiana (United States) - Group show, at Universidade de Indiana
1971 - Washington (United States) - Group show, at Brazilian American Cultural Institute
1972 - Santo André SP - 5th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal
1973 - Santo André SP - 6th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal
1973 - São Paulo SP - Exhibitions, at Faculdade Paulista de Música. Galeria de Arte
Posthumous Exhibitions
1975 - São Paulo SP - Festa de Cores [Festival of Colors], at Masp
1979 - Penápolis SP - Solo, at Museu do Sol
1980 - São Paulo SP - Gente da Terra [People of the Land], at Paço das Artes
1999 - São Paulo SP - The Mystical in Brazilian Popular Art, at Sesc Itaquera
2001 - São Paulo SP - Naïve Art, at Galeria Jacques Ardies
2002 - Piracicaba SP - 6th Bienal Naïfs do Brasil, at Sesc
2002 - São Paulo SP - Naïve Art, at Galeria Jacques Ardies
2002 - São Paulo SP - Pop Brazil: Popular Art and the Popular in Art, at CCBB
Source: Itaú Cultural
