Mário Campello (Salvador BA 1941 - São Paulo SP 2000)
1941 - Salvador BA - November 29
2000 - São Paulo SP - March 12
Education
1961 - Salvador BA - Begins studying painting at the Escola de Belas Artes da Universidade da Bahia [School of Fine Arts of the University of Bahia]
Chronology
Painter, draftsman, printmaker
1962/1964 - Salvador BA - Works in his studio alongside Carlos Bastos
1965 - Salvador BA - Paints the mural for the Hospital Aristides Maltez
ca. 1966 - São Paulo SP - Moves to this city
ca. 1966 - São Paulo SP - Creates designs for murals, tapestry and textile printing
1964 and 1971 - United States - Travels
1967 - Salvador BA - Illustrates the poetry book Sonetos do Oitavo Dia [Sonnets of the Eighth Day] by Maria José Giglio, which won an award in Venice
1966, 1969, 1970 and 1972 - Germany - Travels
Critiques
"(...) for ten years Mário Campello has been developing a body of work in which the childlike and regional-folk character of the beginning ended up replaced by the meticulous refinement of fantasy. It is not, today more than ever, a naive artist, even if his figures are at times simple silhouettes against a background, in that reductive stylization that makes them summary and detached from the rest of the picture, or if his elements of perspective are deformed by expressive intuition; he is, consciously, an artist who seeks skill, the cleanness of each detail, chromatic vibration and the harmonious distribution of the multiple plant and animal elements that make up these edenic and childlike landscapes, a return to the sheltered beginning of everything, or those nocturnal clusters of houses immersed in foliage, in an atmosphere that often comes close to the surreal that old cartoons magically established. The recovery of childhood is here a way of showing it in the harmony that never existed, except as longing".
Roberto Pontual
PONTUAL, Roberto. Arte/Brasil/hoje: 50 anos depois. São Paulo: Collectio, 1973.
"How to define the painting of Mário Campello, a Bahian living in São Paulo? The first answer imposes itself: excellent. And then come the questions of style, technique, content, proposal and solution. At first glance, a conflict already arises: naive and erudite. I prefer the synthesis: geometric and spontaneously lyrical. Mário Campello always paints a paradisiacal world, an unpolluted landscape, a kind of message addressed to the mad and the pure. There is a suggestion of edenic settings, with luxuriant vegetation, moons, birds and animals celebrating. But he leaves nothing to chance, for he is a maniac of geometric precision, of pure forms, of fanatically meticulous description - in pointillist technique - of beings and things. It seems that, in front of his easel, after letting loose his lyrical and innate imagination, Mário Campello reaches for the compass, the ruler and numbers to contain his emotion. Or else to translate it point by point, color by color, verse by verse - as if for him the world were a fantastic and Cartesian entity".
Flávio de Aquino
AQUINO, Flávio de. In: MÁRIO Campello: vinte anos de pintura. Apresentação de Carlos Bastos. São Paulo: Galeria de Arte André, 1984.
Solo Exhibitions
1964 - Salvador BA - First solo exhibition, at Galeria de Arte da Biblioteca Pública
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Goeldi
1965 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Clube Pinheiros
1966 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Solarium
1966 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Atrium
1967 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Atrium
1967 - Salvador BA - Solo, at Instituto Cultural Brasil-Alemanha
1969 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Atrium
1970 - Hamburg (Germany) - Solo, at Galeria Mensch
1971 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria do Copacabana Palace
1971 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Documenta
1972 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1974 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Documenta
1976 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1976 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Galeria Guignard
1977 - Santos SP - Solo, at Galeria do CCBEU
1978 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Maramar
1979 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Academus Galeria de Arte
1981 - Londrina PR - Solo, at Bahiarte Galeria de Arte
1981 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Bolsa de Arte
1982 - Munich (Germany) - Solo, at Galeria Richard Hartmann
1984 - Hamburg (Germany) - Solo Happy Joss, at Galerie Faust
1984 - São Paulo SP - Solo Vinte Anos de Pintura [Twenty Years of Painting], at Galeria de Arte André
Group Exhibitions
1962 - Salvador BA - Group show, at Instituto Cultural Brasil-Alemanha
1963 - Salvador BA - Group show, at Instituto Cultural Brasil-Alemanha
1964 - New York (United States) - Group show Artistas Baianos [Bahian Artists]
1964 - Los Angeles (United States) - Group show Artistas Baianos [Bahian Artists]
1966 - Berlin (Germany) - Primeira Exposição de Arte e Decoração [First Art and Decoration Exhibition]
1966 - Salvador BA - 1ª Bienal Nacional de Artes Plásticas [1st National Visual Arts Biennial]
1966 - São Paulo SP - 24 Artistas Contemporâneos [24 Contemporary Artists], at Galeria Atualidade
1966 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria Atrium
1966 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1966 - São Paulo SP - Nus [Nudes], at Galeria Azulão
1968 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria Azulão
1969 - São Paulo SP - Primitivos Contemporâneos Brasileiros e Estrangeiros [Brazilian and Foreign Contemporary Primitives], at Faap
1969 - São Paulo SP - Quadros Amarelos [Yellow Paintings], at Galeria Cosme Velho
1971 - New York (United States) - Artistas Brasileiros [Brazilian Artists]
1971 - Chicago (United States) - Artistas Brasileiros [Brazilian Artists]
1971 - Washington (United States) - Artistas Brasileiros [Brazilian Artists]
1972 - São Paulo SP - Arte/Brasil/Hoje: 50 anos depois [Art/Brazil/Today: 50 Years Later], at Galeria da Collectio
1972 - Basel (Switzerland) - Feira Internacional de Arte [International Art Fair]
1973 - Düsseldorf (Germany) - Feira Internacional de Arte [International Art Fair]
1974 - Paris (France) - Salão de Arte Contemporânea [Contemporary Art Salon]
1975 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria Azulão
1976 - Penápolis SP - 2º Salão de Artes Plásticas da Noroeste [2nd Noroeste Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1976 - São José do Rio Preto SP - Group show, at Galeria Casa Grande
1976 - São Paulo SP - Opening group show, at Galeria Grifo
1977 - São Paulo SP - Brasil Arte 1922/77 [Brazil Art 1922/77], at Portal Galeria de Arte
1978 - Penápolis SP - 3º Salão de Artes Plásticas da Noroeste [3rd Noroeste Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1978 - São Paulo SP - Pequenas Telas Grandes Pintores [Small Canvases Great Painters], at Academus Galeria de Arte
1980 - Penápolis SP - 4º Salão de Artes Plásticas da Noroeste [4th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1980 - Porto Alegre RS - Group show, at Bolsa de Arte
1980 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Academus Galeria de Arte
1981 - Brasília DF - Group show, at Galeria de Arte da Vasp
1981 - Paraty RJ - Group show, at Galeria Maramar
1981 - São Paulo SP - 14ª Exposição de Arte Contemporânea [14th Contemporary Art Exhibition]
1982 - Basel (Switzerland) - Feira Internacional de Arte [International Art Fair]
1982 - Loire (France) - Group show, at Château de Cheverny
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 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria Jacques Ardies
1983 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Galeria de Arte Ranulpho
1984 - Londrina PR - Group show, at Galeria Bahiarte
1985 - Penápolis SP - 6º Salão de Artes Plásticas da Noroeste [6th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon], at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
1985 - São Paulo SP - As Mães e a Flor na Visão de 33 Pintores [Mothers and the Flower in the Eyes of 33 Painters], at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Group show, at Galeria Borghese
1990 - São Paulo SP - Gatos Pintados [Painted Cats], at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1991 - São Paulo SP - Chico e os Bichos [Chico and the Animals], at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1992 - São Paulo SP - Artistas Contemporâneos [Contemporary Artists], at Sociarte
1995 - São Paulo SP - Group show, Chapel Art Show
1996 - São Paulo SP - Poetas e Sonhadores [Poets and Dreamers], at Galeria Jacques Ardies
1997 - São Paulo SP - Exposição Coletiva de Natal [Christmas Group Exhibition], at Galeria de Arte André
Posthumous Exhibitions
2001 - Fortaleza CE - Belchior: retratos e auto-retratos [Belchior: Portraits and Self-Portraits], at Centro Cultural Oboé
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Belchior: retratos e auto-retratos [Belchior: Portraits and Self-Portraits], at Centro Cultural da Justiça Federal
Source: Itaú Cultural
