Martins de Porangaba (Porangaba SP 1944)
Martins de Porangaba is a painter, draftsman, printmaker and teacher. He settled in São Paulo, where he studied drawing, painting and life drawing at the Associação Paulista de Belas Artes between 1967 and 1970. In the 1970s, he studied printmaking with Paulo Mentem and modeling with Olinda Dalma, and founded the Atelier J. Martins in 1972. In 1980, he began teaching painting at the Escola Panamericana de Artes.
Critiques
"The fragmentary structure of Mário de Andrade's work finds a parallel in the free, broken-up composition Martins de Porangaba used in his series conventionally named, as a whole, MACUNAÍMA. In it, the planes interweave, and houses, trees, moon, sun, birds, people, interiors and exteriors, and fish are arranged in an apparently random way, yet carefully organized from a compositional and plastic standpoint. The images take on symbolic forms. With them, Porangaba transports us to deep poetic states and recovers with us the atmosphere of a childhood that seemed so distant. The dream is not over. (...) An overall analysis of Martins de Porangaba's work leads us to conclude, however, that he is not merely a painter of human figures, animals, things, landscapes, Macunaíma or the circus. He is a painter of man's adventure on earth. People, animals, things, nature, dreams and fantasy are all parts of this great adventure".
Enock Sacramento
MARTINS de Porangaba: 25 anos de pintura. Textos de Jacob Klintowitz, Enock Sacramento e Walmir Ayala. São Paulo: Yutaka Sanematsu Escritório de Arte, 1988.
Solo Exhibitions
1976 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Livraria Brasiliense
1979 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Livraria Kairoz
1981 - Santo André SP - Solo, at Centro Cívico
1981 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Espaço Cultural Sanbra
1981 - São Paulo SP - Martins: Paintings, at Galeria Cultura
1982 - Campinas SP - Solo, at MACC
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Macunaíma/Funarte
1982 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Paulo Prado
1982 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Espaço Cultural Sanbra
1983 - Washington (United States) - Solo, at Brazilian-American Cultural Institute
1984 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Tema Arte Contemporânea
1985 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Paulo Prado
1986 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Galeria Oscar Seraphico
1987 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Paulo Prado
1988 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Galeria Oscar Seraphico
1988 - São Paulo SP - 25 Years of Painting, at Yutaka Sanematsu Escritório de Arte
1990 - São Paulo SP - Martins de Porangaba, at Galeria Paulo Prado
1991 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Lygia Jafet Bureau D'Arte
1993 - Washington (United States) - Amazonia, at Brazilian-American Cultural Institute
1994 - Barcelona (Spain) - Amazonia, at Stúdio La Seca
1994 - São Paulo SP - Amazonia, at Caribé Escritório de Arte
1998 - Araxá MG - Solo, at Museu Dona Beja
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Palácio das Artes
1998 - Uberlândia MG - Martins de Porangaba, at Galeria Elisabeth Nasser
2000 - São Paulo SP - Time and Memory in the Work of Martins de Porangaba, at Paulo Prado Galeria de Arte
2001 - São Paulo SP - Porangaba in the 1970s, at Espaço de Artes Unicid
Group Exhibitions
1971 - São Paulo SP - Associação Paulista de Belas Artes Salon
1977 - São Caetano do Sul SP - São Caetano do Sul Centenary Exhibition
1977 - São Paulo SP - Ateliê J. Martins Group Show, at Galeria Século XXI
1978 - Santo André SP - Group show, at Centro Cívico
1979 - São Paulo SP - Associação Paulista de Belas Artes Salon - honorable mention
1980 - Santo André SP - Group show, at Centro Cívico
1980 - São Paulo SP - Associação Paulista de Belas Artes Salon - bronze medal
1980 - Tokoiama (Japan) - Brazilian Artists
1981 - Embu SP - 27th Embu Visual Arts Salon - bronze medal
1981 - Marília SP - 2nd Contemporary Art Salon - 1st prize
1981 - Piracicaba SP - 14th Piracicaba Contemporary Art Salon, at Casa das Artes Plásticas Miguel Dutra - acquisition prize
1981 - São Paulo SP - 2nd São Paulo Salon of Plastic and Visual Arts
1981 - São Paulo SP - Associação Paulista de Belas Artes Salon - bronze rose
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th National Visual Arts Salon
1982 - Rio Claro SP - 2nd Visual Arts Salon - acquisition prize
1982 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 5th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1982 - Santo André SP - 10th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal
1982 - São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon - acquisition prize
1983 - Brasília DF - Group show, at Galeria Oscar Seraphico
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1983 - Santo André SP - 11th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal - acquisition prize
1983 - São Paulo SP - Opening group show, at Galeria Tema Arte Contemporânea
1984 - New York (United States) - Summer Group Show, at Kouros Gallery
1984 - Santo André SP - 12th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal - acquisition prize
1985 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Winter Salon, at Espelho D'Água - gold medal
1985 - Recife PE - Group show, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1985 - Santo André SP - 13th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at Paço Municipal
1986 - Tampa (United States) - Contemporary Brazilian Art Exhibition, at Curtis Hixon Convention Center - gold medal
1987 - Nice (France) - Point-Barla Contemporary Art Exhibition - 1st prize in painting
1987 - São Paulo SP - 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Chapel Art Show
1987 - São Paulo SP - Aderbal Moura, Alberto Lefèvre, Décio Soncini, Juarez Magno, Martins de Porangaba, at Arte Clube
1988 - São Paulo SP - 1st FASM National Watercolor Salon, at Faculdade de Arte Santa Marcelina
1989 - São Paulo SP - Thirty-Three Ways of Seeing the World, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1991 - São Paulo SP - Chico and the Animals, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1991 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Ranulpho Galeria de Arte
1991 - Washington (United States) - Ibero-American Arts Exhibition, at Art Museum of the Americas Gallery
1996 - Porto Alegre RS - Human Nature, at Galeria Tina Zappoli
2004 - São Paulo SP - Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, at Esporte Clube Sírio
Source: Itaú Cultural
