Mirabeau Sampaio (Salvador BA 1911 - idem 1993)
Painter, sculptor, draftsman and teacher.
José Mirabeau Sampaio attended the Escola de Belas Artes in Salvador in 1927. He was encouraged by artists such as Mário Cravo Jr., Jenner Augusto, Carybé and Jorge Amado to continue his activities in the visual arts. He became a teacher of stone and wood sculpture at the Escola de Belas Artes of the Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA.
Critiques
"(...) Interested at first in an autochthonous inspiration and motivation, he moved on to the abstract formalism of well-defined geometrizing compositions in which hollow cylinders, formed in them with the same geometric care, complete the compositional rhythms."
Quirino Campofiorito
PONTUAL, Roberto. Dicionário das artes plásticas no Brasil. Apresentação de Antônio Houaiss. Textos de Mário Barata et al. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1969.
Solo Exhibitions
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Santa Rosa
1972 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at A Galeria
Group Exhibitions
1956 - Salvador BA - Salão Baiano de Belas Artes [Bahia Fine Arts Salon] - gold medal
1957 - São Paulo SP - Artistas da Bahia [Artists from Bahia], at MAM/SP
1959 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8º Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna [8th National Salon of Modern Art]
1959 - São Paulo SP - 5ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo [5th São Paulo International Biennial], at Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo Sobrinho
1959 - São Paulo SP - 8º Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna [8th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art], at Galeria Prestes Maia - large silver medal
1966 - Salvador BA - 1ª Bienal Nacional de Artes Plásticas [1st National Visual Arts Biennial]
1973 - Brasília DF - 4 Baianos [4 Bahians], at Múltipla Galeria de Arte
1975 - Salvador BA - Artes Plásticas [Visual Arts], at Feira da Bahia
1982 - Salvador BA - O Espaço da Cultura [The Space of Culture], at Galeria de Arte Alberto Bonfiglioli
1982 - Salvador BA - Artistas Baianos [Bahian Artists], at Galeria de Arte Alberto Bonfiglioli
1986 - Brasília DF - Baianos em Brasília [Bahians in Brasília], at Casa da Manchete
1987 - Salvador BA - Doze Artistas Brasileiros [Twelve Brazilian Artists], at Anarte Galeria
Posthumous Exhibitions
1999 - Salvador BA - 100 Artistas Plásticos da Bahia [100 Visual Artists from Bahia], at Museu de Arte Sacra
Source: Itaú Cultural
