Paulo de Tarso Oliva Barreto (São Paulo SP 1960)
Printmaker, teacher.
In 1980 he began his studies at the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo - FAU/USP. In 1985, using a computer, he made the video Pulsar, which won the award for best VHS music video at the 3rd Videobrasil. He took a course in metal engraving in 1988 with Alex Cerveny at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo - MAM/SP and, in 1989, with Laurita Salles and Evandro Carlos Jardim at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo - MAC/USP. Since 1992, he has worked as an instructor in computer graphics at the Atelier Experimental de Gravura Francesc Domingo [Francesc Domingo Experimental Printmaking Studio] at MAC/USP, and has organized printmaking exhibitions as a curator. In 1995, he began a master's degree in visual poetics at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo - ECA/USP, supervised by Jardim. He taught painting and drawing at the Associação Rodrigo Mendes in 1998, and life drawing at the Centro Universitário Maria Antônia da Universidade de São Paulo - Ceuma/USP in 2002. From that year on, he has taught drawing, printmaking, painting and digital media at the Faculdade do Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial - Senac.
Critical Commentary
Paulo de Tarso Barreto began his academic training in architecture at the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo - FAU/USP, and midway through the course suffered a serious accident that left him quadriplegic. Two years later, he returned to the university and began using the computer to make some videos. One of them, Pulsar, 1985, won an award at the 3rd Videobrasil. In 1988 he became interested in the visual arts and took printmaking courses with several teachers, among them Evandro Carlos Jardim, who had a great influence on his production.
In the early 1990s, Barreto resumed his work with the computer, gained more possibilities for interaction and access, and sought ways to draw again. In his master's research he addressed the use of this medium as a form of free expression. His visual references come from observational drawing, photographic and television images and, currently, the internet, which the artist calls the "media window". From these images he selects situations, scenes, symbols and icons, working with collages, drawings, paintings, prints and digital media. The images he appropriates are deformed and transformed by the visual and graphic interventions he makes, offering the viewer a non-immediate contemplation.
Solo Exhibitions
1994 - Curitiba PR - Alegorias e Adereços [Allegories and Adornments], at Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba
2000 - São Paulo SP - Exposição de desenhos [Drawing Exhibition], at CEUMA/USP (on the occasion of the defense of the master's dissertation O Desenho e o Computador [Drawing and the Computer], at ECA/USP)
2001 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Museu do Trabalho
2003 - São Paulo SP - Cadillacs e Outras Máquinas [Cadillacs and Other Machines], at Biblioteca Alceu de Amoroso Lima
2003 - São Paulo SP - XV (quinze anos de atividade) [XV (Fifteen Years of Activity)], at Galeria Graphias
2004 - Porto Alegre RS - Individual de gravuras [Solo Print Exhibition], at Espaço Muffuletta
2005 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Museu do Trabalho
Group Exhibitions
1989 - São Paulo SP - Salão dos Artistas de Santo Amaro [Santo Amaro Artists Salon]
1990 - Belo Horizonte MG - Salão de Belo Horizonte [Belo Horizonte Salon]
1990 - Curitiba PR - Group show, at Museu de Gravura Cidade de Curitiba
1990 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 15º Salão de Ribeirão Preto [15th Ribeirão Preto Salon]
1990 - São Paulo SP - Coletiva de 8 gravadores [Group Show of 8 Printmakers], at CCSP
1991 - São Paulo SP - Mostra dos selecionados do CCSP-1991 [Exhibition of the CCSP-1991 Selected Artists], at Masp
1992 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 17º Salão de Ribeirão Preto [17th Ribeirão Preto Salon]
1992 - São Paulo SP - Arte Contemporânea: Produções Recentes [Contemporary Art: Recent Productions], at Fundação Bienal
1993 - São Paulo SP - Brasil: Pequenos Formatos, Poucas Palavras [Brazil: Small Formats, Few Words], at Documenta Galeria de Arte
1993 - Curitiba PR - Atelier Experimental de Gravura Francesc Domingo [Francesc Domingo Experimental Printmaking Studio], at Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba
1993 - Londrina PR - Gravuras em Metal [Metal Prints], at Sala Celso Garcia Cid
1993 - Maringá PR - Gravuras em Metal [Metal Prints], at Paço Municipal. Hall do Auditório Hélio Moreira
1993 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 7 Gravadores [7 Printmakers], at Marp
1993 - San Juan (Puerto Rico) - 10ª Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [10th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Printmaking]
1993 - Santos SP - 4ª Bienal de Santos [4th Santos Biennial], at Centro Cultural Patrícia Galvão
1993 - São Paulo SP - Dois Gravadores [Two Printmakers], at Galeria Sesc Paulista (with Luciano Bortoletto)
1993 - São Paulo SP - Salão de Aquarela da Faculdade Santa Marcelina [Faculdade Santa Marcelina Watercolor Salon]
1993 - Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - 1st Mini Print Slovenija International Sarajevo Art Aid, at Rotova Gallery, Maribor
1994 - São Paulo SP - Anos 90: A Gravura Contínua [The 1990s: Continuous Printmaking], at CCSP
1994 - São Paulo SP - Exposição Atelier Experimental de Gravura Francesc Domingo [Francesc Domingo Experimental Printmaking Studio Exhibition], at MAC/USP. Galeria Café
1995 - São Paulo SP - Gravura Paulista [São Paulo Printmaking], at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
1995 - São Paulo SP - 2º Prêmio Gunther de Pintura [2nd Gunther Painting Prize], at MAC/USP - honorable mention
1996 - São Paulo SP - Oito Arquitetos Artistas [Eight Architect-Artists], at Museu da FAU/USP
1998 - São Paulo SP - Vem pro Bixiga [Come to Bixiga], at Museu do Bixiga
1999 - Curitiba PR - 12ª Mostra da Gravura de Curitiba. Mostra Brasil [12th Curitiba Printmaking Show. Brazil Exhibition]
1999 - Fontenay-sous-Bois (France) - 9th Salon de l'Éphémère
1999 - São Paulo SP - Novelli Imagem [Novelli Image], organized by CCSP (a project that invited 15 artists to make 15 billboards shown in the city over 1 year)
2000 - Curitiba PR - 12ª Mostra da Gravura de Curitiba. Marcas do Corpo, Dobras da Alma [12th Curitiba Printmaking Show. Marks of the Body, Folds of the Soul], at Fundação Cultural de Curitiba
2000 - São Paulo SP - 1ª Coletiva dos Artistas do Ateliê de Gravuras do Sesc Pompeia [1st Group Show of Artists from the Sesc Pompeia Printmaking Studio]
2000 - Kranj (Slovenia) - The World Festival of Art on Paper Kranj 2000
2001 - São Paulo SP - 2ª Coletiva dos Artistas do Ateliê de Gravuras do Sesc Pompeia [2nd Group Show of Artists from the Sesc Pompeia Printmaking Studio]
2002 - Porto Alegre RS - Madeira e Metal [Wood and Metal], at Museu do Trabalho
2002 - São Paulo SP - Arte e Tecnologia [Art and Technology], at Espaço Cultural Prodam
2002 - São Paulo SP - Autorretrato [Self-Portrait], at Galeria da Faculdade de Comunicações e Artes do Senac
2003 - São Paulo SP - Diversidarte, at Hotel Meliá
2003 - São Paulo SP - Olhares sobre o Pompeia dos Artistas do Ateliê de Gravuras do Sesc Pompeia [Views of Pompeia by Artists from the Sesc Pompeia Printmaking Studio]
2003 - São Paulo SP - Parede com 36 desenhos [Wall with 36 Drawings], at Memorial da América Latina. Pavilhão da Diversidade Latino-Americana
2004 - São Paulo SP - Correndo o Risco [Taking the Risk], at Galeria da Faculdade de Comunicações e Artes do Senac
2004 - São Paulo SP - Uma Viagem de 450 Anos [A 450-Year Journey], at Área de Convivência do Sesc Pompeia
Source: Itaú Cultural
