Rodrigo de Haro (Paris, França 1939 - Florianópolis SC 2021)
Painter, draftsman, printmaker, writer, poet and short-story writer.
He divided his professional activities between Florianópolis and São Paulo. In 1958, he held his first solo exhibition at the Faculdade de Direito de Florianópolis. In poetry, from 1960 onward, he acted as an organizer of the surrealist movement, and his poems were published in books in Brazil and in anthologies in Spain and the United States. Around 1987, he worked on the decoration of the Teatro Municipal de Florianópolis with 80 Mandala panels.
Critiques
"The Santa Catarina artist Rodrigo de Haro shows his plunge toward a writing hidden in the unconscious of mankind. To this end, he uses showy Art Nouveau forms and Oriental figures. An approach that is not foreign to Western art. (...) Rodrigo de Haro is an artist of a line conventionally called fantastic, of almost automatic writing, full of fantasy and intentions. The advantage that Dadaism and Surrealism bequeathed to us was the possibility of making the unconscious, with its symbolism, accessible to artistic work through the use of a technique called automatism. As if the artist opened the floodgates of his hidden world and, without any censorship, crystallized that world in form and color. Rodrigo de Haro is almost faithful to these beginnings of Surrealism. A contemporary artist, he builds his painting with diverse elements. He seeks to make it comprehensive, using poster techniques, surreal techniques and an anecdotal Oriental illustration at the same time. (...)"
Jacob Klintowitz
KLINTOWITZ, Jacob. Versus: 10 anos de crítica de arte. Jacob Klintowitz. Pietro Maria Bardi. São Paulo, Espade, 1978.
Solo Exhibitions
1958 - Florianópolis SC - First solo exhibition, at Faculdade de Direito de Florianópolis
1967 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at MAM/Florianópolis
1970 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at MAM/Florianópolis
1975 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Seta
1977 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Seta
1986 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Galeria Studio de Artes
1991 - Joinville SC - Solo, at Museu de Arte de Joinville
1991 - Joinville SC - Solo, at Espaço Cultural Badesc
1993 - Joinville SC - Solo, at Museu de Arte de Joinville
Group Exhibitions
1953 - Florianópolis SC - First group show
1955 - Santa Catarina - Coletiva Artistas Catarinenses [Santa Catarina Artists Group Show] - acquisition prize
1967 - Paraná - Paraná National Salon
1972 - Curitiba PR - 29th Paraná Salon, at Teatro Guaíra
1972 - São Paulo SP - Coletiva Arte Fantástica [Fantastic Art Group Show], at Paço das Artes
1979 - São Paulo SP - 11th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1980 - Curitiba PR - 2nd Brazilian Drawing Show, at Teatro Guaíra
1983 - São Paulo SP - 14th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1984 - São Paulo SP - Tradição e Ruptura: síntese de arte e cultura brasileiras [Tradition and Rupture: A Synthesis of Brazilian Art and Culture], at Fundação Bienal
1985 - São Paulo SP - Group show, at Studio José de Aguiar e Ricardo Camargo
1985 - São Paulo SP - Destaques da Arte Contemporânea Brasileira [Highlights of Brazilian Contemporary Art], at MAM/SP
1994 - Curitiba PR - 10th Brazilian Drawing Show, at MAC/PR
1996 - Florianópolis SC - Rodrigo de Haro, Idésio Leal, Arturo Terrizzano, at Espaço Cultural Fernando Beck
1999 - Porto Alegre RS - 2nd Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, at Margs, Espaço Usina do Gasômetro and Espaço Armazém do Cais do Porto
Source: Itaú Cultural
