Sebastião Januário (Dores de Guanhães MG 1939)
Painter and draftsman.
At the age of 17, in 1956, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as a waiter. Because of his military enlistment, he left the job, and two officers bought some of his drawings. His work came to the attention of Brigadier Délio Matos, who took him to work as a domestic employee for the Mauro Brandão couple, which allowed him to meet the painters José Paulo Moreira Fonseca and Carlos Scliar; the latter bought some of his paintings and referred him to the open painting course taught by Ivan Serpa at the Museu de Arte Moderna - MAM/RJ in the 1960s. He briefly attended the Escola de Belas Artes of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ. He also studied drawing with Eduardo Sued and Oswaldo Teixeira at the Instituto de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro. Between 1964 and 1966, he studied painting at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, France.
Critiques
"(...) Even the sculptural quality of his gouaches brings him close to the experience of the artist of bygone ages who, on the uneven rock, with the colors of the earth and the juices of nature, portrayed his obligatory act of survival. The nuances and dilutions of his paints give us this sensation of reliefs of primal, raw color, of tense and silent religiosity."
Walmir Ayala
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
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Giro and Galeria Irlandini
1969 - Brasília DF - Solo, at Hotel Nacional
1969 - Latacunga (Ecuador) - Solo, at Centro de Estudos Brasileiros
1969 - Quito (Ecuador) - Solo, at Museo Nacional de Arte, sponsored by Itamaraty
1969 - Tegucigalpa (Honduras) - Solo, at Galeria La Botija
1971 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Celina
1972 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Galeria Serrana Palace
1972 - Madrid (Spain) - Solo, at Instituto de Cultura Hispánica
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Marte 21
1974 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Studius
1976 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Studius
1977 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Casablanca Galeria de Arte
1979 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Museu Dimitri S. Lavaud
1980 - Niterói RJ - Solo, at Novotel Galeria de Arte
1980 - São Bernardo do Campo SP - Solo, at Paço Municipal
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria da CEF da Gávea
Group Exhibitions
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1º Salão Esso de Artistas Jovens [1st Esso Young Artists Salon], at MAM/RJ
1967 - Belo Horizonte MG - 22º Salão Municipal de Belas Artes [22nd Municipal Fine Arts Salon]
1968 - Belo Horizonte MG - 23º Salão Municipal de Belas Artes [23rd Municipal Fine Arts Salon]
1968 - Londrina PR - 4º Salão de Arte Religiosa Brasileira [4th Brazilian Religious Art Salon] - 2nd prize
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Feira de Arte da Associação Internacional de Artistas Plásticos [Art Fair of the International Association of Visual Artists], at MAM/RJ
1969 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 18º Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna [18th National Salon of Modern Art]
1970 - European cities - Arte Brasileira Contemporânea - 70 [Contemporary Brazilian Art - 70]
1970 - Connecticut (United States) - 13 Brazilian Artists, at Center for the Humanities-Wesleyan University
1970 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition, at Galeria Usald
1970 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition, at Galeria Irlandini
1979 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2º Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas [2nd National Visual Arts Salon], at MAM/RJ
1987 - Campinas SP - Mostra de Arte Naif Brasileira [Brazilian Naïve Art Exhibition]
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition, at Galeria CEF da Gávea
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - O Místico na Arte Popular Brasileira [The Mystical in Brazilian Popular Art], at Sesc
Source: Itaú Cultural
