Yara Tupynambá (Montes Claros MG 1932)
Yara Tupynambá was a painter, record company, draftsman, muralist and teacher. At the age of 17, he got his first job as a typing candidate at Caixa Econômica Estadual, where he remained for two years. Thanks to his ability to type quickly, he made a deal with the boss to have more free time, which he started to dedicate to the drawing. He began his art studies in 1950, in Belo Horizonte, with Guignard, and deepened in engraving in 1954 with Misabel Pedrosa, later perfecting himself with Oswaldo Goeldi, in Rio de Janeiro. He studied at the Faculty of Visual Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where, in 1967, he defended a thesis on Albert Dürer and, in the following year, he began to teach engraving at the same institution.
Yara dedicated himself especially to the Wood engraving, preferring black and white to the use of colors. On his oil canvases, he portrayed congados, cavalhadas and guitar players, themes that referred to his adolescence and travels through the interior of Minas Gerais. He even made some of his own vinyl paints. She was invited to make a mural on the Inconfidência Mineira at the UFMG rectory, inaugurated in 1969, and later became director of the University's School of Fine Arts. In the 1970s, he produced several murals for residences, commercial establishments and public bodies, such as the Minas mural, from the 17th to the 20th century, for the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais. Ferros, in Minas Gerais, which portrays Adão and Eve Nus and caused controversy, leading the mayor to hire insurance for the work. He researched the painting of the 18th century in churches of Ouro Preto and Sabará, creating drawings on chests and trunks, in addition to portraying historical scenes and symbols such as coats of arms. He led the Atelier Vivo at the Bienal Nacional de São Paulo in 1974, where he presented a research in the educational area and with banners. He received a scholarship from the Pratt Institute and traveled to New York, returning to Belo Horizonte to act as a cultural advisor for the Minas Gerais Tourism Company (Turminas) and coordinate a program to requalify the Minas Gerais handicrafts for the Ministry of Labor. In 1992, she was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Belo Horizonte by the Government of Minas Gerais, being several times chosen as the highlight of the arts by critics and honored in poems, such as the exhibition, written by Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
Criticism
"(...) It is the magical universe of Yara, in line with magical surrealism, its current concern, where not everything is in accordance with logic. The unfolding of landscapes in contrast to romantic figures - a man and A woman, and most of the time only the woman - confuses the surface with the seabed, or else internal with external environments in a perfect coexistence of the unreal with the real. Unveils in all purity: distant perspectives of seascapes seen through deep windows of dark walls, having, in the foreground, the human element.Using the construction and the color, Yara orders and combines the characters with a firm and well-constructed painting on the Space/paper and, in addition, it proposes new forms and new plastic rhythms: it is the new phase of Yara Tupynambá, through painting".
Morgan Mota
Tupynambá, Yara. Yara Tupynambá. Belo Horizonte: AMI Art Gallery, 1973.
"The work of Yara Tupynambá in drawing and engraving, extending for twenty continuous years, proves once again this close connection with the land and history of Minas Gerais, which is a hallmark essential of so many artists born there or there since the presence and lyrical teaching of Guignard. (...) The origin in the sertões and the constant contact with the cities of the gold cycle, especially the former Vila Rica, determined in it the exclusive interest in the figuration of themes between the dramatic and The poetic, between the real and the dreamlike, between the resonant and the prosaic, between the historical and the individual, embodied in the small works or in the large murals around the Inconfidência Mineira and the pioneering of the São Francisco River, not to mention the most recent series of Painted chests and chests: Minerity feeds here on old strong shadows returning to these landscapes and stories of other times and opulences; the expressionist propensity, evidenced even in the preferential use of the violent contrast of black and white, can lead Yara's drawings and woodcuts to the critical point of the dramatizing throttle, but, on the other hand, the periodic resumption of lyricism and sweetly dreamlike fantasy puts it back together in coexistence with the musical and pacified elements of the events that memory has definitively condensed, beyond the acid of contemporary times. The narrative, sharply cubo-expressionist and from Minas Gerais, therefore constitutes the specific way of expressing itself from this artist, for whom the world is mine".
Roberto Pontual
PONTUAL, Roberto. Art/ Brazil/ Today: 50 years later. São Paulo: Collectio, 1973.
Testimonies
"The attraction of white and black, whose plastic effect has always seduced me much more than chromaticism and ranges. I like to work directly on the material or support in order to imprint on it the objectification of my gesture directed by emotionality. Now, wood is the support that most faithfully receives the artist's smallest digital gestures... I try to reconcile in my current engraving the slot and texture problems, serving as the background for the first. Then I try to make the white function as atmosphere or 'air'. and, finally, I intend to release the area and volume of the composition beyond the field of the plate, giving it a dynamic."
Yara Tupinambá
VIEIRA, José Geraldo. Yara Tupinambá. Folha da Noite, Belo Horizon, July 4, 1960. Section : Visual Arts.
"This is how I can designate my last series of works that represent life and Minas Gerais culture: the mountain, the oratory, the flower that is born wild in the Sertão, the churches, the golden arabesques, the masts with flags, the fireworks of the feasts of São João. For us miners, the strongest symbols of this national soil.
Minas is a state of mind and, therefore, even when in long cities, the miner evokes him, like Carlos Drummond de Andrade in these verses:
Espírito de Minas,
Visit
And about the confusion of this city
Throw your clear ray ordainer
It is this teaching of the spiritual permanence of the miners that takes writers, musicians, painters and dancers to a perennial search of our roots, as I do now, search for the essence of mines, of the air Exactly, in this discreet breath of the miners that means synthesis, knowledge and the much love of this state."
Yara Tupinambá
Tupinambá, Yara. "Mine Signs". Available at: [www.caleidoscopio.art.br/yaratupynamba].Accessed on: 12 Oct. from 2001.
Individual exhibitions
s.d. - Brasília DF - Individual, at Oscar Seraphico
s.d. - Brasília DF - Individual, at the National Theater
s.d. - Brasília DF - Individual, in the performance gallery
s.d. - Guanabara - Individual, in the ICBEU Gallery
s.d. - Paris (France) - Individual, at Galeria Inter Art Brasil
s.d. - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Sobrado
s.d. - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Casa das Artes
s.d. - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Danúbio
s.d. - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Portal
1963 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at AMI
1963 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at Galeria do ICBEU
1963 - London (England) - Individual, Institut of Education at London University
1963 - Paris (France) - Individual, at the Inter Art Brasil Gallery
1963 - Porto Alegre RS - Individual, at the Rio Grande do Sul Art Museum
1963 - Santiago (Chile) - Individual, at the Brazilian Cultural Center
1965 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at the Guignard Gallery
1965 - San Francisco (United States) - Individual, at Hourian Fine Art Galleries
1972 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at Galeria Guignard
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria Chica da Silva
1973 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at the AMI Gallery
1988 - Belo Horizonte MG - Retrospective, at Palácio das Artes
1990 - San Francisco (United States) - Individual, at Hourian Fine Art Galleries
1991 - Sete Lagoas MG - Individual, at the Casa da Cultura Art Gallery
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - The Table: Poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade designed by Yara Tupynambá, at Palácio das Artes
1992 - London (England) - Individual, at the University of Nothinghan
1992 - Santiago (Chile) - Individual, at the Brazilian Cultural Center
CA.2001 - Belo Horizonte MG - Fragments of Minas, at Atelier Cor de Minas
Collective exhibitions
1958 - Belo Horizonte MG - Municipal Salon of Fine Arts - 1st Prize in Engraving
1960 - São Paulo SP - 9th Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1960 - São Paulo SP - Contribution of women to the plastic arts in the country, at MAM/SP
1960 - São Paulo SP - Nelson Leirner, Ismênia Coaracy, Yara Tupynambá, Fernando Odriozola, at the Folhas Art Gallery
1961 - Belo Horizonte MG - 16th Municipal Salon of Fine Arts - 1st Premium in Engraving
1961 - Recife PE - 20th Painting Hall of the Museum of the State of Pernambuco
1962 - São Paulo SP - 11th São Paulo Hall of Modern Art
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 12th National Salon of Modern Art
1963 - São Paulo SP - 12th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art
1963 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Work Hall - 1st Gravity Award
1964 - Brasília DF - 1st Federal District Modern Art Salon
1964 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 1st Exhibition of the Young National Engraving
1964 - São Paulo SP - 1st Exhibition of the Young National Engraving, at MAC/USP
1965 - Belo Horizonte MG - 1st Exhibition of the Young National Engraving, at MAP
1965 - Curitiba PR - 1st Exhibition of Young National Engraving, at the State Department of Education
1965 - Florianópolis SC - 1st Exhibition of the Young National Engraving, at MASC
1965 - São Paulo SP - 14th Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna
1966 - Brasília DF - 3rd Salon of Modern Art of the Federal District
1967 - Campinas SP - 3rd Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas, at MACC
1967 - Ouro Preto MG - 1st Salão de Ouro Preto
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1969 - Ouro Preto MG - 3rd Salão de Ouro Preto
1969 - São Paulo SP - 1st Brazilian current art panorama, at MAM/SP
1970 - Porto Alegre RS - 1st Visual Arts Salon - Acquisition Award
1970 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 19th National Salon of Modern Art, at MAM/RJ
1970 - São Paulo SP - A Brazilian engraving, at Paço das Artes
1971 - Curitiba PR - 28th Salon Paranaense, at the Public Library of Paraná
1971 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1972 - Belo Horizonte MG - 4th Salon of Contemporary Art in Belo Horizonte - 1st Award in Engraving with the Estandarte team
1972 - São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 years later, at Galeria da Collectio
1972 - São Paulo SP - Sesquicentennial Art Exhibition of Independence and Plastic Brazil - 72, at Fundação Bienal
1976 - Belo Horizonte MG - Exhibition of the murals of the municipal schools of Belo Horizonte
1976 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Nacional 76, at the Fundação Bienal
1977 - São Paulo SP - 9th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - 8th Global Winter Salon, at Fundação Palácio das Artes
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - Guignard students, in Itaugaleria
1981 - Belo Horizonte MG - Six artists from Minas, at AMI Art Gallery
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th Global Winter Salon, at MAM/RJ
1981 - São Paulo SP - 8th Global Winter Salon, MASP
1982 - Brasília DF - 1st Women's Art Exhibition, at the Black Hall of the National Congress
1982 - Penápolis SP - 5th Northwest Plastic Arts Hall, at the Educational Foundation of Penápolis. Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Penápolis
1985 - Penápolis SP - 6th Northwest Plastic Arts Hall, at the Penápolis Educational Foundation. Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Penápolis
1990 - Belo Horizonte MG - Woman portraying the woman, at the Plastic Artists Union
1990 - Belo Horizonte MG - Brazilian land - Ecological aspects of the tripéu valley, at the Inconfidência
1990 - Goiânia GO - 20 years of the Museum of Art of Goiânia, at the Museum of Art
1991 - Belo Horizonte MG - Grupo Usearte, at Minas Shopping
1991 - London (England) - Second Brazilian Art Exhibition, at the Institute of Education - London University
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - A Mesa - Homage to Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in Itabira
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - Collective, at the Solange Pretti Gallery
1992 - Belo Horizonte MG - Icons of Utopia, at the Palácio das Artes Foundation
1992 - London (England) - Third Brazilian Art Exhibition, at the Dixon and Bloomsberry
1993 - Campinas SP - Engraving, at PUC-Campinas. Instituto de Letras
1993 - Havana (Cuba) - Grabados del Brasil, at Palacio Delas Convenciones
1994 - Belo Horizonte MG - Guignard: 50 years of an art school, at Galeria Vidyã
1994 - Bocaiúva MG - A Mesa, at the Arts Gallery of the Centro Cultural Henfil
1994 - Campinas SP - Xylo e Print: International Exhibition of Engraving in Relief, at Macc
1994 - Montes Claros MG - A Mesa, at the Hermes de Paula Cultural Center
1995 - Belo Horizonte MG - Babel Project, at Praça da Liberdade
1995 - São Paulo SP - Babel Project, at Sesc Pompéia
1996 - Belo Horizonte MG - The City and the Artist: Dois Centenários, at BDMG Cultural
1996 - Belo Horizonte MG - Consolidation of Modernism in Belo Horizonte, at the Museum of Popular Art
1996 - Belo Horizonte MG - Improvisation for Guignard, at the Cultural Space Bamerindus Seguros
1997 - Contagem MG - Students from Guignard in Contagem, at the Casa de Cultura Nair Mendes Moreira
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Encontro-Brasil/Portugal: A moment of convergence, at the Museum Mineiro
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Compact Project, at the Urban Cleaning Superintendence
1998 - Belo Horizonte MG - Retrospective Minas Mundo, at the FAFI-BH Art Gallery
1998 - Campinas SP - Xylo and Print: International Engraving Exhibition in Relief, at MacC
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Engraving Show. Brazilian modern engraving: Collection National Museum of Fine Arts, in the MNBA
2002 - Brasília DF - JK - An aesthetic adventure, in the cultural complex of the box
2003 - Belo Horizonte MG - Women, at the Copasa Art Gallery
2004 - São Paulo SP - Collective of contemporary artists, at Esporte Clube Sírio
Source: Itaú Cultural
