Albano Afonso

Albano Afonso

Biography

 

Albano Afonso was born in 1964 in Brazil, in São Paulo, where he currently lives and works.

 

He creates installations and photographs, in which he mixes photographic prints, sculptures with images projected into space. Through light and movement, a game of perceptions unveils images that explore the constructed space as an illusory part of reality. Understanding light as a pictorial element, he configures different plastic profiles revisiting classical references from other points of view, creating renewed architectures for the same landscape of lights and shadows.

 

He studied at the Alcântara Machado Art University (Faculdade de Arte Alcântara Machado – FAAM), in São Paulo. In 1994 he held his first solo exhibition at the Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP. In the same year he was awarded a prize at the 21st Contemporary Art Salon of Santo André and the acquisition prize of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santo André. In 2006 the publisher Dardo, from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, launches a book on the artist.

 

He has participated in several exhibitions, of which the most recent individual ones stand out: Across the Universe part I, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA , Across the Universe part II, 21C Museum, Cincinnati, USA (2015); Anatomy of Light, OI Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014); Amor Fati, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2014). And group exhibitions: Sur Nouvelles Narratives, Château de Fernelmont, Begium (2014); Casa Triângulo 25 Anos, COPAN Building, São Paulo, Brazil, Duplo Olhar – Coleção Sérgio Carvalho, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil (2014); I Bienal Internacional de Fotografia do MASP, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil (2013).

 

His work is represented in different collections: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporâneo – Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro – MAM/RJ – Rio de Janeiro RJ; São Paulo Museum of Modern Art Collection – MAM/SP – São Paulo SP; ARCO Foundation – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea – Madrid (Spain); Junta Extremadura – Badajoz (Spain); Santo André Museum of Contemporary Art – Santo André SP; Dragão do Mar Museum of Contemporary Art – Fortaleza CE; Aluisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art – Recife PE; Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation Museum of Brazilian Art – MAB/Faap – São Paulo SP; University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art – England.

 

Gallery exhibitions
“Fénix – Part I”, Group show, Galeria Graça Brandão, 2022
“Efrain’s choice”, curated by Efrain Almeida, Galeria Graça Brandão, 2018
“A Natureza”, Solo show, Galeria Graça Brandão, 2009

 

Categoria

artists, Artists