Profile Wagner Pinto 05.09.1978 Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil Lives and work in São Paulo and Porto Alegre Universiy "Self Indicated by Free Entities" - 2005 - "on going" Extensive Study about Methaphísics - Porto Alegre - 2007 - "on going A frenetic spirituality, paced by the rhythm of drums and agitated by collective trances emanates from Wagner Pinto compositions, fields saturated with symbols from Afro-Brazilian religions and mythologies from the forest. Icons from Umbanda, Candomblé and Santo Daime coexist in a psychedelic profusion of colors. Diagonal lines confer a fast rhythm to this ecumenic visual percussion, and warm colors encircle shells, crosses from several traditions, crowns, animal skins, laces, eyes, drums, axes, pyramids, wings, suns, bead necklaces, flags, and swords. Despite this figurative load, Wagner Pinto feels aligned to abstractionist movements that employed colors and shapes to reach a non-visible world of subtle energies. Recently, the artist started to include objects in his works, conferring them a status of talismans: a necklace that flows from the canvas, fringes framing the drawing. Dealing with abstract shapes that became unequivocal religious symbols, Wagner Pinto mixes the universe of religion with graphical elements he inherited from Pop Art, such as the dark contours and hachures, as well as with icons used in comics to suggest movement, such as the short lines that follow his figures to indicate a wind or fire trail. Wagner Pinto is an alumnus of  “University Self-Appointed” – irony of a group of artists from the south of Brazil who mock the importance our era grant to the academy –  and is a PhD in finding his own references in graphic arts, street art, in the calligraphic drawings by Cy Twombly, and in the pulsating excess of Beatriz Milhazes and Franz Ackerman: aesthetic syncretism. For the last 5 years Wagner Pinto has shown his works in exhibitions such as Miração (São Paulo, 2008), Floating (London, Bracelona and Milan, 2009) and Brazil Illustrated (London, 2009), besides being a member of the collective Upgrade do Macaco (Monkey´s upgrade). Paula Braga		Selected Exhibits Miração - Solo Exhibit Gallery Rojo Artspace São Paulo - Brazil - September 2008 ROJO OCHO - collective Exhibit Gallery Rojo Artspace São Paulo - Brazil - August 2009 ROJO OCHO - Collective Exhibit Gallery Rojo Artspace Barcelona - Spain - September 2009 Floating - Solo Exhibit Gallery Concrete Hermit London - UK - June 2009 Floating - Solo Exhibit Gallery Rojo Artspacce Barcelona - Spain - June 2009 Floating - Solo Exhibit Gallery Kalpany Milano - Italy - July 2009 Brazil Illustrated - Collective Exhibit Gallery 32 London - UK - September 2009 Grafias - From Paper to Pixel - Collective Exhibit Memorial da América Latina São Paulo - Brazil - December 2009 Pick Me Up - Contemporary Art Fair Sumerset House - Gallery Concrete Hermit London - UK - April 2010 SP ART - Contemporary Art Fair Zipper Galeria - Bienal Pavilion São Paulo - Brazil - May 2010 Do Outro Lado - collective Exhibit Espaço Cultural Manabu Mabe Tokyo - Japan - September 2010
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