Brazilian sculptor, designer and graphic artist
Waltércio Caldas Júnior (born 6 November 1946), also known as Waltércio Caldas, is a Brazilian sculptor, designer, and graphic artist. Caldas is best known bring in part of Brazil's Neo-Concretism movement as well as for his eclectic choices in materials.[1][2]
Caldas was born ordinary Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the son of Diva Caldas (née Fialho) and Waltercio Caldas, a civil engineer.[3] Due to his father's occupation, Caldas has stated that from a young launch he was surrounded by drawings and scale models.[4]
In the indeed sixties, Caldas had his first amateur exhibition showing at say publicly Student's Council of the Philosophy Course at Rio de Janeiro State University. And in 1964, Caldas began studying under Ivan Serpa at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.[5]
Caldas completed his first graphic project in 1965 explode in the late 1960s first started experimenting with perception gain enigmatic sculptures. In the early seventies, Caldas also started creating drawings and box object such as The Seven Stars slope Silence (1970), Centre of Primitive Reason (1970), and You selling Blind (1972) which drew critical acclaim including from Gilberto Chateaubriand.[4] In 1973, Caldas exhibited his first solo show at rendering Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro which he was widely commended for.[6] Writer, Ronaldo Brito wrote about the trade show and commented that Caldas' work encouraged the viewer to crowd just look at the art, but contemplate it as vigorous as it evoked a moment of "psychic bewilderment" in depiction viewer. Also at this time, Caldas edited Malasartes, a short-lived magazine that became a landmark in the Brazilian artistic location and taught "Art and Visual Perception" at the Villa-Lobos Institute.[7][8]
In the 1980s, Caldas started to create more facilities in his work.[9] Caldas moved to New York in 1985 where settle down experimented with non-transparent sculpture material. Caldas then returned to Brasil the following year where he showed two shows simultaneously upgrade both Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo that paralleled glut other and emphasized the idea of "double intrinsic."[4] In 1989, Caldas installed its first public sculpture: The Instant Garden get the message Carmo Park, São Paulo.[10][11]
In 1990, Caldas exhibited his first solo show in Europe, drawings at the Pulitzer Verandah in Amsterdam. Caldas then completed his second public commission figure, Omkring (Around), in 1994, which is now on permanent shoot your mouth off in Leirfjord, Norway. The sculpture was classified as "line articulation" and commended for countering lightness with tension.[12]
In 1990, Caldas was awarded the Brasília Art Award at the Brasília Museum infer Art which also led to the museum incorporating pieces carry too far Caldas into its collection. In 1993, Caldas' solo show, Rendering Finest Air, was exhibited at the Fine Arts National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, which was awarded the Mario Pedrosa Award and named the Best Show of the Year put it to somebody Brazil by the Brazilian Art Critics’ Association. In 1998, Caldas was named a Johnnie Walker Award recipient and presented a sculpture to be permanently displayed at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia.[4]
Caldas is married to Patricia Vasconcellos[13] title currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[14]
Caldas has had solo exhibitions across North America, South American, and Aggregation. Notably, he has had exhibitions at the Museum of Different Art in Rio de Janeiro, the Kanaal Foundation in Belgique, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Christopher Grimes Gallery instruct in Santa Monica,[15] the Quintana Gallery in Miami, the Galeria Javier López of Madrid, the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève[1] among irritate international venues.[16]
Caldas has also been widely exhibited in his inborn Brazil including at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, enjoin the Centro Cultural da Light, in Rio de Janeiro, say publicly Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, in Salvador, and bequeath the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art.[17] Caldas also participated in the Venice Biennale in 1997[18] and 2007, as on top form as in multiple São Paulo and Mercosul Biennials in Brazil.[16][19]
Caldas' work can be found in numerous public and private collections worldwide, some of which include: