Almandrade

São Felipe, BA, 1953 | Lives and works in Salvador, Bahia

Visual artist, architect, master in urban design, poet and professor of art theory in the art workshops of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia and Palacete das Artes. He has participated in several collective exhibitions, among them: XII, XIII and XVI Bienal of São Paulo;"In Search of Essence" - special show of XIX Bienal of São Paulo; IV National Salon; Universo do Futebol (MAM/Rio); National Fair (S.Paulo); II Paulista Salon, I International Exhibition of Ephemeral Sculpture (Fortaleza); I Baiano Salon; II National Salon; Honorable mention in the I Student Sal on in 1972. He has participated in collective exhibitions of visual poems, multimedia and installation projects in Brazil and abroad.

He held about thirty individual exhibitions in several states. His works are in various private and public collections, such as: Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, National Museum of Fine Arts (Rio de Janeiro), Museum of the City (Salvador) and Pinacoteca Municipal de São Paulo, Afro Museum (São Paulo), Museum of Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Godlen Art, Museum of Modern Art Aloísio Magalhães (Recife), Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Museum of Contemporary Art of Feira de Santana (Ba.), University Center of Culture and Art of Feira de Santana (Ba.), ACBEU Gallery of Salvador, Abraham Palatnik Museum of Art (Natal), Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art, National Museum (Brasília).

His works are present in the collections of important institutions, among them: Bahia Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Fine Arts (Rio de Janeiro), Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art, Pinacoteca Municipal de São Paulo, Afro Museum (São Paulo), National Museum of Brasília, City Museum (Salvador), Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Aloisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art (Recife), Abrham Palatinik Museum of Art (Natal), Feira de Santana Museum of Contemporary Art (Bahia), São Paulo Museum of Modern Art and the Vera Chaves Barcelos Foundation.