Artist

Andre Mendes

Born on 10/07/1979

TRAINING

2011 Advanced Painting III, isolated discipline, UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
2008 Metal Engraving, Solar do Barão, Curitiba, Brazil
2004 Specialization in Drawing, IDEP, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Graduated in Industrial Design, Visual Programming, PUC PR, Curitiba, Brazil

MAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 - Not yet, Matèria Gallery, Rome, Italy
2018 - ESTADO, Galeria Zilda Fraletti, Curitiba, Brazil
2018 - Before the End III, Cloitre des Billettes, Paris, France
2018 - Before the End, Galeria Ponto de Fulga, Curitiba, Brazil
2016 - Solo Project Art Basel
2016- Galeria Ricardo Fernandes, Switzerland 2014 - Espacial, Atelier Exhibition, Curitiba, Brazil
2013 - André Mendes, Galeria Zilda Fraletti, Curitiba, Brazil
2012 - Talking about Art, Museu Guido Viaro, Curitiba, Brazil
2009 - Deconstruction, Espaço Cultural BRDE, Curitiba, Brazil Main Group Exhibitions
2017 - aestival 07, Galeria Ricardo Fernandes at Cloître des Billettes Cultural Centre, Paris, France
2016 - M3ND3S / Memorial da Cidade de Curitiba / Curitiba - Brazil (Over)Laid / Galeria InterArtividade / Curitiba -Brazil Nasi Campur, TAKSU Gallery Singapore, Singapore aestival 06, Galeria Ricardo Fernandes at Cloître des Billettes Cultural Centre, Paris, France
2015 - Tropikos, Hof Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand Total, Farol Galeria, Circuito Bienal Vento Sul, Curitiba, Brazil Total, Galeria Zilda Fraletti, Circuito Bienal Vento Sul, Curitiba, Brazil
2013 - I Contemporary Art Salon of Ponta Grossa, Centro de Cultura Cidade de Ponta Grossa, Brazil 13th National Arts Salon of Itajaí, Brazil
2012 - Elementares, André Mendes and Fernando Franciosi, MAC-PR, Curitiba, Brazil ColorFlow, André Mendes and Rimon Guimarães, RAS Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2011 - Waters of Tomorrow, MON - Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil MOB + BICYCLE ART and MOBILITY, Solar do Barão, Curitiba, Brazil
2010 - State of Art, 40 years of Contemporary Art in the State of Paraná, Interlux Arte Livre Collective, MON - Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil Autorretrato, Andrade Muricy House, Curitiba, Brazil
2009 - V Bienal Vento Sul, Projeto Grade Sobre Grade, Interlux Arte Livre Collective, Curitiba's Memorial, Curitiba, Brazil
2008 - Cicloviaérea, Collaboration with Jarbas Lopes, CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil SINTOMAS, Solar do Barão Cultural Center, Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba, Brazil Underground Galleries, Curitiba, Brazil, Interlux Arte Livre Art in Circulation, Caixa Cultural, Curitiba, Brazil, Interlux Arte Livre Collective
2007 - MOB - Bicycle and Mobility Art, Centro Cultural São Lourenço Curitiba, Brazil

MAIN ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2015 Tropikos, Hof Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
2012 Kakiseni International Art Residency, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2008 Jarbas Lopes, Maricá, Brazil Main Awards
2013 First Place at the National Arts Salon of Ponta Grossa, Brazil

MAIN WORKSHOPS:

Project Laces - Pequeno Príncipe Hospital Art Week - Nossa Senhora de Sion College Body, Mind and Design - Heitor Stockler House

The spatial immersions of colour, saturations in motion

André Mendes' work closes here a cycle of production. His pictorial language transforms the conception of drawing into an expressive medium, from the rapid, continuous gestures that drawing allows, transposing them to the canvas through his brushstrokes, to its broader dimension - drawing as project. André has absorbed from his periods of study in Barcelona the notions that place dibujo (sketch) and diseño (project) as part of the same primordial artistic procedure - to finalise the works keeping the conditions of unrealised, with aspects of a sketch and the character of a project, but which suggests to us a perpetual movement.
The space taken from the resin pigments seems to want to immerse everything around it, like a painting that flirts with sculptural three-dimensionality and everything wants to touch, invade, without limits of expansion. The saturation is not only saturation of colour, it is saturation of chaos - the resin dives on the canvas and expands with the chance of chaos, which the painter tries to control, even knowing that his control resides between one end and the other of the impact generated by the resin with the surface of the canvas fabric. André includes chance in between the surface of the canvas and the pictorial gesture.
The paintings place the spectator before the saturated and apparently malleable material, suggesting movement, but an impossible movement - the catalysed resin will no longer move. The colour fields, already vibrant in his paintings that follow the gestural logics of drawing, become the very chassis of the works. The artist no longer feels the need to disappear with the canvas, as in previous works with the same process of pigment and resin, but evidences its overflow. In continuous expansion, these are immersions in the canvas that carry the desire to overflow also to the other surfaces of the surrounding world - sculptural and architectural.

Arthur do Carmo