Falves Silva

Falves Silva [Cacimba, Brazil, 1943] is one of the precursors of the Poem/Process movement, alongside names such as Moacyr Cirne, Wlademir Dias Pino, Álvaro de Sá and Neide Sá, participating in 1967 in its inaugural manifesto. In 1981, he participated in the XVI Bienal of São Paulo, curated by Walter Zanini. From the 1980s on, he joins the international network of Postal Art, maintaining an intense and fruitful dialogue with artists of different generations and nationalities, among whom are Jota Medeiros, Ivald Granato, Leonhard Frank Duch, Paulo Bruscky, Hudinilson Jr, Clemente Padín, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Ulises Carrión and Horácio Zabala. He has his works exhibited at the International mail art exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, in 1984, and at the II Bienal de Arte Mail, Spain, in 1999. More recently, the artist had his solo exhibition "Circle of Time", a retrospective of his career, presented at the Centro Cultural São Paulo. Falves Silva's production can be thought of as a convergence of two of the main axes of Brazilian art: the concrete movements and conceptual art. The artist dialogues with literature, cinema and comic strips; manipulating communicative structures and images from the history of art and mass communication, Falves Silva creates his work by diversifying the approach and treatment of the materials he has chosen.

Born in 1943, Cacimba, Brazil.

Lives and works in Natal, Brazil.