Longevida" exhibition | solo exhibition Antonio Malta Campos

Longevida is the most recent individual exhibition of painter Antonio Malta Campos at the gallery Simões de Assis Gallery in Curitiba. Malta Campos is an artist who has been producing systematically since the 1980s and possesses a coherent research, with an uninhibited and recognizable trace. A first attentive look that a painting is by Malta Campos, whether in watercolour or oil paint. oil paint. Drawing runs through all her work, establishing dialogue with collage and engraving in her research. in her research.

The artist explores the limits of visual comfort, especially when it comes to distinctions between the abstract and the figurative. Invited by Simões de Assis, Nando Reis - childhood friend and great collector of the work of Malta Campos - wrote the critical text for the exhibition, in which he emphasizes the expressive force and unconventional language of the artist. According to Reis, "for me, these are the determining pillars of the artist who creates the powerful work".

The title of the exhibition is also derived from a neologism created by the musician and composer, The title of the exhibition is also derived from a neologism created by the musician and composer, referring to the trajectory of Malta Campos, who, for Nando, with each visit to the inaugurated exhibition, he always leaves "more certain of what the beginning of our longevida: what a great guy this fellow of mine, what a supreme artist". All the works in the Longevida exhibition are unpublished, produced between the years 2021 and 2022. The exhibition is a unique opportunity to have access to paintings that reflect a poetics that has been developed over decades by the artist. The curatorial proposal is to make available to the visitor an immersion in the work of Antonio Malta Campos and his fantastic landscapes. 

About Antonio Malta Campos

Antonio Malta Campos (São Paulo, 1961) began his artistic career while still at school, drawing his own comic strips. his own comic strips. In the mid-1980s he began to explore painting, language that he has been working on ever since. With a degree in architecture from FAU-USP, Malta Campos explores the free possibilities of form and colour, especially in the medium of painting - be it watercolour or ink. in watercolour or oil paint. The sizes with which she works are equally varied, since her research includes his research includes small studies that can later be transposed to larger dimensions, in scales up to monumental larger dimensions, on scales that can even be monumental. His forms and landscapes are a chromatic display of anamorphisms with anamorphisms and distortions that seem to be autonomous, independent of themselves within the plane. In his visual repertoire he reconciles the tradition of oil painting with touches of using elements that are sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, as well as images taken from the history of of art, mass culture and his daily environment at the studio. Among several important group collective exhibitions, he participated in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, in 2016; the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, in 2018; and the exhibition Pangaea, at the Saatchi Gallery, in London, 2014. His works are part of relevant public collections such as Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR, MAM Rio de Janeiro, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Olor Visual, Barcelona and Saatchi Collection, London.

About Nando Reis

Nando Reis, singer and songwriter, has a long and fruitful musical career, which began in the 1980s with the band Titãs. 1980s with the band Titãs, which made its mark on Brazilian popular music. Besides his career with the band with the band, he built a solo career with several remarkable songs, besides the participation in soundtracks soundtracks of Brazilian movies and soap operas. As a composer he also achieved success for other interpreters. His fluency in the Portuguese language is not only in music, but also in prose, as can be seen in his as can be seen in the critical text of the exhibition by Malta Campos. "Longevida", by Antonio Malta Campos Simões de Assis Address: Al. Carlos de Carvalho, 2173 A Visitation: from June 1st to July 30th, 2022. Monday to Friday, 10am-7pm; Saturday, 10am-3pm. Free admission