Carlos Bevilacqua
Carlos Bevilacqua is a sculptor from Brazil who has exhibited and collaborated with Ernesto Neto. His whimsical works are developed in wire, glass beads, wood rods and spheres which connect to each other in a harmonious whole. The arresting pieces developed from mathematical understanding also present together as tropes of a spatial language. The artist demonstrates a poetic subjective vision; his works were described as "poems in space" by Pablo Sergio Duarte in 2003.
He says of his work with Neto "My construction works toward an inner space, has a will to become a nucleus, whereas Neto's is expansive, and wants to fill the whole space".
Copyright Maria Tidball-Binz, Lodeveans Collection
The sculptures of Carlos Bevilacqua are economical in their
materiality, and structures are constantly exposed, discussing issues
of classical sculpture as a movement, tension and balance. The
physics, astronomy and mathematics guiding the practice of the artist,
revealing itself in the spatial arrangement of objects and the
emphasis on empty fields, defined as respect. With delicate precision,
ordinary objects (marbles away, lines, lead weights) is to attach
materials such as wood, steel, glass, lending them new meanings of
existential character.
Carlos Bevilacqua was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1965. He has a background based in Architecture. In 1991 he won the Vitae Foundation grant to course the New York
Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpting. The artist lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 'Carlos Bevilacqua: módulos eternos', Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2003 'Carlos Bevilaqua', Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
2003 'Fugato', Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea
2003 'Movimento e Fuga', Galeria Andre Millan
2001 'Junta Universal, Galeria Andre Millan
2000 'Não Toque', Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 'Carlos Bevilacqua and Jessica Mein', Simon Preston Gallery, NY
2006 'Ernesto Neto and Carlos Bevillacqua', Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2006 'Carlos Bevilacqua and Ernesto Neto', Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2006 'Ciccillo - acervo mac usp', Museu de Arte Contemporânea da
Awards
1995 'Acquisition Prize', National Hall of Art in Rio de Janeiro
1989 'Acquisition Prize', National Hall of Art in Rio de Janeiro
1988 'UNIARTE Grant', (FAPERJ / UFRJ)
1988 'Ivan Serpa Scholarship', FUNARTE, RJ,
Shown by
Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo
Simon Preston, New York
He says of his work with Neto "My construction works toward an inner space, has a will to become a nucleus, whereas Neto's is expansive, and wants to fill the whole space".
Copyright Maria Tidball-Binz, Lodeveans Collection
The sculptures of Carlos Bevilacqua are economical in their
materiality, and structures are constantly exposed, discussing issues
of classical sculpture as a movement, tension and balance. The
physics, astronomy and mathematics guiding the practice of the artist,
revealing itself in the spatial arrangement of objects and the
emphasis on empty fields, defined as respect. With delicate precision,
ordinary objects (marbles away, lines, lead weights) is to attach
materials such as wood, steel, glass, lending them new meanings of
existential character.
Carlos Bevilacqua was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1965. He has a background based in Architecture. In 1991 he won the Vitae Foundation grant to course the New York
Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpting. The artist lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 'Carlos Bevilacqua: módulos eternos', Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2003 'Carlos Bevilaqua', Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
2003 'Fugato', Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea
2003 'Movimento e Fuga', Galeria Andre Millan
2001 'Junta Universal, Galeria Andre Millan
2000 'Não Toque', Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 'Carlos Bevilacqua and Jessica Mein', Simon Preston Gallery, NY
2006 'Ernesto Neto and Carlos Bevillacqua', Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2006 'Carlos Bevilacqua and Ernesto Neto', Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2006 'Ciccillo - acervo mac usp', Museu de Arte Contemporânea da
Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
2003 'Infantil', A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro Awards
1995 'Acquisition Prize', National Hall of Art in Rio de Janeiro
1989 'Acquisition Prize', National Hall of Art in Rio de Janeiro
1988 'UNIARTE Grant', (FAPERJ / UFRJ)
1988 'Ivan Serpa Scholarship', FUNARTE, RJ,
Shown by
Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo
Simon Preston, New York
