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1 Sérvulo Esmeraldo The European Years, photo Léonard de Selva Short Biography 1929 Born in Crato, Ceará, Late 1940s Begins his artistic career as a graphic artist, engraver, and painter in Northeast, where he attends the open studio of the Sociedade Cearense de Artes Plásticas in Fortaleza Moves to São Paulo planning to study architecture, his arrival coinciding fortuitously with the first Bienal de São Paulo. Works at the Empresa Brasileira de Engenharia (EBE) and as an illustrator for the Newspaper Correio Paulistano. Designs his first jewelry. 1 / 5

2 1957 Presents a series of engravings at a solo exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna of Sao Paulo (MAM). Receives a scholarship soon after from the French Government and moves to Paris to study lithographic printmaking at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Learns metal engraving in the studio of Johnny Friedlaender and visits the Bibliothèque Nationale to study Albrecht Dürer's prints Meets Anne Hovelaque, who becomes his first wife. They settle in France for the next 20 years. Lives in close contact with an international community of artists, among them ians, such as Lygia Clark, Sérgio de Camargo, Frans Krajcberg, Arthur Luiz Piza, Flavio Shiró, and Rossini Perez Trip to Geneva and Lausanne, where Maurice Bridel, gallery and bookstore owner, buys some of his drawings Organizes an exhibition of popular woodcuts from the ian Northeast at the Kunstmuseum Basel which then travels to various cities in Europe. Spends the rest of the year in. Exhibits works in tempera and fresco at the rectory of the Universidade do Ceará. Begins working on tridimensional and kinetic art Meets painter Serge Poliakoff and begins to make engravings for the artist based on gouaches and paintings Executes a large panel (9 x 1.8 m) designed by Poliakoff for the Hotel Carlton in Cannes His production of sculptures made of metal, wood and plastic increases Creates his first Excitable, a series of works he pursues until the end of the 1970s Creates circular sculptures with variable programmes, some made of transparent Plexiglas, others of metal. In the 2010s these were produced in huge dimensions, made out of Cor-Ten steel. Spends the summer with his family in, exhibiting in Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza and São Paulo Participates with the Latin American Group in Paris in protests against torture and dictatorship in Latin America and Participates with an Excitable in the group show La Peau de Lion at the Kunsthaus Zurich. 2 / 5

3 1972 Publishes Variations sur une courbe edited by a group of collectors in Paris by the name of Convergence. Edition of the Réfléchissant, a Plexiglas sculpture with black and white serigraphic circles A summer trip to Fortaleza initiates a period of longer sojourns in and shorter stays in Europe due to the construction of the first of a long series of public monumental sculptures, the Monumento ao Saneamento Básico da Cidade, at the Náutico Beach, in Fortaleza Installs his atelier in Fortaleza and settles there in 1980 where he still lives and works to this day. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016 Sérvulo Esmeraldo: A linha, a luz, o Crato, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Campus Pimenta, Crato, 2016 Sérvulo Esmeraldo Esculturas e Relevos, Galeria de arte Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte, 2016 Sérvulo Esmeraldo, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, USA, at the Frieze Masters Spotlights section, London, United Kingdom 2015 Traço, Volume, Espaço, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, 2015 É pericoloso sporgersi, Armazém da Cultura, Fortaleza, 2014 Sérvulo Esmeraldo, Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte, Salvador, 2014 O Arquivo Vivo de Sérvulo Esmeraldo, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, 2013 Sérvulo Esmeraldo, Pinturas, Desenhos, Gravuras, Esculturas, Objetos e Excitáveis, Pinakotheke Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, 2013 Luz, Sérvulo Esmeraldo, Palácio da Abolição, Fortaleza, 2012 Simples como um triângulo, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, 3 / 5

4 2011 Sérvulo Esmeraldo (Retrospective), Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2010 Ocupação do Espaço, Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza, 2010 Les Excitables, Outsiders 2010, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France 2008 Sérvulo Esmeraldo por Mota Machado Obras de 40 anos, Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, 2007 Programa Caixa de Adoção de Entidades Culturais, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, 2007 Excitables, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, United States 2007 Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, 2002 Galeria Antônio Bandeira, Fortaleza, 2001 I Bienal de Artes do Carirí, Galeria do Sesc, Crato, 2001 Múltipla Galeria de Arte, São Paulo, 1999 Centro Cultural do Abolição, Salão de Abril, Fortaleza, 1989 Galeria Paulo Figueredo, São Paulo, 1989 Tríade Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, 1988 Gravuras (Trajetória 1949/1987), Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, 1988 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, 1988 Galeria Klee, Escritório de Arte Orlando Bessa, Rio de Janeiro, 1988 Gravuras (Trajetória 1949/1987), Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Salvador, 1986 Skultura Galeria de Arte, São Paulo, 1985 Trajetória , ARTE Galeria, Fortaleza, 1982 Skultura Galeria de Arte, São Paulo, 1981 Galeria Aktuell, Rio de Janeiro, 1980 Galeria Ignez Fiúza, Fortaleza, 1980 Jornal O Povo, Centro de Convenções, Fortaleza, 1979 Hotel Quatro Rodas, São Luís, 1979 Centro Venezolano de Cultura, Bogotá, Colombia 1977 Gatsby-Arte, Recife, 1977 Galeria Memória, Belo Horizonte, 1977 Sociedade de Cultura Artística, Crato, 1976 Gabinete de Artes Gráficas, São Paulo, 1976 Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, 1976 Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, 1975 Correio iense, Hotel Nacional, Brasília, 1975 Gabinete de Artes Gráficas, São Paulo, 1975 Galeria Ignez Fiuza, Fortaleza, 1975 Galerie Paul Bruck, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 1975 White Gallery, Lutry, 1974 Galerie Sanguine, Collioure, France 1973 Galeria Ignez Fiuza, Fortaleza, 1971 Galerie 32, Lyon, France 4 / 5

5 1971 Galerie La Pierre de Lune, Canet-Plage, France 1971 White Gallery, Lutry, 1971 Galerie La Pochade, Paris, France 1969 Galerie Cosme Velho, São Paulo, 1968 Galerie Maurice Bridel, Lausanne, 1967 Associação dos Amigos do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1967 Galeria Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte, 1967 Museu de Arte da Universidade do Ceará, Fortaleza, 1966 Galerie Nouvelle Gravure, Paris, France 1966 Festival de Viana do Castelo (guest artist), Viana do Castelo, Portugal 1966 Galleria Ítalo-Brasiliana, Milan, Italy 1966 Galeria A Gravura, Lisbon, Portugal 1964 Galleria Il Canale, Venice, Italy 1963 Galerie Maurice Bridel, Lausanne, 1962 Centro de Artes, Ciências e Letras, Campinas, 1962 Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, 1962 Museu de Arte da Universidade do Ceará, Fortaleza, 1962 Galeria de Arte de Recife, Recife, 1962 Galeria Relevo, Rio de Janeiro, 1961 Galerie Maurice Bridel, Lausanne, 1960 Galeria Lemac, Recife, 1957 Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 1957 Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, 1956 Clube dos Artistas, São Paulo, 1951 Sociedade de Cultura Artística do Crato, Crato, Hélice, 1967/2013 acrylic, h 21 cm, Ø 8 cm photo Gentil Barreira Fotografia 5 / 5

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