Rodrigo Torres

(this page was last updated in January 2019)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1981.
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Represented by A Gentil Carioca Gallery.

PIPA 2011 and 2012 nominee.

Rodrigo studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of UFRJ, Photography at Ateliê da Imagem, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, also worked as assistant to the artist Luiz Zerbini and participated in the Deepening Program of the Visual Arts School of Parque Lage. Camouflage is present conceptually in his works creating, to the public, the doubt between what is original and what has been modified. His most pungent artistic reference is the work of Gerhard Richter. In 2018 participated in the collective ‘A Luta Continua’, The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York. In 2017 participated in the collective ‘A luz que vela o corpo é a mesma que revela a tela’ at the Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro and held the individual ‘Víveres’ in the gallery A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro. In 2016 held the individual ‘Apreensão’ at Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro. In the same year participated in the collectives ‘Primavera nos dentes’ at LUME Galeria and ‘Mapas, Cartas, Guias e Portulanos’ at Torre Santander, São Paulo. In 2015 participated at the collective ‘Vértice’ at Centro Cultural dos Correios, RJ e SP. In 2012 held the individual ‘Sensor’ at A Gentil Carioca gallery, RJ. In 2011 participated at the ‘Geração 00 – a nova fotografia brasileira’ at Sesc Belenzinho SP. In 2010 participated at the collective ‘Arquivo Geral’ at Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica RJ, ‘Crossing Borders, Building Bridges’ no Modified Arts, Phoenix and ‘16° salão UNAMA de pequenos formatos’, Graça Landeira Belém-PA. Stll in 2010 won the award ‘Prêmio Diário Contemporâneo de Fotografia’ UFPA museum, Belém Brasil, the acquisition award at the ‘16o Salão UNAMA de pequenos formatos’ and the ‘Prêmio Itamaraty de Arte Contemporânea’. His work integrates important collections such as: MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Brasil; Itaú Cultural de Fotografia, Brasil and Kadist Foundation.

Website: www.maisumrodrigotorres.com

Video produced by Matrioska Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2011.

Artworks

Curriculum

Education
2016
– Jewelry course (basic), SENAI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– Ceramics course (basic), Bhering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
– Participated in the Creative Process Workshop, by Charles Watson in Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
– Selected to participate in the “Deepening Program”, at the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Photography at Ateliê da Imagem in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006 – 2010
– Assistant for the artist Luiz Zerbini
1999 – 2002
– Painting in School of Fine Arts – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1997 – 2000
– Monitor in a drawing course

Solo Exhibitions
2016
– “Apreensão”, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– “Trompe-L’oeil”, SIM Galeria, Curitiba, Brazil
2012
– “Grana Extra”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
2011
– “m²”, Exhibition Program CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil
– “U-turn” project, arte BA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009
– “Defeito”, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Group Exhibitions
2017
– “Window Project”, Spazio 22, Milão, Italy
– “A Gentil Carioca”, Jaqueline Martins, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Brazil
– “A luz que vela o corpo é a mesma que revela a tela”, Caixa Cultural, Brazil
2016
– “Primavera nos dentes”, LUME Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Mapas, Cartas, Guias e Portulanos”, Torre Santander, Brazil
2015
– “Vértice”, Centro Cultural dos Correios, Brazil
2014
– “Frestas”, Trienal de Sorocaba, Sorocaba, Brazil
– “Intervenções Urbanas- Bradesco Art Rio”, Praça Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
– “Parque das Transgressões”, SIM art gallery, Curitiba, Brazil
– “Fogo-fátuo”, SIM art gallery, Curitiba, Brazil
– “Um convite à viagem”, Rumos Artes Visuais 2011-2013 , Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
– “Um convite à viagem”, Rumos Visual Arts 2011-2013, Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Éloge du vertige”, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2011
– “Generation 00 – the new brazilian photography”, Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Arquivo Geral”, Centro Cultural, Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Crossing Borders, Building Bridges”, Modified Arts, Phoenix, USA
– “12° Art Salon of Itajaí”, Santa Catarina, Brazil
– “16° salon UNAMA of small formats”, GraçaLandeira, Belém, Brazil
– “Contemporary Diary of Photography Prize” Museum of UFPA, Belém, Brazil
2009
– “Impossible Realities”, atelier 397, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Connections”, Raul de Leoni Cultural Center, Petrópolis, Brazil
2008
– “Impossible Realities”, Fototeca Juan Malpica, Veracruz, México
– “To reduce distances”, casarão gallery, Viana, Brazil
2007
– “To reduce distances”, Brasília, Brazil
– “To see and to be seen” (foto-rio), repercussivo gallery, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
– “Associated”, comercial establishment, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “35° Luiz Sacilotto art salon”, Santo André, Brazil
– “Abre Alas”, A Gentil Carioca gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006
– “Arte Today”, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005
– “py” exhibitions 1, 2 ,3, Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Awards
– Itamaraty Prize of Contemporary Art 2013
– Acquisitive Prize- 16° art salon UNAMA of small formats

Reviews
– Harum, Marcio. “Exhibitions Program 2011”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, pg. 36-39, 2011

Publications
– D. Busch, R. Klanten, H. Hellige. “The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art” pg. , Berlim, 2013
– “Amarello: Contemporary Culture”, number 9, spring 2012
– “Magazine History of the National Library”, year 5, number 52, 2010

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