wagner malta tavares

WAGNER MALTA TAVARES
São Paulo, Brazil
1964
STATEMENT
WMT has been developing his work since 1998. Unbound by any specific media or artistic language,
the artist works with video, sculpture, photography, sketching and installation. Wagner often makes
use of science fiction as a universe of possibilities for searching for the contemporary man’s identity.
There is something common to everyone in all human adventure at last we can’t deny some similarity
among the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts and the space ship Enterprise and Ulysses in his
trip back to Itaca.
His works make visible essential aspects through a primal form and its relationship with space. He
looks for signs of existence through sculptures and their projectionism order to show how space can
be occupied and what becomes different after their materialization. “I think of my works as a portrait of
the human condition, which gives them a kind of interiority. That is why many times my thoughts about
a new work emerges from a drawing, reading a book, music listenning or even a Assyrian relief –
after all, these things are each consequences of human existence on earth”. Many WMT’s woks have
a strong connection to pop culture: comics, cartoons or super heroes films with heroes of the classical
culture.
More than believe in the art’s evoltive and educative profile, the artist looks for remains, for vestiges of
what must be perennial in the world through art in all its aspects of criation. He believes it is the best
device to dialogue with something.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Fantasma - galeriavirgilio - São Paulo
Herói - MAC Niterói - Rio de Janeiro
2004
Herói - Instituto Tomie Ohtake - São Paulo
ateliê 397 - São Paulo
Urna diversão um tormento urna ocupação MIS - São Paulo
Centro Universitário Maria Antonia - São Paulo
2003
2008
10.20X3.60 - São Paulo
O Barqueiro - Manha Razuk Galeria - São
Paulo
Galeria Sesc Paulista - São Paulo
Galeria Anita Schwartz - Rio de Janeiro
Reator de Dobra - galeriavirgílio - São Paulo
2005
2001
Programa de Exposições do Centro Cultural
São Paulo
Feijão com Arroz - Museu Municipal de
Guaiaquil - Equador
2000
2008
Capela do Morumbi - São Paulo
Trajetórias em processo - Curadoria de
Guilherme Bueno Galeria A. Schwartz - Rio de Janeiro
URBAN INTERVENTIONS
2008
Contato - Castelinho do Flamengo - Rio de
Janeiro
Volograd 2008-2018 Vídeo Festival - group Volograd - RU
2007
Projéteis de Arte - FuNARTE - Rio de Janeiro
2006
Contact - Michigan Avenue - Chicago - EUA
Accident MNAC - Curadoria de Wagner
Morales - Bucareste Roménia
first love - Millenium park - Chicago - EUA
2006
2002
X Bienal de Santos - Santos - SP
Q - Praça Buenos Aires - São Paulo
Cesium 137 - Rider project - Chicago e NYC EUA
2001
2005
Macacos - Rua Jaguaribe - V Buarque - São
Paulo
Contemporânea - lphan de Goiás Velho - GO
1999
2004
Bola com cobertura - Campo Manin - Veneza Itália
outro lugar - Galeria Virgilio - São Paulo
2003
Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
A contemplação do Mundo - Exposição
Paralela à 29 Bienal de SP
Lugar Algum - SESC Pinheiros - São Paulo
20 Anos do Programa de Exposições do
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Salão de Arte Contemporânea Paranaense Curitiba - PR
2002
Salão de Arte Contemporânea de São José
dos Campos
Festival de Performance - São Paulo
2001
Convivências - Fundação lberè Camargo Porto Alegre - RS
Programa de Exposições do Centro Cultural
São Paulo
Paisagem Incompleta - Museu Usiminas - MG
2000
Iniciativas Centro Cultural São Paulo
Prémio Interterencias Urbanas 2008 - Rio de
Janeiro
Projeto Instalação MuBE - São Paulo
2006
1999 olho seco ateliê D'aora Brandão - São
Paulo
Prémio de escultura pública Parque Burle
Marx - Guaíra - SP
Prémio aquisição - X Bienal de Santos - SP
AWARDS
Bolsa da Fundação lberé Camargo 2009
Marcantonio Villaça/FuNARTE - Aquisição MAC Niterói - RJ
2008
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago USA
Prémio Projéteis de Arte FUNARTE - Rio de
Janeiro