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Oscar Araripe
Tiradentes , Massachusetts-
Brazil
Drawings-
Portraits & Figures
Oscar AraripeOscar Araripe was internationally recognized and acclaimed as an important Brazilian writer, educator, and social and ecological activist well before he turned his talents to painting. With almost 100 solo exhibitions to his credit, Araripe continues to reinvent the art of painting, not only through his spontaneous and unusual brush strokes and colors, but also via his use of unconventional materials ranging from delicate tracing paper and film laser to large-scale public works made of weatherproof synthetic canvases (sail cloth) supported by sturdy tubular structures.Invited to inaugurate new show places for painting, Oscar Araripe exhibited in the Villa Lobos Room of the National Theatre in Brasilia in 1991 and the following year at Ipanema Beach , Rio de Janeiro, his new and original ecological tribute, The Pillar of Uaupés. He also exhibited Tiradentes, the Brazilian Hero, at the same year, simultaneously in the gardens of the Republic Museum in Rio and on the Mineiro...
phone:
55 32 323551148
website:
www.oscarararipe.com.br
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