Flavio Cerqueira

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Flávio Cerqueira was born in São Paulo, Brazil, where he lives and works. Master in Visual Arts at Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP. He works with a traditional sculpture process known as lost wax casting and bronze casting, and explores the human figure as the protagonist.

As an artist / storyteller, Cerqueira creates vigorous figurative bronze sculptures, focused on the construction of narratives and representation of actions. He portrays his characters in common and universal everyday situations, such as moments of introspection, reflection, concentration and action. The presence of everyday objects, such as mirrors, books, tree trunks, ramps, stairs, creates tension with the out-of-scale bronze human figures. These scenarios occur within the white cube, which functions as a pedestal, an attempt to blur the boundaries between sculpture and the world and between the work of art and the viewer. His intention is to problematize the relationship between space and viewer. Cerqueira uses sculpture as a tool to immobilize the instant, the moment of the fragment of a narrative,

In 2020 Flavio published FLAVIO CERQUEIRA 2009/2019. A limited edition book presenting 10 years of the artist main works. For complete information about the book, click here.

MAIN EXHIBITIONS

2018 Open Spaces in Kansas City, MO (2018)

2018 Afro Atlantic Stories, MASP - São Paulo, Brazil (2018);

2017 Queermuseu, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2017 South/South Let me start again, Goodman Gallery Cape Town, South Africa

2015 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015 Reframings, Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence, Italy

2015 Ichariba Chode, Galeria Plaza Norte, Saitama, Japan

2011 16th Cerveira Biennial, Portugal

COLLECTIONS

Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo

Afro Brasil Museum