Marcelo Guimarães Lima

 

Marcelo Guimarães Lima

    Artist and Mask, 2020, 
pencil and color pencil on paper, 29 x 21 cm

About my works / Sobre meus trabalhos

In my works I utilize both figurative and abstract approaches to explore questions related to personal, historical, art historical, aesthetic, social and political issues of our diverse life-worlds, individual and collective, and their intersections. Art registers and puts into perspective our experiences and their associated meanings, it is made of memories and anticipations, and in this way it contributes to the renewal of our symbolic universe and perspectives. It has therefore, whether acknowledge or not in the larger cultural context, a vital role to play in our emotional economy, in our self-understanding and our perspectives of action.

Em meus trabalhos, utilizo abordagens figurativas ou abstratas para explorar temas relacionados a questões pessoais, estéticas, culturais, sociais e políticas de nossos diversos “mundos de vida” (Lebesnwelt), individuais e coletivos, e suas intersecções. A arte registra e coloca em perspectiva nossas experiências e seus significados relacionados, é feita de memórias e antecipações e, dessa forma, contribui para a renovação do nosso universo simbólico e portanto para a formulação de novas perspectivas simbólicas. Tem, assim, um papel vital a desempenhar em nossa economia emocional, em nossa autocompreensão e em nossas perspectivas de ação, seja este papel reconhecido ou não no contexto cultural geral do tempo.

Marcelo Guimarães Lima

      Self-portrait, pencil on paper, 2020

   

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives and works between São Paulo, Brazil and Porto, Portugal

marceloguimaraeslima.studio@gmail.com

Instagram: @marceloguimaraeslima.studio

https://mguimaraeslima-art.blogspot.com

Marcelo Guimarães Lima is a visual artist, writer and teacher. He has a PhD degree in Art History and a Master of Fine Arts degree (Painting and Printmaking) from the University of New Mexico (USA). He presently directs the Arts Division of the CEPAOS Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Armando de Oliveira Souza (São Paulo). He has published books and articles on Contemporary Art, Art Criticism, the History and Theory of Art in Brazil, USA, Spain, France and Australia. He taught Fine Arts (Studio Arts) and Art History at the University of Illinois (USA), Goddard College (USA), American University in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), and was a visiting professor at the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), Universidad Internacional de Andalucia (Huelva, Spain), Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), DePaul University (USA), Canadian University of Dubai (United Arab Emirates). 

He has works in private collections in Brazil, USA, Spain, France, Germany, Dubai, and in public collections, such as Museum of Contemporary Art (São Paulo), Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking (Rutgers University, New Brusnwick, NJ, USA), Cabinet des Estampes BNF, Paris, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland

Selected exhibitions

2021 7TH SMALL GRAPHIC SALON AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ART,

          Bucharest, Romania 

2021 HOMEOSTASIS LAB (online) homeostasislab.org

2020 THE PEANUT FACTORY ART CENTER -VIRTUAL ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE –
        September (online) , Edenton, NC, USA

2020 6TH SMALL GRAPHIC SALON AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ART,

          Bucharest, Romania 

2020 THE LOCKDOWN SELFPORTRAIT PROJECT, Cairo, Egypt (online)

2012 On Paper: Dale Chihuly, Alex de Fluvia, Marcelo Guimarães Lima and Samer Taba, 

         Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2011 The Imagination of Disaster, Total Arts Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2010  Marcelo Lima, Drawing Space, Metasenta, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

2010  MIND - Made in Dubai, DUCTAC, Dubai, UAE

2009  That Fleeting Moment DUCTAC, Dubai, UAE

2008  Here and Elsewhere, Rewak Art Gallery, University of  Sharjah, UAE

          Villa 111, Creek Art Fair, Dubai, UAE

1995  Arte Latino in Chicago, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Gary, IN, EUA

          Urban Art / Arte Urbana, Courtyard Gallery, Chicago Theological Union, EUA

          Marcelo Lima, Prints and Monotipes, Brazilian American Cultural Institute,

          Washington, DC, EUA

1994 Taller Mexicano de Grabado, Chicago, Las Artes, Omaha, NK, EUA

         Human Rights exhibition, Conference on Human Rights in Guatemala, 

         University ofChicago, Chicago, EUA

         Marcelo Lima and John Weber, SSU Gallery, Springfield, Illinois, EUA

1992 Representations, SSU Gallery, Springfield, Illinois, EUA

         Marcelo Lima: Prints and Drawings, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, EUA

1990  Bienal de Amadora, Amadora, Portugal

1989  De  Bonnard a Baselitz-Estampes et livres d'artistes, Bibliotheque Nationale,

          Cabinet des Estampes, Paris, França

1985  Sonho da Razão, paintings and prints by Marcelo Lima, Centro Cultural de São

          Paulo, Brasil

1984 The Dream of Reason, paintings and prints by Marcelo Lima, University of New 

          Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, EUA

1980 Marcelo Lima, prints and monoprints, R. Bakouche Galerie, Paris, França

1979 Marcelo Lima, drawings and prints, Sumus Gallery, Freiburg, Alemanha

Artist in Residence

2020  The Peanut Factory Art Center Virtual Residency 2020, Edenton, NC, USA

1990 - 1991 Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, USA

1983 Atelier Les Enfant de La Balle, Comps, France

1980 Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Genebra, Switzerland

1979 Atelier Millefeuilles, Paris, France