Waltercio Caldas, , Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Vive e trabalha em Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Escultor, desenhista, artista gráfico, cenógrafo. Destaca-se pela produção eclética e original realizada em suportes distintos (desenhos, gravuras, cenografias, esculturas, figurinos). Em , estuda pintura com Ivan Serpa () no Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) do Rio de Janeiro e iniciou sua carreira ainda na década de Em , realiza sua primeira exposição individual no Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (Masp). Na década de 80 começou a criar instalações e esculturas e participou da 17ª Bienal Internacional de SP.
Participou de exposições no Kanaal Art Foundation (Bélgica); Stedelijk Museum (Holanda); Centre d’Art Contemporain (Suíça); Museum of Modern Art (EUA); Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle (Alemanha); Museo del Barrio (EUA); Walker Art Center (EUA); Bienal de São Paulo; Bienal de Veneza; Documenta; Bienal do Mercosul; entre outras. Sua obra integra as principais coleções do mundo, como Centre Pompidou (Fra
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Studied at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro under Ivan Serpa. His first major solo exhibition was at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, in Waltercio Caldas is one of the most internationally recognized Brazilian artists, having shown in various countries, including Kanaal Art Foundation (Kortrijk, Belgium, ); Stedelijk Museum (Schiedam, Holland, ); Documenta 9 (Kassel, Germany, ); and Centre d&#;Art Contemporain (Geneva, Switzerland, ). He took part in several editions of the São Paulo Biennial in , and , and represented Brazil at the Venice Biennial. In the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in Portugal, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, in Spain, presented two important solo exibitions of his work. In , “Salas e Abismos”, a solo exhibition with installations, was considered one of the best exhibitions of the year in Brazil.

His work can be found in the world&#;s leading museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Neue Galerie (Kassel), and in Brazilian museums such as Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. His sculptu
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Waltercio Caldas started his artistic practice in the s, a period marked by the Neo-Concrete movement. Neoconcrete artists rejected the pure rationalist approach of concrete art and embraced a more phenomenological and less scientific art.
Caldas pushes the paradox between presence and absence, and between transparency and opacity, to its extreme. This paradox is reinforced through a play on mirrors, a recurrent technique in his work. Here again, the artist develops the idea of reflection without actually employing mirrors. In creating several planes where lines and objects replace the reflections of one another, the artist reveals a three-dimension mirror and materialises the idea of reflection, a process he considers as a “functional dismantling of the mirror”2. Thus Caldas goes beyond the duality between presence and absence, positive and negative, and manages to reach a paradoxical fusion between a tangible reality and thought.
Waltercio Caldas was born in Rio de Janeiro in , where he still lives and works. His first solo exhibition took place at the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro in when he was only In , he received the Brasilia Art Award at the Brasilia Mus
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Waltércio Caldas was born in in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including at Museu de Arte Moderna do São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (, ); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (); and Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil (). Caldas has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Art Graphique Brésilien, Musée Galiera, Paris, France (); América, Koninkjik Museum Voor Shone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium (); Lines, Stains, Works, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (); and Rios do Rio/As águas cariocas, ontem e hoje, Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (). Caldas currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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