The Art Museum of Rio Grande do Sul (Margs), an institution linked to the Secretariat of Culture (Sedac), presents, on Saturday (11/25), at 10:30 am, the exhibition “Wilson Cavalcanti – The gardens that inhabit me”. The event will be open to the public and will continue on display until February 18, 2024, occupying two rooms on the 2nd exhibition floor of the Museum.
The exhibition is part of the extensive program that will be held throughout the year, in reference to Margs’ 70th anniversary, celebrated on July 27, 2024. Visitation takes place from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 7pm (last access to 6pm), with free entry.
Margs also offers mediated visits for groups, with prior scheduling by emailing Educaçã[email protected].
The exposure
The exhibition “The gardens that inhabit me” is the first to provide a more comprehensive and historical understanding of the artistic production of Wilson Cavalcanti (Pelotas/RS, 1950), Cava.
Contemplating the artist’s more than 50-year career, and also being his first solo exhibition presented by Margs, the exhibition presents an approach that reviews and deepens the public understanding of his diverse and extensive production, developed in drawing, engraving, painting and objects.
In addition to bringing the most recognized and consecrated part of his work, especially the figurative and expressionist bias in engraving and painting, the artist resizes his work by bringing to the public lesser-known productions, such as his drawings-paintings, his paintings-objects , constructive procedures and flirtations with abstraction. Cava also highlights the importance of his personal poetics and the relevant contribution of his works in the context of the transformations in the art medium and the conventions of artistic practice experienced by his generation in the history of art in Rio Grande do Sul.
Thus, the exhibition reveals a restless, versatile artist, in constant production and who bases his artistic practice largely on the use of experimental and conceptual procedures that he develops.
The artist
Wilson Cavalcanti (Pelotas/RS, 1950), famously known as Cava, is an artist and teacher, also working as a social educator. Since the end of the 1960s, he has developed a diverse production in drawing, engraving, painting and objects, largely marked by a figurative approach with an expressionist bias.
In the production of engravings in lithography (stone) and metal, themes and issues of a social and political nature predominate. In the woodcuts (wood), the emphasis is related to the erudite and the popular imagination.
In his painting, he employs experimental procedures, using non-artistic materials and objects and including reusing natural and industrial elements and waste/discard.
Its trajectory is closely linked to the Porto Alegre City Hall Free Workshop. In his initial training, between 1968 and 1977, he studied drawing, metal engraving, wood engraving and lithography and interacted with important masters, such as Paulo Peres and Danúbio Gonçalves. In 1996, he became a professor at Atelier Livre, a space where he taught classes until 2020.
In the artistic community of Porto Alegre, his work is marked by the defense of artists, through work in initiatives that involve groups and collective actions. A notorious questioner and challenger, his personality and trajectory are marked by independence and his own thinking, remaining authentic and coherent with his own way of producing and being in the world.
Service
What: Exhibition “Wilson Cavalcanti – The gardens that inhabit me”
When: Saturday (25/11), at 10:30 am, in an event open to the public. On display until February 18, 2024.
Where: 2nd exhibition floor of the Many (Praça da Alfândega, s/nº, Historic Center of Porto Alegre.
Visitation: Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 7pm (last access at 6pm), with free entry.
