O Bastardo
Born in 1997, O Bastardo was raised in Mesquita, municipality of Baixada Fluminense, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Working initially using urban languages such as graffiti, the artist elaborates a direct dialogue between autobiographical issues and pictorial thought, a conquest developed between family experiences and art schools such as EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro and currently Beaux-Arts de Paris.
In recent paintings, the issues held in the works lead us to cross between everyday practices of empowerment of black people and usual gestures of belonging to social groups, such as asking for blessing or bleaching hair. In the portrait scenes, in series such as Pretos de grife and Só Lazer, consumerism, leisure and vanity are some of the identifications exhibited by groups that are supposedly absent from this type of representation.
Leisure and consumerism are increasingly recurrent subjects in works by racialized artists, as history has highlighted the gestures of violence and survival as a means of insertion and denouncement of the atrocities perpetrated against the majority of Brazilian population. O Bastardo [The Bastard] makes of his own name, preceded by the definite article, a link of subversion of his own history, maintaining the classificatory word that, in art scenes, starts to redirect the subject and alert to the practice of exoticizing the margins.
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No radinho, 150bpm pra relaxa, 2021View more details
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The young master by, O Bastardo., 2021View more details
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Garoto da lavanderia, 2021View more details
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Black’s faith, 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Oakley eyes, 2021View more details
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Pretos de Griffe 5 - Skepta, 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Pretos de griffe 7, 2021View more details
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Pretos de griffe 6 (O brasileiro), 2021View more details
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Soo pretty 2, 2021View more details
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Like my father, 2021View more details
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Family photo, vacation in hawaii , 2021View more details
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Untitled (self-portrait), 2021View more details
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Carti, 2021View more details
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O abençoado, 2021View more details
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Travis Scott , 2021View more details
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Pretty girl , 2021View more details
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O bom jogador , 2021View more details
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Nike , 2021View more details
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Basquiat , 2021View more details
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Frank ocean, 2021View more details
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Thrasher, 2021View more details
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Untitled , 2021View more details
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The purple king, 2021View more details
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Waves, 2021View more details
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O cria, 2021View more details
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Tyler the creator , 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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The prayer 2, 2021View more details
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O cria 2, 2021View more details
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Duckwrth, 2021View more details
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Untitled , 2021View more details
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Girls at the mall , 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Young princess, 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Das telas a carne da carne as telas, 2021View more details
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Luka sabbat, 2021View more details
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Kanye is Kanye, 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Pelé, 2021View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
O BASTARDO [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1997. Lives and works between Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Paris, France].
Education: painting, sculpture, carving, video art and wood, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2016/2020]; Fine Arts Residency, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France [2020/in progress]. Other studies:
Formação e Deformação, coordinated by Ulisses Carrilho, Clarissa Diniz and Gleyce Kelly Heitor, EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2019].
Solo exhibitions: Pretos de Griffe, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2021].
Group exhibitions: Essa minha letra: Lima Barreto e os Modernismos Negros, curated by Jaime Lauriano, Lilia Schwarcz and Pedro Meira, Museu da História e da Cultura Afro-brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2022]; Crônicas Cariocas, curated by Marcelo Campo, Amanda Bonan, Antônio Simas and Conceição Evaristo, MAR - Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2021]; Atelie James Rielly, Paris, France [2021]; Estopim e Segredo, curated by Ulisses Carrilho and Clarissa Diniz, EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2019]; Patifaria, Escola de Belas Artes/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2019]; Margem, SESC Madureira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2019]; Escola em transe, curated by Lisette Lagnado and Ulisses Carrilho, EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2017]; Extramuros, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2016].
Public collections: AFRICANA Art Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland; Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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O BASTARDO . Coleção MAR + Enciclopédia Negra
MUSEU DE ARTE DO RIO, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 30 April 2022CURATED BY AMANDA BONAN, FLÁVIO GOMES JAIME LAURIANO, LILIA SCHWARCZ AND MARCELO CAMPOS OPENING MAY 7THRead more -
O BASTARDO . CONTRAMEMÓRIA
18.04.22 - 05.06.22 . THEATRO MUNICIPAL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 14 April 2022GROUP . CURATED BY LILIA SCHWARCZ, JAIME LAURIANO AND PEDRO MOREIRA https://theatromunicipal.org.br/en/evento/exposicaocontramemoria/Read more -
O Bastardo . Vários 22
19.03.22 - 21.05.22 . Galeria Arte 132 , São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2 March 2022GROUP Curated by Lilia Moritz SchwarczRead more -
O Bastardo . Essa minha letra: Lima Barreto e os Modernismos Negros
17.02.2022 . Museu da História e da Cultura Afro-brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 17 February 2022opening: 17.02.2022Read more -
O Bastardo and Vânia Mignone . Crônicas Cariocas para Adiar o Fim do Mundo
Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 25 September 2021O Bastardo and Vânia Mignone are featured in the group exhibition Crônicas Cariocas para Adiar o Fim do Mundo , ccurated by Conceição Evaristo, Luiz...Read more -
O Bastardo . New Represented Artist
Casa Triângulo 15 July 2021Casa Triângulo is pleased to announce the representation of the artist O Bastardo (Rio de Janeiro, 1997. Lives, works and studies between Rio de Janeiro,...Read more
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SP-ARTE 2022
PAVILHÃO DA BIENAL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 4 - 10 April 2022 -
Art Basel Miami Beach
30 November - 4 December 2021Art Basel Miami Beach 2021. Booth G22. Kabinett: Antonio Henrique Amaral Featured artists: Ascânio MMM, Eduardo Berliner, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Mariana Palma,O Bastardo, Sandra Cinto,...Read more -
ArtRio
Marina da Glória, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 8 - 12 September 2020