Albano Afonso
Overview
Albano Afonso, 2021
Albano Afonso explores in his works different elements of the contemporary daily life, creating a connection with the art history, photography, self-portrait and still life, always with a contemporary language. Albano uses light, shadows and manipulated images to reflect on the values and perceptions of these current times and in a way that merge past, present and future; creating a timeless frame which seems to be fading out but it still locked in time.
Works
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from the series Landscape Crystallisation, 2021Mais detalhes -
Still Life nº 10, 2019Mais detalhes
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from the series Landscape Crystallization, Parque da Luz, 2018Mais detalhes
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Light Man, 2018Mais detalhes
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Still Life nº 09, 2018Mais detalhes
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Still Life nº 08, 2018Mais detalhes
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from the series Landscape Crystallization, Parque da Luz, 2018Mais detalhes
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Still Life nº 07, 2018Mais detalhes
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Still Life, with head, vases, branch and crystal, 2018Mais detalhes
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The bird, the tree and the crystal nº 3, 2017Mais detalhes
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from the series Landscape Crystallization, June 2014, Rio de Janeiro, 2015Mais detalhes
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from the series Landscape Crystallization, 2015Mais detalhes
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The Garden - from the series “Paradises“, July 2010, São Paulo, 2010Mais detalhes
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The Garden - from the series “Paradises“, July 2010, São Paulo, 2010Mais detalhes
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The Garden - from the series “Paradises“, July 2010, São Paulo, 2010Mais detalhes
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The Garden - from the series “Paradises“, 2010Mais detalhes
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from the series Illuminated Pictograms - The Tree Man, 2010Mais detalhes
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The Moon, 2010Mais detalhes
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from the series: “The garden – Picnic II”, 2010Mais detalhes
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from the series “It’s a matter of time”, May 2nd and 3rd, 2008Mais detalhes
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Still Life with Stars, 2006/7Mais detalhes
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Still Life with Sky, 2006/7Mais detalhes
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Still Life with Forest, 2006/7Mais detalhes
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from the series Making Stars, 2004Mais detalhes
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from the series Self-portrait with light, 2003Mais detalhes
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Self-portrait with Middle-aged Rembrandt, 2001/2014Mais detalhes
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Self-portrait with young Rembrandt, 2001/2014Mais detalhes
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Self-Portrait with Courbet, 2001Mais detalhes
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Self-Portrait with Delacroix, 2001Mais detalhes
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Self-Portrait with Goya, 2001Mais detalhes
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Self-Portrait with Rembrandt, 2001Mais detalhes
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Self-Portrait with Poussin, 2001Mais detalhes
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Self-Portrait with Van Dyck, 2001Mais detalhes
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from the series Forests, 2000Mais detalhes
Biography
Albano Afonso (1964, São Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil) . Selected solo exhibitions: Igrexa da Universidade e DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain [2019]; Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil [2018]; Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan [2017]; Museu Brasileiro de Escultura, MuBE, São Paulo, Brazil [2016]; 21C Museum, Cincinnati, USA [2015]; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA [2015]; Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2014]; Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil [2014]; Invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin, Germany [2013]; Bodson Gallery, Brussels, Belgium [2012]; Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil [2010]. Selected group exhibitions: Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, Austria [2020]; Fernelmont Contemporary Art Festival, Fernelmont, Belgium [2019]; Centro de Artes de Águeda, Águeda, Portugal [2018]; Fernelmont Contemporary Art Festival, Fernelmont, Belgium [2018]; SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark [2017]; Museu de Arte Contemporânea - USP, São Paulo, Brazil [2017]; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA [2017]; Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia [2017]; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil [2016]; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2016]; Musashino Art University Gallery, FAL, Tokyo, Japan [2015]; 10º Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil [2015]; Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil [2014]; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil [2013]; CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium [2012]; Kiosko Alfonso/PALEXCO, A Coruña, Spain [2012]; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium [2011]; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain [2011]; 29º Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil [2010]. Public collections: 21c Museum Foundation's, Louisville, Kentucky, USA; CAB, Art Center, Brussels, Belgium; Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Inhotim - Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Pinacoteca da Cidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, England; Fundação ARCO - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza - Vigo, Spain; Coleção BES, Lisboa, Portugal, among others.
exhibitions
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MY BACKYARD IS BIGGER THAN THE WORLD
CURATED BY PRISCYLA GOMES 8 February - 22 March 2025Meu quintal é maior que o mundo [My Backyard is Bigger than the World] The exhibition features works by Albano Afonso, Amorí, Ana Paula Sirino, Andy Villela, David Almeida, Diego...Read more -
ALBANO AFONSO . OUT OF REGISTER
11 November 2023 - 3 February 2024Whenever we contemplate something, engaging with a specific object or subject, we do so out of a desire to internalize the significations and broader meanings of an occurrence, a landscape,...Read more -
LANDSCAPE
2 - 23 July 2022Read more -
ALBANO AFONSO Y SANDRA CINTO: ASA
GALERIA FERNANDO PRADILLA, MADRID, SPAIN 17 February - 19 March 2022Read more -
Albano Afonso: Living in an Abstract World
Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil 9 November - 22 December 2018It’s What Your Arms, Lips and Voice Were Made For Close your eyes for a few moments, as though they were breathing in a rarefied atmosphere, renew your nonverbal speech....Read more -
Albano Afonso: Zerbini, Barrão, Albano
Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil 24 May - 16 July 2017Read more -
Albano Afonso: Em estado de suspensão
Museu da Escultura Brasileira - MUBE, São Paulo, Brazil 18 June - 31 July 2016Read more -
Albano Afonso: Self Portrait as Light
CAC AND 21C MUSEUM HOTEL, CINCINNATI, U.S.A 20 March - 30 August 2015Read more
Publications
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ALBANO AFONSO . THE SUPERNATURAL 2.0
21C MUSEUM HOTELS, LOUISVILLE, USA ON VIEW 02.2026GROUP CURATED BY ALICE GRAY STITES ON VIEW 02.2026Read more -
ALBANO AFONSO . A FOTOGRAFIA NA COLEÇÃO DE ARTE DA CIDADE
CENTRO CULTURAL SÃO PAULO, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 03 AUGUST 2024 - 27 OCTOBER 2024GROUP CURATED BY MARIA ADELAIDE PONTES 03 AUGUST 2024 - 27 OCTOBER 2024Read more -
ALBANO AFONSO . FIGURAS NA PAISAGEM VISTAS DE DENTRO PARA FORA
FUNDAÇÃO GRAMAXO, MAIA, PORTUGAL 28 SEPTEMBER 2024 - FEBRUARY 2025GROUP CURATED BY FÁTIMA LAMBERT 28 SEPTEMBER 2024 - FEBRUARY 2025Read more -
ALBANO AFONSO, ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS AND NINO CAIS . A VERDADE ESTÁ NO CORPO
PAÇO DAS ARTES, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL . 27.10.2023 - 07.01.2024 19 December 2023GROUP CURATED BY RENATO DE CARARead more -
ALBANO AFONSO . OCIO DA TERRA: CYCLES OF FERTILIFY AND PAUSE
FUNDACIÓN PABLO ATCHUGARRY, MIAMI, USA . 23.09.2023 - 10.11.2023 19 September 2023GROUP CURATED BY JOSUÉ MATTOS . ORGANIZATION THE55PROJECTRead more -
ALBANO AFONSO . OCIO DA TERRA: CYCLES OF FERTILIFY AND PAUSE
FUNDACIÓN PABLO ATCHUGARRY, MIAMI, USA . 23.09.2023 - 11.11.2023 19 September 2023Group .Read more -
ALBANO AFONSO, ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS, SANDRA CINT, VÂNIA MIGNONE AND VALDIRLEI DIAS NUNES . CASA NO CÉU
GALERIA VERMELHO, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL . 28.06.2023 - 05.08.2023 27 July 2023GROUP CHOREOGRAPHY BY HELMUT BATISTARead more -
ALBANO AFONSO + SANDRA CINTO . DE PONTA CABEÇA
ATELIÊ DO REGO, LISBOA, PORTUGAL . FROM 13.05.2023 23 May 2023GROUPRead more -
ALBANO AFONSO: EM ESTADO SE SUSPENSÃO
APPLETON SQUARE, LISBON . 11.05.2023. - 10.06.2023 19 May 2023CURATED BY DAVID BARRORead more -
ALBANO AFONSO . 15 ANOS DE MACE - AQUI SOMOS REDE
BIBLIOTECA MUNICIPAL DE ELVAS, ELVAS, PORTUGAL . 16.07.2022 - 15.08.2022 23 August 2022GROUPRead more -
ALBANO AFONSO . FÉNIX
GALERIA GRAÇA BRANDÃO, LISBOA, PORTUGAL . 21.05.2022 - 31.07.2022 8 June 2022GROUPRead more -
ALBANO AFONSO . ANTONIO HENRIQUE AMARAL . SANDRA CINTO . PAUL SETUBAL . VÂNIA MIGNONE . PASSAGENS
29.04.2022 - 15.06.2022 . SALÃO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA LUIZ SACILOTTO, SANTO ANDRÉ, BRAZIL 30 April 2022GROUP . CURATED BY REINALDO BOTELHO https://culturaz.santoandre.sp.gov.br/oportunidade/1623/Read more -
SANDRA CINTO . ALBANO AFONSO: Viva Brasil!
11.02.22 - 18.03.22 . Colégio das Artes , Coimbra, Portugal 3 February 2022Curated by Nelson Ricardo MartinsRead more -
ALBANO AFONSO . SANDRA CINTO . ASA (Atelie Sandra e Albano)
17.02.2022 - 19.03.2022 . Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain 3 February 2022http://www.galeriafernandopradilla.com/exposiciones/current/instalacion/4994Read more -
ALBANO AFONSO . INSTITUTIONAL ACQUISITION
MUSEU DE ARTE DO RIO, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 12 January 2022 Read more -
Albano Afonso and Nino Cais . Fotografo o que não vejo: Dulce and João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz Collection
Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil 9 October 2021Albano Afonso, Marcia Xavier and Nino Cais are featured in the exhibition Fotografo o que não vejo: Dulce and João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz Collection...Read more -
Albano Afonso . Bienal '21 Fotografia do Porto
Ocupa Galeria and Quase Galeria, Porto, Portugal 14 May 2021Albano Afonso participates in the Bienal'21 Fotografia do Porto . Taking place between two spaces at the same time, at the Ocupa Galeria and Quase...Read more -
Albano Afonso and Sandra Cinto . Second Nature
Fenando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain 29 February 2020Albano Afonso and Sandra Cinto participate in the group exhibition Segunda Natureza , at Galeria Fernando Pradilla, in Madrid. 02.29.2020-04.02.2020Read more -
Albano Afonso e Sandra Cinto . To Some Extent
Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, Austria 17 January 2020Albano Afonso and Sandra Cinto participate in the group exhibition To Some Extent , at the Georg Kargl Permanent gallery, in Vienna, Austria. 01.17.2020-02.29.2020Read more -
Albano Afonso and Sandra Cinto . Pensar é Guardar
Galeria de Arte - Banco de Portugal, Leiria, Portugal 12 October 2019Albano Afonso and Sandra Cinto participate in the group exhibition Pensar é guardar , at Galeria de Arte - Banco de Portugal, in Leiria, Portugal....Read more -
Albano Afonso . Reapresentação
Projeto Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil 17 August 2019Albano Afonso participates in group exhibition Reapresentação , organized by Ding Musa. 08.17.2019-09.14.2019Read more -
Albano Afonso . New Realities
Fernelmont Contemporary Art Festival, Fernelmont, Belgium 8 June 2019Albano Afonso participates in the exhibition New Realities , curated by Gustavo Urruty at the Fernelmont Contemporary Art Festival. Sketching, photography, painting, sculptures will all...Read more -
Albano Afonso . Vivir Nun Mundo Abstracto
DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 3 May 2019Albano Afonso presents the solo exhibition Vivir nun Mundo Abstracto at DIDAC - Dardo Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas, Santiago de Compostela, Spain....Read more -
Albano Afonso . 3ª Bienal de Arte Gaia 2019
Quinta da Fiação de Lever, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal 24 March 2019Albano Afonso participates in the 3rd International Biennial of Gaia Art, at Quinta da Fiação in Lever, Portugal, curated by Fátima Lambert. 03.24.2019-07.20.2019Read more -
Albano Afonso, Ivan Grilo and Sandra Cinto . Latinoamérica en Las Colecciones CA2M y Fundación Arco
Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain 26 February 2019Albano Afonso, Ivan Grilo and Sandra Cinto take part in the group exhibition Latinoamérica en las colecciones CA2M y Fundación ARCO , at Alcalá 31,...Read more -
Albano Afonso . The Supernatural
21C Museum, Nashville, USA 26 January 2019Albano Afonso participates in the collective exhibition The SuperNatural , curated by Alice Gray Stites, at the 21c Museum Hotel Nashville. images of the post-industrial...Read more -
Albano Afonso and Sandra Cinto . Passado/Futuro/Presente: Arte Contemporânea Brasileira no Acervo do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil 22 January 2019Albano Afonso and Sandra Cinto participate in the group exhibition Past/Future/Present: Brazilian contemporary art at São Paulo Modern Art Museum's collection , curated by Vanessa...Read more
Art Fairs
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SP-Arte 2025
2 - 6 April 2025Read more -
ARTRIO 2024
MARINA DA GLÓRIA, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 25 - 29 September 2024Read more -
SP-ARTE 2024
PAVILHÃO DA BIENAL, SÃO PAULO 3 - 7 April 2024Read more -
ARTRIO 2023
MARINA DA GLÓRIA, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 13 - 17 September 2023Read more -
SP-ARTE 2023
PAVILHÃO DA BIENAL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 29 March - 2 April 2023Read more -
ARTRIO 2022
MARINA DA GLÓRIA, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 14 - 18 September 2022Read more -
SP-ARTE 2022
PAVILHÃO DA BIENAL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 4 - 10 April 2022Read more -
SP-ARTE 2021
ARCA, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 20 - 24 October 2021Read more -
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2020
ONLINE ART FAIR 2 - 6 December 2020Read more -
ARTRIO 2020
ONLINE ART FAIR 14 - 18 October 2020Read more -
ARTRIO 2020
ONLINE ART FAIR 8 - 12 September 2020Read more -
SP-ARTE 2020
PAVILHÃO DA BIENAL SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 1 - 5 April 2020Read more -
ARCO MADRID 2020
PARQUE FERIAL JUNA CARLOS I MADRID, SPAIN 1 - 5 April 2020Read more -
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2019
CONVENTION CENTER MIAMI, EUA 4 - 8 December 2019Read more -
ARTRIO 2019
MARINA DA GLÓRIA RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 18 - 22 September 2019Read more -
SP-ARTE 2019
PAVILHÃO DA BIENAL SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 3 - 7 April 2019Read more -
ARCO MADRID 2019
PARQUE FERIAL JUNA CARLOS I MADRID, SPAIN 27 February - 3 March 2019Read more -
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2018
CONVENTION CENTER MIAMI, USA 6 - 9 December 2018Read more -
ARTRIO 2018
MARINA DA GLÓRIA RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL 27 - 30 September 2018Read more