Mauro Silper

Mauro Silper (1948, Teófilo Otoni / MG / Brazil), a Brazilian visual artist, uses painting as his artistic language. His line of research focuses on contemporary authorial landscapes, where he interprets the dynamics of nature in its grandeur, beauty and scope in connection with human beings.

His taste for art emerged in childhood and blossomed in his youth, when he lived in New York (United States) in the 1970s, a city that breathed the air of counterculture, having started painting by attending the studios of emerging artists and carrying out self-taught studies.

In Brazil, in addition to painting as an essential practice in his daily life, he developed activities related to the visual arts, such as graphic arts and photography, and, simultaneously, tourist architectural projects and academic training in Law.

From the 2000s onwards, he began to dedicate himself exclusively to the craft of painting and to the development of his artistic career. Since then, his artistic achievements include 15 solo exhibitions, 55 group exhibitions, 7 awards, representation in 6 international art fairs, 2 contemporary art biennials, presence in 16 books/catalogues and a critical fortune supported by approximately 36 texts by art critics and cura...

Exposições Individuais

• Galeria de Arte Beatriz Abi-Acl, "Segmentações", "IV Circuito 10 Contemporâneo", Belo Horizonte, MG, set/2019.
• Centro Cultural Câmara dos Deputados, "Quietude Íntima", Brasília, DF, ago/2015.
• Espaço Cultural Vallourec, "Luminescências", Belo Horizonte, MG, abril/2015.
• Colorida Art Gallery, "Mauro Silper", Lisboa, Portugal, fev/2014.
• Museu Histórico Abílio Barreto, "Pinturas de Mauro Silper - Pinacoteca MHAB", Belo Horizonte, MG, set /2013.
• Galeria de Arte Beatriz Abi-Acl, "Intracenas", Belo Horizonte, MG, mai/2012.
• Centro Cultural São Geraldo, "Diverso Abstrato", Belo Horizonte, MG, nov /2010.
• Centro Cultural Padre Eustáquio, "Nas vertentes do papel", Belo Horizonte, MG, set/2010.
• Galeria de Arte Mercure, "Imaginário - Ano da França no Brasil", Belo Horizonte, MG, mai/2009.
• Siciliano, "Pinturas – Mauro Silper", Belo Horizonte, MG, set/2007.
• Bella Carta, "Centenário de Belo Horizonte", Belo Horizonte, MG, dez/1997.
• Espaço Cultural Fernanda Flower Shop, "Fernanda Shop comemora 20 anos", Belo Horizonte, MG, nov /1990.

Principais Exposições Coletivas

• Marcelo Neves Art Gallery, "Entre Cores e Sensações", São Paulo, SP, set/2024.
• Galeria Biblioteca Luiz de Bes...