Fabio Borges

Fábio Borges' artistic investigation explores the relationship between the parts and the whole they form. It emerged from the observation of patchwork quilts, Portuguese tile panels and the pixels of digital images.
His art creation process begins on the computer before materializing on canvas or paper.He uses acrylic paint and spray over sublimatic ink printing to create transparency and opacity effects. Geometric shapes overlap the figurative images and transform them into “watermarks”. These are subliminal messages that raise antagonistic issues such as inclusion and exclusion, preservation and extinction.
There are variations of subjects in his works, but when he paints he doesn't see them as something that belongs to him. He perceives them as a connecting device between his personal experiences and those of the spectators. Leaving his studio to faraway places, his works are free to create new meanings.
Fábio Borges' paintings are part of several public and private collections in the United States, Brazil, Italy, France and Portugal.

After having studied Visual Communication at Univercidade, in Rio de Janeiro, and painting at École Nationale Súpérieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, I decided to leave the school to become a self-taught artist.

Group exhibitions:

2021 - 10th Small Format Painting Biennial – Joaquim Afonso Madeira Award - Portugal
2018 - The Face of Rio, Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017 - "In Time", Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013 - Danger in the Borgean labyrinths, Galeria Antonio Berni, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 - Ten Years, Centro Cultural Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 - Rio seen from my window, Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Jneiro, Brazil
2006 - The face of Rio, Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003 - Perigo, Espaço Cultural dos Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2000 - Galeria Toulouse, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999 - 7th Open Art Studios, Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999 - Espaço Cultural Caravelas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998 - Galeria SESC Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998 - Des Brésiliens à Paris, Galerie Saint Louis en l'Île, Paris, France
1994 - Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1992 - Pra Inglês Não Ver, Centro Cultural Noel Rosa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1990 - 2th Bienal de Artes de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
1985 - Salon d'Art du Grau du Roi , France
1984 - Deuxieme Prix International de Metz, France

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