Rey Vinas

Rey Vinas is a Brazilian visual artist, editor and writer. Born in Belém, capital of the State of Pará, on February 10, 1963. He has published 19 books, three of them (poems), awarded. He was a professor of Portuguese at the Federal University of Pará and of Literature Theory at the so-called Centro Universitário de Brasília (CEUB), located in the country's capital. In the 1980s, he worked as a reporter and editor for the newspapers "O Liberal" and "Diário do Pará", both widely circulated in the Brazilian Amazon. He was also editor of a literary section – "Primeira Página" – and of a culture and tourism magazine – "Ver-o-Pará". After 30 years of inactivity, he returned to drawing and painting in November 2019, after suffering two successive heart attacks. His new works were produced from that date onwards and to date total more than 700 pieces.
Before living in the city of Natal, in Northeast Brazil, he resided in the capital of Brazil for 23 years, acting as writer and coordinator of the publication editing sector of the Superior Electoral Court.
Rey Vinas's current work is influenced by artists such as Pablo Picasso, George condo, Paul Klee, Kooning Willem, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as Franz Kli...

Rey Vinas studied classic drawing until he was 16 with a veteran illustrator in his hometown. Art, at the time, absorbed him with such intensity that the young artist was expelled from the classroom several times in the school, on the allegation of the masters that he drew all the time, without paying attention to classes. Art had become an obsession to him, before which other things lost interest. The only discipline of the technical course that stimulated it was the topographic design, a discipline in which it demonstrated unusual skill.
Upon entering the Letters course of the Federal University of Pará, it passed at the same time to the self -taught learning of the design to nanchym and the techniques of serigraphy and painting to gouache. Oil paint only won him a little later, through pictorial experiments that led him to research the physical-chemical nature of pigments and diluents. Only more recently started to use watercolor and acrylic paint.
Also, in adolescence he took several distance drawing courses, because in the city of his birth, where he lived until he was 22 years old, there were no art schools. Later, he continued with intensive self-taught studies, and now, after the age of 60, he dedicates himself to the daily...

Rey Vinas currently has a schedule of 10 individual exhibitions until 2024, having already held the following events:

Virtual shows:

Project Calicot Virtual Gallery – Potiguares digital screens
Period: 10 Feb to 11 Mar 2021

X Exposición Internacional Museo Virtual Mundoarti “Especial Navidad” - Gallery Mudoarti I
– El Color Exacto de Los Animales Amarillos

Physical shows:

individual
– The exact color of the yellow animals
Period: August 22 to 26, 2022
Location: Headquarters of the Regional Electoral Court of Rio Grande do Norte

– Multiples: the art of Rey Vinas (paintings, drawings, engravings)
Period: Sep 2022 to Mar 2023
Location: Annabel Gallery - Natal/RN

Collective
– Representations: the female figure in drawings, paintings, photographs and engravings
Date: December 19, 2022
Location: Rio Grande do Norte Electoral Justice Operations Center

– The female image & other forms of sensitivity
Period: Feb to Mar 2023
Location: Natal/RN Electoral Forum

– Ubuntu: Racial justice and equity
Start: Nov. 2024
Location: Esplanade of the Regional Electoral Court of Rio Grande do Norte

– The art of Rey Vinas
Period: Permanent exhibition
Location: Room I of the Street Cats Gallery (Natal-RN)