Marcel Pinie

Marcel Pinie (São Bernardo do Campo, SP - 1974) Painter, engraver and graphic artist. Born in 1974, Marcel Pinie started his career in the early 90's, still very young. Between 1990 and 1993, he attended free courses in drawing and painting at the Guido Viaro Arts Center and Engraving at Solar do Barão, in the city of Curitiba. He had his first solo exhibition in 1998. Marcel Pinie explores painting and drawing together with new media and materials that can be used as canvases. Mixing textures, colors and support elements to build a narrative that tells us the social reality of Brazil, in addition to the criticisms implicit in his works against fascism and poverty. More recently, he has been creating works on a larger scale, using digital processes and even algorithms.

Graduated in Geography with emphasis in Geoprocessing at the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP). From 1990 onwards, he took open courses at the Guido Viaro Arts Center and at Solar do Rosário. Besides attending the studio of the plastic artist Leila Pugnaloni. In 1999, he received the Prize for Young Revelation of Plastic Arts in Paraná, by the Paraná State Secretariat for Culture. He is the author of the books “Recognition guide for porcelain from Meissen” and “Recognition guide for porcelain from Sévres” launched by Nogueira Editorial. He is the author of several articles on antique porcelain in Brazil and abroad. Having worked as an antique dealer for the past ten years. It illustrated authors such as João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Rubem Fonseca and others. He actively participated in Jornal Rascunho, the largest literature journal in Brazil.
1995 – Individual drawings – Caixa Economica Federal Cultural Space | CEF/Curitiba/PR
1995 – Central Post Office | “Faces of America” drawings | Curitiba/PR
1997 – XXV Contemporary Art Salon of Santo André/SP
1997 – 1st Exhibition of Paraná Illustration – Collective with Poty Lazaroto, Juarez Machado and others – MAC/Curitiba/PR
1997 – 37th Ponta Grossa New Arts Salon
1998 – 38th Arts Salon fo...

1995 – Individual drawings – Caixa Economica Federal Cultural Space | CEF/Curitiba/PR
1995 – Central Post Office | “Faces of America” drawings | Curitiba/PR
1997 – XXV Contemporary Art Salon of Santo André/SP
1997 – 1st Exhibition of Paraná Illustration – Collective with Poty Lazaroto, Juarez Machado and others – MAC/Curitiba/PR
1997 – 37th Ponta Grossa New Arts Salon
1998 – 38th Arts Salon for Young People in Araucária
1998 – Individual at Ufizzi Gallery – Curitiba/PR | prints and drawings
1999 – Individual at Galeria G – Shopping Muller | Curitiba/PR
1999 – Individual at Galeria Acaiaca | Curitiba/PR | paintings
2000 – Individual at Acaiaca Gallery | Curitiba/PR | paintings
2001 – Participation in the Valencia International Art Fair | Spain | paintings
2008 – Individual at Galeria Acaiaca | Curitiba/PR | paintings