Michele Martines

Generally starting from places I frequent, I collect images of the landscape, through photography, and recombine them in painting, composing with elements such as plants, animals, affective memories, popular culture, everyday situations and objects. I work with painting by superimposing thin layers of paint, opposing mimetic elements, with areas where shapes are simplified and painting is smooth. The color also distinguishes itself from the references.
From this game of fictional possibilities typical of the pictorial universe, in a playful way I seek to establish relationships between the urban space and the environment. Reflecting on the transformations in the landscape and the concepts of preservation and extinction. The narrative, symbolic and temporal dimension that these works present is that of another look at our surroundings, placing the need for us to act together in the care and in the production of meanings of the places we inhabit.

MASTER IN VISUAL ARTS, Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM | 2008 - 2010
BACHELOR OF VISUAL ARTS, State University of Rio Grande do Sul - UERGS | 2001 - 2005

ART RESIDENCIES
[R.A.T.], Residencias Artísticas por Intercâmbio, May - 2013 | Mexico City, Mexico.
CAMAC, Centre d’Art Marnay Art Center, August - 2011 | Marnay-sur-Seine, France.

AWARDS
2021 | Costa Doce of Contemporary Art, Cristal/RS, Brazil
2020 | Artistic Trajectories, Lei Aldir Blac, Brazil
2020 | Funarte Descentrarte | Brasília /DF, Brazil
2017 | 7º Fundarte Art Salon 10 x 10, Menção Honrosa, Montenegro/RS, Brazil
2016 | Salão de Artes Plásticas de São Leopoldo, Brazil
2015 | DasArtes, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil
2013 | Cultural Exchange and Diffusion Program, MinC, Brasília/DF, Brazil
2012 | MMBH Contemporary Art Prize, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil
2012 | II Contest Itamaraty of Contemporary Art, Brasília/DF, Brazil
2011 | Cultural Exchange and Diffusion Program, MinC, Brasília/DF, Brazil
2008 | 20º Young Artist Salon, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil
2008 | SESI Visual Arts Contest, Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil
2006 | 17º Plastic Arts Salon of CMPA, Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil

EXHIBITIONS
2023
Solo Exhibition
"ABUSO!", Ecarta Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2022
Solo Exhibition
"Nichos Urbanos", FUNDARTE, Montenegro, Brazil
"Frutos da Ligação", Work installed in the urban space of the city Montenegro, Brazil
Group Exhibition
"Salão CMPA", Clebio Sória Gallery, Porto Alegre, Brazil
"Paredão de Lambes", Luis Maluf Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
"Blues and freedom", Mobart, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

2021
Solo Exhibiti...