Raja Simon

Rajá Simon was born in the capital of São Paulo, Brazil in 1947.


Rajá currently lives and works in Iguape, a coastal city in the south of the state of São Paulo, where he transferred his studio.
Simon begins his artistic journey as a painter, and has always been interested in experimentation, adding different elements to the canvas, in such a way that his paintings began to incorporate reliefs, and sculpture was a natural consequence of the evolution of this process.
The artist works with various materials: wood, plastic, ceramics, among others, but metal is his favorite choice. Mainly by bonding the shapes created with oxy-acetylene soldering and electric soldering. He fell in love with the heat of fire!
Your sources of inspiration are diverse; be they zoomorphic, anthropomorphic, or pure abstraction, but always exploring synthesis, seeking the essence of the dynamics of movement in space.
His work process starts with an idea, sometimes he chooses a theme as a mere pretext to develop the form. He make some sketches to make the idea concrete; sometimes he makes small models to analyze the shape from its various points of view. Everything defined, starts by cutting the metal blades with appropriate machines; he shapes each ...

Self-taught artistic training. He produces sculptures, paintings, jewelry and objects. Itinerary started in 1965.
Simon goes on painting, making jewelry. . .
But it is mainly a sculptor.
He taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts of São Paulo for many years, and at some other faculties, in the areas of: modeling, sculpture, three-dimensional conceptualization in product design, fashion design and graphic design.

Main exhibitions he has participated:
- XXX São Paulo Hall. of Fine Arts;
- São Paulo Modern Art Salon (1st State Government Award);
- São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon (Acquisition);
- IX Bienal de São Paulo;
- 1st Bahia Biennial;
- Contemporary Art Salon of São Caetano do Sul;
- Contemporary Art Salon of Santo André;
- Contemporary Art Salon of Santos;
- II Contemporary Art Salon of Campinas;
- Americana Art Salon;
- III Contemporary Art Salon of Campinas;
- Sculptors Exhibition - Documenta Gallery - São Paulo; - Exhibition - A Sculptor and 2 Engravers - Hotel Santa Mônica - 1990;
- XIX Contemporary Art Salon of Santo André - 1991.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
- Galeria Vagas Estrelas da Ursa Maior - 1991;
- Alliance Française Gallery - 1992;
- Sorocaba - 1992; - Subaru Art Space - 1994.
He has works in the Pinacoteca do Estado, Secretary of Education, and in private collections.