MENU

Dudi Maia Rosa

São Paulo, SP, 1946.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

CV
about

Dudi Maia Rosa began his first pictorial investigations with translucent materials, such as polyester resin pigmented in fiberglass, in 1984. The artist also became known for creating works with volume and relief that hold light within them. His works also have a spatiality that ends up suggesting images that occur without depth, purely on the surface, but which are in themselves profound. His works resemble paintings, at times with projection screens, at others with stained glass, sometimes with Murano glass reliefs, objects that seem to have internal three-dimensional occurrences of colors and forms. Dudi’s works are occasions of corporeity, of physical presence, whose images (abstract entities, which circulate freely, and have neither time nor place) must respond to the here and now.

He presented his first solo exhibition at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, SP, in 1978. Since then, he has had several solo shows in important spaces including Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2022); Millan, São Paulo, Brazil (1993, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2022); Centro Cultural Maria Antônia, São Paulo, Brazil (2002 and 2013); Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2013 and 2022); Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2012); Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil (1998).

Groups shows include: Doutrina das cores, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Pinacoteca: acervo, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil (2020); Queermuseu – Cartografias da Diferença na Arte Brasileira, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Modos de Ver o Brasil: Itaú Cultural 30 anos, Oca, São Paulo, Brazil (2017); Pequenas Pinturas, auroras, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); Uma coleção particular – arte contemporânea no acervo da Pinacoteca, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil (2015); 10th Mercosul Biennial – Mensagens de Uma Nova América, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2015); Brasiliana: Moderna Contemporânea, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, SP, Brazil (2006); 5th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2005); Mostra do Redescobrimento: Brasil 500 Anos, Bienal Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil (2000); Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1995); Bienal de São Paulo (1987, 1994) and Panorama da Arte Atual Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil (1973, 1986, 1989, 1993).

His work is featured in important collections including those of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção de Arte da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção Dulce e João Carlos Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; Coleção Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção Metrópolis de Arte Contemporânea, Brazil; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

works