STATEMENTY
Davis Lisboa (1965, S?o Paulo, Brazil),
lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
He is Hispano-Brazilian polyhedrical, multidisciplinary
and globalized illustrator and painter,
who works erasing the borders between graphic and fine arts,
high and low culture, art and market,
crafts and technology.
The artist proposes us a reflection
about the postmodern linguistic and cultural hybridization
as self-portrait.
Biography: DAVIS LISBOA - ABOUT THE ARTIST
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STATEMENT
Davis Lisboa (1965, S?o Paulo, Brazil),
lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
He is Hispano-Brazilian polyhedrical, multidisciplinary
and globalized illustrator and painter,
who works erasing the borders between graphic and fine arts,
high and low culture, art and market,
crafts and technology.
The artist proposes us a reflection
about the postmodern linguistic and cultural hybridization
as self-portrait.
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EDUCATION
1996-now
Universidad de Barcelona Bellas Artes, Painting, Barcelona, Spain
1987–1990
Escola Massana, Painting, Barcelona, Spain
1984
EBART, Escola Brasileira de Arte, Painting, S?o Paulo, Brazil
1978–1982
Escola Carlos de Campos, Drawing of Communication, S?o Paulo, Brazil
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BIOGRAPHY
2008
Artworks for sale in the Galeria Artevistas, Barcelona, Spain
2007
Worked as actor in “Un amor de Terry” videoart directed by Telmo Moreno,
Museu Comarcal del Montsi?, Amposta, Spain
2006
Artworks for sale in the Galeria San Vicente 31, Seville, Spain
Artworks for sale in the Galeria Paspart?, Barcelona, Spain
Artworks for sale in the galeria espai [b], Barcelona, Spain
2005
Collaborations to Centre d'Art Santa M?nica's publications, Barcelona, Spain
Artworks for sale in the Galer?a Kunsthaus 414, Barcelona, Spain
Artworks for sale in the Galer?a Gaud?, Madrid, Spain
Member of the AAVC (Associaci? d’Artistes Visuals de Catalunya)
2004
Worked as webmaster, Oscar's Studio, Barcelona, Spain
1998
Obtains the Hispanic-Brazilian nationality
1989–now
Worked as free-lancer illustrator and artistic painter, Barcelona, Spain
1987–1989
Worked as illustrator, ACR Graphic Design, Barcelona, Spain
1987
Moved to live in Barcelona, Spain
1987
Worked as advertising illustrator, Publigrafs, S?o Paulo, Brazil
1986–1987
Worked as advertising illustrator, FCB Siboney, S?o Paulo, Brazil
1985–1986
Worked as advertising illustrator, CBBA Publicidade, S?o Paulo, Brazil
1983–1984
Worked as advertising illustrator, Sempre Propaganda S.A., S?o Paulo, Brazil
1965
Born in S?o Paulo, Brazil
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
"BMW Ib?rica" Exhibition, BMW Ib?rica, Madrid, Spain
"BMW Cano Catalunya" Exhibition, BMW Cano Catalunya, San Cugat, Spain
"BMW Cano Catalunya" Performance and exhibition, BMW Cano Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Galer?a de Arte San Vicente 31, Seville, Spain
"Locus quod Filiolus"
Facultat de Belles Arts de Barcelona, Spain
2003
"12 Autoretrats"
Facultat de Belles Arts de Barcelona, Spain
1984
“Firasse”
Galeria Art Brut, S?o Paulo, Brazil
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Galeria Artevistas, Barcelona, Spain
2007
Galeria Paspart?, Barcelona, Spain
2006
galeria d'art contemporani espai[b] - Barcelona, Spain
Marb Art 2006, II Marbella International Contemporary Art Fair, Spain
Galeria Paspart?, Barcelona, Spain
2005
Mi•zynarodowy projekt "Art for Chelmek", Chelmek, Poland
Holland Art Fair, The Hague, Holand
Galer?a de Arte Gaud?, Madrid, Spain
1989
Sala Jaume Busquet, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain
1988
“Wonder”
Sala Jaume Busquet, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain
1984
Galeria Art Brut, S?o Paulo, Brazil
Associa??o de Artistas Pl?sticos da Colagem, S?o Paulo, Brazil
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Accensi-Pinacho Collection, Barcelona, Spain
Artists Space, New York, USA
Museo de Arte do Parlamento de S?o Paulo, Brazil
BMW Ib?rica Collection, BMW Ib?rica, Madrid, Spain
JBM Collection, Barcelona, Spain
Centrum Miasta Collection, Chelmek, Poland
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
DAVIS LISBOA (SAO PAULO, 1965) - BLANCA GARC?A-VEGA
The artistic personality of the versatil Hispano-Brazilian Davis Lisboa has been developed from the synthesis of a multiple "hybridization" and shows the global complexity and the multicultural wealth derived from his time and his space. Formed in postmodernity, he has been influenced by the tranvanguardia, the German neoexpresionisme and the last creative tendencies. From 1988 to 1999, he has been dedicated to the advertising and that experimentation causes
that the graphic medias are used like "signs" in a clear and precise way.
The change of millenium has supposed in his trajectory the rereading of the historical vanguards: Self-portrait (1999), Abstraction (2002), Angel (2004).
The second phase of his pictorial production, from 2005, is within the analytical postmodernism looking forward his own identity, marked by the transversality and the linguistic hybridization, with the questioning of the artistic categories,
the elaboration of subversive contents and iconoclast repertoires, extracted from very different sources, to break the limits of aesthetic means and their ethics, as it is displayed in his last artworks: Great Stairs, Solum, Domus, Hybrid-Obex, Hybrid- Abaporu. Is in the purity of the hybridization that his artwork reaches his deeper meaning
Blanca Garc?a-Vega
Art History teacher of the Universidad de Valladolid
Member of the Florence Biennale Scientific Committee
Member of A.I.C.A
(Catalog of the Florence Biennale 2007, pp. 444)
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DAVIS LISBOA REVEALS HIS ART WITH AN EXPLOSION OF COLORS AND
DYNAMIC EXPRESSION - EMANUEL VON LAUENSTEIN MASSARANI
The vision of Davis Lisboa is attracted by all the possibilities of expression: colour, line, space and meaning. Although he had moved away from a certain realism still implicit in his present canvas establishing almost a prologue to the definitive adoption of an abstractionism totally influenced by the availability of the artist to the evocation of a pictorical image being both informal and symbolical at the same time.
His painting represents the synthesis of a classic and a modern vision of the world. The artist has arrived to this situation with a careful chromatic investigation where masses of colors are mixed to express his world directed to an immediate dynamism of rare expressive power.
Davis Lisboa has found the key of this interpretation in his profiles
that as a whole he transforms into a true explosion of colours. Before being fixed images on the canvas his paintings constitute an experimented “reality” in the thought. From this reality an essential painting is born, where colour, drawing and composition are invented in an instant, without rethinking, without mistaking.
The matter does not prevent the flow of the emotion: the instinct arises with its fundamental force and it obtains conscientious and expressly the support that welcomes it. Davis Lisboa is an artist of the civilization of our time that lives art as a revelation, as a message and as a consequence like true poetry.
THE ARTIST
Davis Lisboa was born in S?o Paulo, Brazil, in 1965. Graduated in Communication, he has worked as an illustrator in Brazil from 1983 to 1987. He moved to Barcelona, Spain in 1987 still working in illustration.
He studied several art courses like painting in the Escola Brasileira de Arte, SP, Brazil (1984); Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain (1987-1990) and at the Universitat de Belles Arts de Barcelona, Spain (1996).
He participated in many exhibitions, like in the Galeria Art Brut, S?o Paulo; Associa??o de Artistas Plasticos da Colagem, S?o Paulo (1984); Sala Jaume Busquet, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain (1988); Galer?a de Arte Gaud?, Madrid, Spain; Galer?a Kunsthaus, Barcelona (2005); galeria d’art espai [b], Barcelona,
Spain; Galeria d’Art Paspart?, Barcelona, Spain, Galer?a de Arte San Vicente 31, Seville, Spain.
He has works in some public and private collections, like BMW Ib?rica, Madrid, Spain, JBM, Barcelona, Spain, Centrum Miasta, Chelmek, Poland and now in the Museu de Arte do Parlamento de S?o Paulo, Brazil.
Emanuel von Lauenstein Massarani
Superintendent of Cultural Heritage in S?o Paulo, Brazil
Art Director of the Florence Biennale
Art Critic
August 2007
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http://www.davislisboa.com
http://es.youtube.com/davislisboa
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Country: Spain
E-mail: davis@davislisboa.com
Site: Davis Lisboa