Exhibition ‘Every day is also Women’s Day’, from the Monalisas Brasileiras project, arrives at Unibes Cultural

Dilson Cavalcanti has painting as a language and gestural abstraction as a central approach to his production. The choice of colors, normally between the pure ones, sometimes wandering between the second and third mixtures and the different materials, such as sponges, brushes, spatulas, wood and others, that are at hand, will lead to densities and dilutions of the paints in actions that will indicate much about the intentionality of the work and its reading.

For this exhibition, the space will be occupied with works where visual collage is the core of this process along with the gestures of his painting, the centralization of the main motif in front of the background, is worked with graphic resources and directed to digital printing on supports such as paper and tissue.

Under the heading “Every day is also women’s day”, the project exhibition “Brazilian monalisas”, by the artist Dilson Cavalcantiarrives in São Paulo, in the Unibes Culturalnext day 10/03. To the “Brazilian monalisas” have already passed through the Centro Cultural dos Correios, in Rio de Janeiro, the Pinacoteca de São Bernardo do Campo, on ABC Paulista and at the Trianon-Masp Subway station, in São Paulo.

Brazilian women who, over five centuries, have been leading transformations in their lives and in society, have often been ignored, as much as their sublimated legacies, but who with the project, gain notoriety, in the reverence of the artist, “reverence that should be permanent”, according to Dilson Cavalcanti.

“It was in 2019, when Leonardo da Vinci died 500 years ago, that this project was born. The image of Mona Lisa is well known, but the legacy of Catarina Paraguaçu, an Indian who was endowed with rare intelligence and protagonism in her time, when Brazil was still a Portuguese colony, few people know”, reported. “Sister Dulce, today Santa Dulce dos Pobres, born in Bahia at the beginning of the 20th century, worked tirelessly for the poor in the region, leaving an active and strong legacy, even after her death in 1992. presentations, but it is one of the contemporary icons of the exhibition”, he spoke.

The exposure”Every day is also women’s day”, which integrates the project Brazilian monalisasintends to make great Brazilian personalities, both past and contemporary, visible, known, recognized and honored for their legacies and works and that these icons draw the attention, especially, of school-age children and young people, so that boys and girls have one more reason to be proud of these national historical references.

Ana Nery, Anita Garibaldi, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Catarina Paraguaçu, Chica da Silva, Clara Sverner, Clarice Lispector, Cora Coralina, Dandara, Hebe Camargo, Elza Soares, Helô Pinheiro, Hortência, Luiza Trajano, Maria Quitéria, Maria da Penha, Naiza Cavalcante, Princess Isabel, Rita Lee, Santa Dulce dos Pobres, Tarsila do Amaral and Zilda Arns.

The artist

Dilson Cavalcanti, 1955. Born in Tupanatinga, PE. He works and resides in São Paulo, SP. He studied marketing, administration, public relations, worked with fashion, trade and retail of promotional products and one day art discovered Dilson Cavalcanti. “A little over 15 years ago I discovered myself as an artist, and I let a kind of intuition, at that moment, express itself”, he recalls. He always appreciated abstract art and this is how his works began to manifest themselves. “In the work I’ve been developing since then, I use acrylic paint, water, sponges, brushes, spatulas and even stamping squeegee as working materials. The digital graphic resources, however, used in the Brazilian Monalisas, came to give another expression to my work , and I think it is because of the originality of this proposal that these women have drawn people’s attention”, he analyzes.

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Exhibition “Every day is also Women’s Day”by Dilson Cavalcanti

From 03/10 to 04/30/2023

From Thursday to Sunday, from 12:00 to 20:00
Unibes Cultural Gallery

Oscar Freire Street, 2500, Sao Paulo
Free access – Registration through Sympla