Born in Brasilia in 1985, the painter Clarice Gonçalves is part of the first generation of artists born in Brasilia. She graduated as Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of Brasilia in 2008 and exposes the country since 2004, having received in 2007, the prize acquisition of 13 new artists of the hall, in Joinville, SC. Currently rehearsing her international career, participating in fairs and exhibitions in London and New York.The young artist also had her work published in several national and international publications. Among them, the cover of SAMBA, the magazine Soma and Zupi, B + in the publication\'s editor Abest Inspiration Brazil, Colombian MASTODONTE and the editorial in the book Creative Genius launched this year by London publisher MOT. Her production was also recorded in the documentary film Under the sign of poetry \"sob o signo da poesia\" (2011), which focuses on the poetic creation in Brasilia, directed by Neto Borges.

Clarice Gonçalves\' works sublimate Brasília. All the concrete of the city\'s modernist architecture is translated in the immensity of the sky in its blue, orange, yellow, pink, ochre palettes; in the immensity of the clouds that transit the spaces of the vast sky just like people transit the empty spaces of the city; in the immensity partaken by this people who have in a multicolored, contemplation-inviting sky much more than a sea.
The painter is part of a generation of artists that are breaking new ground in Brasília and awaking for the world. Better yet?a group for whom the world awakes. Gifted with a relation with space much different from that the urbanites from other cities have, this generation draws to the capital of Brazil the attention that Brasília?s rock music once has attracted.
Clarice is one of the artists in this generation that transmits an incomparable lightness in her regard upon the feminine. Part of the artist?s creative process starts through a survey of images on the internet, which places her at the top of the contemporaneity trend: casting her gaze and interpretation on images that are not necessarily in her context, and appropriating them with the unmistakable mark and style of Clarice Gonçalves. This style is composed of strong strokes, thus creating lots of texture, and of the fluid stains, denoting a counterpoint of much lightness. Another peculiarity when it comes to her workspace is the diversity of canvas? formats?she does not stop at the monotony of the straight line, but rather asserts her autonomy and questions all the aspects of the painting. Full of density, the works? titles are brief poetic narratives of thought, stay clear from the obvious, and invite?better to say, incite?the onlooker to think beyond the static. The best definition of the recurrent portrayed stare of Clarice?s women, always capturing the attention, is rightfully the title of one work of hers: the surreptitious slant of unsettling stares [o soslaio furtivo de olhares inquietadores]. It is hard to be a mere spectator of her portrays and not feel like a witness of something that may not be the same a few moments later, due to a feeling of familiarity that borderlines a déjà vu, a rare, subtle feature which gives us a sensation of intimacy with the scene represented, as if the painting gathered from each of us something from our personal history.

Thais Catunda



Main exhibitions

2012 - PARTE art fair, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 - COTIDIANO, collective, Andre gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 - The most part of her remains - individual, Hotel Gallery, Jardins, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 - Debut Contemporary, collective, London, UK
2012 - Global Projects, Broadway Gallery, collective, NY
2011 - Debut Contemporary gallery, collective, London, UK
2011 - Paralax Art Fair, La Galleria, London, UK
2011 - Small Sizes - Andre Gallery, collective, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 - Paradise - Andre Gallery, collective, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 - The soul affluates to the sibling, FAV Gallery, individual, Goiânia, Brazil
2010 - To the upcoming winds - Brasilia (1960-2010), Ecco Gallery, collective, Brasilia, Brazil
2010 - Brasilia, pleasure of painting, Fayga Ostrower Gallery, collective, Brasilia, Brazil
2010 - Contemporary occupation Referência Gallery, collective, Brasilia, Brazil
2009 - As if it were skin of ink, Objeto Encontrado Gallery, individual, Brasilia, Brazil
2008 - Inherited memories, Espaço Piloto Gallery, individual, Brasilia, Brazil
2008 - Personal and transferable, Chamber of Deputies Gallery, individual, Brasilia, Brazil
2008 - Vision of Europe prize, National Museum of Republic, collective, Brasilia, Brazil
2007 - 13th new artists\' salon prize, first prize awarded, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2004 - UnB Gallery, collective, Brasilia, Brazil

Revista Soma 25 – Setembro 2011 – página 16
Mastodonte editorial, 2010 www.flickr.com/people/mastodonte/
SAMBA magazine 02, 2010 revistasamba.blogspot.com
coletivo com arte coletivocomarte.blogspot.com
participation on the documentary about poetic creation in Brasilia www.sobosignodapoesia.com

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