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XICO CHAVES

Tiros, MG - 1948

Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Xico Chaves creates his pictorial work through thematic and conceptual series. Stemming from many expeditions to the Iron Belt, in Minas Gerais and other regions in Brazil, all his work in painting, even the oldest ones such as Luzz series (1970), to the more recent ones, and also the Tramas XL series (2018), is made with minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin, this being his main reference in contemporary visual arts. The conception of poetic and spatial objects is present in his research from the very beginning, so the different pictorial series are interspersed. His subject matters encompass three great pillars: life, art and politics.

His interest in constant experimentation of discourses and medias for artistic expression made Xico internationally renowned as a multiple artist, having had in his path popular and experimental music in addition to paintings and objects, performances, process-poems, video art, photographs and records in the fields of poetry, popular and experimental music.

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"TETO SOLAR" SERIES

Paintings with minerals and acrylic resin on canvas made in the mining regions of the iron quadrangle in the state of Minas Gerais and completed in the atelier. These works dialogue with the geography of their surroundings and the constructive material of their ancestral origin. The constructions, energized with raw minerals, interact with nature, its surrounding elements in interactive movement with water, sunlight, vegetation, wind and body performance. The painting brings together gestures, observation, reflection and timelessness by incorporating the trajectory of the artist's creative process, his imagination, the material reality and its diverse origins. The ground, its accidents and its diverse composition, under the effects of water, earth, and solar radiation determine the time of creation in the metamorphosis of the image and its semantic composition.

Teto Solar 04/X

Minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin on canvas
140 x 140 cm

Big Ben [Teto Solar 04/X]

Minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin on canvas
140 x 140 cm

Série Teto Solar - Ataíde

Minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin on canvas
180 x 180 cm

Teto Solar 03-X

Minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin on canvas
140 x 140 cm

"NOVA MATÉRIA" SERIES

From space to gravity, Nova Matéria searches for the solid in its infinite planetary formations, agglomerations, geological compositions, geographies, chromatisms, friability, malleability and poetic sense, on various supports. Travels and researches in Minas, mining companies and landscapes result in aerophotogrammetric representations of reliefs, melts, erosions, imaginary physical transmutations somewhere in the universe, as if the planet or celestial body were always seen from above, now consolidated, now in the process of formation.

Nova Matéria - X03, corpo 01

Minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin on canvas
180 x 120 cm

Nova Materia Vincent

Minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin on canvas
180 x 120 cm

Nova Matéria

Minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin on canvas
50 x 50 cm

Nova Matéria

Minerals, natural pigments and acrylic resin on canvas
50 x 50 cm

VISUAL POEM

Xico Chaves' poetry came over the years, gradually, joining all activities of life, bureaucratic work, politics, leisure, friendship, affections, so that today we can no longer distinguish in his activities what is or is not art [poetry]; your every gesture is an artistic action. Perhaps that was the challenge he set himself, to make life a great form of artistic operation.

Poema voa

Vinyl cutout on ethyl polymer
Varied measures

In “Poema Voa”, words acquire spatiality, movement, translucency, shadow and multidimensionality. It is also an object-poem, where materiality is diluted to give a symbolic dimension to the textual body.

Poema voa

Vinyl cutout on ethyl polymer
Varied Measures

In “Poema Voa”, words acquire spatiality, movement, translucency, shadow and multidimensionality. It is also an object-poem, where materiality is diluted to give a symbolic dimension to the textual body.

Objeto Poema Lúcido

Vinyl on polypropylene cutout
Varied Measures

In the work “Objeto Poema Lúcido” (Poem Lucid Object), matter gains volume, reflecting and distorting light, giving symbolic dimension to the textual body incorporating words of indigenous and African origin. They resemble translucent meteors, seem to convey to us a confusing rite of passage from a world in transition, a kind of future fossils, industrial crystals steeped in history. With this work, Xico Chaves continues the research in which uses polypropylene as raw material and the action of the fire to create multidimensionality, as he makes us reflect on the use of plastic, its resistance and presence in the environment. The interest in language experimentation and mastery of technical means has made Xico Chaves internationally recognized as a multiple artist.

Objeto Poema Lúcido

Vinyl on polypropylene cutout
Varied measures

In the work “Objeto Poema Lúcido” (Poem Lucid Object), matter gains volume, reflecting and distorting light, giving symbolic dimension to the textual body incorporating words of indigenous and African origin. They resemble translucent meteors, seem to convey to us a confusing rite of passage from a world in transition, a kind of future fossils, industrial crystals steeped in history. With this work, Xico Chaves continues the research in which uses polypropylene as raw material and the action of the fire to create multidimensionality, as he makes us reflect on the use of plastic, its resistance and presence in the environment. The interest in language experimentation and mastery of technical means has made Xico Chaves internationally recognized as a multiple artist.