Solange Magalhaes

Solange Magalhães, painter

Solange Magalhães was born in France in 1939. Her family moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when she was 13 years old. In 1963, after three years of studying theoretical physics, she chose to be a painter.

As a painter, she is an autodidact. She started with a series of drawings, learning how to control space, shapes and colors. She also experimented with various painting techniques - oil, acrylic, water color, India ink - on different materials such as canvas, paper and masonite.

“Her painting has no commitment to any school” (Clarice Lispector), “A pure manifestation of subconscious images” (Vera Pedrosa). "With time those images went through abstraction, then forms which recall nature - plants, animals, sceneries" (Clarival do Prado Valladares), and recreated mental landscapes. A personal path; for some authors: “From chaos to Cosmos.

Her first solo exhibition took place in 1968 at the Galeria Goeldi in Rio, invited by the art-critic Clarival do Prado Valladares and introduced by writer Clarice Lispector.

Since that time her work has been shown in numerous solo and group shows in the major Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Recife and São Paulo, as well as in Germany and France.

Of particular note were the 1980 exhibition at the Studien Galerie at Stuttgart University in Germany, invited by its director, professor Max Bense, and two exhibitions in Rio: "Solange Magalhães, 30 Years of Painting, a Circular Vision of the World " at the Fine Arts Museum in Rio de Janeiro (1995); and "From Chaos to Cosmos " at the Espaço Cultural Correios (2007).

Her next exhibition will happen in September 2008 at the Centre Culturel Franco Allemand in Karlsruhe, Germany.To access Solange Magalhaes site, click next icon: [http://www.peinturessolange.com.br]