Overview
My main remark is on how suppressed a situation between two men can be. It doesn't have to end up in homosexuality. It is more about the confusion of men who cannot be frank to one another on an emotional level. Machismo is just the epitome of this nonsense.
– Fernando Marques Penteado
The practice of Fernando Marques Penteado (aka f.marquespenteado) is supported by a very well-defined method that involves long processes and specific techniques that are tenaciously operated. The artist has a work trajectory specially marked by embroidery, which ends up linking clothing accessories, books, and found objects. And for an aesthetic choice, it combines autobiographical and historical matter in the link of inventive literary creations.
Starting with in-depth research on the contribution of the textile universe to visual culture and the diffusion of knowledge, the artist elaborates narratives permeated by his own personal vocabulary, whose profoundness is articulated by playful undertones that constantly negotiate the meaning of things. In representations sewn by Fernando Marques Penteado, we are faced with common human relations and historical and semantic displacements. It is within these that topics such as sexuality, homoeroticism, gender, and violence are considered from a perspective that articulates, in a very particular way, social critiques from domestic environments.
Fernando Marques Penteado (b. 1955, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in Brussels.
Selected solo exhibitions have been held at Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2024); Lehmann & Silva, Porto (2024); Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2020); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2018); Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles (2017); Galeria Múrias Centeno, Lisbon (2016); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2014); Museu do Objeto Brasileiro, São Paulo (2014); and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2013).
His work has featured in group shows at BOZAR, Brussels (2024); CC Strombeek, Strombeek (2023); Museu de Arte Brasileira – FAAP, São Paulo (2023); Farol Santander, São Paulo (2023); KIOSK, Ghent (2022); Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon (2021); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2021); Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (2019); Guimarães, Vienna (2018); El Gran Vidrio, Córdoba (2018); JAN KAPS, Cologne (2017); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2017); CIAJG, Guimarães (2016); Jewish Museum, New York (2015); and 30th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2012).
Selected Artworks
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Ikebana 02, 2023 -
Flower Tributes 09, 2021
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Flower Tributes 11, 2021
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Chic Snacks 04, 2020
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Mineiração / Mining, da série Culturas em um Mapa / from the Cultures in a Map series, 2020
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Serge Pahlavouni [SP], 2020
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Chocolate Box, 2019
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VIP Snacks, 2019
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Cadernos de Viagem__06, 2018
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Eduardo Jobim [EJ], 2018
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Guillaume Alcan [GA], 2018
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Flores para Lupe, 2017
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Mexican Guest 04, 2017
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Vulto 3D__05, 2017
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[OE] Ólafur ErduArbjörnsson, 2016
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VI Prêmio, da série Arranjos Premiados, 2014
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Os cubos da ciência, 2013
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Homenagem à Câmara Cascudo, da série “Cortinas Franjadas”, 2008
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Mil boquetes 08, da série Wedgwood erótica, 2008
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Bolo de Sorvete Napolitano com Calvário, 2006
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Sem título, da série Bancarrota, 2002
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Flip flop, da série “Identifique as palavras do vernáculo das prisões”, 2001
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![Fernando Marques Penteado, Guillaume Alcan [GA], 2018](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto,dpr_auto/artlogicstorage/mendeswooddm/images/view/dc76e3179444e6a126f05846f4342f04/mendeswooddm-fernando-marques-penteado-guillaume-alcan-ga-2018.jpg)
![Fernando Marques Penteado, [OE] Ólafur ErduArbjörnsson, 2016](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto,dpr_auto/artlogicstorage/mendeswooddm/images/view/3c3a6dc0f36d152072f5b48e40102473j/mendeswooddm-fernando-marques-penteado-oe-lafur-erduarbj-rnsson-2016.jpg)
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Exhibitions
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Artists Who Wear Jewelry
Group exhibition Jul 26 – Aug 9, 2025 D'Ouwe Kerke, RetranchementOpen every day | 11 am – 6 pm d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement the Netherlands In 1902, Fernand Khnopff completed construction on a house on the edge...View Exhibition -
ARDOR AND WRATH
Fernando Marques Penteado Aug 24 – Nov 9, 2024 São Paulo, Barra FundaMendes Wood DM is pleased to present ARDOR AND WRATH, a solo exhibition by artist Fernando Marques Penteado . Returning to the image of a home, Marques Penteado surveys a...View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 4, 2023 São Paulo, Barra FundaLinhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian...View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 11, 2023 São Paulo, Casa IramaiaLinhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian...View Exhibition -
Paper Trails
Group Show Jul 29 – Aug 8, 2023 D'Ouwe Kerke, RetranchementOpen every day | 11am to 6pm d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Osama Alrayyan, Laís Amaral, Lucas Arruda, Patricia Ayres, Alvaro Barrington, Paloma Bosquê, Castiel Vitorino...View Exhibition -
Male Nudes
a salon from 1800 to 2021 Mar 13 – Apr 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra FundaMendes Wood DM is proud to present the group exhibition Male Nudity: a salon from 1800 to 2021 . Intersecting representations of the male nude, the show proposes to reflect...View Exhibition -
Meet me at the finger buffet
Fernando Marques Penteado Sep 3 – Oct 3, 2020 BrusselsMendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Belgium of Brazilian-born, Brussels-based artist Fernando Marques Penteado. Meet me at the finger buffet draws its name from...View Exhibition -
Workspaces: redesigned through time
Group Show Jun 26 – Sep 1, 2020 São Paulo, Barra FundaBossa Furniture and Mendes Wood DM present Workspaces: redesigned through time, an exhibition that explores the history of office spaces from 1950 until today. By gathering Brazilian designers and artists...View Exhibition -
EnormousBalls
Group Show Jun 13 – Jul 18, 2020 BrusselsAdriano Costa, Fernando Marques Penteado, Sonia Gomes, Paulo Nazareth, Michael Dean, Celso Renato, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Kishio Suga, Solange Pessoa, Paloma Bosquê, Marina Perez Simão, Lucas Arruda, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané,...View Exhibition -
rivieras___bags___scarves___alps
Fernando Marques Penteado Feb 23 – Mar 25, 2018 São Paulo, Barra FundaMendes Wood DM is pleased to present rivieras___bags___scarves___alps, the third individual exhibition of the Brazilian artist f.marquespenteado at the gallery. The artist invites the visitors on a journey to a...View Exhibition -
Neither., curated by Fernanda Brenner
Group Show Apr 18 – Jun 17, 2017 BrusselsAdriano Costa, Sonia Gomes, Lucas Arruda, Luiz Roque, Patricia Leite, Paloma Bosquê, Mariana Castillo Deball, Nina Canell, Kasper Bosmans, Fernando Marques Penteado, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Michael Dean, Erika Verzutti, Otobong Nkanga,...View Exhibition -
Prediction
Group show May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra FundaCurated by Milovan Farronato Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Adriano Costa, Raúl De Nieves, Patrizio di Massimo, f.marquespenteado, Chiara Fumai, Celia Hampton, George Henry Longly, Christian Holstad, Runa Islam, Zhana Ivanova, Goshka...View Exhibition -
3 novels
Fernando Marques Penteado Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 1, 2015 São Paulo, Barra FundaLove creates plots which in turn define the destinies of its subjects, both courting and displeasing those who become involved in it. Life is the arena for these love stories,...View Exhibition -
Denominador Comum
Fernando Marques Penteado Feb 2 – Mar 2, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Fundaf.marquespenteado’s solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DM is a testament to the passage of the artist’s time. The works on view evoke hand-made embroidery – the medium of choice in...View Exhibition
News
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Tender, Trivial, Totemic Table Talks
Fernando Marques Penteado May 23, 2025Read moreNetwerk Aalst
Aalst, Belgium
06/06/25 – 24/08/25 -
Stubborn Drafts___Burning Fictions
Fernando Marques Penteado May 10, 2025Read moreCulturgest
Lisbon, Portugal
10/05 2025 – 28/09 2025 -
331 Amoreiras em Metamorfose
Fernando Marques Penteado Dec 17, 2024Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da SilvaRead more
Lisbon, Portugal
20/12 2024 — 31/12 2025
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Love is Louder
Fernando Marques Penteado, Kasper Bosmans Sep 20, 2024Read moreBOZAR
Brussels, Belgium
12/10/24 — 05/01/25
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