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Detail of Prato Principal, (from the “Cortinas Franjadas” serie), 2016, wool and synthetic fabrics machine and hand embroidered, lace, beads, plastic sheets, wood rod, 265 × 270 cm
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).   
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    at Mendes Wood DM Brussels Aug 3, 2023
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