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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) lives and works in Brussels.
Selected solo exhibitions include Meet me at the finger buffet, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2020); rivieras___bags___ scarves___alps, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2018); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles (2017); Unknown Subjects Among Solitaires, Galeria Múrias Centeno, Lisbon (2016); 3 Novels, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2014); Sentido Figurado, A CASA, Museu do Objeto Brasileiro, São Paulo (2014); and Common Denominator, São Paulo (2013).
His work was most recently included in Dear Yves, KIOSK, Ghent (2022); ENTRETECIDO__INTERLACE, Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon (2021); Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2021); Five in Fives #1, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (2019); SCHMALTZ, Guimarães, Vienna (2018); Dislexia, El Gran Vidrio, Córdoba (2018); Namedropping, JAN KAPS, Cologne (2017); Lyric on Battlefield, Gladstone Gallery, New York (2017); Odd Objects: an on proto-sculpture, CIAJG, Guimarães (2016); Unorthodox, Jewish Museum, New York (2015); and The Iminence of Poetics, 30th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2012).
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Education
2002
MA in Visual Arts/Textiles at Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
1989
Post Graduate Degree in education at Institut für Waldorf Pädagögic, Witten-Annen, Germany
1985
Watercolour Techniques at Instituto d’Arte Donatello, Milan, Italy
1978
BA in Social Sciences – Anthropology, Sociology and Politics at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Lehmann & Silva, Porto, Portugal (upcoming)
2021
Fernando Marques Penteado, Caixa de Correio, Porto, Portugal
2020
Meet me at the finger buffet, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
Fernando Marques Penteado: Scarves & Bags, Mendes Wood DM, online
2018
men in trouble, Independent Art Fair with Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
rivieras___bags___scarves___alps, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Unknown Subjects Among Solitaires, Galeria Múrias Centeno, Porto, Portugal
2014
3 Novels, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Figurative Sense, A CASA, Museu do Objeto Brasileiro, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
Common Denominator, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
Bankruptcy, Museu Regional do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
2009
Steaks and Tapas, Galeria Polinesia, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
Promised Lands, V22 collection at Ashwin Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
On men…on stories, Graphic Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2005
Proper Noun, Dconcept Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2004
In Double Bodies, London Printworks Trust, London, United Kingdom
2003
Projeto Boracea Advent’s Procession, convento de São Francisco, São Paulo, Brazil
Prison Speech Project, HM Prison Wandsworth; Constance Howard Textile Research Centre; Crafts Council, London, United Kingdom
1997
Textile Speech, Galeria Monica Filgueiras de Almeida, São Paulo, Brazil
1985
Wearables, Galeria Paradoxart, São Paulo, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2023
The Clown Spirit, Mucciaccia Gallery, Rome, Italy
The Postcard Party, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium
A Poética do Fazer: Moda e Arte no MAB, Museu de Arte Brasileira FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
Rubedo, performance, Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Vorno, Italy
Elzéard Bouffier, TheMerode, Brussels, Belgium
STILL LIFE/STILL LIVING, Olhão, São Paulo, Brazil
2022
The Clown Spirit - The Circus We Are, Belgian Gallery, Namur, Belgium
Dear Yves,, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium
SOL, Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
Amour, Gloire & Beauté, TheMerode, Brussels, Belgium
Le Pays de Nulle Part, TheMerode, Brussels, Belgium
2021
ENTRETECIDO__INTERLACE, Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon, Portugal
Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Convergent Acts, Bubble'n'Squeak, Brussels, Belgium
Doubles, June, Berlin, Germany
2020
Transbordar - Transgressões do Bordado na Arte, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
On the corner, performance, Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Vorno, Italy
The Clown Spirit, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Garden of Time, Mendes Wood DM, online
Ao Ar Livre, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
Five in Fives #1, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
2018
SCHMALTZ, Guimarães, Vienna, Austria
Dislexia, El Gran Vidrio, Córdoba, Argentina
2017
Namedropping, JAN KAPS, Cologne, Germany
Lyrics on a Battlefield, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Neither., Mendes Wood DM Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Odd Objects: an essay on proto-sculpture, CIAJG, Guimarães, Portugal
2015
Portraits: The last headline, Galeria Bergamin, São Paulo, Brazil
Travelling Places, Bienal de Maia,2015, Galerias do Fórum da Maia / Centro Comercial Plaza, Maia, Portugal
Unorthodox, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
2014
3 Novels, performance, Artissima, Turin, Italy
In Sosta / A rest permanent public sculpture, Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Vorno, Italy
City (Re)Searches Experiences of Publicness, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rituais com Máscaras : um face-a-face, CIAJG, Guimarães, Portugal
A Composição do Ar – Coleção permanente e outras obras, CIAJG, Guimarães, Portugal
2013
Love and Hate to Lygia Clark, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Pagan Kitchen, Casa Modernista, São Paulo, Brazil
New Bondings, Hacienda la Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela
City (Re)Searches Experiences of Publicness, M.K. Čiurlionis Museum of Art, Kauna, Lithuania
City (Re)Searches Experiences of Publicness, Community Arts Partnership, Derry, Northern Ireland
2012
The Iminence of Poetics, 30th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Beyond History (artist in residence), CIAJG, Guimarães, Portugal
City (Re)Searches Experiences of Publicness, Bluedrum, Dublin, Ireland
2009
2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Mount Athos Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece
2008
Experimenta Folklore, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2007
On men…on stories, Graphic Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Kaunas Art Biennial TEXTILE 07, Kaunas, Lithuania (curator)
2006
Portrait, V22 at Ashwin Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
30 Artistas na Biblioteca, Biblioteca do Pari, São Paulo, Brazil
V22 Collection, Workspace Groups Clerkenwell Workshops , London, United Kingdom
Carte Blanche, University of the Arts, curator Maria Moreira , London, United Kingdom
2005
5th Kaunas Art Biennial 'Textile 05', M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
Proper Noun, Dconcept Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2004
Boys Who Sew, Crafts Council, London, United Kingdom
In Double Bodies, London Printworks Trust, London, United Kingdom
The Knitting & Stitching Show, gallery space, London, United Kingdom; Dublin, Ireland
2003
Projeto Boracea Advent's Procession, convento de São Francisco, São Paulo, Brazil
Alternating Currents – modern and contemporary Latin American Art, firstsite @ the minories art gallery, Colchester, United Kingdom
Prison Speech Project, HM Prison Wandsworth; Constance Howard Textile Research Centre; Boys Who Sew, Crafts Council, London, United Kingdom
2002
Final Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London, United Kingddom
Creative Workshop, HM Prison Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
Random Cross Stitch, 33, Monmouth Street, London, United Kingdom
1997
Textile Speech, Monica Filgueiras Galeria de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
1996
Art to wear – Kunst als Kleidung, Handswerkskammer, Dusseldorf; Textilmuseum Max Berk, Heildeberg, Germany
1991
Guess who’s coming for dinner?, Imaginarium, Florianópolis, Brazil
1990
Costume, an object of art?, Fundação C.Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1987
Costume, an object of art?, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1985
Wearables, Galeria Paradoxart, São Paulo, Brazil
Collections
Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles (CHRRCT), United Kingdom
KADIST Foundation, France
Museu de Arte Brasileira FAAP, Brazil
Museu do Objeto Brasileiro, Brazil
Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Italy
ESCALA __ The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America, Brazil
Exhibitions
Curated by Fernanda Brenner
Curated by Milovan Farronato
Publications
Art Matters: Art & Queer Culture with Phaidon
Fernando Marques Penteado 2019
Objectos Estranhos
Fernando Marques Penteado 2017
Masculinidades: teoria, crítica e artes
Fernando Marques Penteado 2011
