Prades Jaime: Dentro / Inside

The artist Jaime Prades presents his solo exhibition ‘Dentro / Inside‘ at Mezanino Gallery, in Pinheiros, São Paulo. Abstraction and fluid elements are part of the imaginary Brazilian artist born in Spain. In 40 years of artistic career, it is the first time that the artist presents a show dedicated exclusively to the practice of painting and drawing, revealing a milestone in its path. Notoriously, he was known for interventions using the city as a backdrop, but now their focus moves to the inside, a search for ‘almost light’ – as he often declared. Paintings (20.01 cm x 1:40 cm) impregnated by graphic abstraction, the artist emphasizes the depth of the look in compositions made in charcoal and acrylic paint, exploring a range of cool colors (black / blue) and warm (copper / brown). The text is in charge of Ana Candida Avelar, art critic and PhD in History, Criticism and Theory of Art from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP).

“They are like a membrane, a skin. I needed to talk about the delicacy, as a feminine look, internal – that the world needs today, “exclaimed Jaime Prades, leaving their inquiries side policies, even when you migrate a semi-figurative production to complete abstraction. It also features drawings (54 cm x 39 cm) produced in 2015/2016, embryonal of the entire series, which is marked by the stain and the game to expand / shine & clear / back.

The installation ‘Vortex Neutralizer’, performed with coal, granite tub, 12m from raw cotton, watery ink and handwritten text with charcoal, is also part of the show. His last individual in space was ‘Peacemakers’ with flat sculptures for wall and objects held in 2014. Some historical artist pieces, such as the ‘Raw’ series and ‘Human Nature’ – which found materials and ‘recycled’ by artist reinforce its poetic, can be found in the gallery.

Institutional and wall
Currently he performs a mural of 120 m² (its largest urban work accomplished to date) on Rua Bela Cintra, in Consolation in Sao Paulo; participates in the collective ‘Entreolhares – Poetics d’Brazilian soul’, on display until August 07 2016 in Afro-Brazil Museum (curated by Fabio Magalhaes and Edna Matosinhos Bridges) and has two works on paper (dated 1989) incorporated into the MAC / USP collection.

About the artist
Born in 1958 in Madrid (Spain), has lived in Brazil since 1970 and works in São Paulo since 1975. He participated in the first collective of street of Brazil, Tupinãodá extracted name of a poem by Robert Antonio de Moraes.

He participated in numerous collective, in areas such as MIS-SP, SESC, 19th Bienal de São Paulo and the Brazilian Art Museum. Individual held at the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP, São Paulo Cultural Centre (CCSP) in the passage under the street of Consolation and The Lantern Gallery and the exhibition ‘BONE’ at the Cultural Institute Cervantes in 2013.

He has works in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Catarina, Parana Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Sorocaba, Art Office Martin Wurzmann, SESC / SP and Plaza Gallery (Tokyo, Japan). The artist also has works on permanent display in locations in Sao Paulo (sculpture “Mother Universe” in Amadeo Amaral Square, Bela Vista, pictographic Intervention “Mantra Dinamus Star” in Ibirapuera Park Sculptures “Radiant” in the Panamericana School Higienópolis Art).