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Artist Statement for Vilmar Madruga
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Vilmar Madruga was born in Rio Grande do Sul in 1951. Even before going to the College of Architecture in Porto Alegre, he used to dedicate himself to drawing in a self-taught way. His interest in drawing and particularly in the pop culture of the 70's led him to art direction jobs in advertising agencies located in the Rio-Sto Paulo axis. It was not until 1975 that he started attending Drawing and Painting classes at the School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, and model sessions at the Museum of Art also in Rio de Janeiro. His paintings have been displayed in some national halls and in itinerant exhibits for the world peace in London, Paris, New York and Baghdad.
Madruga is one of the forerunners of mural painting and, together with a group of mural painters from Sto Paulo called Tupintod, he performed on several walls and subway stations in Rio de Janeiro, while co-ordinating the project "Rio Arte Pinta no Rio" (Rio Art Paints in Rio).
As a teacher, he carries out na art project with some prisoners in Rio de Janeiro, having been the curator of the exhibit "A Cor do Cárcere" (The Color of Prison),which was held at the Historical Museum of Rio de Janeiro and gathered the works of students imprisoned in the Penal Colony Vieira Ferreira Neto, located in the city of Niterói. Nowadays, he co-ordinates the Art Workshop at "Casa da Paz" (Peace House), former site of Vigário Geral sllaughter, now made into a center of culture anda resistance to violence by the project "Viva-Rio" (Long Live Rio). He has held one-man shows in several capital cities in Brazil and was present, along with Burle Marx, Di Cavalcante and Scliar, in the first homage paid to Villa Lobos's 100th birthday, in Paris.
Vilmar Madruga's work has permanent exhibition in Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, and it is present in the United Nations collection, in New York, and in Brazilian Embassy in Iraq, in Baghdad.
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