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Artist Statement:
Manoel Costa was born on the state of Pará, Brazil. The son of a canoeing. In his childhood he lived in the forests, watching the landscape and also jungle's many dangers.
Then one day, he heard a sweet music of the world around him, and after that the passion of registering forms and colors stroke like a thunder. This is how painting and art entered his life: to capture not only the beauty around him, but the magnetism of the landscape.
His self made effort overcame his cultural environment limitations. He was awarded a scholarship on the Fine Art School of Rio de Janeiro. Finally, Manoel Costa was really able to express his vocation. Not even a victorious passage in publicity was able to apart him from art. During his life, he sees his painting as a ongoing search for his own truth, exploring many different languages such as abstract, a sort of expressionism that liberates objective and real references and promotes a different style of drawing with and a color freedom....
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Artist Exhibitions:
1962 - Macapá Airclub - Brazil
1969 - Commercial Association of Amapá - Brazil
1981 - Borguese Art Gallery - (Rio de Janeiro) - Brazil
1982 - Arte Maior Gallery (Pernambuco)- Brazil
1983 - Borguese Art Gallery (Rio de Janeiro) - Brazil
1986 - Sans Martins Gallery (Espírito Santo) - Brazil
1987 - Borguese Art Gallery (Rio de Janeiro) - Brazil
2001 - Época ...
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Artist Galleries:
Galeria "G" - Rio Design Barra - (Rio de Janeiro)
Galeria "G" - CasaShopping - (Rio de Janeiro)
Galeria Borguese - (Rio de Janeiro)
Galeria Contorno - (Rio de Janeiro)
Galeria "G" - Gávea - (Rio de Janeiro)
Galeria Alphaville - (Rio de Janeiro)
Galeria Sans Martins - (Espírito Santo)
Galeria de Arte Bahiarte - (Paraná)
Galeria Teles Ferreira - (...
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Artist Reviews:
The suggestive power of Manoel Costa's painting enchanted me, its realism touched at the same time by poetry with a message of beauty, transmitted by the sensitivity and delicateness of its colors. This is how an artist communicates through the spirit and perpetuates images and ideas, gives life to ...
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