Julio Castro

RETRATOS DE NINGUÉM

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8.10 - 4.11.202

 

The exhibition is curated by JOH – Jorge Humberto and is part of a partnership with Estudio Dezenove, a space dedicated to contemporary art located in Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro, of which Julio Castro is the coordinator.

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“Retratos de Ninguém” (“Portraits of No One”) is a series of works developed by the artist since 2020 in which he uses a large amount of portraits generated in photography and converted into stencil matrices. In this set of works, according to the art critic Adolfo Montejo Navas, there is a game of meanings and combinatorial associations that deal with several instances, lineage and anonymity, serialisation and magic, memory and haunting.

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Julio Castro (Porto Alegre, 1962) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
He holds a degree in engraving from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), having attended the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre.
Participated in the collective exhibitions: A Paixão do Olhar MAM/RJ; Republicar Museu da República-RJ (1993); XV ESTAMPA, Madrid (2007); Plaisir d’Offrir#2 – Dagmar De Pooter Gallery / Antwerp, Belgium (2009); Rio X Córdoba, Emílio Caraffa Museum, Argentina, among others.
He exhibited individually in Rio de Janeiro, Pelotas, Porto Alegre, in Lisbon at the Centro Português de Serigrafia (2007) and in Brussels at ARS117 (2009), spaces where he made artistic residencies as a guest artist. In 2017, he participated in an artistic residency with the Collective La Piztola in Oaxaca, Mexico, and in 2019 at the Otawara Cultural Center, Japan.
He is a professor in the area of Graphic Imaging at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. He coordinates in Rio de Janeiro the Estudio Dezenove, a space dedicated to contemporary art.
Works in public collections: Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MARGS, MAC-PR, MAC-RS, CPS- Lisbon, Art Museum of Brasilia.
 

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