Exhibition Resistance: the Mutant Science of Existence

Carminha Macedo Arts Gallery – Belo Horizonte

August 17th to September 17th 2017

Note: In this digital version, we opt to include only works that had not been presented in other exhibitions.

A multidisciplinary artist, Arnaldo Dias Baptista also expresses himself through the visual arts and writing. He started dedicating himself to drawings, collages and paintings from 1982 in a spontaneous and experimental way, with an emphasis on fantastic imagery.

He investigates and re-signifies all the subjects permeating him with complete freedom: physical theories, behavior, psychedelia, etymology, theology, eroticism, popular culture and, above all, music. Through figuration, the artist presents political, social, ecological, existential and metaphysical matters.

The language comes from a rich pictorial and symbolic universe, without censorship.  The spectator is invited to know some of his mutant facets: the ironic, the transcendental, the melancholic or the playful. Relating music, poetry, writing, painting, drawing and performance, Arnaldo and his polyphonic universe have reverberated for some generations, as one of the great representatives of the Brazilian counter-culture.

Curator: Fabiana Figueiredo