Tangos of Juarez Machado at the Alice Mogabgab Art Gallery
Fri, Oct 10 2009
The Art gallery Alice Mogabgab will be hosting the Tangos of Juarez Machado, oil painting on canvas and pastel drawing on paper. Juarez Machado was born in 1941 in Joinville, south Brazil. He studied art at the school of fine arts of Parana, Curitiba, and participated actively in various art activities.

In 1966, he settled in Rio de Janeiro where he broadened his activities. In addition to painting, he works in sculpture, engraving, illustration, humorous drawings, and scenery for theater and television. Since 1986, he lives and works between Paris and Rio de Janeiro where he devotes himself exclusively to painting and sculpture.

His artworks are often exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Brussels, and Beirut. They are also found in different Brazilian museums as well as in Uruguay, Chili, and Spain. He received many awards at different Brazilian and international exhibitions, as well as different titles such as an honorary Ph.D from the University of Joinville in 2001.

The art gallery of Alice Mogabgab consecrated a first personnel exhibition for Machado in 1995 and followed it by a series of others in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001. In October 2009, the art gallery will be opening the season with a collection of oil paintings on canvas and pastel drawings on carton regarding his preferred dance, the Tango.

After an almost total disappearance in the past, nowadays the tango, a dance and musical style born in Argentina at the end of the XIX century, is capable of seducing fans in Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Lebanon.

For over a century, the Tango has shown an amazing resistance towards the ups and downs of the history of modern music and towards all modern tendencies.

Furthermore, Juarez Machado paints all parameters of Tango: Asian, flamenco, Mediterranean; on a bicycle or on a boat; behind a piano or on the melody of an accordion or violin; interlaced, acrobatic, tuned, on a Saturday night or forever. His glamorous subjects are painted in a universe of delight. Time stops in the face of sensuous bodies that invite you directly to the dance.

Unrestrained or sophisticated, the Tango of Juarez is passionately yours.
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