Falves Silva
Superfície Exhibitions +
2017
50 anos Poema/Processo: uma vanguarda semiológica

2016
Sinais
Individual Exhibitions +

2016
Círculo do Tempo, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Sinais, Galeria Superfície, São Paulo, Brasil.

2013
Cápsula da Memória: Falves Silva 70 anos, FUNARTE, Natal, Brasil.

1983
Brasil Ontem/Hoje, Natal, Brasil.

Collective Exhibitions +
2019
Poema-Processo, A Última Vanguarda (14ª Bienal de Curitiba). Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil.
História da Poesia Visual Brasileira. Sesc Bom Retiro, São Paulo, Brazil.
À Nordeste. Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil.

2018
A Marquise, o MAM e Nós no Meio. Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil.

2017
50 anos Poema/Processo: uma vanguarda semiológica. Galeria Superfície, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mais do que Araras. Sesc Palladium, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

1999
II Bienal de Arte Correio, Spain.

1997
IX Exposição Internacional de Arte Postal, Câmara Municipal de Barreiro, Portugal.

1995
Mostra Nacional de Poesia Visual UFRN, Natal, Brazil.
Mostra visual de poesia brasileira UFMG, Ouro Preto, Brazil.
O cinema: sétimo festival nacional de arte postal, Câmara municipal de Barreiro, Portugal.

1990
Jazz Past/Future Yongtom, Ohio, USA.

1989
III Bienal de Poesia Visual, DF, Mexico.

1987
Poema/Processo Brasileño, Montividéu, Uruguay.

1986
I Bienal Internacional de Poesia Visual, DF, Mexico.

1985
Mostra Internacional de Arte Contemporânea, Rosário, Argentina.

1984
International mail art exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.

1982
World Art Post Budapest, Hungary.

1981
XVI Bienal de São Paulo [curation by Walter Zanini], Brazil.

1980
Xeroart 80, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.

1977
EXpoética, Biblioteca Câmara Cascudo , Natal, Brazil.

1976
Experiências, Escola de Artes Visuais, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1969
Scrash Processo Teatro Santa Rosa, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.

1967
Explo 02- Exposição inaugural do movimento Poema/Processo, Natal, Brazil.
Public Collections +
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madri, Espanha.
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil.
MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brasil.

Falves Silva [Cacimba, Brazil, 1943] is one of the precursor artists of the Poema/Processo movement, alongside names like Moacyr Cirne, Wlademir Dias Pino, Álvaro de Sá and Neide Sá, participating in its inaugural manifesto in 1967. In 1981, the artist participates in the XVI São Paulo Biennial, curated by Walter Zanini. On the 80’s, he’s associated with the international network of Postal Art, maintaining an intense and fruitful dialogue with artists of different generations and nationalities, among them Jota Medeiros, Ivald Granato, Leonhard Frank Duch, Paulo Bruscky, Hudinilson Jr , Clemente Padín, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Ulises Carrión and Horacio Zabala. His work was exhibited at the International mail art exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, in 1984, and at the II Bienal de Arte Correio, Spain, in 1999. More recently, the artist had his solo exhibition “Círculo do Tempo”, a retrospective of his career, presented at the Centro Cultural São Paulo. The production of Falves Silva can be thought of as a convergence of two of the main axes of Brazilian art: concrete movements and conceptual art. The artist dialogues with literature, cinema and comics; manipulating communicative structures and images from the history of art and mass communication, Falves Silva creates his work by diversifying the approach and treatment of the materials he chose.

Artwork

Sem título, da série ‘Poema-Processo’

Paper collage and drawing on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem título, da série ‘Poema-Processo’

Paper collage and drawing on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem título, da série ‘Poema-Processo’

Paper collage and drawing on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem título, da série ‘Poema-Processo’

Paper collage and drawing on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem título, da série ‘Poema-Processo’

Paper collage and drawing on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título

Typographical printing and drawing on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Sem Título

Typographical printing and drawing on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Sem Título

Typographical printing and drawing on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Sem Título

Typographical printing and drawing on paper 32,5 × 22 cm

Sem Título

Typographical printing and drawing on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 31.5 × 22 cm Polyptych of 6 – 1/6

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 31.5 × 22 cm Polyptych of 6 – 2/6

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 31.5 × 22 cm Polyptych of 6 – 3/6

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 31.5 × 22 cm Polyptych of 6 – 4/6

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 31.5 × 22 cm Polyptych of 6 – 5/6

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 31.5 × 22 cm Polyptych of 6 – 6/6

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 31.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 32.5 × 23.5 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 30.5 × 21 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 31 × 19.5 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 30.5 × 21 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 30.5 × 21 cm (each)

Latin American Way of Life

Ink and collage on paper 32.5 × 23.5 cm

Sem título

Ink on paper 48 × 33 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 31.5 × 20.5 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Latin American Way of Life

Ink on paper 32.5 × 22 cm

Letrismo 1

Collage on kraft paper 44 × 31.5 cm

Letrismo 2

Collage on kraft paper 44 × 31.5 cm

Letrismo 3

Collage on kraft paper 44 × 31.5 cm

Letrismo 4

Collage on kraft paper 44 × 31.5 cm

Letrismo 5

Collage on kraft paper 44 × 31.5 cm

Elementos da Semiótica

Artist's book 21.5 × 15 cm

Autorretrato e Mondrian, da série ‘Mondrian’

Typographical printing, collage and drawing on paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Mondrian’

Typographical printing and drawing on paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Mondrian’

Typographical printing and drawing on paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Sinais’

Paper collage on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Mondrian’

Typographical printing and drawing on paper 48 × 33 cm

Selos do artista I, da série ‘Arte Postal’

Typographical printing and collage on paper 48 × 33 cm

Selos do artista V, da série ‘Arte Postal’

Typographical printing and collage on paper 48 × 33 cm

Selos do artista VII, da série ‘Arte Postal’

Typographical printing and collage on paper 48 × 33 cm

Homenagem à cidade de Natal, da série ‘Arte Postal’

Typographical printing and collage on paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Sinais’

Paper collage on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Sinais’

Paper collage on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Sinais’

Paper collage on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Sinais’

Paper collage on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Sinais’

Paper collage on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm

Sem Título, da série ‘Sinais’

Paper collage on colored kraft paper 48 × 33 cm