maltchique
a curated selection of the artist's most representative works —
uma seleção curada dos trabalhos mais representativos do artista:
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In a visual archaeology that constructs itself through the scarring of the reappropriated image, Maltchique (1979, Pouso Alegre, MG) investigates the chronic ruptures caused by algorithms in the social fabric, which manifest in the flaws inherent to the image transfer process. From this operation emerges a kind of pictorial hallucination, where the image comes to embody itself — remixed, regurgitated, imprinted, or painted onto the support — in sculptural corporification, material complexity, and images charged with symbolism. Thus, the artist creates an algorithmic topography populated by undefined figures, partially recognizable forms, and phantasmagoric bodies, in superpositions of multiple temporalities. The result is the amalgam of a sedimented memory between the flesh and the synthetic that challenges perception and redirects the gaze, evidencing the magical nature and the character of incessant mutation of the image. Between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, the artist seeks to articulate a hybrid production between painting and sculpture, involving manual, mechanized, or artificial intelligence-assisted execution.
Resides and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
1997-2003: Bachelors degree in Design,
Universidade Estadual Paulista - Julio de Mesquita Filho,
Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
Exhibitions:
2025, 35th Bunkyo Contemporary Art Salon (group exhibition).
Curated by Agnaldo Farias, Jacob Klintowitz, and Marianne Aranha.
Bunkyo Cultural Space, São Paulo, Brazil.
2025, Opening of the Final Works of GOA – Group of Artistic Guidance (
group exhibition) organized by Ana Paula Cohen with special participation
by Thiago Honório. Centro Cultural Canteiro, São Paulo, Brazil.
2025, Versa 360 (group exhibition). Curated by Chico Soll.
São Paulo Biennial Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil.
2025, Abraço coletivo (group exhibition). Curated by Paula Borghi.
Centro Cultural Canteiro, São Paulo, Brazil.
2024, Os Nomes do Fim (The Names of the End) (group exhibition).
Curated by Bruna Fernanda, Lucas Goulart,
and Thais Rivitti. Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2023, ‘Past & Present - DER GREIF 15th Anniversary’ (group exhibition).
Curated by Simon Lovermann and Caroline von Courten.
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany.
2014, ‘Untitled’ (group exhibition). Curated by Camila D’Anunziata.
Centro Cultural RED. São Paulo, Brazil.
2012, ‘CODE +55 ARTE BRASILEIRA AGORA’ (group exhibition).
Curated by Mark Saunderson. Fabrik Gallery,
Hong Kong, China.
2011, ‘FORÇAS INVISÍVEIS’ (Invisible Forces) (group exhibition).
Curated by Ricardo Gaioso. Bela Cintra 2006,
São Paulo, Brazil.
Maltchique’s works are part of several private
collections in China, Canada, France,
Netherlands, and Brazil.
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