Brazilian artist, lives and works in Maricá, Rio de Janeiro. Jarbas Lopes moves ideas, reframes objects, idealizes magic and expands, based on his works, the concept of possible utopias. His creative process permeates a reconfiguration of objects and aesthetic experiences, giving them a new meaning and movement, always permeated by a critical tone. His sculptures and interactive paintings make a balanced fusion between time, space and practical and ideological circumstances such as collective participation, sociability for public spaces and shared uses of the city. The artist uses this power to work and stretch plasticity to maximum tensions, his work “Cicloviaérea” is a conceptual plan in which the artist works the imaginary and creates a means of transport that dispenses with fuel and uses a bicycle to connect two points through an inclined plane, a sculptural-architectural symbol mixed with the continuity of what is around it, the landscape. In addition to this symbiosis of weights, volumes and conceptual balances, Jarbas creates environments that bring key stories to expand the edges of art, his installations with everyday materials such as cars, bicycles, paints, rubber bands, election campaign banners and advertising banners shows intersect the reification of images. Fantasizing, manufacturing and remaking the handicraft is, in Jarbas, a conceptual basis that unfolds in many dimensions. His work carries a puerile force and invites irruptions.

In 2023, he inaugurates the solo show “Lua/Luta”, at A Gentil Carioca, and prepares for a solo show at Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 2022, he opens the solo "Gira" at the Museu de Arte do Rio, participates in the "Anozero'21-22" - Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra and in the group exhibition "A Trama da Terra que Treme" at A Gentil Carioca in São Paulo. In 2021, he participated in the group exhibition "Bum bum praticumbum" also at A Gentil Carioca in São Paulo. In 2019, he participated in the group shows “Samba in the Dark”, at the Anton Kern gallery, in NY, and “Brasil! Focus on Brazilian Contemporary Art”, at the Museo Ettore Fico, in Turin, Italy. His works were also present at the III Bienal de Gaia, in Vila de Gaia, Portugal. In 2018, during the exhibition “Via Aérea”, he carried out a major artistic intervention in the external courtyard of Sesc Belenzinho, in São Paulo. In 2017, he exhibited the solo shows “XXXY”, at the A Gentil Carioca gallery, Rio de Janeiro, and “e a u”, at CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France. In 2016, he exhibited the solo show “SOLTO”, at Sesc Nova Iguaçu, “And again, mountain, river, sea, jungle, forest”, at SESC Palladium, Rio de Janeiro, and the solo Presentation, by the gallery A Gentil Carioca, during the Art Basel, Switzerland.

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