Tchago Martins

Tchago Martins is born on August 21, 1987 in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.

The artist worked as a designer and art director at digital agencies and today he is a partner in a framing business with his father (Cido Molduras).

Since childhood he was making collages, and together with his family environment, studied and experimented with his works.

Tchago Martins has been developing manual collages in a professional way for over twelve years, and participated in individual and collective exhibitions with other artists, regularly does collaborative work and develops curatorial projects. His works go through a process of selecting the images and the compositions are each formed with a weight.

The works are generally guided by social criticism and human reflection as a theme, trying to be explained (or not) by their titles, as in films or comics. Currently he is part of the international collective 'Gli Informali', with 38 other artists of manual collage in the world.

FORMATION

Superior in Design of Complete Digital Media, 2006-2007, Faculdade Impacta Tecnologia

EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS

2020

Individual Exhibition “Solto, se possível / Loose, If possible”, Laje 795, Sao Paulo, SP;

2019

1st “Art in box” - Analog Edition, collective exhibition and art fair, Universidade do Papel, Sao Paulo, SP;

38th “Art and Print Fair”, Centro da Terra, Sao Paulo, SP.

2018

1st Festa Colagista / Collagist Party, Que Tal Bar, Sao Paulo, SP;

Individual exhibition “Sobre Por / About by”, Coletivo 217, Diadema, SP;

Illustration of the article “Concha” in the August issue of Cemporcento Skate Magazine.

2017

1st Artz Fair, Gambalaia Art and Culture Space, Santo André, SP;

Zine # 2 “Positive and Negative Sides” by the international collective Gli Informali;

“Limiar” series, works developed with numbering and signature in partnership with Avesso, fineart printing company in Sao Paulo;

Professor at the manual collage workshop at Instituto Romanos, Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP.

2016

Exhibition “Portrait” by the international collective Gli Informali;

Individual panel with 27 collages in the Red Light Duplex cultural space, Santo André, SP;

Collective exhibition “Espaço Novart / Novart Space”, ALESP - Legislative Assembly of the State of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo;

Collective exhibition “ABC Subúrbio Operário / Workers suburb”, ABC Metalworkers Union, Sao Bernardo do Campo;

Gli Informali Collective, insertion in the international collective of 38 collagist artists from around the world, with collaborative projects and itinerant exhibitions.

2015

Individual exhibition “Eu não quero mostrar / I don’t want to show it”, Ilva Aceto Maranesi Art Library, Pinacoteca of Sao Bernardo do Campo;

Double exposure “É mais que uma cor em evidência / It’s more than a color in evidence”, Submundo 177 Gallery, Sao Paulo;

Exhibition with the duo “Seu Cido & Seu Filho # 2 / Mr. Cido and his son n. 2”, Jordanópolis Gallery, Sao Bernardo do Campo;

Professor at the manual collage workshop at the 1st “Political Turn”, Sao Paulo, SP.

2014

Collective exhibition “Mail Art Exchange Project”, CaMEP - Museum of Contemporary Art, La Spezia (Italy);

Vacilante Magazine, a collaborative project designed by the Recife artist Luciano Mattos, with artists from Pernambuco and Sao Paulo;

Afrosambas (s), development of graphic design for virtual disk cover of the project Sonidos States (under development);

Collective exhibition “Guinémetria”, Capim Guiné Agency, Sao Paulo, SP;

Individual exhibition “1st Exhibition of Artistic Works”, French Restaurant La Maison de la Crepe, Sao Paulo, SP.

2013

Project Garbage Pail Kids, collaborative work with the american collagist Terry Flowers.

REFERENCES ABOUT THE ARTIST

“Tchago Martins collage, in addition to the use of glue and the prosaic cutouts of different origins, brings as a final result juxtapositions, experiments and daily confrontations. In the relationship between image, background and space, we note the artist's unease by giving a subverted sense to the works, creating new meanings and visual disturbances.”

Ayao Okamoto, visual artist and university professor, PhD in Visual Poetics-ECA-USP

“The artist Tchago Martins, expresses in his art a set of visual possibilities and experiments that transmit to the recipient a unique process of visualization and interpretation of each work.

Just like a "sample" in the musical context - which has the role of recycling a sound extract extracted from another work and reusing it, not necessarily with the same purpose as the initial work - its collage work provides a new freshness for the images which already have their own meaning, allowing, in this way, a contemporary reading of the urban space, the metropolises and their surroundings, through the overlapping of the elements.

His images refer to memories of cities, which mix up times, places and situations, expanding each individual's field of abstraction and exploring a tangle of sensations in his graphic repertoire. Speaking of sensations, the explanation is up to each one.

After all, in your art there are no definitive answers.”

Rodrigo Plaça, geographer and cultural researcher