Gilberto Salvador
Gilberto Orcioli Salvador graduated in architecture in 1969 from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo - FAU/USP, where he later worked as a professor. Parallel to university studies, he devoted himself to painting and drawing. He exhibited individually, for the first time in 1965, at the Teatro de Arena Art Gallery in São Paulo.
He was awarded a gold medal at the Salão de Arte Contemporânea, Campinas, in 1967, and, in the 1969 and 1970 editions, with the acquisition prize. He participated in several editions of the São Paulo International Biennial, and among his main solo shows, two exhibitions at Masp stand out, in 1985 and 1995. In 1999, the sculpture Vôo de Xangô was installed at the Jardim São Paulo Station of the Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo - Subway. His work is characterized by the opposition between gestural and rigid lines, between organic and inorganic forms, between movement and static. In them, living forms, men, flowers and animals dialogue with geometric figures. Art critic Jacob Klintowitz published two books about the artist's work, História Natural do Homem Segundo Gilberto Salvador, from 1985, and Gilberto Salvador O Reino Interior, from 2001.
