Oscar Araripe
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Oscar Araripe (born July 1941) is a Brazilian artist, writer, educator, and social and ecological activist.
Life and art
Oscar Araripe was born in Rio de Janeiro. His father was a doctor and his mother a teacher.Araripe has exhibited extensively, including at the Bank of Brazil's Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro, the Republic Museum in Rio, the Mineiro Museum, in Belo Horizonte, and as part of the official presentations of ECO-92 UN World Conference, which was seen by an estimated 2 million people
In 1994 he relocated his studio to the village of Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, where he now also lives. In 1995 he undertook an interactive painting project with children of Tiradentes during the Federal University of Minas Gerais Cultural Workshop
In 2001 he showed at Museu de Porto Seguro, Bahia, the Robert Robeson School in New Jersey, USA and the Visual Arts League Exhibition at Lincoln Center, New York. In 2002 Oscar Araripe, a Cesar Tolentino video, won the V Tiradentes Movie Festival.
In 2003 he exhibited in the IV Biennale di Firenze, Italy. In 2004 he showed at Rosa Girardi Art Space, in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais and Ceará at Cariri University, Crato, and simultaneously at the Oboé Cultural Gallery, in Fortaleza, Ceará. Also in 2004 he portraid Bárbara de Alencar, the brazilian independence and republican heroine and exhibit Two Araripes in Cearense Press Association, in Fortaleza.In 2005 Oscar Araripe was invited to participate at Caribbean Festival, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, and also shows An American Springtime in Solange Rabello Gallery,Miami,Usa.In 2006 exhibited Tiradentes Revisited in Solar dos Ramalhos, in Tiradentes,Minas Gerais State.
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