Aldo Bonadei

Aldo Bonadei (São Paulo, SP, 1906 - also, 1974)

Aldo Bonadei was a Brazilian painter, designer, engraver, costume designer, and teacher, with a career marked by experimentation and significant contributions to modern art. Between 1923 and 1928, he studied drawing with the renowned painter Pedro Alexandrino and also frequented the studio of painter Antonio Rocco. In 1929, Bonadei became acquainted with art teacher Amadeo Scavone, which motivated him to travel to Italy between 1930 and 1931. During this stay, he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Florence, where he studied with painter Felice Carena and his assistant Ennio Pozzi, both influenced by the Novecento movement. During this period, Bonadei devoted himself to the study of human figure drawing, especially the nude, an important phase in the development of his artistic language.

Upon returning to São Paulo in the early 1930s, Bonadei became actively involved with the Santa Helena Group, the Paulista Artistic Family (FAP), and the Visual Artists' Union. During this period, he began his first experiments with abstraction. Between 1939 and 1941, he was part of the Musical Culture Group, an artistic movement created by psychiatrist Adolpho Jagle that promoted meetings of artists. It was in this context that Bonadei developed a growing interest in abstract art. In 1949, he began teaching at the Free School of Visual Arts in São Paulo, considered the city's first modern art school. That same year, he also joined the Teatro de Vanguarda Group, further expanding his involvement with the performing and visual arts.

In the late 1950s, Bonadei began working as a costume designer, standing out in theatrical productions such as Nelson Rodrigues's Vestido de Noiva and Ariano Suassuna's Casamento Suspeitoso, both staged by the Nídia Lícia-Sérgio Cardoso Company. During this period, he also worked on costume design for two films directed by Walter Hugo Khoury: Fronteiras do Inferno (1958) and Na Garganta do Diabo (1959). His multifaceted career and involvement with the performing arts enriched his visual output, making him an important figure in Brazilian modern art.

Critical Commentary

In 1915, at the age of nine, Aldo Bonadei executed his first oil painting and later produced small paintings self-taught. Between 1923 and 1928, he studied with Pedro Alexandrino (1856-1942). He also attended the studio of Italian painter Antonio Rocco (1880-1944) and the drawing and art course at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo. In 1929, he became friends with Professor Amadeo Scavone, with whom he had almost daily conversations about art. According to the artist, Scavone taught him to mentally structure compositions in shapes, lines, and color values.

Bonadei continued his artistic training in Italy in 1930. He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in Florence, where he studied with Felice Carena (1879-1966). He was exposed to the Futurist aesthetic and the Roman school of expressionism, which included artists such as Mario Mafai (1902-1965) and Corrado Cagli (1910-1976), and, especially, to the Novecento movement (1922), to which Carena was linked, marked by eclectic painting. He returned to Brazil in 1931 and gradually became involved in research into modern art. From 1935 onwards, she joined the Santa Helena Group, along with Mario Zanini (1907-1971), Francisco Rebolo (1902-1980), Fulvio Pennacchi (1905-1992), and Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988), among others. She also participated in exhibitions organized by the São Paulo Artistic Family (FAP) and the Visual Artists' Union. She primarily painted still lifes and urban and suburban landscapes of São Paulo, themes that became constant. Her works of this period stand out for their constant dialogue with the work of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), in the treatment of color and the use of brushstrokes, as can be seen in Landscape (1935) and Suburb (1937).

In the 1940s, she taught painting and worked as a costume designer, creating dress patterns and embroidery designs. From this activity came the idea of ​​applying stitching or embroidery to the canvas to create relief and texture in the composition. This period marked the artist's greatest artistic freedom, painting paintings that sought to establish a relationship between music, rhythms, and modulations of color and painting. Subsequently, under the influence of abstraction, which began to be presented in Brazil in important exhibitions, Bonadei became interested in Cubism and later sought a perceptive understanding of space through Gestalt theory [Psychology of Form]. In works such as "Seated Woman" (1948) and "Gemini II" (1952), the tension between the figurative and the abstract can be observed, a tension that persists in his later work.

For critic Jacob Klintowitz, Aldo Bonadei stands out among the Santa Helena Group painters for his more erudite training. His interest in different fields led him to develop activities in poetry, fashion, and theater. The artist played an important role, between the 1930s and 1940s, in the consolidation of modern art in São Paulo and, as scholar Lisbeth Rebollo points out, he was one of the pioneers in the development of abstract art in Brazil.

Critiques

"(...) abstract research, which began in 1940—from the Musical Impressions phase, when the artist sought to transfer the sensations provoked by music to the canvas—determined a redefinition of the concept of line, which became his main focus. Color then became neutralized: we had unitary backgrounds, generally gray, or a slight variation of gray, which blended with pinks, greens, and blues. The line, on the other hand, was thick, reinforced, and expressed in black and white outlines. The metaphorical interpretation of music led the artist to create graphic symbols expressing emotions, rarely imbued with color (...). This phase also led him to determine the essentiality of gesture in the act of drawing a line.
At the time he researched Cubism, he generally still focused on line and drawing. In Cubist research, which immediately followed the Musical Impressions phase, the organization of planes was redefined, becoming interpenetrate and intersect, becoming dynamic in the sense of depth and becoming the main element of their search. As a consequence, there is a reformulation in the way of seeing the object, which the artist seeks to capture in its three-dimensionality; at the same time, there is an accentuation of the sense of volume and the search for plasticity in the object, which leads to an abstraction of reality. For the benefit of the composition that the artist seeks, the object may even be abandoned or remain merely sketched.
Lisbeth Rebollo Gonçalves
GONÇALVES, Lisbeth Ruth Rebollo. Aldo Bonadei: Introduction to the Path of a Painter. São Paulo: USP/FFLCH, 1977.

"Since the mid-1930s, Bonadei's painting, which had undergone the rigor of academic training with the still life virtuoso Pedro Alexandrino, had been moving toward a growing simplification of pictorial space through the hands of Cézanne and moderate Cubisms. It had gradually balanced itself, to remain as such until the end, in the sweet but controlled musicality of the chords of emotion and reason, sometimes warming chromatically with memories of Matisse, other times preferring the more ascetic path of geometric exercises with facades or roofs of houses. Only by exception, and even then schematizing it (as in Interior de Ateliê, 1942), did he allow the human figure to inhabit his work."
Roberto Pontual
PONTUAL, Roberto. Between Two Centuries: Twentieth-Century Brazilian Art in the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection. Foreword by Gilberto Chateaubriand; introduction by M. F. do Nascimento Brito. Rio de Janeiro: JB, 1987. p. 125.

"Bonadéi's art is characterized by a constant tension between his lyricism and his desire for restraint, both in his graphics and in his color. This contradiction can be found in all his facets, leading to his attachment to black and subdued tones, and to the solidity of his compositions. The most fascinating moments in Bonadei's painting correspond to near-ruptures of restraint, as in some of the admirable still lifes of the late 1930s and early 1940s, in which the contradiction is resolved in a musical exposition, or when the black line itself acquires a cruel violence, as in the monumental still life of 1952.
(...)
In the mid-1940s, Bonadei began to undergo an important psychological and artistic transformation, which would initiate a new opening in his creativity, gradually reducing the violence of the contradiction between his lyricism and his restraint of form and color.
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The first phase of Bonadei's metanoia crisis was marked by a new openness to music, highlighted by his original abstract drawings of musical impressions, which made him a pioneer of abstract art in Brazil, still in the 1940s, some ten years before the informal abstractionist surge of the 1950s.
Mario Schenberg
SCHENBERG, Mario. Thinking about art. Photography by Romulo Fialdini. São Paulo: Nova Stella, 1988.

"But there was a Bonadei who painted and embroidered clothes to survive. There was an Italian Bonadei who painted Florence, and another from Moema, who painted landscapes en plein air, and yet another, the Bonadei of Rua da Abolição. There was also a Bonadei who painted musical forms. There was yet another, the abstract painter. There was a Bonadei the poet and there was a Bonadei the lover (this was perhaps the most secret of the Bonadeis). All of them poignant, strong, and generous. (...)

Don't go yet, the moment is gone
You will go in red
Time will go with you
Then it will be another time.
The city is all pink
Color of distant childhood
Immense city
House upon house
Always the same color
Neon gas plays
Over the blue
Uselessly.

The poet Bonadei who thus transmutes the city seen through the eyes of a child is the same one who creates an entire work through the transfiguration of nature, color, light, form, the scenographic compositions of still lifes, capricious mutations of a painter who knew how to order gestures and impulses with the intention of expressing feelings. Bonadei was above all an artist of color, who used it wisely and freely, uniting tones and semitones, exploring their harmony, while at the same time being able to combine primary colors with a strong gestural graphic style or a quasi-contour of color transformed into light."
Emanoel Araújo
ARAÚJO, Emanuel. Bonadei. In: BONADEI: 90 anos. São Paulo: Dan Galeria, 1996. p. 2-4.

Solo Exhibitions

1929 - São Paulo, SP - First solo exhibition, in a rented room on Rua São Bento
1939 - São Paulo, SP - Solo exhibition, at the Casa e Jardim Gallery
1944 - São Paulo, SP - Bonadei and Nelson Nóbrega, at the Brasiliense Bookstore
1945 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Solo exhibition, at the IAB/RJ
1945 - São Paulo, SP - Solo exhibition, at the Domus Gallery
1946 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Solo exhibition, at the IAB/RJ
1947 - São Paulo, SP - Solo exhibition, at the Domus Gallery
1948 - São Paulo, SP - Solo exhibition, at the Itapetininga Gallery
1949 - São Paulo, SP - Solo exhibition, at the Domus Gallery
1950 - São Paulo, SP - Solo exhibition, at the Domus Gallery
1951 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the Domus Gallery
1955 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the MAM/SP
1956 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the MAM/SP
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Paintings by Aldo Bonadei, at the Bonino Gallery
1963 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the MAB/Faap
1965 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the Clube Atlético Paulistano
1967 - São Paulo - Solo exhibition, at the Atrium Art Gallery
1967 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at the Plastic Art Gallery
1968 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the Cosme Velho Gallery
1972 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the Bonfiglioli Gallery
1973 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the Bonfiglioli Gallery
1974 - São Paulo SP - Bonadei: tribute exhibition, at the Gallery Opus

Collective Exhibitions

1928 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 35th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba - 1st degree honorable mention
1929 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 36th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1930 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 37th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba - bronze medal
1931 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Revolutionary Salon, at Enba
1933 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 40th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1934 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - National Salon of Fine Arts, at Enba
1934 - São Paulo, SP - 1st Paulista Salon of Fine Arts, on Rua 11 de Agosto - São Paulo City Hall award
1935 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 41st National Salon of Fine Arts, at Enba
1935 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Paulista Salon of Fine Arts
1935 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Paulista Salon of Fine Arts - honorable mention
1936 - São Paulo SP - 4th Paulista Salon of Fine Arts
1936 - São Paulo SP - Exhibition of Small Paintings, at Palácio das Arcadas
1937 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 43rd National Salon of Fine Arts, at MNBA
1937 - São Paulo SP - 1st Salon of the Paulista Artistic Family, at the Esplanada Hotel in São Paulo
1938 - São Paulo SP - 4th Salon of the Union of Visual Artists
1939 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Salon of the Paulista Artistic Family, at the Automobile Club
1939 - São Paulo, SP - 5th Salon of the Visual Artists' Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1940 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 3rd Salon of the Paulista Artistic Family, at the Palace Hotel
1940 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 46th National Salon of Fine Arts, at the MNBA - silver medal
1941 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 47th National Salon of Fine Arts, at the MNBA
1941 - São Paulo, SP - 1st Art Salon of the National Industrial Fair, at Água Branca Park
1942 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 48th National Salon of Fine Arts, at the MNBA
1942 - São Paulo, SP - 7th Salon of the Visual Artists' Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1943 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 49th National Salon of Fine Arts Arts, at the MNBA
1943 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Anti-Axis Exhibition, at the Historical and Diplomatic Museum - Itamaraty Palace
1943 - São Paulo SP - Anti-Axis Exhibition, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1944 - London (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Royal Academy of Arts
1944 - Norwich (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Norwich Castle and Museum
1944 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 50th National Salon of Fine Arts, at the MNBA
1944 - São Paulo SP - 9th Salon of the Union of Visual Artists, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1944 - São Paulo SP - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian-North American Painting, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1945 - Bath (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Victory Art Gallery
1945 - Bristol (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
1945 - Edinburgh (Scotland) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the National Gallery of Scotland
1945 - Glasgow (Scotland) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Kelingrove Art Gallery
1945 - Manchester (England) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Manchester Art Gallery
1945 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 51st National Salon of Fine Arts, at the MNBA
1945 - São Paulo, SP - Alfredo Volpi, Bonadei, Carlos Prado, Quirino da Silva, Francisco Rebolo, Mario Zanini, and José Pancetti, at the Benedetti Gallery
1945 - São Paulo, SP - Galeria Domus: inaugural exhibition, at Galeria Domus
1946 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Painters Go to the People's School, at Enba
1946 - São Paulo, SP - 10th Salon of the Artists' Union Plastics, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1946 - Valparaíso (Chile) - Exhibition of Contemporary Brazilian Painting, at the Institute of Extension of Visual Arts
1947 - São Paulo SP - Watercolors and Gouaches, at the Mário de Andrade Municipal Library
1947 - São Paulo SP - Bonadei, Di Cavalcanti, Noêmia Mourão, Lothar Charoux, Oswald de Andrade Filho, Lúcia Suané, Cesar Lacanna, Mario Zanini and Raphael Galvez, at the Itapetininga Gallery
1947 - São Paulo SP - 11th Salon of the Union of Visual Artists, at the Prestes Maia Gallery - Matarazzo Award
1948 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Paulista Painters, at the Ministry of Education and Culture
1949 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition of Paulista Painting
1949 - São Paulo SP - 13th Salon of the Union of Visual Artists 1949 - São Paulo, SP - Modern Painting and Sculpture, organized by the South American Insurance Company 1950 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 56th National Salon of Fine Arts, at the MNBA - gold medal 1950 - Salvador, BA - 2nd Bahia Salon of Fine Arts, at the Belvedere da Sé Gallery - gold medal 1950 - São Paulo, SP - O. D. A. Exhibition, at the IAB/SP 1951 - Salvador, BA - 3rd Bahia Salon of Fine Arts, at the Belvedere da Sé Gallery - acquisition prize 1951 - São Paulo, SP - 1st International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Trianon Pavilion 1951 - São Paulo, SP - 1st Paulista Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery - grand medal gold
1952 - Feira de Santana BA - 1st Modern Art Exhibition of Feira de Santana, at Banco Econômico
1952 - Paris (France) - 38th May Salon
1952 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition of Brazilian Artists, at MAM/RJ
1952 - Santiago (Chile) - Brazilian Art, organized by MAM/SP at the invitation of the University of Chile
1952 - Tokyo (Japan) - Brazilian Artists, organized by MAM/SP
1952 - Venice (Italy) - 26th Venice Biennale
1953 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th Still Life Salon, at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro
1953 - São Paulo SP - 2nd International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Pavilion of the States
1954 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Black and White Salon, at the Palace of Culture - trip to the country prize
1954 - São Paulo SP - 3rd São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery - State Governor's Prize
1954 - São Paulo SP - Contemporary Art: exhibition of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, at MAM/SP
1955 - São Paulo SP - 3rd International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Pavilion of the States Nations
1956 - Salvador, BA - 6th Bahian Salon of Fine Arts, at the Oxumaré Gallery
1956 - São Paulo, SP - 5th Paulista Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1957 - São Paulo, SP - 12 Artists from São Paulo, at the Folhas Art Gallery
1957 - São Paulo, SP - 6th Paulista Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1958 - Salvador, BA - Bahian Salon of Fine Arts
1958 - Salvador, BA - Bahian Salon of Fine Arts - Acquisition Prize
1958 - São Paulo, SP - Leirner Prize for Contemporary Art, at the Folhas Art Gallery
1959 - São Paulo, SP - 8th Paulista Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery - Acquisition Prize
1960 - São Paulo, SP - 9th Paulista Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1961 - São Paulo SP - 10th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1961 - São Paulo SP - 6th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Ciccilo Matarazzo Sobrinho Pavilion
1961 - São Paulo SP - Leirner Prize for Contemporary Art, at the Folhas Art Gallery - acquisition prize
1962 - Curitiba PR - Paraná Salon, at the Paraná Public Library
1962 - São Paulo SP - 11th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery - trip abroad prize
1963 - Campinas SP - Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, at the Carlos Gomes Museum
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 12th National Salon of Modern Art
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Landscape as a Theme, at the Ibeu Gallery Copacabana
1963 - São Paulo, SP - 12th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1963 - São Paulo, SP - 7th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Biennial Foundation
1964 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 13th National Salon of Modern Art
1964 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - The Nude in Contemporary Art, at the Ibeu Copacabana Gallery
1964 - São Paulo, SP - 13th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art
1965 - São Paulo, SP - 14th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1966 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Self-Portraits, at the Ibeu Copacabana Gallery
1966 - São Paulo, SP - 15th São Paulo Salon of Modern Art, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1966 - São Paulo, SP - Mosaics, at the 4 Planetas Art Gallery
1966 - São Paulo SP - The Santa Helena Group, Today, at the 4 Planetas Art Gallery
1967 - São Paulo SP - The Paulista Artistic Family: thirty years later, at the Itália Auditorium
1969 - São Paulo SP - 1st Paulista Contemporary Art Salon, at Masp
1970 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1972 - São Paulo SP - 2nd International Print Exhibition, at MAM/SP
1972 - São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 years later, at the Collectio Gallery
1973 - São Paulo SP - Eight Artists from the Santa Helena Group, at Uirapuru Art Gallery

Posthumous Exhibitions

1974 - São Paulo, SP - Aldo Bonadei: 1950s and 1960s, at the Alberto Bonfiglioli Gallery
1974 - São Paulo, SP - Bonadei's Night, at the Azulão Gallery
1975 - São Paulo, SP - 13th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Biennial Foundation
1975 - São Paulo, SP - 40 Years: Santa Helena Group, at the MIS/SP
1976 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Solo show, at the Ipanema Art Gallery
1976 - Santos, SP - Solo show, at the CCBEU
1976 - São Paulo, SP - The Salons: of the Paulista Artistic Family, of Maio, and of the Union of Visual Artists of São Paulo, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1977 - São Paulo, SP - Seibi Group - Santa Helena Group Helena: 1935-1945, at MAB/Faap
1978 - São Paulo SP - Biennials and Abstraction: the 1950s, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1979 - São Paulo SP - The Santa Helena Group, at the Uirapuru Art Gallery
1980 - São Paulo SP - The Brazilian Landscape: 1650-1976, at Paço das Artes
1980 - São Paulo SP - Landscape Painters, at the André Art Gallery
1981 - São Paulo SP - Solo exhibition, at the Uirapuru Art Gallery
1982 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the José de Azeredo Perdigão Center for Modern Art
1982 - London (United Kingdom) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Collection Chateaubriand, at the Barbican Art Gallery
1982 - Penápolis SP - 5th Noroeste Visual Arts Salon, at the Penápolis Educational Foundation. Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Penápolis
1982 - Salvador BA - Brazilian Art from the Odorico Tavares Collection, at the Carlos Costa Pinto Museum
1982 - São Paulo SP - Seascapes and Riversides, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th National Salon of Visual Arts, at MAM/RJ
1983 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Bonadei Construtivista, at Ralph Camargo Art Consulting
1984 - Fortaleza CE - 7th National Salon of Visual Arts
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Salon of 31, at Funarte
1984 - São Paulo SP - Abstraction in the Work of Bonadei, at Grifo Art Gallery
1984 - São Paulo SP - The Human Figure in the Work of Bonadei, in A Ponte Gallery Art
1984 - São Paulo SP - Aldo Bonadei: the path of a painter, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1984 - São Paulo SP - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection: portrait and self-portrait of Brazilian art, at MAM/SP
1984 - São Paulo SP - Tradition and Rupture: synthesis of Brazilian art and culture, at the Bienal Foundation
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Six Decades of Modern Art: Roberto Marinho Collection, at the Imperial Palace
1985 - São Paulo, SP - 100 Itaú Works, at Masp
1986 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Seven Decades of Italian Presence in Brazilian Art, at Paço Imperial
1987 - Paris (France) - Modernity: 20th-Century Brazilian Art, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1987 - São Paulo, SP - 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Chapel Art Show
1987 - São Paulo, SP - The Craft of Art: Painting, at Sesc
1988 - São Paulo, SP - MAC 25 Years: Highlights of the Initial Collection, at MAC/USP
1988 - São Paulo, SP - Modernity: 20th-Century Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1989 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Six Decades of Modern Brazilian Art: Roberto Collection Marinho, at the José de Azeredo Perdigão Modern Art Center
1989 - São Paulo SP - 7th North Coast Art, at Sadalla Art Gallery
1989 - São Paulo SP - 19th and 20th Century Brazilian Painting: works from the Itaú Bank collection, at Itaugaleria
1989 - São Paulo SP - Thirty-Three Ways of Seeing the World, at Ranulpho Art Gallery
1989 - Ubatuba SP - 7th North Coast Art, at the Art and Culture Foundation
1992 - Poços de Caldas SP - Brazilian Modern Art: collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, at the Casa da Cultura
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st On the Road to Niterói: João Sattamini Collection, at the Imperial Palace
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Nature: four centuries of art in Brazil, in CCBB
1992 - São Paulo SP - 1st Anniversary of the Grifo Art Gallery, at the Grifo Art Gallery
1992 - São Paulo SP - Sérgio's Perspective on Brazilian Art: drawings and paintings, at the Mário de Andrade Municipal Library
1992 - São Paulo SP - First Anniversary of the Grifo Art Gallery, at the Grifo Art Gallery
1993 - João Pessoa PB - Woodcut: from cordel to gallery, at the Paraíba Cultural Space Foundation
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazil, 100 Years of Modern Art, at the MNBA
1994 - Poços de Caldas MG - Unibanco Collection: exhibition commemorating Unibanco's 70th anniversary, at the Casa de Cultura
1994 - São Paulo SP - 20th Century Brazil Biennial, at the Biennial Foundation
1994 - São Paulo SP - Woodcut: From Cordel to Gallery, at the São Paulo Metropolitan Company
1994 - São Paulo SP - Woodcut: From Cordel to Gallery, at Masp
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Unibanco Collection: Commemorative Exhibition of Unibanco's 70th Anniversary, at MAM/RJ
1995 - São Paulo SP - The Santa Helena Group, at MAM/SP
1996 - Barra Mansa RJ - 12 Names of Brazilian Painting, at the Barra Mansa University Center
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Santa Helena Group, at CCBB
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Visions of Rio, at MAM/RJ
1996 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art: 50 Years of History in the MAC/USP Collection: 1920-1970, at MAC/USP
1996 - São Paulo SP - Bonadei: 90 Years, at Dan Galeria
1997 - Porto Alegre, RS - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
1997 - Porto Alegre, RS - Parallel Exhibition, at the Caixa Econômica Federal Museum
1997 - São Paulo, SP - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
1997 - São Paulo, SP - Great Names of Brazilian Painting, at the Jo Slaviero Art Gallery
1998 - Curitiba, PR - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
1998 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Exhibition of the Caixa Collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex
1998 - São Paulo, SP - Constructive Art in Brazil: Adolpho Leirner Collection, at MAM/SP
1998 - São Paulo, SP - Paulistana Iconography in Private Collections, at the Casa Brasileira Museum
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Collector, at MAM/SP
1998 - São Paulo SP - The Modern and the Contemporary in Brazilian Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection - MAM/RJ, at Masp
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Constructive Art in Brazil: Adolpho Leirner Collection, at MAM/RJ
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Engraving Exhibition. Modern Brazilian Engraving: collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts, at the MNBA
1999 - Salvador BA - 60 Years of Brazilian Art, at the Caixa Econômica Federal Cultural Space
2000 - Lisbon (Portugal) - 20th Century: Brazilian art, at the José de Azeredo Perdigão Center for Modern Art
2000 - São Paulo SP - 7th Art and Antiques Salon, at A Hebraica
2000 - São Paulo SP - The Human Figure in the Itaú Collection, at Itaú Cultural
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brazil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition. Modern Art, at the Biennial Foundation
2000 - São Paulo SP - Santa Helena Group, at the Jo Slaviero Art Gallery
2000 - São Paulo SP - São Paulo: from village to metropolis, at the Masp Prestes Maia Gallery
2001 - Brasília, DF - Collections of Brazil, at the CCBB 2001 - São Paulo, SP - Bonadei: retrospective, at the Millenium Art Gallery 2001 - São Paulo, SP - Aldo Franco Collection, at the State Art Gallery 2001 - São Paulo, SP - Figures and Faces, at The Gallery 2001 - São Paulo, SP - Museum of Brazilian Art: 40 Years, at MAB/Faap 2002 - Niterói, RJ - Dialogue, Antagonism, and Replication in the Sattamini Collection, at MAC/Niterói 2002 - Porto Alegre, RS - Drawings, Prints, Sculptures, and Watercolors, at Garagem de Arte 2002 - São Paulo, SP - Wild Mirror: Modern Art in Brazil in the First Half of the 20th Century, Nemirovsky Collection, at MAM/SP 2002 - São Paulo, SP - Map of the Now: recent Brazilian art in the João Sattamini Collection of the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute. 2002 - São Paulo SP - Modernism: from the Week of 22 to the art section of Sérgio Milliet, at CCSP. 2002 - São Paulo SP - Workers on Paulista Avenue: MAC-USP and artisan artists, at the Sesi Art Gallery. 2003 - Belém PA - 22nd Pará Art Salon, at the Paraná Art Museum. 2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Treasures of the Caixa: modern Brazilian art in the Caixa collection, at the Caixa Cultural Complex. 2003 - São Paulo SP - Art and Society: a controversial relationship, at Itaú Cultural. 2003 - São Paulo SP - Still Life, at the BM&F Space. 2003 - São Paulo SP - Painters of the Coast of São Paulo, at Sociarte
2003 - São Paulo SP - One Heart, at MAM/SP
2004 - Niterói RJ - Transitive Modernity, at MAC/Niterói
2004 - São Paulo SP - Paper Cabinet, at CCSP
2004 - São Paulo SP - New Acquisitions: 1995 - 2003, at MAB/Faap
2004 - São Paulo SP - Everything is Drawing, CCSP