Maria Auxiliadora Da Silva

Maria Auxiliadora (Campo Belo, MG, 1938 - São Paulo, SP, 1974)

Maria Auxiliadora was a painter. She was self-taught in the visual arts and began her artistic production around 1954. In 1968, she joined Solano Trindade's group in Embu, São Paulo, and held her first solo exhibition. Posthumously, the artist's work is highlighted in the book *Mythopoetics of 9 Brazilian Artists*, by Lélia Coelho Frota.

Reviews

"Maria Auxiliadora's paintings are characterized by their great vitality and chromatic vibration. She possesses the magical Afro-Brazilian sense and a wealth of rhythmic and coloristic creation that is most fascinating. Her work combines authentic and profound experiences of popular life with her imaginative construct of chromatic and linear architectures, fusing a beautiful decorative ability with a convincing and true popular feeling. She manages to unite reality and dream. Over two years ago, Maria Auxiliadora enriched her oil painting with collage elements. Later, she abandoned collage and began using only the relief obtained with plastic paste. She thus managed to considerably intensify the dynamism of her compositions and give them the flavorful character of works of popular craftsmanship, becoming one of the most striking figures of our primitivism".
Mário Schenberg
SCHENBERG, Mário. Thinking about art. São Paulo: Nova Stella, 1988.

Solo Exhibitions

1968 - São Paulo SP - First solo exhibition

Collective Exhibitions

1968 - Embu, SP - 5th Embu Visual Arts Salon - 1st prize
1968 - Santo André, SP - 1st Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at the Municipal Palace
1968 - São Paulo, SP - 17th São Paulo Modern Art Salon
ca. 1968 - Salvador, BA - 2nd National Visual Arts Biennial
1969 - Atibaia, SP - 2nd Atibaia Visual Arts Meeting - bronze medal
1969 - Curitiba, PR - 26th Paraná Salon, at the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná
1969 - Santo André, SP - 2nd Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at the Municipal Palace
1970 - Campinas, SP - 6th Campinas Contemporary Art, at the MACC - acquisition prize
1970 - Santana do Parnaíba, SP - 1st Santana do Parnaíba Salon - small silver medal
1970 - Santo André, SP - 3rd Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at the Municipal Palace - large silver medal
1970 - São José dos Campos, SP - 1st São José dos Campos Salon - honorable mention
1971 - Santo André, SP - 4th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon, at the Municipal Palace
1971 - São Paulo, SP - 17 Naive Painters of São Paulo
1971 - Indiana, United States - Collective exhibition, at the Brazilian American Cultural Institute
1971 - Washington, United States - Collective exhibition, at Indiana University
1972 - Santo André, SP - 5th Santo André Contemporary Art Salon Santo André, at the City Hall
1973 - Santo André SP - 6th Contemporary Art Salon of Santo André, at the City Hall
1973 - São Paulo SP - Exhibitions, at the Paulista Faculty of Music. Art Gallery

Posthumous Exhibitions

1975 - São Paulo SP - Festival of Colors, at Masp
1979 - Penápolis SP - Solo, at the Museu do Sol
1980 - São Paulo SP - People of the Earth, at Paço das Artes
1999 - São Paulo SP - The Mystic in Brazilian Popular Art, at Sesc Itaqueta
2001 - São Paulo SP - Naive Art, at Jacques Ardies Gallery
2002 - Piracicaba SP - 6th Naive Biennial of Brazil, at Sesc
2002 - São Paulo SP - Naive Art, at Jacques Ardies Gallery
2002 - São Paulo SP - Pop Brazil: Popular Art and the Popular in Art, at CCBB