Frederico Filippi is dedicated to researching political and cultural realities, bringing different approaches and questions to his production. His works are carried out using different techniques, such as painting, drawing, video and installation, interested in thematically (or allegorically) exploring the idea of memory and history: its uses, constructions, narratives, power games and representations. His creations do not reflect this in an obvious way, as the artist allows himself to be influenced by poetic narratives, customs and ways of thinking of other peoples and worlds. In this sense, Anthropology has an important place in Frederico's production, “it is an interesting counterweight that made me rethink and compare many things, and understand the world as multiple”.
“My work started in painting and drawing, and then went to other formats like video and construction, always with a strong attachment to images. I am interested in friction, friction and the encounter of two worlds, with my attention focused on the continent of South America. I think not only of the images wearing out and meeting each other, but of stories like the invasion and invention of our continent . More recently, the relationship between the capital frontier between industrial civilization and natural spaces, still seen as a commodity reserve, has also aroused my interest, and how these two fields reverberate with each other, that of materials and images and that of stories and policies, ”says Frederico Filippi.
Among his main solo exhibitions are: 2020 - Terra de Ninguém (Galeria Leme – São Paulo, Brazil); 2019 - Cobra Criada (Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); 2016 - Próprio-impróprio (Galeria Leme – São Paulo, Brazil); O Sol, o Jacaré Albino e Outras Mutações (Galeria Athena Contemporânea – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); 2015 - Fogo na Babilônia (Pivô – São Paulo, Brazil); Desvío (KIOSKO – Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia); 2014- Deuses Impostores – (Galeria IBEU – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Among its main group exhibitions are: 2020 - Até onde a vista alcança (Galeria Athena – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); 2019 - O que não é floresta é prisão política (Galeria Reocupa – São Paulo, Brazil); 2018 - Caixa Preta (Fundação Iberê Camargo - Porto Alegre, Brazil); 2017 -in Memoriam (Caixa Cultural - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); 2016 - Cities and Memory (Biennial for Photography and Film – Brandts, Dinamarca); 2015 - Até Aqui Tudo Bem (White Cube – São Paulo, Brazil); 2013 - Abre Alas 9 (Galeria A Gentil Carioca – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), among others.
He held several residencies such as Despacio (San Jose, Costa Rica), School Break (Amazonas, Brazil), KIOSKO (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia), El Ranchito (Matadero - Madrid, Spain), 5th edition of Bolsa Pampulha (Museum de Arte da Pampulha - Belo Horizonte, Brazil), La Ene (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and Ateliê Aberto # 6 (Casa Tomada, São Paulo). It is in the collections of the Museum of Art of Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and the House of Culture of Latin America (National University of Brasília - Brasília, Brazil).
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O que há de música em você
12 September - 2 December 2023Alair Gomes . Alexander Calder . Aluísio Carvão . Andro de Silva . Atelier Sanitário . Ayla Tavares . Celeida Tostes . Ernesto Neto . Felipe Abdala . Felippe Moraes...Read more -
Objeto não identificado
3 December 2022 - 4 February 2023'I MISS MY PRE-INTERNET BRAIN', said a 2021 poster in uppercase as part of a series of works by Canadian artist, researcher and author Douglas Coupland. 'I miss my pre-Internet...Read more -
The Raw and the Cooked
14 May - 2 July 2022'A myth of myths', so Lévi Strauss defined 'The Raw and the Cooked', the first and ambitious volume of his Mythologiques, published in 1964. In the uninterrupted flow of those...Read more -
Ten Years Later
Group show 4 September - 23 October 2021Ten years later celebrates a decade of Galeria Athena's activities in Rio de Janeiro. To celebrate this moment, a selection of works by the thirteen artists currently represented was gathered...Read more -
Até onde a vista alcança
Group show 13 February - 4 April 2020Galeria Athena is pleased to present the group exhibition As far as the eye can see, curated by Fernanda Lopes. Alfredo Volpi, Ana Dias Batista, André Komatsu, Antônio Dias, Débora...Read more -
Frederico Filippi: Snake in the grass
19 February - 6 April 2019Galeria Athena is pleased to present Snake in the grass , by Frederico Filippi. Frederico Filippi’s invitation for me to write this text, however short, poses a series of challenges...Read more -
With the air too heavy to breath
Group show 20 September - 24 November 2018Galeria Athena is pleased to present the group show With the air too heavy to breath, curated by Lisette Lagnado. André Griffo | Anna Bella Geiger | Antonio Dias |...Read more -
Frederico Filippi: O Sol, o jacaré albino e outras mutações
29 April - 28 May 2016””””””””””””””””””These are invisible connections that his work contains but does not present. It is in itself the invisibility of unexplained relationships, of culture and nature being blended to the point...Read more -
Pictorial Approaches
26 November 2015 - 23 January 2016The exhibit portrays novel lines of research for these artists where painting is the outlet for their creation processes. In the body painting of Alexandre Mury, photography is the media...Read more
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Frederico Filippi | Cobra Grande
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil 8 December 2022Next Saturday, Dec 10th, Frederico Filippi inaugurates the work Cobra Grande (2022) at MAM-SP. The Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo presents a new...Read more -
Frederico Filippi, Rafael Alonso | Book Launch
Art Basel Miami Beach - Miami, U.S.A. 1 December 2022Today in Miami, at Art Basel Miami Beach, will take place the launch of the book ''Remains–Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction'', edited by...Read more
1983. Sao Carlos, Brazil.
He lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Education
2016
Independent Program of Museu de Arte de São Paulo [PIMASP] – Museu de Arte de São Paulo – São Paulo, Brazil
2013
Educational Program of Artistic Investigation Center – Fundación Start – Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011
Masters in Visual Arts – Faculdade Santa Marcelina – São Paulo, Brazil
2005
Bachelor in Social Communication – ESPM – São Paulo, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Terra de Ninguém – Galeria Leme – São Paulo, Brazil
2019
Snake in the grass – Galeria Athena – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
Próprio-Impróprio – Galeria Leme – São Paulo, Brazil
The Sun, Albino Alligator and Other Mutations – Galeria Athena Contemporânea – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
Fire in the Babylon – Pivô – São Paulo, Brazil Desvío – KIOSKO – Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2014
Deuses Impostores – Galeria IBEU – Rio de Janeiro. Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2020
As far as the eye can reach – Galeria Athena – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019
O que não é floresta é prisão política – Galeria Reocupa – São Paulo, Brazil
Triangular: Arte deste tempo – Aquisições recentes para o acervo da Casa de Cultura da América Latina da Universidade de Brasilía – Casa Niemeyer – Brasília, Brazil
2018
With the air too heavy to breath – Galeria Athena – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
o – Galeria Leme – São Paulo, Brazil
Processos em trânsito – Livro de Artista – Galeria Matosinhos – Porto, Portugal
Que Barra – Ateliê 397 – São Paulo, Brazil
Caixa Preta – Fundação Iberê Camargo – Porto Alegre, Brazil
2017
In Memoriam – Caixa Cultural – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
Totemonumento – Galeria Leme – São Paulo, Brazil
Cities and Memory – Biennial for Photography and Film – Brandts, Denmark 2015
Pictorial Approaches – Galeria Athena Contemporânea – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Apparition – Caixa Cultural – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Baldio – Sesc Palladium – Belo Horizonte, Brazil
So Far, So Good – White Cube – São Paulo, Brazil
Derradeira – Romano 54 – Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2014
Si No Todas las Armas, los Cañones – Matadero Madrid – Madrid, Spain
Dialogues – Galeria Athena Contemporânea – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The part that doesn’t belong you – Maisterra Valbuena – Madrid, Spain
Apparition – Galeria Athena Contemporânea – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mostra da 5o Edição da Bolsa Pampulha – Museu da Pampulha – Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013
Redbull Station – São Paulo, Brazil
Accidente – La Sin Futuro – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Novíssimos 2013 – Galeria IBEU – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Escapadita – La Sin Futuro – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abre Alas 9 – Galeria A Gentil Carioca – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sincronicidade – Half Pipe – São Paulo, Brazil
2012
Casa Phosphorus – São Paulo, Brazil
Ateliê Aberto #6 – São Paulo, Brazil
Cidades Contínuos – Condomínio Cultural – São Paulo, Brazil
2011
Deixe que Passem os Dias – Museu Histórico de Santa Catarina – Florianópolis, Brazil
Coletivo – Casa Verdí – São Paulo, Brazil
Ponto de Inflexão – Red Bull House of Art – São Paulo, Brazil
Transitória – Red Bull House of Art – São Paulo, Brazil
Programa de Exposições 2011 – Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto – Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Deixe que Passem os Dias – Museu de Arte de Blumenau – Blumenau, Brazil
2010
42nd Contemporary Art Fair of Piracicaba – Pinacoteca Municipal de Piracicaba – Piracicaba, Brazil
24th Art Festival of Porto Alegre – Porto Alegre, Brazil
Exposição das Oficinas Regulares do SESC Pompéia – SESC Pompéia – São Paulo, Brazil
Não É Underground, É Playground! – Galeria Casa da Xiclet – São Paulo, Brazil
2009
Exposição Volante de Gravuras – SESC Pompéia – São Paulo, Brazil
Be An’ALL – Galeria Casa da Xiclet – São Paulo, Brazil
Prizes and Residencies
2018
Despacio – San Jose, Costa Rica
2017
Intervalo-Escola: Intervalo em curso, Casa do Rio e Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Igapó Açu – Amazônia, Brazil
2015
Kiosko – Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2014
El Ranchito – Matadero Madrid – Madrid, Spain
2013
Bolsa Pampulha – Artistic residency award of Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte and Museu de Arte da Pampulha – Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Seleção Destaque no site da Fundação Iberê Camargo – Porto Alegre, Brazil
Prêmio Novíssimos 2013 – Galeria IBEU – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
La Ene – Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012
Ateliê Aberto #6 – Casa Tomada – São Paulo, Brazil
2011
5o RedBull House of Art – São Paulo, Brazil
Public Collections
Museu de Arte do Rio [MAR] – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Casa de Cultura da América Latina – UNB – Brasília, Brazil
Bibliography
2019
Filippi, Frederico. Artist Writings: Essay for a Crisscrossed Movement: The Ploriferation of Forms in the Arc of Deforesta- tion in the Amazon. In PIVÔ Magazine, vol. 1, n. 1, 2019. p. 54-61.
2015
LOPES, Fernanda. “Apparition” in Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, 2015. p. 39. Exhibition Catalogue
Frederico Filippi: Babylon Burning. Pivô: São Paulo, 2015. Exhibition Folder
2014
LOPES, Fernanda. “Deuses Impostores”, Galeria IBEU, Rio de Janeiro, 2014. Exhibition Folder
“Bolsa Pampulha: Museu de Arte da Pampulha 2013/2014”. Museu de Arte da Pampulha. Belo Horizonte, 2014. 5th edition. p. 78-91.
2012
“Ateliê Aberto #6”, Casa Tomada, São Paulo, 2012
2009
“23o31’33’’S 46o40’59’’W: Atêlie de Gráfica Experimental”, SESC Pompéia, 2009