MINI BIO 1

Jaime Prades, artis

JAIME PRADES is Brazilian, born in Spain. He is the son of South Americans: a Brazilian mother and a Uruguayan father. He lived between Málaga and Madrid until the age of 12 when his family returned to Brazil. Since his father worked in the film industry, he spent his childhood surrounded by artists and in their studios. Among them, Antonio Mingote was the most important. With him, Jaime had the opportunity to spend many summers in the vicinity of San Pedro de Alcantara in Andalusia.
In the early 1970s, he began his Brazilian journey in the Paraíba Valley in Jacareí, the city of his maternal family, where he lived until 1975 when they moved to São Paulo, where he resides to this day.
He took his first free courses at the Ouro Preto Winter Festival in 1973, where he attended the woodcut workshop, live model classes, and drawing with Álvaro Apocalipse and Sergio Macedo. In 1975, already in São Paulo, he attended the Ateliê 76 metal engraving workshop by artist Guyer Salles. In 1977 and 1978, he attended the Contemporary School of Arts, where he participated in his first group exhibition. During those years, he was a regular participant in live model sessions at the old Pinacoteca arena in the state of São Paulo.
In 1975, he worked as a woodworking assistant, and from 1976 to 1979, he worked at Editora Abril as an art assistant and layout artist. From 1979 to 1983, he joined Editora Oboré, founded by journalist Sergio Gomes and artist Laerte. In addition to a team of journalists, they had collaborators like Glauco and Ailton Krenak, among others. In 1981, the publishing house received the Wladimir Herzog Award in recognition of its contribution to creating a new standard of quality in written and visual communication in popular media. From 1983, he worked as a freelance graphic designer.
From 1984 to 1989, he was part of the TUPINÃODÁ group of artists and, together with José Carratü, created the TUPINÂODÁ workshop. The group emerged to engage in the city's public scene and carried out installations, performances, occupations, and urban paintings throughout its existence. Their contribution to the construction of a democratic identity in a Brazil emerging from darkness, through the irreverence of their actions, attracted the attention of artists and curators. Doors opened to some institutional spaces, and the group held exhibitions and installations at the Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, MASP, São Paulo Biennial events, MAC/USP, and the Special Hall of the São Paulo Salon, among others.
In 1990, he created the "Arte Possível" (Possible Art) project, featuring graphic objects in multiple series of his unusual graphics. This project, which evolved over 14 years, produced approximately 40,000 mini sculptures, with the most relevant exhibitions being held at MASP, curated by Fabio Magalhães, in 1993, and at the Cervantes Cultural Space in 2013.
Starting in 2008, he worked on his "Natureza Humana" (Human Nature) project, collecting wood remnants discarded in the city streets. He created installations in public spaces, events, SESC Pompeia, as well as exhibitions in museums and galleries.
Throughout all these years, his works were exhibited in alternative spaces, cultural centers, some SESC/SP units, events, and his own workshop. He briefly participated in galleries such as "O Subdistrito," "Mônica Filgueiras," and "Mezanino."
Since 2019, he has been represented by the "Andrearehder arte contemporânea" gallery, which promotes his works in the gallery and at national art fairs such as SP_arte and ArPa.
For more information, please visit:
www.jaimeprades.art.br - @pradesartist – www.andrearehder.com.br - @andrearehder