Roberto Bethônico

Roberto Bethônico, 1964, Itabira, MG, Brazil.
Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
He has a degree in Drawing from UFMG and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the same institution, where he currently holds a teaching position. He took part in Atelier Galpão Embra, a group of artists that carried out several events in the 1980’s in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He has since then been taking part in several exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, among which the following stand out: Arco Fair, in Madrid, Spain and Pinta, in New York USA. He has been awarded prizes in various art festivals among which stand out the Prize Visiting Artist from the Tamarind Institute, New Mexico, USA. His works can be found in the collections of MAM Sao Paulo; MAM Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto Chateaubrian Collection, Madeira Corporate Service Collection as well as collections in Portugal an at the Pampulha Art Museum, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He carries out research in the field of drawing, objects and installations that discuss landscape in the natural and artificial contexts. One of the drawings series refers to landscape that has been destroyed by mining activities through making use of iron dust. The photographs and installations discuss the impermanence and transitoriness of life through hospital furniture, artificial plants and phtographies of busts at public places. The most recent drawings series shows construction sites, walls, foundations and empty spaces.