BIOGRAPHY

Julio Villani

1956, Marília | SP – Brazil

 

Born in Marilia in Brazil, Julio Villani works and lives in Paris since 1982. Since his childhood, he began to learn art in the studio of his neighbor who was a restorer of panels and paintings from churches. Julio Villani has repeatedly been in a nomadic and artistic quest which nurtured his subjectivity and his work’s dynamic. After studying at the art faculty of Sao Paulo, he went to Amazonia “to see the sources of indian geometry” and continued research in European museums such as Louvre, National Gallery or Prado, to see artworks known since childhood thanks to photographies. He studied then at Watford School of London and at Beaux-Arts of Paris before getting in 1993 the Leonardo da Vinci grant from the Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie.

Julio Villani mixes “historical references of visuality (concrete – constructivist, abstract, surrealist, sensitive geometrical patterns of brazilian indigenous peoples and popular imaginary) with the expansion of directories - graphic, photographic, chromatic and three-dimensional - to embroid, assembly utilitarian objects, interfere with pre-existing images”. Since the end of the 1990’s, he participates in many exhibitions in France and Brazil.  

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Individual Exhibitions:


 


2021 Conflicting perspectives, Slag-RX Gallery, New York Traversées, Galerie RX, Paris


2019 Alinhavai, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil


2019 By a Thread, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil


2019 Final Point, Galerie RX, Paris


2018 Lost property servisse, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris


2017 Rack of emotions, SAM Art Projects, espace Fondations privées, Monte Carlo art fair


2016 The bit of reality, Abbaye Saint-Jean d’Orbestier, Château d’Olonne, curador Philippe Piguet


2016 Estratégias obliquas, Galeria Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil


2016 Projeto Solo, Untitled art fair, Miami, Galeria Mercedes Viegas


2014 Plane, line, point and not, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil


2012 Memory of my hundred years, Caixa Cultural, Brasilia, Brazil


2011 Palimpsesto, Galeria Murilo de Castro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil


2010 The surveyor, Musée Zadkine, Paris


2009 Memory of my hundred years, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


2008 Reverse Verse, SESC Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil


2007 Reverse Verse, SESC Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil


2006 Habitat center, New Delhi


2005 I’m not from here, Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris


2005 The origin of the world, centre d’art contemporain 10neuf, Montbéliard, curated by Philippe Cyroulnik


2005 Noah’s ark, galerie 1900-2000


2004 Reverse Verse, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


2002 Appropriations/ Expropriations, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine


2002 Paintings and indirect objects, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil


2002 Patches aand patches, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil


2000 Galerie Cleyne Huis, La Haye


1999 Paço das artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


1999 Musée château de Dieppe


1998 Passage de Retz, Paris


1998 Art museum, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil


1997 Interventions in collections, Musée des Beaux-arts


1997 d’Agen, curadoria Yannick Lintz


1990 Archaelogical forms, La Base, Paris


1990 Ephemeral factory, Paris


1988 Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris


1988 Galerie Riverin Arlogos, Montréal


1986 Galerie Marius, Copenhague


1986 Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris


 


Collectives Exhibitions:


 


2022 Resonant Horizons, Galerie Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil


2021 Museum of Lina (Bo Bardi), Works from the collection of MAM-Salvador de Bahia, curated by Daniel Rangel.


2021 Between spaces, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil


2021 Natura Arts Magistrate, Galerie Jeune Création, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville


2021 Doctrine of colors, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil


2021 Baião de dois: dialogue between artists, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil


2020 To be one of them, 70ème édition de Jeune Création, galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin


2020 Tomorrow will be another day, Grandes Serres de Pantin, curador Sofia Lanusse


2020 Collapsible, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


2020 The power takes care of you #2, Galerie Jeune Création, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville


2019 … and the dark, Abbaye du Thoronet, CMN/ Palais de Tokyo hors de murs, curador Jean de Loisy


2019 The little collector (artists toys) Galeria Carbono, São Paulo, curated by Mariane Klettenhofer et Artur Lescher


2018 Works on paper, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


2017 The imensity of maps, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, curated by Agnaldo Farias


2017 4+4, Galerie RX, Paris, curated by Sandra Hegedus


2017 Geometric figures and shapes, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris


2015 Surprise is to be happy! Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains, curated by Philippe Piguet


2014 Affinities – Raquela Arnaud 40 years, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, curated by Raquel Arnaud


2014 Manifest, Galeria Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


2014 Made by brazilians, Hôpital Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil


2012 Brazil! Villani, Meirelles, Rio Branco, Tunga, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains, curated by Philippe Piguet


2011 Curve line point, Contemporaneo C.C. Borges, Buenos Aires, curated by Philippe Cyroulnik


2011 South hemisphere, Galerie du granit, Ecole d’art Gérard Jacot, Belfort


2010 Sound installation, 66 x 96, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil


2008 Two way street, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil


2007 Screenings, Centre d’art contemporain 10neuf, Montbéliard, curated by Philippe Cyroulnik


2006 Passion and reason of construtive spirit: na achivement of Latin American art, œuvres de la Fondation Daniella Chappard, Le Bellevue, Biarritz


2006 Stop, Centre FriArt, Friburg, curador Sarah Zurcher


2005 Brazilians fillings, Musée de l’Hôtel Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie, curador Philippe Cyroulnik


2004 Don’t call it performance, Museo del Barrio, New York


2003 Don’t call it performance, Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid


2001 Art in freedom, Europ’art, Genève


2000 Continental change, Fondation Ludwig, Aix-la-Chapelle


1999 Long live Paris, Espace Electra, Paris


1998 City canibal, Paço das artes, Biennale de São Paulo, Brazil


1998 Art museum of São Paulo, Collection Gilberto Chateaubriand


1998 33ème Salon de Montrouge


1997 Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris


1996 Matters, memories, 10 Latin American artists, 24a Bienal de Pontevedra


1995 Maison d’Art Contemporain Chaillioux, Fresnes


1994 They draw like they paint, MAM, Rio de Janeiro et MAM, Salvador


1991 Hôpital Ephémère, Paris


1991 Galerie 1900-2000, Paris


1988 Modernity, MAM, São Paulo, curador Marie Odile Briot, Aracy Amaral, Roberto Pontual


1988 Brazilian overtures, Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine, curador Philippe Cyroulnik, Roberto Pontual


1987 Modernity, art brésilien du XXème siècle, MAM, Paris, curador Marie Odile Briot, Aracy Amaral, Roberto Pontual


1984 Out door design, Museu de arte contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil


1983 Dog, Cozzolino, Villani, Galeria Debret, Paris, curador Vera Pedrosa.


1980 Young drawings, Museu de arte contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil


 


Public Collections:



Musées de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France


Nacional Center of Visual Arts, Paris, France


Paris Department of Cultural affairs, Paris, France


Nacional Furniture, Paris, France


Museum of Public Assistance, Paris


Usina de Arte, Pernambuco, Brasil


Museu de Arte Moderna of Bahia MAM- Salvador, BA, Brasil


 


 Selected Publications:


 


2019 By a Thread, Galeria Estação, São Paulo


2019 …and the dark, jean de loisy, Marc Couturier, Jean-Marc Ferrari e Julio Villani na Abadia do Thoronet,cmn / Palais de Tokyo


2019 Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, souvenirs d’une galeriste 1980-2002, Gabrielle Salomon, Paris


2019 Brazilians in Paris, au fil des siècles et des arrondissements, Adriana Brandão, préface gilles lapouge, editor Chandeigne, Paris


2018 The immensity of maps, contemporary art in dialogue with maps from the Santander Collection, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba


2018 Biobliographic dictionary of Minas Gerais, Constância Lima Duarte, Autêntica publishing company, Belo Horizonte


2016 Julio Villani 1+1+1, Cocchiarale, Piguet, Sallé, Lavrador, Alzugaray, Farias, publishing company Somogy, Paris, publishing company Martins Fontes, São Paulo


2016 Julio Villani, le peu de réalité, Philippe Piguet, Igreja Saint-Jean Dorbestier, Château D’olonne


2014, Affinities – Raquela Arnaud 40 years, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Cosac & Naify, São Paulo


2014 Made by brazilians, curador Marc Pottier, Hospital Matarazzo, São Paulo, publishing company Galerie Enrico Navarra, publishing company Capivara


2012 Memory of my hundred years, caixa cultural, Brasilia


2011 South hemisphere, dessins d’artistes latino-américains, Philippe Cyroulnik, Le 10neuf, Centre Régional d’art contemporain, Montbéliard


2010 Twenty years of macc, Pierre Wat, Maison d’art contemporain Chailloux, Fresnes


2010 Julio Villani: it’s [a ga]me, ph. Piguet, m. Asbury,editora Archibooks, Paris


2008 Marcel Duchamp: A work that is not a art work, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, fundation Proa, Buenos Aires


2006 Short Stories, Indian habitat center, New Delhi


2006 Brazilian amalgams, 18 contemporary artists from Brazil, Philippe Cyroulnik, Agnaldo Farias, Musée de l’hôtel-dieu, mantes-la-jolie, publishing company Somogy


2005 The origin of the world, centre d’art contemporain 10neuf, Montbéliard, curated by Philippe Cyroulnik


2005 Reverse Verse, Sesc SP, Santo André


2005 Reverse Verse, Sesc SP, Araraquara


2003 – 2004 Don’t call it performance, no lo llames performance, Museo del Barrio, New York, Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid


2002 Journey of contemporary artists, Galeries Lafayette – Haussmann


2002 Paintings and indirect objects, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo


2001 Ex-Appropriations, Credac, Ivry-sur-seine


2001 Art of Latin America 1981-2000, g.r. Caballero, editora Inter-American development bank


2000 Patches and Patches, Marcos Hill, Paço das Artes, São Paulo


2000 Continental shift, an exhibition of contemporary art, aix-la-chapelle


1999 Long live Paris, Espace Electra, Paris


1998 City Canibal, Paço das Artes, São Paulo


1998 Visual arts forum in France, Les Ulis, Essone


1997 Interventions in collections, Musée des Beaux-arts


1996 Memories materials, 10 artists from Latin America, Christine Frérot, Bienal de Pontevedera, Espanha


1995 Chroniques Simultanée, Institut Français de Thessalonique


1995/94 Modern and Contemporary in Brazilian art, collection Gilberto Chateubriant do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Reynaldo Roels jr, MAM Rio de Janeiro, MAM Salvador, MASP


1993 Interventions on collections, artists of l’hôpital éphémère au Musée de l’assistance publique, Paris


1993 Modern design in Brazil, collection Gilberto Chateaubriand, Galeria de arte do SESI, São Paulo


1992 Current expressions, 62 artists from Latin America, Espace Chevreuil, Nanterre


1991 Br80: Brazil painting in the 80s, Ernest Robert de Carvalho Mange, Frederico Moraes, Instituto Cultural Itaú


1990 Archeaological forms, Philippe Dagen, la base, Levallois Perret


1988 Modernity, Brazil art of the century XX, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo


1988 Brazilian overtures, Philippe Cyroulnik, Roberto Pontual, éditions Credac

EXHIBITIONS

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SP Arte 2019

03.04.2019 - 07.04.2019
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07.11.2013 - 10.11.2013
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SP Arte 2011

11.05.2011 - 15.05.2011
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são paulo

Julio Villani | By a thread

15.06.2019 - 31.07.2019
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ArtRio 2018

27.09.2018 - 30.09.2018
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SP Arte 2010

29.04.2010 - 02.05.2010

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