Márcio Vilela
exhibition view from Previsão de Deriva, 2023
Starting point, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, UV70 Glass
160×220 cm | Ed. 2 + 1 A.P. – 122×152 cm | Ed.5 + 1 A.P.
Starting point, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, UV70 Glass
160×220 cm | Ed. 2 + 1 A.P. – 122×152 cm | Ed.5 + 1 A.P.
Orange smoke grenade, 2023
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, UV70 Glass
122x152cm (each) | Ed. 2 + 1 A.P. – 60x80cm (each) | Ed.5 + 1 A.P.
Orange smoke grenade, 2023
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, UV70 Glass
122x152cm (each) | Ed. 2 + 1 A.P. – 60x80cm (each) | Ed.5 + 1 A.P.
Orange smoke grenade, 2023
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, UV70 Glass
122x152cm (each) | Ed. 2 + 1 A.P. – 60x80cm (each) | Ed.5 + 1 A.P.
Red rocket parachute, 2023
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, UV70 Glass
122x95cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Red rocket parachute, 2023
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, UV70 Glass
122x95cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
exhibition view from Previsão de Deriva, 2023
Very Light, 2023
Video projection
1m30 in loop
Navigational warning , 2023
Video on monitor, sound
2m10 in loop
exhibition view from Previsão de Deriva, 2023
Aerial view, 2021
Video projection
1m46 in loop
Life Raft, 2021
Mix of objects
Variable Dimensions
Life Raft, 2021
Mix of objects
Variable Dimensions
exhibition view from Previsão de Deriva, 2023
View from the Life Raft, 2021
Video projection, sound 6m47 in loop
View from the Life Raft, 2021
Video projection, sound 6m47 in loop
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Superflora #6, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, Museum Glass
150×200 cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Superflora #4, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, Museum Glass
150×200 cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Superflora #3, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, Museum Glass
150×120 cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Superflora #5, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, Museum Glass
80×100 cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Superflora #01, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, Museum Glass
120×150 cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Superflora #07, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, Museum Glass
120×150 cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Exhibition view from the solo show Superflora, at Foco Gallery, 2022
Superflora #08, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, Museum Glass
120×150 cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Superflora #09, 2021
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, Nielsen Frame, Museum Glass
120×150 cm | Ed. 6 + 1 A.P.
Superflora #0, 2021
Video, sound | 60min
Monte do Contrabondista, 2020 | Márcio Vilela
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, glued on aluminum, Nielsen frame and Museum glass
120x150cm | Ed.1/3 + A.P.
Vanguard, 2019
Inkjet print on fine art paper
150x120cm | Single proof
Argos, 2019
Inkjet print on fine art paper
150x120cm | Single proof
Yogan, 2019
Inkjet print on fine art paper
150x120cm | Single proof
Laser beam aiming Polaris, 2019
Video 20min
Márcio Vilela (b.1978, Recife – Brazil) lives and works in Lisbon.
He holds degree in photography from the Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar and a master’s degree from the European Master of Fine Art Photography at IED Madrid.
His research is related to landscape studies and the relationship between art and science, and he is often involved with research institutions in astrophysics, aerospace engineering and hydrography, among others.
In 2008, he was one of seven artists selected for the Anteciparte prize. In 2010 he undertook a two-year artistic residency at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, which resulted in the solo exhibition Mono in 2012. That same year he was selected for the Abre Alas 8 prize, organised by the A Gentil Carioca gallery in Rio de Janeiro. Also in 2012, he took part in an artist’s residency on São Miguel Island in the Azores, at the invitation of Galeria Fonseca Macedo.
This residency resulted, in 2014, in the exhibition Azores and the launch of an artist’s book with the same name. In the same year, at the invitation of the Aloísio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art, he undertook an artistic residency in the city of Recife, with the intention of developing a new artistic work on landscape and colour study. In 2015 he took part in the Pico do Refúgio Creative Residencies on São Miguel Island, developing the research basis for the Satellites series.
In 2018 he was one of the artists invited to take part in the series Um.Artista, by director Markus Avaloni, which premiered the same year on Canal Arte1 Brasil.
In 2019 he presents the project Chromatic Study for Blue at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Brasilia. Later this year, he opens the solo exhibition Satellites at the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado – MNAC.
In 2021, he made Previsão de Deriva, about which the television documentary Deriva, directed by Luis Costa, was produced and premiered at the end of 2022.
Also in 2021, he spent five months in the forests of north-eastern Brazil, where he produced the Superflora series, which was shown for the first time at Galeria Foco in Lisbon in January 2022.
His work is represented in the António Cachola Collection, the National Museum of Brasilia, the Aloísio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Chiado – MNAC, Armando Martins Museum of Contemporary Art – MACAM and in various private collections.