Up To Neck, 2018

Pointillism

96×66 cm

Property of the artist

Four pointillism drawings (size: 96 cm x 66 cm) made of black, sepia and golden pen, are fixed in four rectangular wooden plates (size: 2,50 m x 1,25 m) leaning against the wall. The drawings are fixed on wooden plates by objects such as – knife, pistol, scissors and a hand, made of cables – examples of tools used in case of violence against women in recent cases of feminicide in Brazil.

A television report about the murder by strangling two women shocked the Brazilian artist Daniel Torres. Touched by these events, the artist deepened his research into the increasing violence against women in Brazil and, in a poetic arrangement involving the female, developed a series of drawings that have the female neck as a motto and starting point. From this he brought the giraffe as a metaphor, as this mammal is on the list of endangered animals. By penetrating the universe of the imaginary, the surreal, the artist shows us images of an antropozoomorphic female body, weird, metamorphosed, perhaps erotic.

Visual artist graduated in Technology in Cultural Production in Natal/Brazil, draws in small scale. One of its characteristics is the strong trait in both his portraits of graffiti and the prints in Indian ink.

In addition to his artistic work, Daniel Torres also works as a curator and theater producer.He was a facilitator and teacher in the National Youth Inclusion Program (Projovem) in 2008 and professor substitute of arts in 2010.

Solo exhibitions

2017 PELO PESCOÇO (Up To Neck)

SIGMUND FREUD University | Linz – ÁUSTRIA

GALERIA DE ARTE IFRN CIDADE ALTA – Edital de

Concurso para Exposições de Artes Visuais

TEATRO CARLOS CÂMARA – Ocupação Teatro Máquina

Fortaleza – CE

GALERIA SESC RN – Edital de Artes Visuais da Galeria

Sesc Natal

2013 Intervenção – Tons da Quarentena | Edição de maio do

Circuito Cultural Ribeira – Natal/RN

2012 Construção do Traço – Projeto Café com Arte | Teatro

Alberto Maranhão – Natal/RN

Construção do Traço – II Diálogos em Produção

Cultural | (IFRN Cidade Alta, Natal/RN)

2011 Anônimos – Galeria do IFRN Campus Cidade Alta, Natal/RN)

Group exhibitions

2017 Brasilianisches Kultur Festival Gmünd/ÁUSTRIA |

Bildende Kunst aus Brasilien

2017 5ª Graffit Expo Natal – Galeria Newton Navarro,

Fundação Capitania das Artes.

2017 3ª INarteurbana | Pixo Associação e Casa Vermelha –

Natal/Paris

2017 II Salão Dorian Gray de Arte Potiguar – Fórum Silveira

Martins | Mossoró – RN

2017 ATELIÊ A CÉU ABERTO – 2017 | 5º PRÊMIO RUY

PEREIRA DE ARTES VISUAIS RN

2016 NASCE NATAL Exposição de Arte – Pinacoteca do Estado

| Palácio Potengi – RN

2014 II CONCURSO RUY PEREIRA DE ARTES VISUAIS NO

ATELIER A CÉU ABERTO

IFRN – Campus Cidade Alta

2011 I Mostra de Artes Visuais de Ceará-Mirim | Capitania das

Artes/FUNCARTE – Natal (RN)

2007 III Salão de Desenho, Natal – CEBE/ZN

Praia Shopping na Poty Livros, Natal

Operart, Instituto Fal na Fundação José Augusto, Natal