Miguel Thomé
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PRIZES AND PUBLICATIONS:
Exhibition Tupi or Not Tupi - Oscar Niemeyer Museum
"The exhibition provides an overview of Brazilian arts from the Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the present day. Paintings, sculptures, and installations that are significant in the visual production of 20th-century Brazil by artists such as Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Portinari, Lasar Segall, Guignard, Cícero Dias, Flavio de Carvalho, Pancetti, Victor Brecheret, Djanira, Iberê Camargo, Di Cavalcanti, Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Tunga, among others, are displayed in the exhibition."
Exhibition LITORAL
"The figurative and pictorial elaborations of the beach in Thomé's work also refer to the notion of the coastline, developed by Jacques Lacan as an alternative to the logic of borders. The coastline presents a radical discontinuity, marked by the immiscibility of the sea and the land. The arbitrariness and fixity of the boundaries established by borders have nothing to do with the dynamic fluidity of the coastline. The ebb and flow of the waves and the constant blowing of the winds that make it difficult to fix our traces on the sand perhaps help to understand the artist's contour-less, coastal figuration."
Curator: Icaro Ferraz Vidal Junior
Exhibishion OcupaFasam
"The installation brings diversity and unites, in a single space, various artists with different languages, at different stages of their trajectories and journeys."
Publication + Prize The Three Building Blocks
Video art released on the platforms Nowness, Directors Library, Booooooom TV. With mentions in Vogue, I-D Italy. Winner of the Fashion Film Festival Milan, Berlin Commercial, and participation in VAEFF NY. Exhibition at MIAC ROMA Museum and Triennale Milano.
Exhibition OUROBOROS
"Miguel Thomé's paintings are transitions between images, a translation of photographs taken during trips, combined with his own fleeting memories, bringing to the surface the atmosphere of a summer vacation with cold water."
Curator: Isadora Mattiolli
Publication Aesthetica
"Beaches are deeply idyllic spaces. People often spend all year visualizing their perfect summer holiday: blue seas, white sands, and some leisure time with loved ones. Miguel Thomé’s Beach Series is an expression of this joy, inspired by travel photographs and observational drawings. In an attempt to revive affectionate memories, vivid, block-color scenes feature families sunbathing and couples paddling. The collection is full of optimism, becoming a communal portrait of the human experience. Thomé’s studies of individuals at the seaside, such as Vozes, are reminiscent of Expressionist portraits, like those of Edvard Munch."