“Abstract Systems”

Renato Bezerra de Mello works from a walker's perspective, with the intention of working on time and obsolescence, inhabiting the very physicality of materials that are subject to disappearance.

He graduated in architecture from UFPE and began his professional life in Rio de Janeiro, focusing on the restoration of listed buildings. In this city he studied specializations in History of Art and Architecture in Brazil and Art and Philosophy - PUC; in addition to the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage - EAV: studios João Magalhães, Kate van Scherpenberg, Iole de Freitas and Nelson Leirner.

In 2000, after an exchange between EAV and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts: Annette Messager and Christian Boltanski studios, she moved to Paris, dedicating herself exclusively to the visual arts.

In 2002, he participated in his first exhibition in Paris (Première vue, a group exhibition at Passage de Retz, curated by Michel Nuridsany), which marked the beginning of his artistic career. In 2004, he was selected by Marcelo Campos for the group exhibition Memórias heterogêneas (Castelinho do Flamengo, RJ); and by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, for a solo exhibition within the Trajetórias program, in Recife.

His works are in the collections: MAR, Brazil; MOLAA, USA; CCBN, Brazil; CNAP, France; Fundaj, Brazil. And his main exhibitions are: "Inventory of Oblivion", Galeria Inox, Rio de Janeiro in 2015; "Where the rivers meet to invent the sea", Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon, in 2014; "Crumbs of Childhood", Marsden Woo Gallery London, in 2011; "Métissages", Bolivia, France, Indonesia and Thailand, in 2010; "A floor to play, a sky to fly", Galeria Inox, Rio de Janeiro in 2014, among others.