Jaime Garcia Dias

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Jaime Garcia Dias

Jaime Garcia Dias, better known as Garcia Dias, is a Brazilian artist born in the city of Belém, Pará on May 3, 1965. He graduated in Philosophy from the Federal University of Pará, but never practiced the profession. After graduating he moved to Berlin to study Fine Arts, specializing in Painting and Collage by UDK. In his five years in Berlin, Jaime Garcia Dias produced seven exhibitions, among them four were static, and three in movement, considered facilities. Stolen Cranks and girl were the two most prominent exhibitions of Garcia Dias, for they received the Berlin Art Vivid prize, giving the artist international recognition. With these two works, Jaime traveled to Paris and London to attend the Art Festival / Open Gallery, and ended in Brazil, at the São Paulo Biennial. In 2000, Jaime Garcia Dias received a proposal from the Art Museum of Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), to integrate the general curator of the museum position. With that, he moved to São Paulo with his whole family, his wife Fernanda Pereira Dias, and his two sons, Pedro Dias and Manuel Dias. His work as the new curator of MASP, brought several changes to the museum, and a process of modernization in the concepts of art and culture. After five years already living in São Paulo, in partnership with the artist Armando Thor, Nahor founded the art gallery, in order to work with contemporary art through artist residencies and exhibitions. During one year under the artist Anne Preg of Italy, which at the end of his residence rode alongside Jaime and Thor Full exhibition, which received national and international recognition. Jaime Garcia Dias, after his placement and his status in the market Art and Galleries of São Paulo, was invited to join the curatorship of the Bienal de São Paulo in 2008, which he keeps to this day. In 2009, the artist released his first book, a carefully selected and detailed collection of works of art and contemporary artists from Brazil. The book won the Book of the Year award Art and Best Editing, reaching high sales across the country . Jaime's wife, Fernanda Dias, architect and collaborator of Casa Cor, has her own office in partnership with the company Julia Rubião. In 2012, they set up the first installation for Jaime Garcia Dias, called stones and Panos. The installation, produced in a box of 40 square meters, made ​​and created by Fernanda Dias, located in downtown São Paulo, takes the viewer on an imagetic immersion of the mining world. In partnership with the artist miner, Pedro Cavalcante, who brought the Ouro Preto city more than twenty pieces for the installation, the work received an audience of more than fifty thousand people in less than a fortnight, and received invitations to be presented in New York, Berlin and Tokyo. As a result, during the year 2013 Dias Garcia and his wife divided their lives between these three cities, getting a great reputation in the art world, and conquering the gaze of international public. Website: https://jaimegdias.wordpress.com/

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Jaime Garcia Dias