Cavalca

Paulo Cavalcante was born and lives in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Self-taught, he has published cartoons and illustrations in some of the largest newspapers in Brazil over the past two decades, and has received the “Award of Excellence- Art and Illustration”, from the US-based Society of Newspaper Design (SND), for his set of works published in the newspaper “O Globo”. In 2013, he was invited to participate in a special publication about Brazil at the “Courrier International”, in France. He also participated in an international festival in the city of Amadora, in Portugal.

               Cavalcante held exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, including the collective “A Imagem do Som”, at Paço Imperial; “The New Aesthetics of Caricature”, in Portugal; “Rio Seen by its Artists” by the Rio de Janeiro Creation Club; “Humor in War Times”, at Laura Alvim House of Culture; “Illustrations and Portraits” at the Telephone Museum and “Rio Graphics” at the National Museum of Fine Arts.

               In 2014, he exhibited his works at the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) a retrospective of his career, in which he mixed graphic works and paintings on canvas, an activity to which he has been working most intensely in recent years. The exhibition was recommended by the critics of “Veja”, the main magazine of the country, as one of the best of Rio de Janeiro in the period.