The Painter
With almost a hundred exhibitions, Oscar Araripe continues to renew the art of painting not only through his brush stroke and original colors, spontaneous and unusual, but also the materials he uses - synthetic canvas and tubular structures as frames and supports allowing him permanent showing facilities outdoors for the public at large, and tracing - paper.
Invited to inaugurate new show places for painting Oscar Araripe exhibited his work in the Villa Lobos Room of the National Theater in Brasilia in 1991 and the following year at Ipanema Beach , Rio de Janeiro, his particularly original ecological tribute,
The Pillar of Uaupé was shown. His two wall panels on Tiradentes exhibited in April of the same year simultaneously in the gardens of the Republic Museum in Rio and on the Mineiro Museum in Belo Horizonte.
In May, his exhibition Kites at the Bank of Brazil's Cultural Center in Rio was followed in June by Extinction Never Again in the Botanical Gardens, also in Rio, as part of the special presentations during ECO-92 UN World Conference and seen by an estimated 2 million people. In July of 93, re-inaugurating the Ouro Preto Winter Festival, he exhibited Kites of Freedom in Tiradentes Square and in December, Nativity at Brasilia's Oscar Niemeyer famous Our Lady Little Chapel.
In March 94 he relocates his studio to Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, where he now lives. In April of the same year during FUNREI's 7th. Anniversary celebrations, he exhibited Tiradentes (the Brazilian National hero ) outdoors in São João del-Rei where he also opened the 7th. Winter Culture Festival in July with Sâ Joâ Kites at various locations through out the city.
In May 95 he undertakes an interactive painting project with children of Tiradentes during the Federal University of Minas Gerais cultural workshop, exhibiting Day and Night outdoors in the town square, the Largo das Forras. In July he opens his exhibition Tiradentes, the Little Village in the old Courthouse, with 15 canvasses on the adorable great little town. In December his series of 14 paintings on São João del-Rei goes on show at the Regional Museum. As from 96, he regularly shows his recent work in July at his own gallery in Tiradentes. In 99 he turns to the sea and paints Ilha Comprida and the Central Coast of California and also the vineyards of Paso Robles and begins to exhibit his work permanently in Templeton, USA.
In 2000 shows his virtual animate exhibition of The Dance of the Flag Ant-Eater at http://www.oscarararipe.cjb.net and won the World Art Web of Excellence from ArtSpace 2000 and was selected to take part in World Festival Art on Paper 2000, in Kranj, Eslovenia.