RELEASE VISUAL ARTS

 

Natural from Ribeirão Preto – SP - Brazil, João Naccarato was born on June 23 th 1984 and began his paintings in 2003. Currently, with more than 200 paintings and some artistic interventions spread across urban fabric in the city of Ribeirão Preto, John has been beginning to take his first steps.

 

Besides being a self-taught painter, Naccarato is also an Urbanist Architect and works professionally as a musician, which influence the design of his works. In his job as Visual Artist, his paintings in oil on canvas have striking features from European Vanguard Negative Movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism. His creative impulse has been spilt on the canvas, following a conscious flow, to represent something beyond the real, as required by the aesthetic movement.

 

In this new period of his life, the artist mixed painting techniques in oil, acrylic, pen and permanent stencil on canvas and MDF, joining characteristical elements from his surrealism influences in his new language that marks the characteristical ones from the street art.

  

Solo Exhibitions

 

BAUHAUS 2013 - Street Art - Reinventando a Paisagem Urbana 28/02/2013 to 26/03/2013

 

FNAC 2012 - Fnac 1st exhibition of paintings 10/02/2012 to 10/31/2012;

 

UNAERP 2012 - Colors & Fragment - 02/07/2012 to 03/02/2012;

 

RECRA 2011 - Colorful Doodles - 03/01/2011 to 04/01/2011;

 

2011 FORUM - Ribeirão Preto - November 2011;

 

BAUHAUS 2008 – from 10/09/2008 to 11/10/2008;

 

2007 ANN SULLIVAN from Brazil showed samples of his work premises at Conservatory Counterpoint - 06/23/2007;

 

UNAERP 2006 - IEL - Institute of Foreign Languages - March and April;

 

2005 BARON MAUÁ - Chromatic Exhibition Illusions, total of 10 screens – in May.

     

Collective Exhibitions

 

2012 Museum Portinari's Home - 2 panels;

 

2012 TOIA Space - 6 panels;

 

2012 SE VIRA RIBEIRÃO - independent artistic movement created due to lack of Virada Cultural Paulista (Paulista Cultural Event) in 2012 in Ribeirão Preto;

 

2011 Museum Portinari's Home - 2 panels;

 

BAUHAUS 2011 Gallery – Strands Exhibition - 04/19/2012;

 

2011 PRO-ARENA - Volunteer Movement for Arena Theater revitalization ;

 

UNAERP 2008 - February and March;

 

Sur Culture Project 2008 - BAUHAUS, between 06/06/2008 to 06/30/2008.

 

(Invited by the Artist Soho Mishima);

   

Participations

 

2012 - Christmas Art 2012 - Campaign for the Cancer Hospital;

 

2012 - Portinari 's Week;

 

2012 - SE VIRA Ribeirão;

 

2011 - Pro Arena Movement;

 

2011 – Portinari 's Week.

    

Urban Intervention

 

2012 Clean City? - Urban Intervention in Ayrton Senna Viaduct. Political statement made by the artist using more than 2,000 folders who were "thrown" on public roads during election 1st round campaign.

 

2012 More than 30 urban furniture (lampposts and manholes) painted on the main avenues in Ribeirão Preto.

 

Comment by Jaqueline Piolli - Journalist in “A CIDADE”- Local Newspaper:

 

Friday, May 11th , 2012 - 22:20

  

The streets of the southern region of Ribeirão Preto are more colorful. Every day the villagers are surprised by a pole painted by the musician and artist John Naccarato, 27. The artist began a month ago which turns art into urban intervention. Since then, he has been painting eight lampposts and six manhole grids, giving them a different look.

 

John decided to apply the idea in Ribeirão Preto inspired on the group "6:30" from São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro street art. The intention is to change the urban landscape and people's daily lives in his way to work or to school, in order to become them more joyful. "It's interesting to surprise the person who spends all day at the same place and suddenly faces with an artistic intervention" comments.

 

Besides passing a joyful image, John believes that we must bring art to the public. According to the musician, now the values are reversed. "The artist searches for streets, graffiti artists and the museum. This is a tendency in contemporary art. Art should not be arrested; it is for everyone," he says.

 

The time he takes to paint each lamppost or manhole grid is four hours on average. The artist uses acrylic paints and latex and abuses of colors combination and distinctive features of Vanguard Negative European movements such as Dadaism [characterized by a lack of direction in the way] and Surrealism [combines representative, the abstract, the unreal and the unconscious in arts].

 

John writes all stages of painting and then put the videos on internet so that people can follow the creation process.

 

The musician works alone and does not earn for the work. Moreover, he has to afford all material costs he uses.

 

In order to work in more spaces, the artist has developed a project for the City Hall, named "Art is for Everyone." "I have been waiting for the approval and authorization to have the resources to do the job in other parts of the city," he says.

 

The Town Secretary of Culture said that has been studying a way to help the painter, "but right now, Ribeirão Preto city is working on both the Old Town project as the revitalization of the central quadrangle and Clean City"

   

To learn more, please access:

www.flickr.com/joaonaccarato

  

MUSICAL RELEASE - João Naccarato

 

Natural from Ribeirão Preto – SP - Brazil, was born in 1984, John Naccarato graduated as an architect, but has always been working as a musician and art. He studied electric bass with Carlito Rodriguez (Zé Geraldo) and had classes with acoustic bass player Vinícius Porphyry (Ribeirão Preto Symphony Orchestra). He began early, at age 16 to make presentations in bars and nightclubs. John Naccarato has played with several bands in the city and renowned National Pop Rock artists, with the interpreter Ratto Acoustic (2010/2011), when he worked for a year and a half, as a bass player for his band.

 

He also played with the bands:

 

• Crazy Puppet's (Blues) 2000 to 2002;

 

• Filhos do Dono (Funk / Soul) 2002 to 2006;

 

• Itinerantes (Ball) 2004 to 2006;

 

• Big Band Jazz Contraponto (Jazz) 2004;

 

• Deva Mille (Toque de Lata) from 2006 to 2007;

 

• Famoso Quem (©All Rights Reserved) 2007;

 

• Arrastamangue (©All Rights Reserved) 2007 2012;

 

• Pingado (Samba & Bossa Nova) 2008 2012;

 

• Chic Hernandez (©All Rights Reserved) 2008/2009;

 

• Acoustic Ratto (Pop / Rock) 2010/2011

 

Among other bands.

 

CD – SYNOPSIS

 

Figure 2 - Photo in high resolution attached

 

Musician and songwriter John Naccarato, released his first solo album in 2012, entitled “Cafe com Paçoca”. The artist brings in his lyrics and songs the link of different sound languages for the album. The artist searched references from Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon blues to samba form Noel and Cartola., joining all the rhythms and styles which were references for the artist in the conception creation, music and lyrics that make this work.

  

João Naccarato é formado Arquiteto, mas sempre trabalhou como Músico e Artista plástico. Estudou Contrabaixo elétrico com Carlito Rodrigues (Zé Geraldo) e teve aulas de Contrabaixo Acústico com Vinícius Porfírio (Orquestra Sinfônica de Ribeirão Preto).

Começou cedo a fazer apresentações em bares e casas noturnas, aos 16 anos. João Naccarato já tocou com diversas bandas na cidade e artista renomados no cenário do Pop Rock Nacional, como o intérprete Ratto Acústico (2010/2011), onde trabalhou por um ano e meio, atuando como contrabaixista da sua banda.

Tocou também com as bandas:

 

•Crazy Puppet´s (Blues) 2000 a 2002;

•Filhos do Dono (Funk/Soul) 2002 a 2006;

•Itinerantes (Baile) 2004 a 2006;

•Big Band Jazz Contraponto (Jazz) 2004;

•Deva Mille (Toque da Lata) 2006 a 2007;

•Famoso Quem(Música autoral) 2007;

•Arrastamangue(Música autoral) 2007 a 2012;

•Pingado(Samba & Bossa Nova) 2008 a 2012;

•Chic Hernandez (Música autoral) 2008/2009;

•Ratto Acústico (Pop/Rock) 2010/2011

Entre outras bandas.