Botanical Art Worldwide 2025
Brazil
Exhibition dates
May 16 - June 19, 2025
venue
Centro Cultural Casa Thomas Jefferson- Brasilia
steering committee
Maria Alice deRezende
Marcos Silva-Ferraz
Fatima Zagonel
more information
https://artebotanicabrasil.com.br//
Botanical Art Worldwide 2018
Native Plants of Brazil
About this Exhibition
The Brazilian exhibition is being organized by its Steering Committee with the collaboration of the Municipal Botanical Museum- MBM at the Botanical Garden of Curitiba and the Center of Botanical Illustration of Paraná-CIBP. The exhibition will open to the public on May 18th and remain on view through June 18th and will include workshops and lectures. Sixty artworks have been selected representing the most important Brazilian botanical artists from different regions and its huge biodiversity. Some artists have up to three artworks included. Artists are: Alessandro Candido, Alex Araújo, Alexandre Viana, Alvaro Nunes, Ana Deliberador, Ana Maria Aviotti, Bibiana Rys, Carmen Fidalgo, Cassia Dias, Cecelia Tomasi, Diana Carneiro, Elisabeth Seraphin Prosser, Fátima Bini, Fátima Zagonel, Gustavo Marigo, Hire Sasaki, Isabel Lima e Silva, Ivone Gradowski, Jamile Elias Dib, Lais Licheski, Laura Montserrat, Lidia Macedo, Luiz Carlos Berri, Maria Alice Rezende, Maria da Penha Passos, Maura Piccoli, Rachel Rosadas, Rogerio Lupo, Simone Ribeiro, Susana Ferreira de Souza, and Zenilton Gayoso.
Jurors for the exhibition were Rosane Quintella, Cristina Maria Klas, Dulce Nascimento, and Marcos Da Silva-Ferraz.
artwork
Caesalpina echinata is the national tree of Brazil. It was very abundant and coveted for its use in dyeing fabrics. When brazil wood is referred to, it is the reddish wood from this tree, the origin of the word being brasa, or "glowing coals". It is endemic to Brazil and is found in the northeast and southeast areas of Atlantic Forest, and is now threatened.
Pau-Brasil, Caesalpina echinata, watercolor on paper, ©Fátima Zagonel
Archytaea triflora, watercolor on paper, ©Maria Alice Rezende
This painting by Maria Alice Rezende was done from a specimen from Serra do Aracá State Park, Amazonia collected on the scientific research expedition from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden.
This pen and ink drawing by Rogerio Lupo is an example of his distinctive style, whether in scientific illustrations or in entire habitat drawings.
Vellozia albohexandra, dip pen nib and ink on paper, ©Rogerio Lupo
Organizers
Center of Botanical Illustration of Paraná (CIBP) and Municipal Botanical Museum at the Botanical Garden Curitiba. CIBP is a nonprofit cultural association, created in 2000, to disseminate and highlight botanical art, to encourage interest in the art form and instruct new illustrators. MBM was founded in 1965 from a private collection with 1800 herbarium specimens donated to the city by the Dr. Honoris Causa Gerdt Hatschbach. Since 1992 is has been located in the Curitiba Botanical Gardens and today numbers about 400,000 specimens of Brazilian and foreign flora.
Steering Committee
Diana Carneiro
Maria Alice Rezende
Fátima Zagonel
Monica Claro - Advisor
exhibition Venue
The Exhibition Room at the Municipal Botanical Museum of Curitiba (MBM)
Photo courtesy PMC Collection, Municipal Botanical Garden.
Location
The Municipal Botanical Museum of Curitiba, Rua Eng°. Ostoja Roguski, s/n°. - Jardim Botânico