Renato Soares
Renato Soares, photographer and documentarist of Brazilian art and culture. Since 1986, he has traveled through unusual regions of the national territory to register ethnic groups with their rites and customs; the people from each corner in the cauldron of races and traditions of the Country. The taste for Archeology and Museology was a natural consequence of an intimate connection with the indigenous peoples, mainly in the North and Center-West regions of Brazil, and that resulted in the book “Krahô, the Children of the Earth” 1994. “Among the works of museology, the publications of the books:” Pavilion of Creativity of the Memorial Foundation of Latin America “- SP 1999, and Sounding in the Soul of the People “- Collection of Brazilian Popular Art of the Edison Carneiro Museum – RJ 2005.
He developed great research in Minas Gerais on the religious art of Master AthaÃde. In Amazonas, he worked with the Tropical Medicine Department of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, which investigates the endemic Chagas Disease in the Upper and Middle Rio Negro region. He is collaborator of “Scientific American” Brazil and currently has published in magazines of great editorial expression, like National Geographic. His images of the Amazonian biodiversity and indigenous rituals have won the world, through the exhibitions Amazonia Brasil – Palais de la Découvert – Espace Amazonie and Réalité et Futur … Year of Brazil in France – Paris, and The Last Kuarup (Xingu ) exhibition of photographic panels on the Kuarup of the Orlando Villas Bôas that went through 12 Brazilian capitals in Los Angeles – 2005. In Brazil, the same exhibition was in the MASP, Museum of Art of São Paulo, on the occasion of the launch of the posthumous book of memories “Orlando Villas Bôas – Stories and Causes” 2005.
- 24/04/2025
