Sidnei Tendler

Sidnei Tendler (born 1958) is a Brazilian architect, poet, designer and painter. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he has lived and worked in Belgium since 2000.

Biography

He studied architecture at the Universidade Santa Úrsula, Rio de Janeiro. In this period he also took a course in Semiology with Professor Umberto Eco and History of Urbanism with Professor Leonardo Benévolo. In his last year of university he participated with the project “Rehabilitation of the Catete Neighborhood” of the competition organized by the International Union of Architects where he received a Medal of Honor.

In 1982, after his graduation, he traveled to New York and took courses at Parsons School of Design. In 1983 he returned to Rio de Janeiro and married Carla Carneiro da Cunha. They have two children, Carolina and Luiza Tendler. In 1986 Tendler made his first individual painting exhibition, showing works in lacquer on wood, a technique that he developed in his atelier/furniture factory. In 1990 he moved to Recife and started to work in his atelier in Poço da Panela. During this period he made the interior design of the restaurant Mafuá do Malungo, house where the poet Manuel Bandeira was born. In 1992 he exhibited at the Museum of the State of Pernambuco.

In 1993 he was invited to show his works in Belgium. Between 1993 and 2000 he had annually exhibitions in different cultural centers in Belgium. During this period Tendler participated in the Biennial of Latin America Art in Santiago de Cuba. In 1999 he published his first book 001. with critics on his work by Raul Córdula, Edson Nery da Fonseca and Luk Vermeerbergen. In 2000 moves to Belgium. In 2001 gives a workshop in the European School with pupils of the last year of arts, resulting in a panel of 10 meters of length whose the subject is “the Man and the Environment”. Between 2002 and 2004 teaches in the cultural center De Warande in the city of Turnhout, Belgium, where he carries different workshops, such as “Chaos and Creativity”. In 2003, after an ambitious project, he publishes his second book “365 - a Visual Diary”, with introduction of the art critic Mario Helio Gomes de Lima. Between 2005 and 2007 he participates actively in the project of participative diplomacy from the ambassador in Belgium, Jeronimo Moscardo and he helped in the creation of the space Darcy Ribeiro and the gallery Marcantonio Vilaça.

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