Biography | The Artist
Carlos Alberto de Araújo Filho (São Paulo, São Paulo, 1950) is a painter, draftsman and lithographer. He started painting at the age of 13, on a self-taught basis, with the panel Allegory of Carnival. He graduated in civil engineering in 1975, from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, in São Paulo.
In 1973 he was invited to participate in the exhibition "Images of Brazil ", in Brussels with the work" The next step ", executed ten years earlier. His first individual exhibition was held in 1974 at the São Paulo Museum of Art. In 1979, he created the panel entitled "Independence" for the exhibition "5 centuries of art in Brazil", held at MASP. In that same year, it also presented at MASP an exhibition with a metaphysical theme in large panels including "The last of the Tapuias", "Bourdelle's centaur" playing with death "and" Dreams of Saint George ".
On the occasion of the beatification of Father José de Anchieta, his work "Annunciation" was donated by the government of São Paulo to his Holiness Pope John Paul II. Since 1980 the work has been in the Vatican Museums.
At the end of the 1980s he lived in Paris and launched the monograph “ARAÚJO”, by Claude Draeger. He also produced and published in Paris a series of lithographs, at the invitation of the publisher Arianne Lancel, which portrayed the human dichotomy: "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”. From that publication Araújo entered the spiritual world, immersing himself in biblical studies and transforming the direction of his painting.
Since 1994 he started the illustration project in large panels and lithographs for the complete edition of the Holy Bible. Scenes from this work were presented in the year 2000 at Praxis International Art, in New York.
In 2007, he published the book “Bíblia Frases” (Bible Quotes) with 1028 paintings. From this work, numerous exhibitions of spiritual themes were made, opening with the set of works “Genesis”, in 2015, the Pantheon exhibition space, in Rome.
“I use my work to awaken, in Christians, Buddhists, atheists and any other human being, the divine message of loving and caring for others”
Carlos Araujo
