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MIU MONTEIRO
Salvador (BA), 1989 I Lives and works in Salvador (BA), Brazil.
Visual Artist, Camila Monteiro Campos, known as Miu Monteiro, is 33 years old, and for 4 years lives exclusively from her work with painting, graffiti and digital art. He graduated in dentistry in 2011, working for 7 years in the health area, until assuming, in 2018, a full-time visual artist career. His art is marked by vibrant colors, themes related to women, northeast, freedom, transformation and especially nature.
Among some of his most outstanding works are the exhibition "Rio Vermelho black and white", which took place at Vila Ecosquare in Salvador; the project "Rua das Borboletas" with interactive murals, which became tourist spots in the Capão Valley; live customizations in melissa sandals and live watercolor cards for Arezzo and Schutz; panels for the Nana Cabin, Mariposa restaurant; paintings for quitéria restaurant in Bahia Marina and Forneria Bottino.
Miu participated in the exhibition "7 Santos de Tereza" in the restaurant "Casa de Tereza", where he exhibited 4 porcelain dishes painted with Santos and Orixás. She was invited by Nestlé to customize Dolce Gusto machines. Also selected in the Cow Parade contest, painting a life-size fiberglass cow, honoring singer Freddie Mercury.
She has also signed CD covers of bahian music musicians such as Alexandre Peixe and Saulo Fernandes. In addition to painting a mural honoring the singer Caetano Veloso, at the request of the City of Salvador. He made an exhibition in January 2022 with ten screens of varied hugs, in the art square of Shopping Itaigara. He created children's panels for the Prado Valadares General Hospital in Jequié. A mural in honor of Salvador for the Sabin Laboratory and more recently for the concept houses show.
INTERVIEW
How did you get into the art world?
I went into 2018, making watercolors to sell. I was introduced to Grafiti by a friend the same year, and I did not let go of the can anymore. My family has always been linked to art: my grandmother painter, my mother artisan, my father joiner, my uncle DJ. So ever since I was a little girl, I've had this intense artistic influence.
What do you understand as Fine Arts?
The set of visual and sensory works that aims to express feelings, decorate environments, change atmospheres, encourage reflection and manifest social needs through artistic materials.
How do you define your Art?
Colorful, sensitive, cheerful and expressing the relationship of the human with nature mainly.
What are your greatest references in the world of the Arts?
Naif art, still life, surrealism, primitive art. And to name a few names: Tarsila do Amaral, Hilma Af Klint, Beatriz Milhazes, Matisse and Frida
What are the main themes used in his works? And why is that?
Nature. because I consider it the most amazing thing in the world. The process of metamorphosis of butterflies, the incredible colors of flowers, the dances of birds, the tentacles of living waters, the song of cicadas, the delicate shapes of the leaves, the relation of animals, the balance that exists in all this.
What are the main techniques used in your work? And which ones do you like to use the most?
Watercolor, oily pastel, acrylic paint, spray, charcoal, graphite. I like spray a lot because I paint in bigger areas.
What do you seek to pass through your works to the viewer?
I seek to pass joy, well-being, reflection on environmental awareness, on self-knowledge, preservation of the environment and animals. I'm a vegetarian, so I have a lot of love for animals, they are very present in my arts.
What are the best and greatest experiences in your artistic career?
The participation of Cow Parade, the individual exhibition in the Shopping Itaigara and action for Nestlé.
In your work is there a kind of protest beyond what is obviously seen? If so, which one? If not, is there a theme that awakens your willingness to protest?
Sometimes I refer to the LGBTQIA+ audience. But my arts do not have as main objective to manifest political or social opinions, but to cause good sensations in the spectator. I believe that the world already offers us many tense, negative sensations related to responsibilities, problems, etc... but since I am a vegetarian, I think about painting more about the valorization of species, about environmental awareness, about human-human relationship, human-nature, on the importance of animal life and on the environment in general.
Are you interested in doing a traveling exhibition? If so, how do you imagine this exhibition? Would you know what topic you would like to address?
Yes, I imagine very colorful and with themes related to simple life, light reflections, good memories of childhood, appreciation of the primitive, of ancestry. Bring the importance of valuing simple customs of children, such as observing a little plant being born, an ant walking. Things that bring us closer to nature, to our most visceral and genuine origins.
Where do you want to get to as an artist?
I intend to make arts in buildings, travel to do this kind of work, urban art that touches everyone who passes through the streets, that promotes well-being, feeling of belonging, pleasure. Anyway, art for everyone and everyone.