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Maria Inês Rodrigues
Maria Inês Rodrigues portrayed by Lisette Guerra
Born	Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Other names	Maria Inês Kliemann Maria Inês Rodrigues Chaves Barcellos
Known for	Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Sculpture, Intaglio printmaking
Spouse(s)	Frederico Dahne Kliemann (1965–1978) Antônio Chaves Barcellos (1982–2020)
Awards	Jury Exemption Award (1969, 1976) First Prize (1st South American Painting Biennial, 1998) Pedro Weingärtner Commendation (2005)
Website	mariainesrodrigues.com.br

Maria Inês Rodrigues (born in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian painter, visual artist, printmaker, drawer, and sculptor. She is recognized in the art historiography of Rio Grande do Sul as a pioneer of intaglio printmaking. Rodrigues was one of the first women from Porto Alegre to earn a degree in Fine Arts. She also played a pioneering role in advancing women's artistic independence in southern Brazil's art scene.

Her work includes drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation art. She regularly explores symbolism, childhood legends, and archaic figures. In addition to her studio practice, she developed a significant teaching career, training new generations of printmakers in cities including Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Caxias do Sul, Bagé, and Gramado.

Maria Inês Rodrigues was born in Porto Alegre to attorney Paulo Acosta Rodrigues and Eloah Dornelles Rodrigues, both of Portuguese and Spanish descent. She began studying drawing in her hometown in 1960. For three years, she trained at the studios of renowned artists Vasco Prado and Zoravia Bettiol.

In 1961, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She studied under prominent professors, including Ado Malagoli, Christina Balbão, and Alice Soares. Among her classmates was the future sculptor Carlos Tenius. After graduating in 1964, she traveled to Rio de Janeiro, where she studied with Lori Koch and attended the studio of modernist master Alfredo Volpi. In 1965, she took the free painting course at the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art (MARGS) under Iberê Camargo.

In 1965, Rodrigues married neurologist Frederico Dahne Kliemann. They had one daughter, Flávia, and separated in 1978. She signed her works as Maria Inês Kliemann during this period. In 1982, she married architect and professor Antônio Chaves Barcellos. They had a son, Luiz Paulo, and remained married until his death in 2020.

In 1966, Rodrigues studied Didactics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). During the same period, she volunteered for one year in occupational therapy with children receiving treatment at the Melanie Klein Outpatient Clinic of the São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital in Porto Alegre. At the program's end, she curated an exhibition of the children's drawings at the Alliance Française in Porto Alegre.

In 1967, Rodrigues traveled to London, England. She studied lithography at the Slade School of Fine Art under Stanley Jones. She also specialized in intaglio printmaking with Portuguese master Bartolomeu dos Santos. Her first international exhibitions took place in 1968 at the ALA Gallery and the University of Essex, alongside Marcelo Grassmann.

In the 1970s, Rodrigues became more active in Latin America. In 1974, she held an important solo exhibition at the Van Riel Gallery in Buenos Aires with an introduction by Brazilian writer Érico Veríssimo. After the show, her works were added to the collections of the Museo del Grabado and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.

Between the 1960s and 1990s, Rodrigues balanced her studio practice with teaching at universities and cultural centers in southern Brazil, including the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and the Museu da Gravura Brasileira in Bagé.

In the 1980s, moving beyond printmaking, Rodrigues expanded into painting and held solo and group exhibitions at major Brazilian art venues. Among these were the Bonino Gallery in Rio de Janeiro, including its 25th-anniversary exhibition, and the Mokiti Okada Foundation in São Paulo.

Beginning in the 1990s, Rodrigues turned increasingly to three-dimensional work, producing sculptures in bronze and resin, as well as large-scale conceptual installations and urban interventions, while continuing to exhibit regularly at venues such as Gravura Galeria de Arte. During this period, she also expanded her international presence through exhibitions and charity auctions in Toronto, Canada.

Maria Inês Rodrigues's work moves beyond purely aesthetic concerns, engaging with fundamental human questions through three expressive tendencies identified by the artist: the grotesque, the satirical, and the lyrical.

Art critic and poet Armindo Trevisan described her work as defined by two essential qualities: tenacity, seen in her formal refinement and mastery of intaglio printmaking; and restlessness, which drove her toward new three-dimensional challenges and social themes. Trevisan also noted a remarkable "synthesizing tension" in her prints, especially in her treatment of archetypal figures such as musicians and sorcerers, and in her themes of motherhood.

Pondering her creative approach, Rodrigues stated:

I see my work like that of an archaeologist. I search within myself for forms filled with emotion, symbols, and childhood legends. These archaic images materialize and reveal what lies inside us all. Everyday fears and aggressions masked by appearances reveal fierce competition in private life. In this way, they reveal another history of contemporary society.

Rodrigues's artistic production can be divided into three distinct periods exploring different media:

• 1960–1980: A period centered primarily on drawing and on the technical development and pioneering use of intaglio printmaking, especially etching and aquatint.
• 1980–1990: A transitional period defined by an expansion into painting, with an emphasis on canvas works.
• 1990–2002: A period devoted to three-dimensional art, including sculptures in bronze and resin, as well as large-scale installations integrated into urban and architectural spaces.

Maria Inês Rodrigues's printmaking is known for technical innovation and formal rigor, especially in etching and aquatint. Her prints blend visual oppositions and strong self-reflection, creating formal tension. Themes include archetypal figures, ancestry, musicians, sorcerers, and a recurring, sensitive investigation of motherhood.

• Untitled (n.d.) – Intaglio print (etching and aquatint), held in the permanent collection of the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art (MARGS).
• Untitled (n.d.) – Intaglio print (aquatint), held in the collection of the Museum of Brazilian Art (MAB–FAAP).
• Cadernos dos Insensatos (1992) – A portfolio of electrographs and texts by the artist, presented at Galeria Espaço Novos Meios of Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana.

Rodrigues's move to canvas painting in the 1980s broadened her imaginative universe. Her paintings use a rich chromatic palette and varied textures, further developing the grotesque, the satirical, and the lyrical in her artistic language. Through painting, she gave form to ancestral childhood images and everyday fears in an almost archaeological fashion. Critics such as Ferreira Gullar (1984) and Jacob Klintowitz (1985) praised this body of work.

• Untitled (n.d.) – Oil paintings in private collections in Brazil and abroad.
• Me Dejas Loco América (1997) – A painterly installation and urban intervention project coordinated by the artist, bringing together 20 artists from the Southern Cone at the Porto Alegre Public Market in tribute to the 1st Bienal do Mercosul.

Beginning in the 1990s, Rodrigues's artistic versatility led her toward three-dimensional and public art. Her sculptures in bronze and polyester resin retained the depth of her investigation into archaic forms, while her large-scale conceptual installations assumed a strong social dimension through interventions in public space. Often conceived and coordinated by the artist, these collaborative projects sought to recover cultural memory.

• Projeto da Vida / Proteja a Vida (1992) – A collaborative installation consisting of twelve large-scale paintings on cotton canvas (3.5 × 1.6 m), presented on the façade of a public building in Rio de Janeiro during ECO-92, then presented at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, in São Paulo, and in San Francisco.
• Árvore da Vida (1992) – Two large-scale paintings on cotton canvas (3 × 1 m), installed in the atrium of Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana.
• Brasil 500 Anos: Navegadores de Imagens (1999–2000) – A conceptual public art installation conceived and coordinated by Rodrigues, bringing together works by 18 painters on sail-shaped canvases measuring 6 m in height, installed along the waterfront of the Guaíba River near the Usina do Gasômetro in Porto Alegre.
• Untitled (n.d.) – A body of sculptures in bronze and polyester resin produced from the 1990s onward, represented in the collections of the Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim (Rio de Janeiro) and in private collections.

• 1967: Brazilian-American Cultural Institute (Porto Alegre) – Drawings and paintings.
• 1968: ALA Gallery (London, England) – Intaglio prints.
• 1969: Brazilian-American Cultural Institute (Porto Alegre) – Intaglio prints.
• 1972: Esphera Gallery (Porto Alegre) – Intaglio prints.
• 1972: Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art (MARGS) (Porto Alegre) – Intaglio prints (by invitation of the State Department of Culture).
• 1972: Yázigi Gallery (Caxias do Sul) – Prints.
• 1973: Galeria U (Punta del Este, Uruguay) – Intaglio prints.
• 1974: Van Riel Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina) – Intaglio prints.
• 1974: Gallery of the State Bank of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre) – Prints.
• 1975: Bonino Gallery (Rio de Janeiro) – Etchings and aquatints.
• 1976: Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre).
• 1976: Curitiba Cultural Center (Curitiba) – Intaglio prints.
• 1979: Studiu's Gallery (Porto Alegre) – Paintings.
• 1980: Quadro Gallery / Escritório de Arte / SENAC (Porto Alegre) – Inaugural exhibition.
• 1980: Van Gogh Gallery (Pelotas) – Paintings.
• 1981: Museu da Gravura Brasileira (Bagé) / Casa Velha Gallery (Gramado, Novo Hamburgo) / UFSM (Santa Maria).
• 1983: Continental Torres Hotel Gallery (Torres).
• 1984: Bonino Gallery (Rio de Janeiro) – 25th anniversary exhibition.
• 1985: Ars Artis Gallery (São Paulo) / Associação Leopoldina Juvenil (Porto Alegre) – Paintings.
• 1986: Alencastro Guimarães Art Gallery (Porto Alegre) – Paintings.
• 1987: Cristina Gonzáles Art Studio (Porto Alegre) – Paintings.
• 1988: Singular Gallery (Porto Alegre) / Camaquã Gallery (Camaquã) – Paintings.
• 1989: Grafite Gallery (Uruguaiana) – Paintings and intaglio prints.
• 1990: Leopoldo Gotuzzo Museum of Art (Pelotas) – Paintings and intaglio prints.
• 1992: Ritter dos Reis College (Porto Alegre) – O Homem: Urbanismo installation.
• 1992: Espaço Novos Meios Gallery, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana (Porto Alegre) – Paintings and Cadernos dos Insensatos.
• 1993: Bonino Gallery (Rio de Janeiro) / Marisa Soibelman Gallery (Porto Alegre) / Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim (Rio de Janeiro) – Paintings and bronze sculptures.
• 1995: Gallery Grande (Toronto, Canada) – Paintings and bronze sculptures.
• 1997: 24 de Outubro Gallery – Art Space (Porto Alegre) – Bronze and resin sculptures, paintings, and prints.
• 1999: BrazArts Productions Gallery (Toronto, Canada) – Paintings and sculptures.

• 1962: 9th Fine Arts Salon of the Institute of Fine Arts / UFRGS School of Fine Arts (Porto Alegre).
• 1963: Exhibition of Three Students of Vasco Prado and Zoravia Bettiol (UFRGS School of Architecture, Porto Alegre).
• 1964: Group Exhibition of Artists from Rio Grande do Sul – Espaço Gallery (Porto Alegre) – Drawings.
• 1965: Exhibition of Iberê Camargo's Students – MARGS (Porto Alegre) – Paintings.
• 1967: Group Exhibition of Artists from Rio Grande do Sul – Leopoldina Gallery (Porto Alegre) – Drawings.
• 1968: Brazilian Artists of Today – University of Essex (England) – Invited artist alongside Marcelo Grassmann and Dora Bazilio.
• 1969: IBEU Gallery (Rio de Janeiro) / National Salon of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro) / 2nd Young Artists Salon at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Campinas (Campinas).
• 1971: Esphera Gateira de Artes (Porto Alegre) / Ciclo Gallery (Porto Alegre) – Intaglio printmaking.
• 1972: Santa Catarina Fine Arts Salon (Florianópolis) / International Print Exhibition (São Paulo – Invited artist) / Exhibition of Artists from Rio Grande do Sul (Casino Miguez, Punta del Este, Uruguay) / 3rd International Print Biennial (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
• 1973: Group Exhibition at the Nanasawa Fair (Japan) – Intaglio printmaking.
• 1975: Group Exhibition at Eucatex-Po Gallery (Rio de Janeiro) – Presentation of award-winning works from the National Salon.
• 1976: Arte Agora I – MAM-RJ (Rio de Janeiro – Invited artist representing Rio Grande do Sul with 15 intaglio prints) / National Salon (Rio de Janeiro).
• 1977: Panorama of Contemporary Art – MASP (São Paulo – Invited artist) / Brazilian Art Salon (Rio de Janeiro) / Exhibition in Honor of Mario Quintana at CCMQ (Porto Alegre).
• 1978: Club del Grabado (Montevideo, Uruguay).
• 1979: 4th Brazil–Japan Art Exhibition (Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan; São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro).
• 1982: Anniversary Exhibition of Singular Gallery (Porto Alegre) / 1st Curitiba Printmaking Exhibition (Curitiba).
• 1987: Atelier 65 Arte / Cristina Gonzáles Art Studio (Porto Alegre).
• 1988: 1st Brazil–Japan Fine Arts Exhibition – Mokiti Okada Foundation (São Paulo).
• 1993: Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim (Rio de Janeiro) – Paintings.
• 1995: Charity Exhibition and Auction (Toronto, Canada) / Group exhibition with Mexican artist Judite Thomamichel (Toronto, Canada).
• 1998: 1st South American Ponche-Be Painting Biennial (Porto Alegre) – Award-winning work later exhibited in the Balconadas exhibition (Spain) / Brazilian Art ExpoCanada 98 (Toronto, Canada).
• 1999: Group Exhibition of Brazilian Artists (Toronto City Hall, Toronto, Canada).
• 2000: Group Exhibition – Usina do Gasômetro (Porto Alegre).

• 1992: Projeto da Vida – Installation consisting of a series of large-scale paintings on cotton canvas displayed on the façade of a public building in Rio de Janeiro during ECO-92, later exhibited at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana (Porto Alegre), Sé Metro Station (São Paulo), and the Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco, United States).
• 1997: Me Dejas Loco América (Coordination) – Public art intervention bringing together 20 artists from Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay, and Argentina, who created large-scale paintings on fabric displayed at the Porto Alegre Public Market as a parallel cultural event to the 1st Bienal do Mercosul. The project later toured Canela, Passo Fundo, and Santa Cruz do Sul.
• 1999–2000: Brazil 500 Years: Navigators of Images (Coordination) – Collaborative installation composed of 18 sail-shaped modules installed along the Guaíba waterfront near the Usina do Gasômetro (Porto Alegre). After all of the original works were stolen in February 2000, the project continued through a visual reconstruction in a documentary photographic exhibition by photographer Irene Santos.

• 1962: Honorable Mention in Drawing – 9th Fine Arts Salon of the UFRGS School of Fine Arts (Porto Alegre).
• 1969: Jury Exemption Award in Printmaking – National Salon of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro).
• 1969: Bronze Medal in Etching – 2nd Young Artists Salon at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Campinas (Campinas).
• 1976: Jury Exemption Award in Painting – National Salon of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro).
• 1998: First Prize – 1st South American Ponche-Be Painting Biennial (Porto Alegre).
• 2005: Pedro Weingärtner Commendation – Awarded during a ceremonial session held on 22 November 2005 at the Otávio Rocha Plenary Hall, on the initiative of City Councilor Dr. Goulart, in recognition of Rodrigues's pioneering work and her contribution to the history of intaglio printmaking in Rio Grande do Sul.

Maria Inês Rodrigues's artistic career is documented and recognized by specialized encyclopedias, cultural reference databases, and the permanent collections of nationally and internationally significant museums and institutions, including:

• Itaú Cultural Encyclopedia of Brazilian Art and Culture — Biographical and critical entry on the artist.^[1]
• Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art (MARGS) (Porto Alegre) — Holds graphic materials, historical newspaper clipping files, and works cataloged in the museum's permanent collection.^[2][3][4]
• Porto Alegre City Council News Portal — Official news coverage of the presentation of the artist's cultural honor.^[5]
• Porto Alegre Municipal Pinacoteca (Porto Alegre).^[6]
• Arteinformado: Ibero-American Art Guide — Technical record and professional profile of the artist.^[7]
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul (MAC-RS) (Porto Alegre).^[8]
• Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA) (Buenos Aires, Argentina).^[9]
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan).^[10]

• Intaglio (printmaking)
• Alfredo Volpi

• Official website — Official website of the artist