José de Moura Resende Filho (São Paulo, SP, 1945). Sculptor. Studies engraving at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (Faap) in 1963. In the same year, he joins the School of Architecture and Urbanism at Universidade Mackenzie. Begins to study drawing with Wesley Duke Lee (1931-2010). In 1964, he works as an intern at the office of architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928). In 1966, he founds Grupo Rex with Wesley Duke Lee, Nelson Leirner (1932), Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998), Frederico Nasser (1945) and Carlos Fajardo (1941). Graduates in architecture and is one of the founders of the Escola Brasil:, together with Luiz Paulo Baravelli (1942), Frederico Nasser and Carlos Fajardo. In the 1970s, he is a professor at the Institute of Arts and Decoration at UniversidadeMackenzie's School of Communication and Art, and at the Sculpture Department of Faap's School of Fine Arts. In 1975, he is co-editor of the magazine Malasartes, in which he publishes articles. Between 1976 and 1986, he is the professor of Architectural Language and head of department at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas. Between 1984 and 1985, he resides in New York City as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation scholar. In his works, he explores the expressive potentialities of the materials used, revealing the dialogue with arte povera and with North American post-minimalism. He works with a diversity of materials such as stones, copper pipes, lead sheets, steel cables, plates, and glass ampoules. He also uses liquids such as mercury, water, and sepia ink. In more recent works, he also uses leather and paraffin.
JOSÉ Resende. In: ENCICLOPÉDIA Itaú Cultural de Arte e Cultura Brasileiras. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural, 2021. Available at: <http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/pessoa8972/jose-resende>. Accessed on: 25 Jun. 2021. Encyclopedia entry. ISBN: 978-85-7979-060-7