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(b. Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1935) Evandro Carlos Jardim is a painter, sculptor and engraver. Of all three media, Jardim is renowned as an engraver and cartographic artist. His work highlights the changes that Sío Paulo has undergone since the 1950's, and he has produced one of the most significant maps of the Rio Pinheiros that runs through the city. The images he creates are fragmented visions of isolated objects, as if observed by rail passengers traveling along the riverside. These varied scenes come together to tell a story, and his engravings have been used for train pamphlets. These pamphlets adopt the tradition begun in Russia during the revolutionary period of using trains to diffuse ideas and culture throughout the country, but here substitute political dogma with artistic observation. Jardim has participated in solo and group exhibitions, as well as biennials internationally, and has received several awards, including from the Sío Paulo Association of Art Critics i
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