Paulo Climachauska was born in 1962 in São Paulo, Brazil, where he lives and works.

The artist Paulo Climachauska works in drawing and installation. He draws numbers from which on he creates real math operations through his works. His drawings and paintings, at a distance, can simply reproduce modernist architectures or other themes, but, at a closer examination, they reveal an operation of subtraction. “In the exegesis of Climachauska’s conceptual project, subtraction is exclusion and detachment. All the operations of the material realization of signs are economical […]. The inscription of the social crisis – the deficit through excess of subtraction – is his metaphor for the social immobility, the delay of social relations and the bad distribution of payments.” (Paulo Herkenhoff)

His last solo shows happened in 2007, at the Millan Gallery in Sao Paulo, and in 2006, at the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2008, he participates in the group show Blooming Now, at the Toyota City Art Museum in Japan. We would also like to draw attention to his exhibition The First, at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, Wall Project, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, and Contemporary Ar., Recent Acquisitions, Pinacoteca of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The artist is represented, between others, in the collections of the Cartier Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, the Museu del Barrio, New York, the Pinacoteca of the State of Sao Paulo, as well as in the private collection of Gilberto Chateaubriand.

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