1963 - 1964

Course of Fine Arts ay Guignard School, in Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais State Painting classes with Maria Helena Andrés Mural casses with Inimá Lithography wiht Quaglia Xylography and engraving classes with Yara Tupinambá

1965 - 1966

Course of Fine Arts at the University of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro State Specialization in metal und Xylography engraving with Adir Botelho

1972 - 1974

Artistic Pedagogic Course at the Hochschule für bildende Künste - Technical Universitry of West Berlin - Federal Republic of Germany. Grafic Art Classes with Hölter Lithoengraving and metal engravig classes with Franozek

1975 - 1980

Altamerikanistik (Ethmology, History, Archeology of Pre-Colombian America) - Main Course Etnology and Latin Amerika Literature - Helping courses - at the Free University of West Berlin - Federal Republic of Germany

1981

Defense of Thesis - Issue: " The conflict between the Church and the State in Brazil Indigenous Politic - 1500 - 1978" - PH.D. title (Doctor in Phylosophy) - Cum Laude Scholarship sponsered and granted by KAAD - Katholischer Akademischer Auslënder-Dienst - Bonn - Federal Republic of Germany

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CITATION in great Delta-Larousse Encyclopedia - Publisher: Delta - page 6289 - XI voluma CITATION in Fine Arts Dictionary of Brazil - Roberto Pontual - First Edition - page 488 - 2003 - Artists´ Yearbook - 2003 - Barcelona - Spain 2004 - Registro Artes Plásticas 2003 - Vol. 1 2005 - Sgreccia - The Light Hunter - Artist Biography - Brasil - 2005 - Arte Iberoamericana Contemporanea - Ed. Museo Garaffa - Cordoba - Argentina - 2005 - 20 Contemporary International Artists - Vol. 4 - Ed. Museum of the Americas - Miami - Fl. USA

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1966 - Vermon Gallery - Rio de Janeiro - RJ Grupiara Gallery - Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais 1967 - celina Gallery - Juiz de Fora - Minas Gerais 1969 - Varanda Gallery - Rio de Janeiro - RJ 1987 - Hispanic Culture Institute - Homage to Garcia Lorca - Brasília - Federal District 1991 - Art Gallery - House Thomas Jefferson - Brasília - Federal District 1992 - Art Gallery - House Thomas Jefferson  - Brasília - Federal District  - 2005 - The Light Hunter - Palácio das Artes - Belo Horizonte - MG

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

1965 - IBEU Gallery - The New Brazilian Engraving Art - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 1966 - Latin American Gallery - Brazilian Engravers - Cordoba - Argentina - 1968 - National Museum - The Brazilian Engraving - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 1970 - USAID Gallery - Three Artists from Minas Gerais State - Rio de Janeiro - Rhj Fourth Winter Festival - Gravures Several Tendencies - Ouro Preto - Minas Gerais - 1973 - 198 - Collective Exhibitions at Heller Engel Gallery and Brigit Wölfer Gallery - West Berlin - Federal Republic of Germany - 1975 - Siebente Frühjarsmesse Berliner Galerien - West Berlin - Federal Republic of Germany - 1993 - Renato Magalhães Gouvêa - Art Office - Brazil´s Present Art Project - Art Auction nº 41 - São Paulo - SP Hispanic Culture Institute - Brasília - Federal District - 1997 - Art Room Banespa - Diversity Today - Patriarca - São Paulo - SP - 2003 - 20 Brazilian Artists - Mosteiro Saint Francis - Chaves - Portugal;

ART SALOONS AND PRIZE

1963 - First Arts Exhibit of Juiz de Fora - Minas Gerais 1964 - First Modern Arts Exhibit of brasília - Brasília - Federal District XXX University Exhibit of Belo Horizonte City - Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Third Prize for Engraving XIV Official Modern Art Exhibit of Belo Horizonte City - Minas Gerais - Third Prize for Engraving 1965 - University Exhibit at the University of Brasil - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - First Prize for Engraving. XX University Exhibit at the University of São Paulo - SP - Prize: Honrable Mention XXII Curitiba Modern Art Exhibit - Curitiba - Paraná - Prize: Silber Medal for Engraving 1966 - XV Rio de Janeiro Modern Art Exhibit - Rio de Janeiro - RJ II University Exhibit at the University if Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Second Prize for Engraving. II Religious Art Exhibit in the City Londrina - Paraná 1967 - III Religious Art Exhibit in the City Londrina - Paraná - Especial Prize given by the Governor of Paraná State for the best group of works of the art show at the Exhibit 1968 - IV Religious Art Exhibit in the City Londrina -Paraná - Prize awarded by the city Hall of Londrina. 1969 - XXVI Modern Art Exhibition of Curitiba - Paraná - Prize: Honorable Mention 1970 - III Cracow Biennal - Poland XIX Modern Art Exhibit of Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Prize: Jury Exemtion for Engraving (whereby the artist´s work may be exhibit without previous submission to a Jury)

WORKS OF ART IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES:

Brazil, United States of America, Germany, England and Canada

Based upon his experience in sculping, he brought together techniques and expressiveness in his paintings. With time his paintings became the symbol of classic simplicity. Against an expanded coloured backdrop, the figure of Man was foregrounded as an idea that attempts to explain the former´s intrinsic nature in the Universe. Ariadne´s thread results in the graphic intention to explore the labyrinth of life. Juxtaposing historical phases, Sgreccia carefully creates a bare, pure picture through his ethic and his untiring search for a mystic that expresses divine existence when the same embellishes human existence. In his art there is no exaultation, but inspiration that reaches profound spiritual meanings, close to revelation. His symbolical Figures cast a light of perception on the deep mystery of being. He receives suggestions from the Mind´s pure and atemporal reality, whose Beauty he now discovers and his works seek to portray. In his canvases the flash of insight is bestowed.

Márcio Sgreccia