{{Short description|Brazilian artist}} [[File:Vista geral da instalação Monumento a Euclides de Felippe Moraes.jpg|thumb|300x300px|View of the work ''Monument to Euclid'' (2017) by Felippe Moraes installed at Slanic-Moldova, Romania.]] '''Felippe Moraes''' (born July 9, 1988) is a visual artist, researcher and independent curator born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Felippe Moraes|url=http://kooshkresidency.com/resident/felippe-moraes/|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Kooshk Residency}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Rocha|first=Susana|date=June 2017|title=Felippe Moraes: tudo o que nos ultrapassa|url=http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1647-61582017000200010&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt|journal=Revista :Estúdio|volume=8|issue=18|pages=91–102|issn=1647-6158}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Cultural|first=Instituto Itaú|title=Felippe Moraes|url=http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/pessoa554497/felippe-moraes|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural|language=pt-br}}</ref> Works with various medias such as sculpture, installation, drawing, painting and photography.<ref name=":2" /> His work is developed around revealing hidden patterns written within the universe,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-29|title=felippe moraes makes geometric drawings using pendulum|url=https://www.designboom.com/art/felippe-moraes-pendular-movement-drawings-order-07-29-2014/|access-date=2020-09-01|website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine|language=en}}</ref> relating scientific methodology and spirituality.<ref name=":1" /> Currently is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art at the College of The Arts at the University of Coimbra<ref>{{Cite web|last=Moraes|first=Felippe|date=|title=Motel Coimbra|url=http://www.motelcoimbra.pt/student/felippe-moraes/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Motel Coimbra}}</ref> and holds an MA Fine Art from the University of Northampton.
== Work == In 2016 Felippe Moraes constructed his ''Monument to The Horizon'' (2016), a large-scale permanent public sculpture placed at Caminho Niemeyer in Niterói.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|date=2017-01-25|title=felippe moraes erects a 'monument to the horizon' in rio|url=https://www.designboom.com/art/felippe-moraes-monument-to-the-horizon-rio-01-25-2017/|access-date=2020-09-01|website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-09|title=Inauguração de obra pública de Felippe Moraes|url=https://www.select.art.br/inauguracao-de-monumento-ao-horizonte-de-felippe-moraes/|access-date=2020-09-01|website=seLecT|language=pt-BR}}</ref> The work is a five-meter tall steel tower around a small set of stairs that lead to a strip in the metal, revealing the horizon of Rio de Janeiro on the opposite side of the Guanabara Bay.<ref name=":3" /> [[File:Vista de "Monumento ao Horizonte" com Baía de Guanabara à frente..jpg|thumb|300x300px|View of ''Monument to The Horizon'' (2016) by Felippe Moraes at Niterói, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.]] In 2017 was artist-in-residence in Tehran, Iran<ref name=":0" /> and in Slanic-Moldova, Romania,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Incontext|url=https://www.incontext.art/en/edition/1/the-source|access-date=2020-09-01|website=www.incontext.art}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Radio Romania International - Seis artistas brasileños participan en un proyecto en Slănic Moldova|url=https://www.rri.ro/es_es/seis_artistas_brasileos_participan_en_un_proyecto_en_slanic_moldova-2566992|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Radio Romania International}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Busnea|first=Romulus Dan|date=2017-07-29|title=,In Context Slănic-Moldova", punct și de la capăt…|url=https://www.bacauexpres.ro/in-context-slanic-moldova-punct-si-de-la-capat/|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Bacău Expres|language=ro-RO}}</ref> where he constructed his ''Monument to Euclid'' (2017), consisting of eight sandstones in a circle in the woods, and paying homage to the Greek mathematician Euclid.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Felippe Moraes, Adi Bulboacă · Monument to Euclid|url=https://divisare.com/projects/365205-felippe-moraes-adi-bulboaca-monument-to-euclid|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Divisare|language=en}}</ref> In 2020 he developed the series of photographs ''Eledá'' (2020)'','' relating to his spiritual experiences with the orishas.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Moraes|first=Felippe|date=2020-05-25|title=Eledá|url=https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/concinnitas/article/view/51070|journal=Revista Concinnitas|language=pt|volume=21|issue=37|pages=404–418|doi=10.12957/concinnitas.2020.51070|issn=1981-9897|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Iandé|date=2020-08-27|title=A fotografia de Felippe Moraes por Marc Pottier.|url=https://www.iande.fr/atualidades/felippe-moraes-por-marc-pottier/?lang=pt-br|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Iandé|language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Felippe Moraes, Eledá|url=https://dasartes.com.br/de-arte-a-z/felippe-moraes/|access-date=2020-09-01|website=DASartes|language=pt-BR}}</ref>
== External links ==
* [https://felippemoraes.com Official website]
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