Chronology: The Architecture of Time

• (Narrated by Hortencio Werneck)

• 1961 – Origins Born in Leopoldina (MG), Brazil. Horten is the third of five siblings, born into a childhood that would become the fertile ground for his visual perception.

• 1965/1967 – The Light of São Paulo The family moves to the metropolis. Hortencio recalls the artist’s earliest memories: sunlight filtering through classroom curtains, transforming a wooden desk into a laboratory of imagination.

• 1970 – Playing with Matter At the age of nine, art manifests as an inseparable companion. The artist begins to manipulate fragments of wood and iron, transforming daily residues into spontaneous forms.

• 1980/1983 – The Confirmation of Vocation Enrollment at the Faculdade de Belas Artes de São Paulo marks a definitive step. Proximity to the Pinacoteca do Estado and contact with its classical collection solidify the certainty that art would be the axis of his life.

• 1985/1992 – Ascent and Enigma Werneck becomes an active figure in the Brazilian art scene, with intense participation in solo and group exhibitions. This cycle of public exposure is suddenly interrupted in 1992 by the inexplicable disappearance of an entire exhibition, creating a hiatus that would fragment his creative identity.

• 1997/1999 – Outcry and Catharsis The Series in Tribute to the Grand Dame of Brazilian Theater emerges. In 1999, the "Conivência" (Connivance) series—sponsored by the APM-SBC—acts as a visceral reflection and a moment of emotional catharsis.

• 2000/2004 – Experimentation and Rigor Development of the series Mão e Terra (Hand and Earth, 2000), Olhar I (Gaze I, 2003), and A Estudante / Brincadeiras de Criança (The Student / Children's Games, 2004), where figuration begins to dialogue with new conceptual structures.

• 2005 – Academic Consolidation A landmark in Hortencio’s trajectory: passing the public civil service examination and being appointed Tenured Professor of Art Education. Teaching becomes his "chair of aesthetic investigation."

• 2008/2009 – Maturation of Form Creation of the series Releitura: Mulher com Chapéu (Reinterpretation: Woman with a Hat) and Nu 46 (Nude 46), exploring anatomy under the aesthetic rigor that defines his mature phase.

• 2014/2019 – Transmutation: The Rooster Series The beginning of the definitive transition from figuration to abstraction. The artist deconstructs the figure of the rooster, searching for hidden geometry. This process is immortalized in Volume 1 of the work Creative Process: Rooster Series (2019).

• 2023/2026 – The Digital Horizon: DSG Series Absolute dematerialization. With the DSG Series, Werneck inhabits the territory of Minimalist Digital Abstraction. The record becomes the definitive work, culminating in the release of Volume 2 (2026), where the pixel and essence finally merge.