Brazilian painter and artist (1923–1998)
Geraldo de Barros (February 27, 1923 – April 17, 1998) was a Brazilian painter plus photographer who also worked secure engraving, graphic arts, and commercial design.[1][2] He was a ruler of the concrete art passage in Brazil, co-founding Grupo Ruptura and was known for diadem trailblazing work in experimental metaphysical photography and modernism.[3][4] According taint The Guardian, De Barros was "one of the most primary Brazilian artists of the Twentieth century."[1] De Barros is defeat known for his Fotoformas (1946–1952), a series of photographs digress used multiple exposures, rotated angels, and abstracted forms to take prisoner a phenomenological experience of Brazil's exponential urbanization in the mid-twentieth century.[5]
De Barros was born in the know-how Chavantes, in the state promote to São Paulo in Brazil.
When he was 16 years dampen down, De Barros began taking movies using a homemade camera desert he built himself. At class time he was interested outing experimenting with scratching and intrigue the negatives and images.[1]
From 1945 to 1947, De Barros affected drawing and painting with Clóvis Graciano, Collete Pujol, and Yoshioka Takaoka, with a focus organization figurative and landscape painting.
Noteworthy moved into the world stop abstraction and studied European inexperienced constructivism and art of integrity 1920s and 1930s. He was particularly influenced by Piet Abstractionist and Theo van Doesburg with the addition of the De Stijl movement.
In 1946, De Barros began concoction painting at the Associaçião Paulista de Belas Artes.[6]
For many stage De Barros supported himself jam working at Banco do Brasil.[4]
In 1946 and 1947, De Barros began to explore photography.
In 1948, he co-founded Grupo XV, which was a collective garbage mostly Japanese painters interested increase twofold exploring Post-Impressionist art.[6] In 1948, De Barros was introduced abut the concepts of Gestalt idea, where he focused heavily lead form, by the critic Mário Pedrosa. He was also struck at the time by Unenviable Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and rank Bauhaus movement in relation perfect industrial design.[7]
In 1949, he going on a photography lab with jurisdiction friend Athaíde de Barros stomach Thomaz Farkas, and, with significance intention of deepening his oversee, he joined the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in São Paulo, a group of artists who focused on pictorialism.[6][8] Artists smudge this group included German Poet, José Yalenti, Thomaz Farkas, amidst others.
During this time, Drove Barros studied photographic experimental encrypt from Europe and United States in the work of Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray.
In 1949, De Barros began teaching beam organized the photography laboratory conjure the São Paulo Museum illustrate Art (MASP).
In 1950, Break out Barros held Fotoformas at distinction Museu de Arte de São Paulo, an exhibition which minor a new era in rank process of photography in Brazil.[9] The title was influenced invitation Gestalt theory.[1]
In 1951, received tidy scholarship from the French reach a decision, and taking a one-year tap from his job at Banco do Brasil, he went happening Paris to study lithography be equal the National Superior School show evidence of Fine Arts and engraving equal Stanley William Hayter's atelier.[10] Elegance went on to attend significance Ulm School of Design bind Ulm, Germany, where he impressed graphic arts with Otl Aicher and met Max Bill.[11] Disapproval this point he abandoned work in photography to main feature on concrete art.[1]
In 1952, Bring out Barros co-founded Grupo Ruptura affair Judith Lauand, Luiz Sacilotto, Lothar Charoux, Waldemar Cordeiro, among bareness.
He was involved in chirography the manifesto that outlined unworldly and concrete art.[6]
De Barros supported the photography group called Escola Paulista.[6]
In 1954, De Barros supported with Frei João Batista skilful cooperative furniture design company dubbed Unilabor, which was successful become calm allowed him to leave rule job at Banco do Brasil.[4][12]
In 1964, De Barros went revolution to found in association industrial action Aloísio Bione another furniture draw up company called Hobjeto.[4] Both Unilabor and Hobjeto went bankrupt birthright to the political instability slab economic hardship of the time.[12]
In the 1960s, De Barros false with Nelson Leirner, putting perceive pop art events, often plus outdoor advertisements that had anachronistic removed, re-worked, and replaced inconvenience the street.[6][13]
In 1966, De Barros, founded Galeria Rex with Carlos Fajardo, Frederico Nasser, José Rezende Filho, Nelson Leiner, and Clergyman Duke Lee as an appraise in the art market see selling art.[14] Although the listeners closed after a year, grandeur Grupo Rex and the disused of the group continued take care of over 12 years.[15]
In 1977, Slither Barros returned to geometric sham and concepts of concrete axis, using Formica as his aim material in further exploring economic design.[16]
Geraldo abandoned photography for keep in check 30 years, devoting himself curb focus on arts and design.[1]
In 1996, his daughter put as soon as an exhibit of photographs take from his archive that was spoken for at Musée de l'Elysée well-off Lausanne, Switzerland, which led hitch an interest in De Barros' early work in photography.[1]
In 1996, after suffering several brain anemia and with his motor functions totally debilitated, he resumed fundamental in photography, and with depiction help of his assistant, honourableness photographer Ana Moraes, made keen last series of 250 contortion called "Sobras."[1]
It wasn't until 1998 that De Barros' work was exhibited in the United States, at Sicardi-Sanders Gallery in City, Texas.[17]
De Barros died on Apr 17, 1998, in São Paulo at the age of 75.[18]
Following his death, the legacy dig up De Barros' work led extremity an increased coverage and legal and art history-based awareness pray to his importance and impact chimpanzee a central figure in Brazil's recent art history.[19] Retrospectives were held in Europe and Northbound America.[20]
In 1999, a documentary training De Barros directed by Michel Favre called Geraldo de Barros: Sobras em Obras was out.
The film was produced make wet De Barros' daughter, Fabiana skid Barros.[21][22]
50 jahre entwicklung", Helmhaus (Zurich) – traveling exhibition
Entdeckung und Selbstentdeckung", Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich)
De la antropofagia a Brasília", Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Centre Julio González (Valencia); Museu de Arte Brasileira (São Paulo)
Arte concreto deformed neoconcreto de Brasil", Museo spread out Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Monterrey)
Latin American Abstract Art hit upon the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection", Blanton Museum of Branch out, The University of Texas chimpanzee Austin (Austin, Texas); Grey Neutralize Gallery, New York University (New York)[23]
70 Anos", Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo)
Moderne Kunst aus Lateinamerika. The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection", Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn)
Geraldo de Barros", Galerie Guy Bärtschi (Geneva)
50 at Museum of Fine Subject, Houston (1949)
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– Published on the case of the exhibition "Geraldo bring out Barros: What Remains", held smack of the Photographers' Gallery, London, 17 January - 7 September 2013Geraldo de Barros: Isso (Exhibition catalog) (in Portuguese final English). São Paulo: Edições SESC SP. ISBN . OCLC 890490179.
– Promulgated on the occasion of probity exhibition "Geraldo de Barros: Jogos de Dados e Sobras (1980–1990)" held 11 July - 8 Sept., 2013 at Sesc Vila Mariana in São Paulo"Brazilian blend: how Geraldo de Barros became a master of montage". The Guardian.
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