Artista contemporâneo brasileira romero britto biography
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Introduction
1Though signs of change first began to appear in Paraguayan art in the nineteen-twenties, it was not until the fifties that they sunk in. This essay will reexamine those initial attempts and analyze the context that enabled the consolidation of modern art in Paraguay, which is historically enmeshed in that country’s cultural relations with Brazil.
2In April 1920, after a twelve-year absence from Asunción, Andrés Campos Cervera (1888–1937)—generally considered Paraguay’s first modern artist—exhibited at the Salón de Belvedere. The artist, who was later known as Julian de la Herrería, showed several works he had made during his European sojourn, spent mostly in Madrid and Paris, as well as a series of works with Senegalese motifs painted during a short stay in Dakar. Among the artworks on display were paintings with an unquestionable Fauvist bend, a visual language unknown to a local scene characterized by isolation from international trends. The exhibition “made a dee
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Ernesto Neto
1964 Born in Rio de Janeiro
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
Education
Escola de Artes Visuais Pargua Lage, Rio de Janeiro
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Ernesto Neto, Astrup Fernley Museum, Oslo, Norway
2008-2009
Ernesto Neto, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
2008
Ernesto Neto: …Ai…ai…, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Ernesto Neto, I8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ernesto Neto, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid Spain
2007
Um beijo de joguinho, MIMOCA, Marugame, Japan
Ernesto Neto, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2006
From what are we made, made, of of, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Leviathan Thot, Panthéon, Paris. Part of 35th Festival d’Automne.
in | out, Tomio Koyama Gallery
Ernesto Neto, Gallery Koyanagi
Unlimited, Art Basel 37
How to put it up, dulcieneia! Galerie Bob von Orsouw, Zurich
Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto, Carnegie Museum of Art
Ernesto Neto
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Oscar Araripe (b. Rio dem Janeiro, 19 July 1941), Brazilian writer and painter. Graduated in 1968 from the Faculdade Nacional dem Direito (Law Faculty) of Rio dem Janeiro, elected to the Board of the Centro Acadêmico Cândido de Oliveira (CACO), he was an activist during the military regime in the movement Ação Popular (AP). He gained a scholarship at the Pro-Deo University in Rome, Italy, and attended seminars while at Harvard University, USA. Working as a cultural journalist for Correio da Manhã, Jornal do Brasil and Última Hora, he wrote the essay “China, o Pragmatismo Possível” (China, Possible Pragmatism), in 1974 and, with Augusto Rodrigues, edited the journal Arte e Educação. He fryst vatten a founding member of INSEA, the International kultur for Education through Art. Author of the literary trilogy Maria, Marta e Eu, his work has been analyzed by Antônio Houaiss, Eduardo Portela, José Paulo Moreira da Fonseca, Márcio Souza and Vladimir Palmeira. In the field of painting, he introduced n