Casa rio alfredo volpi biography

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Gladstone is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Alfredo Volpi (1896 – 1988) and Fábio Miguez. The show brings together significant works by Volpi, one of the most celebrated Brazilian painters of the 20th century, as well as a series of new and recent paintings and a sculpture by Brazilian contemporary artist Miguez. Though working decades apart, these artists utilize similar techniques and art historical references, resulting in two distinct yet interconnected approaches to artmaking. Infusing Brazilian architecture, design, and art historical traditions, with a focus on Italian Renaissance, into their compositions, the presentation demonstrates the powerful, intergenerational bond between these two visionary artists.

Alfredo Volpi was born in Lucca, Italy in 1896 and emigrated to Cambuci, São Paulo as a ung child. Without many resources afforded by his family, he worked in residential construction, specifically as a decorative painter for house

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Where Alfredo Volpi starts to get complex: the painter's. Dialogue with both concretistas and neoconcretistas

 

A complexidade de Volpi:notas sobre o diálogo do artista com concretistas e neoconcretistas

 

 

Rodrigo Naves

Translated by David Allan Rodgers
Translation from Novos Estudos Cebrap, n.81, p.139-155, July 2008

 

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SUMMARY

In the opposite direction of the belief according to which Volpi would be an intuitive artist, this article states that the artist found the solutions of his work after a peculiar assimilation of the modern tradition. The article shows how Volpi's experience with discussions raised by concrete and neoconcrete artists helped shape his formal articulations, even though with solutions ganska different from those of the artists of both groups.

Keywords:Volpi; modern art; concretism; neoconcretism

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RESUMO

Em sentido oposto à crença segundo a qual Volpi seria um artista intuitivo, este artigo sustenta que o arti