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24/6/2000

Geraldo de Barros / Vik Muniz

Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne


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Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998) was one of the pioneers of abstract photography in Brazil. As was evident from his exhibition Fotoformas in 1950 at the then recently established Museum of Art of Sao Paulo, he foreshadowed the geometric movement of concrete art, of which he was to become one of the main exponents in his country. His photographs at that time reflected his fertile imagination, and included prints from multiple-exposured negatives and scratched, cut and cropped ones. He also made photograms and drawings in Indian ink on the film.

Everything was possible for this artist whose enthusiasm reflected the cultural effervescence of the young Brazilian democracy. He subsequently went to Paris where he studied print-making, abandoned photography and turned to painting. On his return to Sao Paulo, his idealism encouraged him to set up a collective enterprise for the production of furniture which he himself designed. In order to make products of high aesthetic quality available to the largest number of people, he naturally turned to industrial design and graphism. Following an exhibition of Fotoformas at the Musée de lElysée in 1993, Geraldo de Barros resumed his experiments in photograpy, using his own images of ski scenes in Argentina, landscapes and family portraits as raw material, or as ready-mades, which he cut, juxtaposed and reworked with an astonishing sense of jubilation. This series of compositions at the frontier between abstraction and figuration is entitled Sobras, which in Portuguese means remnants or left-overs. The family of Geraldo de Barros has bequeathed all his work to the Musée de lElysee, which is delighted to have this opportunity to make it better known in Europe. The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph published by Editions Prestel, produced in association with the Ludwig Museum in Cologne and the SESC in Sao Paulo.

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