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Geraldo De Barros: Fotoformas

Michel Favre; Reinhold Misselbeck; Daniel Girardin; Marcos Augusto Gonzalves

Synopsis:
At the end of the 1940s Geraldo de Barros sparked controversy in Sao Paulo with his photographic experiments. At the same time it was these works which secured him a scholarship to study at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. He developed valuable international contacts to protagonists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Vieira da Silva and Francois Morellet. Returning to Brazil, de Barros became one of the leading artists in the area of concrete art. His photographic oeuvre was brought back into the limelight in the 1980s by his daughter who inspired de Barros to continue his experiments. Geraldo de Barros: Fotoformas combines photographic material from the 1950s with works completed shortly before the artist's death in 1998, underlining the intensity and diversity of this unconventional artist. Within a period of only a few years he had transformed a fascinating diversity of ideas into reality, ignoring all conventions and rules. He combined playfulness with the strict rules of design, made private moments in his life into public property, and combined rational design with feelings in a unique way, linking rationality and emotionality.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2005, 1988