Amelia Toledo

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Amélia Toledo - Caleidoscópio, 1999. Estação Brás do Metrô - Distrito do Brás, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Sete Ondas, Amelia Toledo

Amelia Amorim Toledo (born December 7, 1926 in São Paulo ; † November 7, 2017 in Cotia ) was a Brazilian sculptor , painter , draftsman and designer .

life and work

Toledo lived with her family in Munich and Freiburg from 1933 to 1935 and attended school in São Paulo from 1936 to 1938. From 1943 to 1947 she was taught drawing and painting by Yoshyia Takaoka . In 1948 she started making jewelry and worked in the office of the architect Vilanova Artigas in São Paulo. She married the engineer Eustáquio Toledo Machado Filho, with whom she lived in Londrina , Paraná , and worked on her husband's construction projects. With a grant from the Brazilian government, she studied at the London County Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1958 and 1959. When she returned to São Paulo, she studied metal engraving in the engraving studio with João Luís Oliveira Chaves and received the Best Modern Jewelry Award in the H. Stern competition. From 1962 to 1964 she attended courses at the new university in Brazil, which in 1964 gave her the master's degree at the University of Brasilia (UNB). In 1963 she took part in the 7th Biennale de São Paulo. For political reasons, she was a teacher in Portugal at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon from 1965 to 1966 and returned to Brazil in 1967, where she became a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie University in São Paulo. From 1969 to 1971 she lived in Rio de Janeiro and taught visual methodology at the Superior School of Industrial Design in Esdi, from 1972 to 1974 she worked as a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation in São Paulo and made costumes for the theater and scenographic elements for the cinema. In 1975 she moved back to Rio de Janeiro, devoted herself to the production of screen printing, lithographs, nature studies, graphic works, visual poetry and texts. She worked with the Galeria de Arte Moderna - GAM's Monthly Journal of Visual Arts and directed the film Yes Lady. In 1987 she took part in the 19th São Paulo Biennale. In 2002 she builds the stone sculpture garden under the elevations next to Ibirapuera Park, known as "Cebolinha", using about 250 tons of granite, marble, quartz and other types of stone. Her works can be found in the collections of the Art Museum of São Paulo, the Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, the SESC São Paulo, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Campinas and the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1957: Galeria Ambiente, São Paulo.
  • 1969: Bonino Gallery, Rio de Janeiro.
  • 1971: Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo.
  • 1976: Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro .
  • 1986: Art Museum of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre.
  • 1991: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
  • 1993: São Paulo Art Museum
  • 1996: Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.
  • 1999: Galeria do SESI, São Paulo.
  • 2001: Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo; Gallery Gan, Tóquio.
  • 2004: Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo.
  • 2007: Novo Olhar, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba .
  • 2009: Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo.

literature

• Agnaldo Farias: Amelia Toledo: as Naturezas do Artifício, 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Toledo, Amelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amorim Toledo, Amelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian sculptor, painter, draftsman and designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo
DATE OF DEATH 7th November 2017
Place of death Cotia