Iracema Arditi

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Iracema Arditi (* 1. February 1924 in São Paulo , Brazil ; † 4. October 2006 ibid) was a Brazilian painter the direction Naive painting .

life and work

Arditi worked as a journalist, model, secretary and flight attendant before starting self-taught painting in 1951. In 1952 she married the journalist Guy Arditi , who ran the branch of the France Press news agency in São Paulo. She began working as an artist in 1955 in the Atelier-Abstração in São Paulo. In 1972, with a collection of 300 paintings in São Paulo, the Museo do Sol, the first museum for naive art in Brazil and Latin America, which Arditi donated to the city of Penápolis in 1978 . In 1985 she was named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Cultureappointed. In addition to solo exhibitions, she took part in numerous group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. In 1998 she received an award at the Biennale of Brazilian Naif Art.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965: Casa da Cultura Francesa, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 1965: Galeria Herbinet, Paris
  • 1966: Galeria Vernon, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1967: Galeria II Carpine, Rome
  • 1967: Galeria Antoinette, Paris
  • 1968: Galeria Cosme Velho, São Paulo
  • 1969: Galeria Camille Renault, Paris
  • 1970: Galeria Séraphine, Paris
  • 1970: Galeria Petite, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1971: Galeria Cosme Velho, São Paulo
  • 1972: Galeria Barcinski, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • 1973: Galeria Azulão, Guarujá
  • 1974: Museu Henri Rousseau, Laval, France
  • 1974: Galeria Debret, Paris
  • 1975: Galeria Documenta, São Paulo
  • 1976: Galeria Jardim das Artes, São Paulo
  • 1976: Galeria "Le Petit Trésor", Bâle , Switzerland
  • 1977: Centro Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos, Santos , Brazil
  • 1977: Galeria Karlen Gugelmeier, Montevideo
  • 1978: Galeria Spacio - Punta del Este , Uruguay
  • 1978: Galeria de Arte Academus, São Paulo
  • 1981: Galeria de Arte André - São Paulo
  • 1982: Museu do Sol - Penápolis, São Paulo
  • 1983: Galeria de Arte André - São Paulo
  • 1986: Galeria Contemporânea, Ribeirão Preto
  • 1990: Espaço Cultural OP, Lyon
  • 1990: Maison de L'Unesco, Paris
  • 1990: Galeria Zangbieri, Bâle , Switzerland
  • 1992: Espaço Cultural Accueil et Rencontre, Lyon
  • 1992: Maison de France - Cultura Francesa, Lyon
  • 1994: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg
  • 1996: Banco Central do Brasil, São Paulo
  • 1997: Galeria Choice, São Paulo
  • 1998: Bienal de Arte Naif Brasileira, Piracicaba , São Paulo
  • 1999: Papéis Preciosos: Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic

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personal data
SURNAME Arditi, Iracema
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 2006
Place of death São Paulo