Sergio de Camargo

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Sérgio de Camargo (born April 8, 1930 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , † February 20, 1990 there ) was a Brazilian sculptor and relief artist .

life and work

Sérgio de Camargo studied at the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aires in Argentina with Emilio Pettoruti and Lucio Fontana . He also studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris .

In 1948 he went on study trips to Europe and had some formative artistic encounters there, among others with Hans Arp , Constantin Brâncuși , Henri Laurens and Georges Vantongerloo . After these impressions he began to create his first sculptures , showing a clear influence of the works of Pablo Picasso and Henry Laurens .

In 1950 de Camargo returned to Brazil. There he sought an exchange with the Brazilian artists of constructivism who were training neoconcretismo at the time . From 1952 to 1953 he toured Europe again, and in 1954 also China . From 1961 to 1974 Sérgio de Camargo lived and worked in Paris. There he became a member of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel . During this time, de Camargo began with his sculptures and cylinder- shaped, monochrome- white wooden reliefs, which he designed in a highly structured manner.

In 1974 he returned to Brazil. From 1965 to 1967 he designed a long wall of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry newly built by Oscar Niemeyer in Brasília as art in architecture .

Sérgio de Camargo took part in numerous international exhibitions. He was represented at the São Paulo Biennale in 1965, was awarded the gold medal at the Venice Biennale in 1966 and was a participant in the 4th documenta in Kassel in 1968 with his reliefs .

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
  • Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A Photographic Reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9

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personal data
SURNAME Camargo, Sérgio de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camargo, Sergio de; Camargo, Sérgio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1990
Place of death Rio de Janeiro , Brazil