"Populaire" by PintassilgoPrints

Brazil’s PintassilgoPrints found its groove last year, producing a stream of spirited display fonts with a playful, handcrafted feel. As they pointed out in their recent Creative Characters interview, they like the happy mistakes of hand-drawn letters, the “wrong notes” in the design — but at the same time they want their fonts to be technically perfect and eminently usable. Populaire is a case in point. Inspired by the posters made during the May 1968 student revolt in Paris, Populaire taps into the energy of that period’s hand-drawn and silkscreened posters, while using digital font technology to offer four exchangeable glyphs for each letter. The result is a flexible font that looks as fresh and spontaneous as hand-rendered lettering.

via MyFonts: Most Popular Fonts of 2011.

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Tipos Latinos in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil was the only country featured in all 6 categories of the 5th edition of the Biennial, in a total of 9 projects (one being co-shared with Argentina) developed by designers from Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo, that work in the country and abroad. Organized every two years by a voluntary non-profit international committee composed of designers, educators and typography appreciators, Tipos Latinos is an international typographic space that involves 13 Latin American countries. It also promotes other activities such as lectures, workshops and guided visits.

On Saturday, April 14th Centro Carioca de Design hosts a seminar with lectures and debates on typography, graphic design and communication featuring several designers such as Rodolfo Capeto, Billy Bacon, Mariana Ochs, Henrique Nardi, Fabio Lopez, Pedro Moura, Claudio Reston, Vinicius Guimarães and Márcio Fábio Leite. Afterwards, there will be the launching of a collection of Decorative Letters designed by product designers Marcelo Gonzaga and Juliana Faria of Rio’s od. design. Other parallel activities of Tipos Latinos 2012 in Rio include the workshop Tipocracia: Introductory Course with designer and educator Henrique Nardi; and the calligraphy exhibition “Claudio Gil – Caligrafias” at Galeria da Lagoa, presented by IAV – Instituto de Artes Visuais.

Tipos Latinos 2012 in Rio de Janeiro is presented by Centro Carioca de Design, Boldº_a design company and Tipos Latinos Committee; with national support from the Brazilian Graphic Designers Association – ADG Brasil, 2AB Editora, Tipocracia Estado Tipográfico, TypoGraphicPosters.com and AtypI; and local support provided by Visual Color, Studio X, od. design, IAV – Instituto de Artes Visuais and The Danish Cultural Institute. For further information: http://www.tiposlatinos.com/2012/sede.php?id=45

via Tipos Latinos 2012.

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Illustrator: Anna Higgie, Picture: Sarah Cracknell (Saint Etienne), 2008, Plan B magazine, featured on Illustration Now! Vol. 4

Edited by Julius Wiedemann, Illustration Now! 4 also includes two introductory essays by specialists Steven Heller and by our very own Brazilian Graphic Design‘s collaborator Bruno Porto on current trends in the field, with a cover featuring the work of Gabriel Moreno.

via Illustration Now! 4. TASCHEN Books.

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Crowds gather in Rio de Janeiro to see the works of M.C. Escher

Brazilian art lovers poured into The Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) in Rio by their thousands in 2011. The building, which was previously a bank, hosted three of last year’s 10 most popular exhibitions, according to research by The Art Newspaper.

The touring exhibition The Magical World of Escher, which ran in Rio from January to March, was visited by 573,691 people.The show brought together the Dutch graphic artist’s most famous prints and drawings. It included 95 of Escher works and took curator Pieter Tjabbes five years to convince the museum in The Hague to allow them to travel.

Brazil’s contemporary art scene continues to strengthen. It was given huge state support in the 1990s when corporate tax breaks were introduced for cultural investment.

One particular supporter of the arts is mining magnate Bernardo Paz, who opened the 3,000-acre contemporary art site, Inhotim, in 2006 in Belo Horizonte. Last year Inhotim attracted a total of 770,000 visitors. The Art Newspaper called Brazil’s appetite for contemporary art “remarkable”

'The Magical World of Escher' brought together some 92 works including prints and drawings (Reuters)

Analyzing the rankings more closely, other data relating to Brazil also draws attention. While the unit CCBB Rio appears three times among the ten most visited exhibition, the cultural center of São Paulo appears only in 23rd place, also with the show of Dutch illustrator. Nothing unusual, according to an independent curator, art critic and journalist Marcus Lontra.

“Historically, the middle class carioca has always been a great consumer of culture, unlike others that have subsequently structured in Brazil such as São Paulo or Minas Gerais. Because, in Rio, one need not be rich for this. Locals have this peculiarity and always participated in artistic and cultural activities, “says Lontra, curator of the exhibition” Niemeyer, architect, Brazilian citizen “and” Where Are You, Generation 80? “, recalling other signs of success in the country.

“This was reflected in many ways, as in Monet and Rodin exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio in the 90s. The number of visitations in the city were always superior to that of St. Paul, despite being a state capital most populous city, “says the journalist, which opens on June 2, the Hélio Oiticica Art Center, in downtown Rio, the exhibition” Mirror reflected, “bringing together works by 38 contemporary Brazilian artists.

via When it comes to art, the Brazilians know what they like… lots of it – Features – Art – The Independent.

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Millôr Fernandes, Journalist and Cartoonist, dies at 88

The journalist Zuenir Ventura, told Globo News, said the death of Millôr was a “terrible loss for journalism, for translation and for the theater. He managed the miracle of mixing words and pictures that would make you laugh, and yet still had sound philosophical basis. He was simply brilliant. His humor was accessible and would make you think. ”

In 2011, the writer was hospitalized twice in the Casa de Saúde São José, in Rio de Janeiro, but the reasons were not disclosed.

The funeral is scheduled for Thursday (29), from 10h to 15h, in the Memorial Cemetery of Mount Carmel, the cashew, the Port Zone. The writer’s body will be cremated

via Death of writer Millor Fernandes, aged 88 – ÉPOCA | Society.

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Marina Willer Named Partner in Pentagram's London Office

Originally from Brazil Marina has been working in London as Creative Director at Wolff Olins, a graphic designer and filmmaker for the last 13 years. She has a Master’s Degree from the Royal College of Art in graphic design and film. She is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and was until recently an external examiner for the Royal College of Art.

via Marina Willer Named Partner in Pentagrams London Office.

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HOW Singles: 10 World Class Design Firms

Casa Rex, a multi-awarded international design consultancy, has just been listed as one of the 10 World-class design firms by HOW Magazine – the American publication renowned for showcasing unusual and contemporary design projects.

How Magazine wanted to spotlight design firms and other creatives from around the world, staying true to the March 2012 issue’s international design focus (See the winners of the2012 International Design Awards, also featured in this issue):

• Beetroot Design Group from Thesaloniki, Greece
• Casa Rex, located in both São Paulo, Brazil, and London
• Face, in Monterrey, Mexico
• Hattomonkey, located in Novosibirsk, Russia
• Hellohikimori, in Paris
• Monnet Design, from Toronto, Canada
• Tea Time Studio, located currently in London
• Toch Studio, in Madrid, Spain
• Nate Williams, an illustrator located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Fajne Chlopaki, located in Lodz, Poland

The listing reinforces Casa Rex’s unique proposition of combining its global expertise with cutting edge design

“I’m passionate about using design as a vehicle to understand different worlds. Every time a project offers that opportunity, [it] grabs my heart—so, the most far from what I’ve been doing, the better.”, said Gustavo Piqueira, head of Casa Rex, when interviewed by HOW magazine.

In addition to this recent recognition, Casa Rex has also received 5 awards in the HOW International Design Awards 2012, in categories that range from packaging design to book covers. This is the fourth time that Casa Rex has been selected in the competition, culminating in a total of 12 projects to date, awarded by HOW.

The article about the design consultancy and their awarded projects has been featured in the magazine’s March issue, which can be purchased via HOW Singles: 10 World Class Design Firms – MyDesignShop.com.

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Before he became one of Latin America’s most prolific filmmakers — with more than 80 movies credited to his production company — Luiz Carlos Barreto was a photographer. For 15 years beginning in the late 1940s, he worked for O Cruzeiro, a Brazilian weekly magazine similar to Life or Look traveling all over Latin America and also working as a correspondent in Europe.

Luiz Carlos Barreto, "Paris", 1953

Mr. Barreto, now 83, was in New York recently for the United States premiere of “Lula, Son of Brazil,” his company’s latest film, directed by his son Fábio. But back home in Brazil, his early photographic work has been getting renewed attention. A book of his photos called “Passagem: A Memória Visual de Luiz Carlos Barreto,” or “Passage: The Visual Memory of Luiz Carlos Barreto,”was published a decade ago.  And his work has been featured in retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, where he has lived since the 1940s, and at the Museum of Art in São Paulo.

His images range from gritty depictions of Brazil’s urban and rural poor, especially from the sertão, or arid backlands of the northeast, Mr. Barreto’s home region, to celebrity portraits: Mr. Barreto covered the first Cannes film festival in 1954 and later shot stars like Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak and Sophia Loren. But he also photographed global political figures ranging from Che Guevara and Nikita Khrushchev to Latin American presidents.

via Luiz Carlos Barreto and Tropical Light – NYTimes.com.

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MyFonts' Creative Characters Issue #52 interviews Pintassilgo Prints

“They used to do it all: illustration, graphic design, product development, screen printing — hence the name of their company, PintassilgoPrints. Lately this young couple from the seaside city of Vitória, Brazil, has concentrated almost exclusively on type design. And quite rightly so. Their fast-growing collection of playful and informal display and script fonts has met with increasing success, and these past few months they’ve scored more than one bestseller. Don’t be fooled by the apparent nonchalance of their letterforms: technically, their fonts are painstakingly made. Meet the bird-loving, hard-working, type-enamored Erica Jung and Ricardo Marcin“.

read the full interview at MyFonts: Creative Characters interview with PintassilgoPrints, November 2011.

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Zara Arshad, Alessandro Rolandi & Bruno Porto_ photo by Caue Ferraz

At the opening of the poster exhibition “Discover the Brazilian Cinema” presented at the 2nd Brazil Film Festival in Beijing, its co-curator Bruno Porto was joined by British designer Zara Arshad and Italian multimedia artist Alessandro Rolandi in an panel to address the relation between moving and still images: movies and its posters. The trio discussed aspects of contemporary marketing and promoting techniques – in which target audiences may only see a poster when they reach the theater, long after they’ve watched the trailer and read about it online – that subvert the original role of the poster, changes in technology that liberate the poster from paper, as well as its collectible aspects, and some of the “style formulas” specific genres use.

The debate and the exhibition were some of the parallel events of the 2nd Brazilian Film Fest in China, that took place at the Broadway Cinematheque MOMA in Beijing from November 17-22. It also featured a concert by musician, actor and soundtrack composer André Abujamra and a Q&A session with André Klotzel, director of Reflections of a Blender, the movie that won the festival Judge’s Choice Award. The international jury was composed by directors Xie Fei, Liu Jiayin, Sam Voutas and Vicky Mohieddeen & movie critic Raymond Zhou.

Descubra o Cinema Brasileiro poster exhibition_

Curated by graphic designers Billy Bacon and Bruno Porto, “Discover the Brazilian Cinema” features works by 30 graphic artists from diverse backgrounds, generations and parts of Brazil that encourage – through curiosity, beauty and witty visual solutions – the Chinese audience to enjoy Brazilian films. The show had been presented before at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2007 and the Pernambuco Design Salon in 2008. It was also selected for the 9th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial, that traveled to Mexico and China in 2009.

Broadway Cinematheque MOMA_ Beijing

Posters by André Stolarski, Batman Zavareze, Billy Bacon, Bruno Porto, Claudio Reston ‘Haroldinho’, Daniel Bueno, Eduardo Denne, Felipe Muanis, Manifesto (Guto Lins / Adriana Lins / Fernando Arruda), Itamar Medeiros, Kako, José Bessa ‘Elesbão’, Leonardo Buggy, Leonardo Eyer, Lilian Granado, Marcello Rosauro, Marcelo Martinez, Marck Al, Mariana Ochs, Orlando Pedroso, Rafael Ferreira, Rafo Castro, Renato Faccini, Ricardo Cunha Lima, Ruth Klotzel, Walter Vasconcelos, Yomar Augusto and Ziraldo.

Broadway Cinematheque MOMA_

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Flavia Marinho's "Tabuleiro da Bahiana" won The Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition

So here is the list of designers highlighted by Inspired Magazine:

• Marco Vergotti
• Flavia Marinho
• Ricardo Davino
• Thiago Lyra (whom I had to privilege of being examiner of his Graduation Viva Seminar)
• Fábio Abreu
• Rodolfo França
• Eduardo Asta
• Gerson Mora
• Marcelo Pliger
• Gabriel Gianordoli

via Info-Visualization Through the Eyes and Talent of 10 Brazilian Designers | Inspired Magazine.

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His Story of Creating Ad Icons Also Includes a Harrowing 53-Day Kidnapping

Brazil’s top creatives are treated like rock stars, so it’s no surprise that Washington Olivetto is about to have a movie made of his life.

Mr. Olivetto, whose W/Brasil agency merged with McCann Erickson in Brazil last year to form W/McCann, was one of the first larger-than-life Brazilian creatives to start his own agency, create iconic ad characters and become part of the country’s popular culture. The most dramatic episode in the film, however, is likely to be Mr. Olivetto’s traumatic 53-day kidnapping ordeal in 2001 in São Paulo. Snatched at a fake police roadblock, Mr. Olivetto ultimately managed to escape after being abandoned to die by the kidnappers who were demanding a multimillion dollar ransom.

The movie will be directed by Fernando Meirelles, who was an Oscar nominee for Best Director for foreign-language film “City of God” (Cidade de Deus, in the original Portuguese) in 2004. The movie will be based on a biography of Mr. Olivetto’s life and ad agency W/Brasil published in 2005 by Fernando Morais, a well-known Brazilian biographer.

Shooting starts on the film, budgeted at $4.5 million, later this year and it’s expected to be released in late 2012 or early 2013

via Brazilian Adman Washington Olivettos Life Will Be a Movie | Global News – Advertising Age.

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In an attempt to spark the familiar flame of innovation, you find yourself Googling keywords like “cool artwork” or “inspiring designs”. Sadly, these desperate attempts to revive your creative juices yield regurgitated and over-promoted results that fall just short of your expectations.

If you find yourself desperately trying to get past that creative road block, look no further: among their many readers suggestions, The Next Web (TNW) picked We Heart it as one of their favorites:

We Heart It allows its community to browse through a constantly updated photo gallery where users can “heart” the images that they discover through the service and add them to a list of bookmarked favorites.There are over 10 million images on We Heart It. You can search for your favorite topics and heart the images you like the most. Just move your mouse over the image and click on the heart icon. When it fills up, you hearted it!We Heart It is definitely a site popular among Tumblr users with an interest specifically in style or fashion illustration. I have, on more than one occasion, seen images pirated directly from We Heart It with sources uncredited. While this is obviously just bad practice, it is also a testament to how popular and inspirational images on We Heart It can be. In fact, it is nearly impossible for me to scroll through Tumblr without recognizing some sort of beautiful photo or shot from this service.

via The best places to find artistic inspiration online – TNW Apps.

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Daytripper by Moon & Bá

Since the launching of its first issue in December 2009, ten-issue comic book limited series Daytripper – published by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo – has been praised by every decent comics critic. The series was collected into a trade paperback in February 2011, going straight into the New York Times Paperback Graphic Books chart at #1. It returned at the same position two weeks later, where it stayed for a week, before dropping to #2 in mid-March. At the end of June, Amazon.com posted their “2011 Best Books of the Year So Far” lists, where Daytripper was featured in its Top 10 Comics and Graphic Novels category. It has also won three of the most important international comics industry awards of the year: the Eisner (“Best Limited Series or Story Arc”), the Harvey (“Best Single Issue or Story”) and the Eagle (“Favourite New Comicbook”).

The authors of both story and art are Brazilian twin brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, 31 years old, no strangers to the international comics industry or awards. Both have worked with top guns of comics and pop culture from Mike Mignola (BPRD: 1947) and Matt Fraction (Casanova) to TV creator and movie writer/director Joss Whedon and alternative rock band My Chemical Romance’s lead singer Gerard Way.

São Paulo_ Daytripper by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá

At the 2008 Eisner Awards, the six-issue limited series about a disbanded group of superheroes The Umbrella Academy (written by Way with art by Bá) won for “Best Limited Series”, sci-fi adventure Sugarshock (written by Whedon with art by Moon) won for “Best Digital Comic”, and comics anthology “5″ (by Moon & Bá with other comics creators Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos and Rafael Grampá) won for “Best Anthology”. Bá had also been nominated for two 2009 Eisner Awards in the categories “Best Penciller/Inker” and “Best Cover Artist”, and The Deluxe Edition of The Umbrella Academy was nominated for “Best Graphic Album — Reprint”. Horror comics anthology PIXU (Moon, Bá, Cloonan and Lolos) was nominated for the 2009 “Best Anthology” Harvey Award.

Daytripper is currently in its 4th printing and was recently launched in Brazil, where it won an HQMix award. Each issue follows a life-changing day in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingo, an aspiring novelist who writes newspaper obituaries. The story takes place mostly in São Paulo – where the brothers were born and still live – with important events set in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, as well as small towns in the countryside or by the coast that are so real they seem to have jumped out of romances of Monteiro Lobato or Jorge Amado.

Brazilian countryside portrayed in Daytripper_

Remarkably written and drawn, Daytripper also gives its international audience a rare opportunity to experience the daily aspects of Brazilians lifestyle, habits, beliefs and culture. As a plot, it could have taken place anywhere in the world – as with most masterpieces – , but its natural Brazilian flavor definitely plays an important role in the outcome.

Salvador, Bahia in Daytripper

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2011 IDA Congress Taipei

Design at the Edges: 2011 IDA Congress will take place from 24-26 October in Taipei  focusing on five keynote speeches – Biotechnology, Economic Development, International Migration, Internet, and Urbanism – in its morning sessions, with afternoons devoted to dozens of presentations on education, design practice, academic research, and multiculturalism, among other themes.  There Brazilians will join the ranks of distinguished professionals and academics from more than 40 countries:

Curator, journalist and writer Adélia Borges will deliver a lecture presenting recent Latin American projects concerning social innovation, with examples that will bring together product, graphic and interior design from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

Designer Fred Gelli will be a panellist on the keynote session “Urbanism – Shaping Cities through Urban Design Strategies” alongside colleagues from Finland, UK and USA, also presenting the design of the Olympic Games Rio 2016 branding, developed by his company Tátil Design de Ideias.

Graphic designer and educator Bruno Porto will be a Category Presenter for the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards ceremony – Porto was a member of the jury of the 2010 ADAA – and a correspondent for Brazilian magazine abcDesign, a Media Partner of the IDA Congress and Icograda.

The International Design Alliance (IDA) is a strategic venture between the international organisations representing industrial design, communication design and interior architecture/design. The alliance was created by its founding partners, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) and the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) in 2003. In 2008, the IDA welcomed the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) to the alliance as the third partner.

Design at the Edges
_ the edge between the design practices and other fields having a stake in design, including: science, technology, government, business and non-governmental humanitarian organisations;
_ the edge between design disciplines, especially industrial, communication and interior architecture/design-what do they share in common and what sets them apart;
_ ‘cutting edge’ work and ideas in design and in other fields: radically new, controversial, experimental, pushing the boundaries of the discipline.

via 2011 IDA Congress, Taipei and ICOGRADA | Design at the Edges: 2011 IDA Congress.

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Wagner Campelo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Wagner Campelo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – Wagner’s floral patterns and textile designs equally capture the spirit of his culture and his eye for detail.

"Ipanema-Leblon" by Wagner Campelo

"Ipanema-Leblon" by Wagner Campelo

via Coroflot Genius Gallery – Eyes On the Prize – Core77.

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Covers by CasaRex for the Contemporary Art and Education" series promoted by AEP - Art Education Productions

As a winner in 2009 for the project developed for the Cool Readings book collection (Editora Biruta) and for the book “Our Movie” (Edições Jogo de Amarelinha) in 2010, this year Casa Rex has been acknowledged in the Miscellaneous Company Literature category, for the visual identity that was created for the circle of debates about Contemporary Art and Education promoted by AEP – Art Education Productions.

Casa Rex's "Contemporary Art and Education" brochure interior

In order to develop the illustrations for the programme, Casa Rex made use of seventeenth-century engravings of imaginary animals, created to play with the illusions that people often have about contemporary art: “Generally the subject of contemporary art is viewed as being almost as strange as a seven-headed animal. The concept of portraying fictional animals has been used as a way of making light of these perceptions.” says Gustavo Piqueira, head of the agency as well as the creative director on the project, together with Samia Jacintho.

Casa Rex's "Contemporary Art and Education" Poster

The project has been selected as one of the winning entries out of more than 4000 submissions and it will be featured in the September/ October 2011 issue of the Communication Arts Magazine Design Annual 52 Awards (http://www.commarts.com/annuals/2011-Design/winners).

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Trabalho Grafico no Bairro do Bexiga

Bruno R. Padovano, Suzana M. Sacchi Padovano and Alessandro Sacchi Padovano of Padovano Arquitetura em Rede Ltda received the Gold Medal at IDSA’s IDEA 2010 Awards in the Environments Category:

The urban painting project for the façades of houses and stores in the traditional São Paulo Italian district of Bixiga was developed to meet the requirements of the “Color São Paulo Program”, which is dedicated to preserving the city’s architectural heritage in districts of cultural, historic and commercial interest. The design proposal incorporated the traditional colors of Bixiga – green, white and red from the Italian flag – that were used on house and store facades covering a two block area. The greatest challenge posed by the design was to intervene in an urban context with a strong cultural heritage while taking into account the diversity of interests and preferences among local traders and residents.

via Urban Graphic Design for Bixiga Neighborhood (Trabalho Gráfica Urbana para o Bairro do Bixiga) | Industrial Designers Society of America – IDSA.

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Gilvan Samico, "Criação - Homem e Mulher", 1993

Gilvan José Meira Lins Samico (Recife, Pernambuco, 1928- ). Engraver, painter, draughtsman, lecturer. In 1952, together with other artists, Gilvan Samico founded the Ateliê Coletivo [Collective Studio] of the Sociedade de Arte Moderna do Recife – SAMR [Recife Modern Art Society], conceived by Abelardo da Hora (1924).

Gilvan studied wood engraving with Lívio Abramo (1903 – 1992) in 1957 at the Escola de Artesanato [School of Crafts] of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo – MAM/SP [São Paulo Museum of Modern Art]. In the following year, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he studied engraving with Oswaldo Goeldi (1895 – 1961) at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes – Enba [National School of Fine Arts]. With a great technical mastery, he dedicated himself in his work to textures elaborated with linear rhythms.

In 1965, he settled in Olinda, lecturing in wood engraving at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba – UFPA [Federal University of Paraíba]. In 1968, with the foreign travel prize won at the 17th Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna [National Salon of Modern Art], he spent two years in Europe. In 1971, he was invited by Ariano Suassuna to join the Movimento Armorial [Armorial Movement], directed towards popular Northeastern culture and the literature of the Cordel.

Gilvan Samico

His output is marked by the recovery of the poetry of the Northeast through the Cordel literature and the creative use of wood engravings. His engravings are populated by biblical and other figures deriving from myths and local stories, as well as fantastic and mythical animals. With the presentation of new subject matter, he introduced a formal simplification into his work, reducing the use of colour and textures.

Samico has works in the MoMA in New York and participated twice in the Venice Biennale with an award in one of them.

via Samico, Gilvan (1928- ).

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