Recently reopened for Metropolises Catwalk, home of Sala Villa-Lobos, Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro, takes on a new role becoming the stage of É Pau, É Pedra…. The exhibition, open to the public on December 10, presents a group of works by the sculptor Sergio Camargo in the Federal District and reaffirms the importance of a fundamental artist of Brazilian sculpture.
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One of Camargo’s curiosities is his versatility and commitment to art. Until he found himself, he went through different styles of sculpture. One of the periods of greatest production was when he lived in Europe, notably in Paris and Massa, Italy.
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Camargo experienced the Parisian excitement of the 1960s and 1970s. He followed, as an auditor, for four years, the sociology of art course taught by Pierre Francastel at the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
He is looking for a new working method in order to break with the formalism of his previous phase. To do this, he presses the plaster into random folds with pieces of fabric or creates inverted reliefs: on a bed of sand, he makes holes with his fingers or his brushes then throws the plaster which, once hardened, gives the positive of the negative before then casting it in bronze.
Sergio Camargo was an internationally renowned Brazilian sculptor and visual artist
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In 1963, still looking for an artistic style, he moved to Malakoff, south of Paris. It takes up more systematic formal concerns, incorporating the element of chance and self-generation implicit in the plaster work of the previous phase.
Sergio Camargo’s creative process
The return to “order” is marked by one of those flashes of illumination that arise in the heart of everyday life. When cutting an apple to eat, cut off almost half of the fruit. Then make another cut, from a different angle, to remove a piece. The two planes create a relationship of light and shadow which fascinates him. This paradoxical encounter between nature and culture became a central question in all of the artist’s subsequent works.
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Then begins the series of Reliefs: wooden cylinders placed on the surface and painted white, in which rhythms and structures are revealed by the incidence of light.
After creating the technique, he presented three new reliefs at the 3rd Paris Biennale in 1963, and won the International Sculpture Prize. Relief no. 1 is acquired by the National Center for Contemporary Art. An exhibition presenting the winners of the Biennale was then presented in Annecy, Nice, Lyon and Le Havre. Now, some of them are accessible free of charge to the public, in the heart of the Central Plateau.
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Exhibition É Pau, é Pedra…, by Sergio Camargo, organized by Metropoles
Visit from December 10 to March 6, to the Foyer of the Villa-Lobos Room, at the National Theater. Every day, from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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