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Waldemar Cordeiro - Fantasia Exata, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013
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Geometria Intuitiva, Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil, 2022
Waldemar Cordeiro
Sem título | Untitled, 1963óleo sobre tela
oil on canvas24,3 x 31,7 cm
9.57 x 12.48 inFurther images
Waldemar Cordeiro was a key figure in the development of concrete art, a vanguard movement essential for the transition of modern art to contemporary art, which came to define 20th-century Brazilian art. Besides being a pioneer in computer art as early as the 1960s, Waldemar Cordeiro developed and implemented important landscaping designs in Brazil. In his interdisciplinary research he defended painting in its essence, with self-supporting basic colors and lines, without the backing of figurative representation. He was notable for his objective and rational art, very much associated to his theoretical studies, as well as for his investigation of industrial materials and elements. Cordeiro worked for an art accessible to all, seeking a collective sense that was also aligned with technology, to design and to landscaping. His research in art was always coupled with a social and political concern.“The precision of art is not a craftsperson’s precision, but one of meaning. One can construct with rigor without rigid outlines. Form is not outline or envelope, but relation.” (Waldemar Cordeiro, 1960)Situated chronologically between the phases of Concrete Art and Popcreto, between 1960 and 1963, Waldemar Cordeiro’s so-called Intuitive Geometry phase marks a significant moment in his oeuvre. These paintings retained the spatial organization of the canvas but set aside the ruler and compass in favor of more intuitive drawing and combinations of primary colors to achieve other tonalities. These variations reflect the climate and luminosity of the tropics – pinks, greens, oranges, purples, and yellows – blended in oil paint through lines inspired by the morphology of Brazilian plants. At the time, Cordeiro was studying native flora from the Serra do Mar. In his Concrete and Intuitive Geometry investigations he combined colors in spatially structured compositions designed to speak directly to the viewer’s innate perception.“A precisão da arte não é uma precisão artesanal, mas de significados, pode-se construir com rigor sem contornos rigorosos. Forma não é contorno nem invólucro, mas relação.” (Waldemar Cordeiro, 1960)
Situada cronologicamente entre as fases da Arte Concreta e Popcreto, entre 1960 e 1963, a chamada fase Geometria Intuitiva marca um momento significativo na produção de Waldemar Cordeiro. As obras desse período mantiveram a organização espacial da tela, mas deixaram de lado a régua e o compasso para aderir ao desenho mais intuitivo e às cores primárias combinadas para atingir outras tonalidades. Essas variantes refletem o clima e a luminosidade próprios da tropicalidade, como os rosas, verdes, laranjas, roxos e amarelos e foram combinadas nas telas de pinturas a óleo por meio de traços inspirados da morfologia das plantas brasileiras, outro interesse de Waldemar Cordeiro, que a essa altura, já estudava as plantas nativas da Serra do Mar, no Brasil. Ambas as pesquisas Concreta e a Geometria Intuitiva, combinavam as cores em composições espacialmente organizadas para atingir diretamente a percepção inata do espectador.
Provenance
Waldemar Cordeiro EstateExposições
São Paulo, Brazil, Itaú Cultural, Fantasia Exata, 3 July -22 Sept 2013
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Paço Imperial, Waldemar Cordeiro – Fantasia Exata, 2014
São Paulo, Brazil, Geometria Intuitiva, Luciana Brito Galeria, 2022Literature
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