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Artworks
Waldemar Cordeiro
“Derivadas de uma imagem: Transformação em Grau 1”, 1969impressão offset
offset print61 x 44,5 cm
24.01 x 17.51 inWaldemar 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 with 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.Waldemar Cordeiro stands as one of the key figures in Brazilian art history, having played a principal role in the transition from modern to contemporary art. He was a forerunner in the Brazilian and worldwide context of various art movements including concretismo and computer art, while also working as a landscape architect. His artistic trajectory was distinguished by its interdisciplinary nature and resonance with various art movements and trends: figurativism, concrete art, intuitive geometry, popcreto, and computer art.Waldemar Cordeiro began his research in computer art In 1968. Aided by a program developed by Giorgio Moscati at the USP Physics Department, the artist created a methodology where a scale from 0 to 7 indicated a chromatic gradation between very light (0) and dark (7), through symbols and letters. Cordeiro used this program in the work A Mulher que Não É B.B. to transform the image of a Vietnamese girl, a war victim published in Time magazine, to make an allusion to French actress Brigitte Bardot, whose recent visit to Brazil had caused a sensation. Before this work, Cordeiro had experimented with other images, as he did in Derivadas de uma imagem: Transformação em Grau 1, transforming the image of a young romantic couple.Waldemar Cordeiro foi um dos principais agentes da história da arte brasileira, figura chave para a transição da arte moderna para a contemporânea, sendo precursor de movimentos artísticos, como o Concretismo e a Computer Art no Brasil e no exterior, além de paisagista. Sua trajetória artística foi marcada pela interdisciplinaridade e ressonância com seus respectivos contextos: Figurativismo, Arte Concreta, Geometria Intuitiva, Popcreto e Arte de Computador.Em 1968, Waldemar Cordeiro inicia sua pesquisa de arte com computador. Com a ajuda de um programa desenvolvido por Giorgio Moscati, do Departamento de Física da USP, o artista criou uma metodologia onde uma escala de 0 a 7 indicava uma gradação cromática entre o muito claro (0) e o escuro (7), por meio de símbolos e letras. Através desse programa, para “A Mulher que não é B.B”, Waldemar Cordeiro transferiu a imagem de uma garota vietnamita, vítima da guerra, publicada pela Time Magazine, e fez uma alusão à atriz francesa Brigitte Bardot, que na época havia causado furor no Brasil com sua visita. Antes dessa obra, Waldemar Cordeiro experimentava com outras imagens, como em “Derivadas de uma imagem: Transformação em Grau 1", onde ele transformou a imagem de um jovem casal romântico.2of 2
