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DiaporamaStudy for the series Ciclistas (Cyclists)
Expressionism
1990
34.0 x 23.0 cm
Iberê Camargo Foundation
iberê bassani camargo (1914 – 1994)
Discover Iberê Camargo (1914-1994), a leading Brazilian Expressionist painter. Explore his powerful canvases, abstract forms, and unique depictions of the human condition. Learn about the Iberê Camargo Foundation & museum.
Iberê Camargo Foundation (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Explore Brazilian Expressionism at the Iberê Camargo Foundation! Admire Álvaro Siza’s architectural masterpiece housing over 7,000 paintings by Iberê Camargo & fostering contemporary art.
“[...] The omnipresence of the theme of the bicycle wheel could of course appear to be a critical reappraisal of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de bicyclette (Bicycle Wheel). The master of the avant-garde had turned this wheel into a simple readymade, an object withdrawn from the everyday world, following the theory of the artist, in order for it to become an art object within the abstract space of the museum. Camargo, by contrast, resituates the mythical wheel within an everyday setting. So doing, he restores to it a value both human and painterly. This is his own way of rethinking the allegory of return in De Chirico’s The Prodigal Son: as against Duchamp’s airy irony, Camargo stakes his preference for earthly tragedy.”Jacques Leenhardt, Iberê Camargo: os meandros da memória (Porto Alegre: Fundação Iberê Camargo, 2010), 109.
About this artwork
- Title: Study for the series Ciclistas (Cyclists)
- Artist: iberê bassani camargo
- Year: 1990
- Original dimensions: 34.0 x 23.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Iberê Camargo Foundation
- Creative period: Mature Period
- Corpus context: ballet backdrop inspiration , camargo's human narrative
- Color palette: Neutrals
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