São Paulo – Brazilian painter Antonio Bandeira will be paid a tribute for his work by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). Exhibition "Um brasileiro em Paris" (A Brazilian in Paris), featuring works by the artist, will feature at Maison de L’Unesco, in the French capital, from March 30th to April 30th.
In total, 40 works by Bandeira will be on display, considered a master of abstract painting. His work includes oil on canvas and watercolours. The artwork was done from 1947 to 1967. The latter year was the year of the painter’s death, in France, a country with which Bandeira had strict ties throughout his entire life.
Visitors will also be able to view, at the site, documents on the life of Antonio Bandeira, among them letters, photographs, invitations, exhibition catalogues, and newspaper and magazine articles.
Antonio Bandeira was born in the city of Fortaleza and is regarded as one of the ten greatest Brazilian painters. He attended the Higher School of Fine Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, in Paris. In France, Bandeira established contacts with artist from avant-garde movements such as cubism and fauvism, and consolidated his "abstract gestural painting."
Carried out by Expomus, a cultural projects company based in the city of São Paulo, with support from the Rouanet Law (for cultural incentive), the project in France brought together items from private and institutional collections in Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza and Salvador, among them the Collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts/Ministry of Culture, the Castro Maya Museum and the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, of the Museum of Modern Art, in Rio de Janeiro.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
