Curated by Daniel Rangel, show opens in 19 August inaugurating the artist's entry into the gallery and marking his return to the art market
“Ivald Granato era, and period. An artist born for the arts; a painter who was born for colors and brushes. A being at the service of artistic making whose freedom and experimentation were preponderant marks of a busy transdisciplinary trajectory”, affirms Daniel Rangel, curator of exhibition beings, the and Galeria Opens the day 19 August.
The exhibition brings to the public pieces from the Ivald Granato collection, company created by his family to conserve and spread his legacy of 50 years of rigorous dedication, free, experimental and uninterrupted for Brazilian art.
Garnet, who died prematurely seven years ago, in July 2016, was a plural artist. Painter and one of the pioneers of performance art in Brazil, transitioned between drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, video and multiple media, languages, styles, places and people.
Connected to all avant-garde movements, for Rangel, he was a pop-surrealist in the 1990s 1960, a performative-tropicalist in the 1990s 1970, and an expressionist-rocker in the 1990s 1980. According to Jacob Klintowitz, brazilian art critic, the artist had his own language, entitled by him “Granatê”.
In beings, the curatorship explores this universe invented by Garnet, marked by its colorist strength, expressive features and a constant pulsation rock and roll, which highlights the various beings created by the artist. In the clipping chosen by the curator, the figurative, spans the mid-years 1980 until the year 2000.
“The figurative is coming back with full force in the world and that's why my choice. So that now Garnet it is so multiple that it could have several other clippings: only drawings, or just abstract, or just surrealists and many others”, complements rangel.
The clipping marks, However, a golden age of Granato's work. During this period, his atelier on Avenida Henrique Shaumann and Avenida Brasil was one of the most effervescent meeting points in São Paulo, bringing together the cream of artists and intellectuals. In 1987, Granato was on the cover of Veja São Paulo magazine, who called him “The Brush Shaker”.
It is also worth mentioning the success he had in Germany, even enchanting Princess Gloria Thurn und Taxis who created a studio for the artist in her castle in Regensburg, where he developed a series of works, some present in this show.
The exhibition shows how the Beings of Garnet are unique at the same time that they are connected to each other, the resemblance goes beyond visuality. For the curator, the portrayed figures incorporate common mannerisms, gifts in the expansive personality of the artist.
In it, the public will find possible multifaceted self-portraits, as a 'pavilion of gods', quoting Swiss musician Walter Smetak, in addition to sketches, artist notebooks, notes and more objects.
About figurative painting, the curator explains that a rescue of her is being made, driven by a growing identity production in which artists reproduce their surroundings. The currently so evident “place of speech” in society, including the artistic medium, becomes necessary when incorporating new voices, forms, cores e sons, whose experience is vivid and real.
“Since the years 1960, or even since Marcel Duchamp, 'art and life' mix and touch contemporary production. In this sense, Granato represented what he was in fact, the vanguard. The space-being of artistic experimentation, whose time is history, and that's why, circular, that embodies the past, revisited here, from a current view. The Beings of Garnet are the essence of himself, and his painting, says curator.
The show marks the arrival of the artist to the gallery’s collection., what second peter cohn, founder of And, means a rescue of a historical moment of Brazilian art. “He is an integral part of this significant movement that broke all barriers after the concretists and neoconcretists”, explains. "O Garnet is an icon of the avant-garde movement of the 70s.” for peter, the artist is one of the leaders of this movement for his blunt and irreverent posture. Ulisses Cohn, who works alongside his father at Dan Galeria, complements. “His entry into the gallery continues the evolution of Brazilian art that we travel through, as a route gallery”, scores. “He comes to complete the timeline and take the place of the avant-garde, of the contesting expression, of aesthetic plurality. It renews our artistic program.”
Journalist Alice Granato, artist's daughter, directs the Collection and actively participates in the exhibition. She celebrates her father's return to the art market with a representation of and Galeria. “A joy to see my father's work alive, pulsating and with its deserved place in the history of art”, the firm. “He left a legacy of utmost importance and we worked hard, my family and I, to preserve and disseminate his work and memory.”
About the Ivald Granato Collection
Since the death of Ivald Granato, in 2016, his family begins to work on preserving his work and memory. Granato left a real treasure for the plastic arts in Brazil and the world. He produced in an obsessive and plural way and built a grandiose collection and archives over half a century of work.
In April 2017, preventive conservation activities were started, risk management, cataloging and packaging of works. In 2018, the company was created Ivald Granato collection, with the aim of caring, preserve and publicize the work, the artistic trajectory and its memory. Are ahead of the company, the artist's widow, Laïs Granato, the three children of Granato, Alice, Diogo and Pedro, and your stepchildren, Nelson and Marcelo.
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The Collection has a permanent presence in social networks and media. In 2019, the first major exhibition was held after the painter's death, the retrospective at Sesc Belenzinho “My name is Ivald Granato- I am", curated by Daniel Rangel, which brought together 500 works, and production by Ana Helena Curti and Fernando Lion. the family of Garnet participated in the exhibition, alongside the Sesc team.
The exhibition, of extreme importance and scope, showed the various stages of his work and was also a great tribute to his life and work. Brought an iconographic panel on it, 30 video-interviews with artists, people, journalists and art critics, Directed by Alice Granato, rebuilt his atelier, with the help of Diogo Granato, and also had the collaboration of Pedro Granato in all spheres. The show featured three rooms in Virtual Reality designed by Rangel and directed by Tadeu Jungle.
Still 2019, when the artist would complete 70 years, The documentary “Granato 70” by Rogério Gallo is released on Canal Arte 1, with a great interview with Granato (engraved in 2010), illustrated by his works and photographs. In 2020 a Mostra “My name is Ivald Granato- Eu sou” went to Sesc Guarulhos and won the Arcanjo de Cultura Award in the visual arts category.
The Collection, who stayed in the house-atelier of Garnet since his death, now has its own headquarters in Vila Madalena, in São Paulo, with a continuous work of preservation and research of the work, coordinated by responsible conservator Talita Desserie Santos and by documentary filmmaker Fernanda Gonçalves. Only last year, with support from Proac Expresso, More than five thousand files of the artist were treated and digitized, which are available for research on the page www.acervoivaldgranato.org
about the gallery
The And Gallery It was founded in 1972, in São Paulo, by Gláucia and Peter Cohn. In the first years of activity, the gallery focused on Brazilian modern art, featuring works by important artists from the modernist movement of 1920, such as Di Cavalcanti, Antonio Gomide, Ismael Nery, Tarsila do Amaral among others.
Even in the first years of operation, artists like Alfredo Volpi, Cícero Dias, Antonio Bandeira and Yolanda Mohalyi were incorporated into the group represented by the gallery that, over the last few decades, also expanded to international production and contemporary art.
The contemporary art department was created in 1985 by Flavio Cohn, son of the founding couple. Later, his brother Ulisses Cohn also joined the board of directors of And. Combining historical research and tuning with the international market, over the past twenty years the gallery has exhibited works by Lygia Clark, Lothar Charoux, Luiz Sacilotto, Goncalo Ivo, Ascânio MMM, Macaparana, Sérgio Fingermann and international artists like Sol LeWitt, Anthony Tapias, Jesus Soto, Cesar Paternosto, Eduardo Stupia, Adolfo Estrada, Knob Ferro, Ian Davenport, Max Bill, Joseph Albers, besides the British Tony Cragg, Kenneth Martin e Mary Martin.
The and Galeria most recently added to your selection, important concrete artists: Francis Nephew, François Morellet and Getúlio Alviani, as well as the historic abstract geometric artists: Sandu Darie, Salvador Corratge, Wilfredo Arcay and Dolores Soldevilla, just to mention some of the Cubans from the group Los Once (The Eleven).
Brazilian photographer Cristiano Mascaro; the artists José Spaniol and Teodoro Dias (Brasil); the international ones, Tony Cragg (G. Brittany), Lab [AU] (Belgium) e Young Oh (Korea), joined the gallery's Contemporary Art department. The and Galeria has always had the purpose of highlighting Brazilian artists and movements since the beginning of the 1990s. 1920 until today.
At the same time, maintains a close relationship with international artists, since artistic movements historically intertwine and dialogue with each other without borders.
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Beings Ivald Granato
When: 19 august to 21 October
and Galeria – United States Street, 1638 – São Paulo, SP
Timetables: Monday to Friday, from 10h to 19h; Saturday, from 10:00 to 1:00 pm
Free entrance
Parental guidance: free
Access for people with reduced mobility
e-mail: info@dangaleria.com.br
