Sergio Camargo (1930-1990)

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Details

Sergio Camargo (1930-1990)
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painted wood relief
29 x 37.3/8 x 8in. (75 x 95 x 21.5cm.)
Executed in 1970

Provenance

Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, So Paulo

Exhibited

Rio de Janeiro, Palao Imperial, 1987
Lisbon, Fundao Calouste Gulbenkian, Nov. 1994 - Jan. 1995, n.n. (illustrated). This exhibition later traveled to Rio de Janeiro, MAM Museu de Arte Moderna, Dec. 1994 - Feb. 1995; Oslo, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Feb. - April 1995; Copenhagen, Charlottenborg Museum, May - July 1995; Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, Sept. - Oct. 1995; Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, Jan. - March 1996; Paris, Masion de l'Amrique Latine, May - July 1996

Sale room notice

This sculpture is signed 'Camargo' and dated 928 Paris on the reverse.

Lot Essay

Sergio Camargo began his studies at the Altamira Academy in Buenos Aires, (1946) with Emilio Pettoruti and Lucio Fontana. Two years later, he traveled to Europe, where he met Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp while studying philosophy with Gaston Bachelard. It was in the mid 50s that he abandoned figuration and began to explore geometric volumes and monochromatic reliefs.

About his oeuvre, the Brazilian art critic Ronaldo Brito said "...with the same, produce the unlike. Find the difference in repetition. Serialization must permit chance to emerge. The art lies in revealing the imponderable within the order. The imperceptible infiltered in the perception."