Sérgio de Camargo

Sérgio de Camargo ( born April 8, 1930 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, † February 20, 1990 ) was a Brazilian sculptor and artist relief.

Life and work

Sérgio de Camargo studied at the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aires in Argentina at Emilio Pettoruti and Lucio Fontana. He also studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris.

In 1948 he went on study trips to Europe and there had some formative artistic encounters, among others, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Henri Laurens and Georges Vantongerloo. After these impressions, he began to create his first sculptures that show a clear influence of the works of Pablo Picasso and Henry Laurens.

In 1950, de Camargo returned to Brazil. He sought there exchanges with Brazilian artists of Constructivism who trained the Neoconcretismo at this time. From 1952 to 1953 he toured Europe again in 1954 and China. From 1961 to 1974 lived and worked in Paris Sérgio de Camargo. He became a member of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel. During this time, de Camargo started with his sculptures and cylinder -shaped, monochrome white wooden reliefs, which he designed highly structured.

In 1974 he returned to Brazil. From 1965 to 1967 he designed in Brasília as art in building a long wall of newly built by Oscar Niemeyer Brazilian Foreign Ministry.

Sérgio de Camargo took part in numerous international exhibitions. He was represented, among others, on the São Paulo Biennial in 1965, was awarded the gold medal at the Venice Biennale in 1966 and was in 1968 with his reliefs participants in the documenta 4 in Kassel.

Literature and sources

• Exhibition catalog for Documenta IV: IV documentation. International Exhibition; Catalogue: Volume 1: ( painting and sculpture ); Volume 2: (graphics / objects ); Kassel 1968
• Kimpel, Harald / stem, Karin: documenta IV International Exhibition 1968 - A photographic reconstruction ( Series of the documenta - Archives); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9