Siron Franco
Siron Franco ( born July 25, 1947 in Cidade de Goiás) is a Brazilian painter, draftsman and sculptor.
Life
Siron Franco comes from a family who lived in poverty and has ten siblings. After childhood and youth in Goiânia he married before moving to São Paulo Goiaci Milhomen. In São Paulo, he worked from 1969 to 1971 because of the Jewish displaced German painter, graphic artist and journalist Walter Lewy, the most important representative of the Brazilian Surrealism. In 1975 he won the International Prize for painting at the São Paulo Biennial, and at 24 ° Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna in the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes the "Premio de viagem ao exterior ", an award for traveling overseas, he 1976-1978 used for stays in Europe.
Work
The independent and extensive work with references to Surrealism, Fantastic painting and modernity reflects Brazilian culture and contemporary art in Europe and America. The program of the artist is the attempt to interfere as participating citizens in the social and political process, sometimes in the language of art. Some installations of Franco have the character of interventions and can be interpreted as a criticism of conditions in the cities of Brazil. With the " Monumento às Naçoes indigenous ", the Monument to the Indigenous Nations Franco honors the creativity of the Brazilian natives as a contribution to Brazilian art and culture, and also as one of the sources of his own art. The created in 1992, more than 3,700 -square-foot monument from 500 per 2,30 meter high concrete pillars was destroyed by vandalism.
The pictorial work Siron Franco is solid presence in galleries and museums in Brazil and abroad. Although there are pictures in contract work, act boldly and decorative at first glance, the imagery is never harmless. She plays on European concepts of modernism and postmodernism aware; friendly irritating as Magritte, dissecting such as Grosz and Bacon. The iconography conveys a critical subtext that is intelligible to the Brazilian and Latin American cultures (also with respect to each of current events ).