Parte 2 - Construções Sensíveis: A experiência Geometrica Latino Americana na coleção Ella Fontanals-Cisneros
Brings to Brazil a profile of the abstraction present in our continent. Together with the important legacy of the Brazilian concretism and neo-concretist movements, the abstract poetics that flourished in other countries from the 1930s onwards will be on display
BRASIL AND CUBA
The dichotomy between the Concrete and Neo-Concrete movements in Brazil brings visual experimentation to the dialogue between pure rationalism and its subversion, starting with the inclusion of the subject in the artistic equation. The Raptura (Rapture) group, created in São Paulo in 1952, together with its radical manifest, focuses the aspirations of the Concrete movement on geometric studies and on the use of industrial materials.
On the other hand, the Neo-Concrete Manifesto of 1959 subverts the prevalence of pure visuality of form by introducing the variable of the unexpected in the viewer’s contact with the work, like an agent which completes the meaning.
The tension between these two groups creates a singular situation, which leads the possibilities of abstraction to their limits.
Loló Soldevilla, an artist partially working in Europe, surprise us with her bold rupture of the two dimensional plane seen in her works.
