Geraldo de Barros
Geraldo de Barros (1923 – 1998), is a Brazilian painter, photographer and designer.
He was one of the exponents of vanguard in Brazilian art, a precursor of concrete art and pioneer in abstract photography.
He was also active as a furniture designer from the mid 50’s (Unilabor) until the end of the eighties (Hobjeto), deeply involved both in the function of design and in the social structure of the economy he was actuating in.
Geraldo de Barros is represented in Brazil by Luciana Brito Gallery in Switzerland by DIP Contemporary and in London by Augusta Edwards Fine Arts
Some furniture pieces are re-edited in Brazil by Dpot
Latest news:
- MAM São Paulo: encontros entre o moderno e o contemporâneo. 26.3.2025 – 8.6.2025. Curadoria de Cauê Alves e Gabriela Gotoda. Galeria de Arte do Centro Cultural Fiesp, São Paulo.
- Brasil ! Brasil ! The Birth of Modernism. Royal Academy, London, 28.1.2025 – 21.4.2025. Commissaires : Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Roberta Saraiva Coutinho.
- Brasil ! Brasil ! A l’aube de la modernité. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 7.9.2024 – 5.1.2025. Commissaires : Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Roberta Saraiva Coutinho.
- Transmigraciones. Colección Fotográfica del Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de México, 4.5 – 31.7.2024. Curaduría: Alejandro Castellanos
- Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940-1980. The Museum of Modern Art, New York March 08, 2024 – September 22, 2024. Organized by Ana Elena Mallet, guest curator, with Amanda Forment, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
- DISPUTE. Château de Nyon, Suisse. Carte blanche à l’artiste Pierre Schwerzmann, 16 février au dimanche 28 avril 2024.
- Geraldo de Barros Objetos-Forma. Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paulo, 9 de agosto até 10 de setembro de 2022
- ruptura e o grupo: abstração e arte concreta, 70 anos. Curadoria: Heloisa Espada e Yuri Quevedo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 02 de abril até 03 de julho de 2022
- GERALDO DE BARROS, Form-Objects, Galleria Michela Negrini, Lugano, Switzerland, 08 – 31.03.2022
- GERALDO DE BARROS, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Genève (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland, 23.02.2022 – 19.06.2022, curated by Paul Bernard in close collaboration with Fabiana de Barros and Michel Favre
- Raio que o parta: ficções do moderno no Brasil, Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brasil, 16.02.2022 – 07.08.2022
- A máquina do mundo: Arte e Indústria no Brasil 1901 – 2021, curadoria José Augusto Ribeiro, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 06.11.2021 – 21.02.2022
- Geraldo de Barros – Imaginário, Construção e Memória, curadoria: Lorenzo Mammi e Michel Favre, August 11 – Nov. 07, Itaú Cultural (IC), São Paulo
- Geraldo de Barros, Galeria Luciana Brito, 14 de agosto – 02 de outubro / 14th August – October 2nd, São Paulo See Hotsite
- Brazilian Modernists: Three Masters of Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, 17th-30th May 2021, Augusta Edwards Fine Arts, Gallery 7, Cromwell Place, London
- Fotoclubismo – Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964, May 8–Sep 26, 2021, MoMA, New York
- Wie zu Hause, Wo ich nicht bin. Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève. Organisation : Niels Trannois. 18 septembre – 11 octobre 2020. Scénographie : Dpot – mobiliário brasileiro et Arquivo Geraldo de Barros
- Interiors. Document Space, Chicago. July 10 – August 22, 2020
- New acquisition at LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum.
- Duplo olhar: pintura e fotografia modernas brasileiras, Exposição coletiva, Casa Roberto Marinho, Rio de Janeiro, 5 dez 2019–26 abr 2020
- Em forma de Família [In the form of a Family], Roberto Alban Gallery – Salvador de Bahia, Brasil, Opening October 31, 2019
- Geraldo de Barros – Unilabor. Möbel und Fotografien, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany, September 25, 2019 to Januar 12, 2020