Title: Willys de Castro /
Authors: Castro, Willys de,; Ayerbe, Júlia Souza.; Barros, Regina Teixeira de.; São Paulo (Brazil : State).
Date: 2012
Publisher: Pinacoteca do Estado,
Physical description: 200 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language: Portuguese
LC classification: N
Abstract: Catalogue comprising about 130 pieces that border between painting and sculpture, the "active objects" of Willys de Castro (b. Brazil 1926-1988) created over the course of an artistic career that lasted nearly 40 years (1952-1988) represent one of the most important examples of Brazilian neo-concretism. After his early stages as abstract-geometric paintings, the artist began to create works using wooden vertical boards painted with geometric shapes on both sides that require the viewer to the circle them to observe the game between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional effects. Three years ago, the paulista museum specialists, as the historian Regina Teixeira de Barros explains "discussed categories, systematized terminology and established cataloguing parameters for the work of Willys de Castro. The endeavor involved reclassifying works, studies and documents, according to the nature of each of them. The exhibition "Willys de Castro" is the result of this silent concerted effort."--P. 10. The selection includes 58 pieces from the holdings of the Pinacoteca (56 donated to the institution in 2001, by painter Hércules Barsotti (1914-2010), fellow artist and life-companion of the artist), and pieces from the Instituto de Arte Contemporanea (IAC), the Collection Patricia Phelps Cisneros, of MASP and diverse private collections.
Contents: Apresentaçao = Presentation / Ivo Mesquita -- Willys de Castro na Pinacoteca = Willys de Castro at the Pinacoteca / Regina Teixeira de Barros -- Os objetos ativos de Willys de Castro = Willys de Castro's Active Objects / Renato Rodriguez da Silva -- Objetos ativos = Active Objects / Willys de Castro -- Ativo e provocativo = Active and Provocative / Paulo Venancio Filho -- Willys de Castro e o dilema dos arquivos pessoais = Willys de Castro and the Dilemma of Personal Files / Manlúcia Bottallo -- Cronologia = Chronology / Juliana Rego Ripoli -- Bibliografia selecionada = Selected bibliography -- SObre os autores = About the authors -- Relação  de obras expostas = Exhibition checklist.
Notes: "Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, 21 de Julho a 14 de Outubro de 2012, July 21st-October 14th, 2012"--Title page. Curated by Regina Teixeira de Barros.
Subject headings (LCSH): Castro, Willys de, 1926-1988--Exhibitions.; Constructivism (Art)--Brazil.