Waldemar Cordeiro

Exhibited by Luciana Brito Galeria

Material offset print

Dimensions 61 x 44,5 cm / 24 x 17,5 in

Price “Price available upon inquiry”

Status Not Vetted

About the Work

Waldemar Cordeiro stands as one of the key figures in Brazilian art history, having played a principal role in the transition from modern to contemporary art. He was a forerunner in the Brazilian and worldwide context of various art movements including concretismo and computer art, while also working as a landscape architect. His artistic trajectory was distinguished by its interdisciplinary nature and resonance with various art movements and trends: figurativism, concrete art, intuitive geometry, popcreto, and computer art.

Waldemar Cordeiro began his research in computer art In 1968. Aided by a program developed by Giorgio Moscati at the USP Physics Department, the artist created a methodology where a scale from 0 to 7 indicated a chromatic gradation between very light (0) and dark (7), through symbols and letters. Cordeiro used this program in the work A Mulher que Não É B.B. to transform the image of a Vietnamese girl, a war victim published in Time magazine, to make an allusion to French actress Brigitte Bardot, whose recent visit to Brazil had caused a sensation. Before this work, Cordeiro had experimented with other images, as he did in Derivadas de uma imagem: Transformação em Grau 1, transforming the image of a young romantic couple.

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Provenance

Waldemar Cordeiro Estate

Literature

Benthall, Jonathan, Science and Technology in Art Today, Praeger, 1972
Costa, Helouise, Waldemar Cordeiro e a fotografia, Cosac & Naify, 2002
Medeiros, Givaldo, Artepaisagema partir de Waldemar Cordeiro, FAUSSP, 2004
Maier, Tobi, Waldemar Cordeiro & Franz Mon, Spector Books and MINI / Goethe-Institut, 2011
Waldemar Cordeiro –Fantasia Exata, Exhibition catalogue, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil, 2014
The Matter of Photography in the Americas, Stanford University Press, California, USA, 2018