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Fernando Calderari - 2011

Watercolor

28,00 cm height x 37,00cm width x 0,30 cm depth

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Fernando Calderari

In the 1970s, Calderari slowly returned to the figurative and moved in the direction of the work he is now most known for: sea, coast and seascapes/maritime.

Calderari was already in tune with his times in the 1960s, when his paintings, drawings, prints and iron sculptures won him numerous awards at exhibitions. A disciple of Guido Viaro, he dared to practice abstract art in a society that was still very conservative and distant from the vanguard of the European countries and the US. His work at that time flowed naturally from the most traditional to the most contemporary abstract expressionism, without causing any shock at all. And indeed, by contrast, more than any other artist, he was to be the main force behind the renewal of the plastic arts in Paraná – leading it in the direction of figurative expressionism, replacing a largely academic approach.

In the 1970s, he slowly returned to the figurative, and moved in the direction of the work he is now most known for: sea, coast and seascapes/maritime. These were initially very much based on his recent abstract compositions, and little by little gained a figurative quality in referential elements such as boats, rocks and other details, populating that expressive vacuum with things of the real world. Colors began to be warmer, suggesting the atmosphere with delicate hues and plays of tonalities. This is the period when he began to concentrate more on the practice of painting than on printing or drawing.

Against the tide of painters’ usual evolution, he has moved from the purely abstract, to the metaphysical, and returned to naturalism, without losing the pictorial qualities of his work.

One can also see in his works a certain correlation with the so-called ‘ideal landscapes’ of 17th-century Flemish painting: panoramic scenes with the horizon low in the picture, allowing the largest area to the sky, emphasizing the grandiosity of the atmosphere. This emptiness imposes itself majestically on the landscape, and becomes the central personage of the work – a reference which takes us (mutatis mutandis) to the English Romantics Constable, Turner, and later the realist Courbet.

The emptiness of the sky imposes itself majestically on the landscape, and becomes the central personage of the work – a reference which takes us (mutatis mutandis) to the English Romantics Constable, Turner, and later the realist Courbet.

Fernando Calderari was born in Lapa, in the State of Paraná, in 1939. He is still extremely active, and in parallel to his work as an artist he has an equally serious career in teaching, which puts him in the position of a Master for new generations.

His routine as a university professor in no way inhibits the constant production in his studio, nor his trips to the island of Florianópolis (state of Santa Catarina), from which he draws inexhaustible inspiration for his sketches on paper that precede his canvases of watercolors. The coherence and rigor that orient his work in the quest for formal solutions, where color is treated only as an element of composition necessary to the balance and definition of the various planes in a land- or seascape, are his indisputable mark.

His work has been hung in innumerable solo and group exhibitions, with many awards, including participation in the 7th Bienal de São Paulo, and is in the collections of important museums, both in Brazil and other countries including Germany, Austria, the US, England and Switzerland.

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