Lorenzato: Landscapes" exhibition

On February 9, Gomide & Co invites to the opening of the exhibition Lorenzato: Landscapes with a selection of 35 paintings by Minas Gerais artist Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato.

Among the landscapes that Lorenzato painted, we find variations between works of a figurative and narrative character and works in which the figures are somewhat diffuse, emphasizing the play between forms and colours, in a flirtation with abstraction. Lorenzato's vocabulary is made up of sunsets, lakes, mountains, façades, trees, rivers, still-lifes and the like; there are also countless façades that transport us to the outlying districts of Belo Horizonte and the border states of Minas Gerais. The paintings by Lorenzato, who in life maintained the habit of "walking to paint", invite us to revisit a variety of imaginary landscapes; that figurative or abstract, emerge from a lived reality of the artist, but also awaken an affective memory, almost nostalgic, of the spectator.

"I have to see the landscape, the colours. If I don't see, I don't paint." - Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, in an interview granted to Cláudia Gianetti and Thomas Nölle, Belo Horizonte, jul. 1988.

Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900 - 1995)

Born in 1900 in Belo Horizonte, son of Italian immigrants, he spent his childhood in the newly opened capital. At the age of 20, he moved with his family to Arsiero, Italy, where he took part in the reconstruction of the city that had been devastated during the First World War. In 1925, during the brief period he studied at the Reale Accademia delle Arti in Vicenza, he was introduced to the practice of easel painting. Between 1926 and 1930 he passed through Rome, where he met the Dutch painter Cornelius Keesman, who became a great observation partner and accompanied him on a bicycle circuit through Eastern Europe towards Asia, a project interrupted due to the refusal of Lorenzato's Italian passport.In the 1940s he passed through Brussels and worked in Paris until his return to Brazil in 1948. In the city of Petrópolis, he resumed his trade in construction, more specifically as a decorative wall painter. In 1949 he brought his wife Emma and Lorenzo, his only son, to Brazil. In 1956, as a result of an accident at work, Lorenzato retired early at the age of 56. However, the accident that caused his premature retirement did not prevent him from continuing the excursions that stimulated his work in the studio.

SERVICE

Opening:
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
from 10am to 7pm
Al. Ministro Rocha Azevedo, 1052

Visitation:
February 9 to March 19, 2022
Monday to Friday,10am to 7pm
Saturday, 10am to 3pm

*We remind you that the use of mask is mandatory
*Free admission