iole de freitas

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Iole de Freitas’s first works were photographic sequences and experimental films she produced throughout her stay in Italy, in which the body was already imposed as a structuring element of the work. When she began to experiment with sculptural language, the presence of the body as an image gave way to signs of his gestures, transferring its tensions and powers to the body of the sculpture. In the monumental sculptures developed since the 1990s, space is stitched together in broad gestures, like a body that dances on an architectural scale and establishes unforeseen continuities between inside and outside, testing the limits between monumentality and lightness. In her most recent production, the artist focuses her interest on the internal issues of each sculpture, now on a smaller scale, such as the concave and convex, the texture and the relationships between the parts.

Iole de Freitas began training in contemporary dance in Rio de Janeiro, where she moved at the age of six. she studied at the School of Industrial Design at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and, in 1970, moved to Milan (Italy), where she began his artistic production and participation in exhibitions, in addition to working as a designer at the Corporate Image Studio of Olivetti, under the guidance of architect Hans von Klier.

Throughout her five-decade career, Iole de Freitas participated in important international exhibitions, such as the Paris Biennial (France, 1975), the São Paulo Biennial (1979), the 5th Mercosul Biennial (2005) and Documenta (Germany). , 2007), as well as individual and collective exhibitions in various cities around the world, including exhibitions in 2023 at the IMS (Instituto Moreira Salles) and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, in São Paulo. Her works are part of important collections, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo; Museums of Modern Art in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói; Rio de Janeiro Museum of Fine Arts; Rio Art Museum; Bronx Museum (USA); Winnipeg Art Gallery (Canada); and Daros Foundation (Switzerland).