Marcello Nitsche

Marcello Nitsche was born in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1942.

Painter, sculptor, engraver, multifaceted artist. Graduated in Drawing from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (Faap), in São Paulo. In 1969, he received the Prize from the Municipality of São Paulo for the most relevant research work at the São Paulo International Biennial. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a recorder, later dedicating himself to recording. painting. Get closer to Pop Art by creating paintings inspired by the image creation process used in comics. In 1969 he made his first film: Acrylic. Explore experimental cinema in Super-8, with the works O Mar and Cubo de Fumaça. He co-directs the short film Habitable Surfaces, 1973 and creates Auto-Retrato and Costura, 1975, works that demonstrate the The artist’s growing interest in the appropriation of genres and consecrated elements of artistic tradition.

Since the 1980s, the gestures of painting and the weave of brushstrokes have become central themes in his work. The artist appropriates free brushstrokes and spontaneous gestures, converting them into graphic signs.

It has sculptures in public spaces, such as Garatuja, 1978, a modulated structure, installed in Praça da Sé, and Pincelada Tridimensional, 2000 , in Parque da Luz, both in São Paulo. In paintings created since 2001, he is inspired by barcodes, and explores vertical lines and sequences of numbers.

He held more than a hundred exhibitions in several countries, such as Brazil, France and the United Kingdom. His work can be found in several Brazilian Museums, such as the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Contempornea da USP, Pinacoteca do Estado do Paraná (Curitiba), FAAP Museum of Brazilian Art (São Paulo), Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo - and the artistic collection of Palacio dos Bandeirantes.< /p>

He passed away in São Paulo in 2017.

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