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The Bienal of Sao Paulo

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imagery; Felicia Leimer. another previous winner. with numbers of Studio International. Francis Bacon in a
a group of her intricately branched pyramids and bloodily distorted head produced that sensory shock
F. Weissman in crushed aluminium sheeting. Amilcar which no cerebral fashioning can produce.
de Castro works simply in metal discs. Brazil. as was to be expected. had no surrealist
Brazilian printmaking presented variety in techniques painters of any significance. The dynamic of the country
from the prize winner Maria Bonomi and other leading that one can experience so non-stop in Sao Paulo and
London exhibitors. among them Rossini Perez. Dora in different ways elsewhere is reflected in an art that is
Basilio. Anna Leticia Ouadros. Roberto de Lamonica never introspective. always aware of the senses· signifi­
and notably Marian Chiaverini Ferrari whose expansive cance especially the visual. and above all informal and
monochrome etchings of people multiplied in profiles optimistic. Sao Paulo in the city's character rejects the
made a strangely moving rubric of contemporary past because the present offers more excitement; the
figuration. Bienal repeats the feeling of the city and if it includes
'Surrealism and Fantastic Art' was the theme of the much that is vulgar and opportune this is a consequence
, special exhibition on the top floor with works from of metropolitan life. but unmistakably of life alive. ■

Liuba, Brazil international sources running from the intricately
81rd decorative drawing of Swedish Max-Walter Svanberg
Bronze to the large oppressively compelling head by Belgian
2 painter Landuyt. Max Ernst reigned supreme in only a
Amilcar de Castro, Brazil
Torso 1964 few typical paintings in which his penetration of the
Sculpture ,n ,ran depth of the third dimension was accomplished with
3 immaculate technique. Other masters of surrealism pre­
Dora Basilio, Brazil sented in excellent canvases were Dali. Chirico.
Cremona 1965
Etching Magritte. Oelvaux and Labisse. Strong contributions
came also from Vladimir Velickovic of Yugoslavia.
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Franz Weissmann, Brazll Richard Oelze of Germany and Andreas Nemes from
Sculpture ,n aluminium 1965
90 x 120 ems. Sweden. each of them the subject of an article in recent
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