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| Author(s): |
Renata Dias Ferraretto Moura Rocco
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2018-04-11 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Gonçalves Magalhães;
Domingos Tadeu Chiarelli;
Ana Candida Franceschini de Avelar Fernandes;
Lisbeth Ruth Rebollo Goncalves;
Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni
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| Advisor: | Ana Gonçalves Magalhães |
| Abstract | |
The Italian artist Danilo Di Prete, who immigrated to Brazil in 1946, is always presente in studies on the first editions of the São Paulo Biennial, especially the first and the eighth ones, when he won the sought-after prize of national painting. Such remarks recover and endorse the controversies of that period: they question the quality of his artistic production; his subordination to tendencies that did not depict the latest trends in the country; his role in the creation of the São Paulo Biennial, as well as his friendship with Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho and to which extent their collaboration directly benefited the artist. In this investigation we propose not only tackling such questions, which are mandatory upon approaching the artist, but also a more comprehensive discussion of his figure, which encompasses his artistic formation in Italy under the Fascist Regime, his acting in a thriving advertising Market, during his first years in São Paulo and his striving to seal his name forever as the creator of the biennial. Bearing all these aspects in mind, we sought to clarify Di Pretes relationship with the São Paulo Biennial, in terms of his artistic production and him acting as a cultural agent. Therefore, it is an investigation about the career of an artist in the context of Biennial type of exhibitions, and how the legitimation of a name and a whole artistic production takes place there. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/17011-8 - Danilo Di Prete’s presence in Brazil, from the 1940s to 1970s |
| Grantee: | Renata Dias Ferraretto Moura Rocco |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |