Artist: Luíz Sacilotto (1924-2003)unitled: ( 83? Ilegible) años 1980 circa.Signed: Canto inferior derecha Technique: Oil on canvasBiography:The son of Italian immigrants, Sacilotto was born in Santo André, in the ABC region of São Paulo, the cradle of a whole working-class ideology forged in union struggles. He studied at the Instituto Profesional Masculino de Brás and began his artistic career as an expressionist painter in the 1940s. At that time he earned the nickname "proletarian artist", awarded by the critic Sérgio Milliet, who brought him closer to other artists due to his ideology. colleagues and the painters who are members of the Santa Helena group, which included Volpi, Zanini and Rebolo.Despite creating expressionist images at the beginning of his career, Sacilotto established himself in the art world after going through design, a field that gave him the foundation for concrete creation. In 1944 he began working at Hollerith as a high-precision letter draftsman, which brought him into contact with the discussions related to the Bauhaus heritage, since at that time the Ulm School, in Germany, and the typographic revolution.The main mark of his work were the simple numerical rhythms, in progressive or recessive order, which generated admirable structures of an optic-kinetic nature, serialization, and programmed repetition. The creation of environments with strong spatial ambiguity and internal coherence permeates all his works, punctuated by full and empty, background and support, concave and convex, presence and absence, positive and negative.Sacilotto was part of the Ruptura group, whose manifesto, in 1952, launched geometric art in Brazil, almost half a century after it began in Europe. The group included Gerardo de Barros, Lothar Charroux, Leopoldo Haar, Kazimir Fejer, Anatol Wladyslaw and Waldemar Cordeiro, the intellectual leader, who came from Italy bringing updated information on modern art in vogue in Europe. Together they signed a manifesto in defense of art as a "means of deducible knowledge of concepts, placing it above opinion."

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