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Sérvulo Esmeraldo
Sérvulo Esmeraldo
Sérvulo Esmeraldo

Sérvulo Esmeraldo

Brazil, 1929-2017
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BiographySculptor, engraver, drafter, and kinetic artist Sérvulo Esmeraldo began his artistic career in the late 1940s in northern Brazil, where he attended the open studio of the Sociedade Cearense de Artes Plásticas (SCAP) in Fortaleza. In 1951, he moved to São Paulo to study architecture, then to France in 1957 where he worked and lived in close contact with an expatriate Brazilian community of artists, including Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Lygia Clark, Sérgio de Camargo, Franz Krajcberg, Arthur Luiz Piza, Flávio-Shiró, and Rossini Peres. He took classes in printmaking at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and learned metal engraving in the studio of Johnny Friedlaender.
Upon his return to Brazil in 1977, Esmeraldo started making public art projects. He organized two international exhibitions of ephemeral sculptures in 1986 and 1991, in which he invited artists from around the world to send designs for sculptures to be completed and installed by preparators in his hometown of Ceará, Brazil.
Interested in mathematics, geometry, and physics, Esmeraldo also studied mechanics, electricity, and optics; these studies continued to influence his artistic output. Throughout Esmeraldo’s work—whether in printmaking, sculpture, or kinetic projects—a close observation of nature underpins his constructions. He returns consistently to the idea of line as an abstract value.

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