Superfície is pleased to present the exhibition Da construção da cor à dispersão da luz [From the Construction of Color to the Dispersion of Light], a solo show that presents a plural and panoramic view of Hermelindo Fiaminghi’s work, twenty years after the artist’s death. With a text by Agnaldo Farias, the show pays tribute to his important career in Brazilian art, ranging from works from his concretist phase in the 1950s to his long research project entitled Corluz.

Born in São Paulo in 1920, Fiaminghi was an artist with a strong presence in the city’s cultural scene. His various professional experiences resulted in a multifaceted body of work that may seem dissonant at first glance, but which reveals the continuity of his thinking.

In his Concrete phase, Fiaminghi explored the limits of geometric codes, creating rhythmic compositions that suggest the displacement of shapes, mainly triangles, based on concrete logic and marked by the contrast between fullness and emptiness. Between 1959 and 1966, the artist went to the studio of Alfredo Volpi, where he deepened the use of tempera, inheriting some of his pigments and increasingly exploring the transparency of colors, in what he called Corluz, a research that would last until the end of his life.

He understood the initial question as something more complex: white light falling on a prism and dispersing into the various colors that make it up. There is a shift from constructive production to a less rigid use of form and color, revealing color as a floating surface. The painterly gesture stands out, and his painting begins to reveal the act of painting itself, assuming its subjectivity.

Hermelindo Fiaminghi has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, including six International Biennials in São Paulo. In the important First National Exhibition of Concrete Art, at MAM São Paulo, he presented five works, two of which are part of this exhibition. The artist is now part of important public and private collections in Brazil and abroad, including MAM São Paulo, MoMA NY, the Museum of Fine Arts in Huston, as well as the Ella Fontanals and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros collections. With around 20 works, From the Construction of Color to the Dispersion of Light opens on Saturday, June 22, 2024, and runs until August 10 of the same year.

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Long-play / Triângulos Entrosado
1955
Esmalte sobre Eucatex
45 x 45 cm