Glênio Bianchetti
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Glênio Alves Branco Bianchetti (Bagé, January 15, 1928 - Brasília, February 18, 2014) was a Brazilian painter, engraver, illustrator and teacher. Considered one of the most important Brazilian artists of his time, Glênio Bianchetti keeps the titles of engraver, painter, illustrator and teacher. He is among the most talented and original expressionist painters, who emerged after the generation of the masters of the first phase of Brazilian modernism.
Biography[edit]
Born on January 15, 1928, in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, the descendant of Italian immigrants Glènio Bianchetti started in the plastic arts at the age of 16. As the only son of a entrepreneur, his father naturally expected Glênio to succeed him in the family business, a bakery. However, during a family reunion, still at the age of 18, he declared an option for artistic activity is declared, which causes great turmoil among relatives and friends.
In the 1940s, under the guidance of José Moraes, he participated in the creation of the so called 'Bagé Group', with Clóvis Chagas and Glauco Rodrigues. He began his artistic studies in 1946 with the Brazilian painter and sculptor José Moraes, who at the time was based in Bagé. In 1949, Bianchetti went to Porto Alegre to study at the Institute of Fine Arts (now the Institute of Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), where he was a student of Iberê Camargo. Alternating periods in Bagé and Porto Alegre, he completed his degree in fine arts in 1954.
The 50's is a confirmation of his artistic career. He participates in the foundation the Clube da Gravura de Porto Alegre, together with Carlos Scliar, Vasco Prado, Danúbio Gonçalves and Glauco Rodrigues, where the partnership with Mexican engravers is important. He stands out in several functions, culminating in a great evolution of his artistic career. In 1953, the artist takes over the direction of the Graphic Sector of the Culture Division of the Education Secretariat of Rio Grande do Sul and, in 1959, directs printmaking courses at the Instituto de Belas Artes de Porto Alegre.
He starts the 1960s as director of the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art and, in 1962, he comes to recently inaugurated capital of Brasil: Brasflia. At the invitation of Darcy Ribeiro, the artisit realizes his dream of founding the art department of the University of Brasília (UnB), alongside other important artists and intellectuals.
In addition to contributing to the structuring of the graphic sector at the University of Brasília, he directs the painting atelier until he is persecuted by the Brazilian military dictatorship and expelled from the University in 1964.
In the 1970s, Glênio resumed his educational activities and saw his work enjoying intense projection abroad. He participates in the creation of the Brasília Art Museum and inaugurates the CRESÇA Creative Rehabilitation Center, together with his wife, contributing to the training of various artists and educators in the city.
Also in this period, in 1973, he participated in the Salão de Maio, in Paris and, in 1978, had one of his works chosen to honor the French President Giscard d'Estaing for his visit to Brazil. In the 1980s, he dedicated himself to constant production in various techniques, achieving enormous success. His political engagement in the Diretas Já campaign and in the presidential campaign of 1989 is present in his works, as in the poster designed by him for the assembly that drafted Brazil's new democratic constitution in 1988. In the same year he is finally reinstated to the University of Brasília and starts teaching again.
In 94, he was awarded by the Governor of the Federal District with the Medal of Grand Master and Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit of the Federal District. In 96 and 97, his works were part of the Itinerant Exhibition Grupo de Bagé, within the project Rescuing Memory, which also includes the works of Scliar, Glauco Rodrigues and Danúbio Gonçalves, done in Rio Grande do Sul and in several capitals of the country In 1998, he received the Alvorada Merit Medal from the Federal District Government. And in 99, closing the decade, Glênio is honored with the retrospective of his 50 years of career at the Itamaraty Palace, in Brasília.
In 2004, the book Glênio Bianchetti, published by José Paulo Bertoni, is published, and in March 2010, the documentary Bianchetti, a film directed by Renato Barbieri, with 52 minutes in length, on his artistic trajectory is released.
Glênio Bianchetti's extensive biography enshrines a brilliant personality in the arts, education and culture. Admired and dear friend, to whom we applaud with affection and acknowledgment with a small retrospective exhibition of his work, for his importance in the Brazilian artistic panorama and, above all, for his participation in the construction of the new capital of the Country.
Rio Grande do Sul School of illustration[edit]
Bianchetti began to have his work known in the 1950s, when he participated in the foundation, in 1951, of the Clube de Gravura de Bagé, alongside Glauco Rodrigues and Danúbio Gonçalves. In the same year, with Carlos Scliar and Vasco Prado, he founded the Clube de Gravura de Porto Alegre, marked by works of a social character. Bianchetti's work in this period is dominated by woodcuts with themes related to work and regional customs in Rio Grande do Sul, strongly inspired by German expressionism. [4]
In 1960, at the invitation of the then gaucho governor Leonel Brizola, he assumed the direction of the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art (MARGS), where he would remain for two years. In parallel, he taught printmaking at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
Founder of the University of Brasília[edit]
In 1962, Bianchetti was called by Darcy Ribeiro to join the faculty of the architecture course at the University of Brasilia. He was the first director of the plastic arts and graphic arts studio at the university. After the 1964 military coup, he was arrested for "subversion" and removed from UnB, to which he would only be reinstated in 1988. [5]
Even without a link to the university, Bianchetti decided to move to Brasília, devoting himself mainly to painting and tapestry. He collaborated with the creation of the Museum of Art of Brasilia in the 1970s. In 1999 he was honored with a retrospective of 50 years of career at the Itamaraty Palace.
Death[edit]
Due to an internal hemorrhage, caused by a catheterization, Glênio died on the night of February 18, 2014.
References[edit]
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