Sergio Fingermann holds an exhibition in SP to celebrate his 50 year career

Exhibition "Juggling images of a graphic work" takes place between the days 05/08 and 06/11, at the Lasar Segall Museum, in Vila Mariana

to celebrate your 50 career years and 70 years old, the painter and engraver Sergio Fingermann performs the exhibition “Juggling images of a graphic work”, between days 05/08 and 06/11, no Lasar Segal Museum, in Vila Mariana.

The show features 45 works that synthesize the trajectory of the paulista over the five decades of his trajectory as a restless artist and questioner of the bases – route through which the experience of his artistic creation in the contemporary era is based.

The exhibition will be open to the public from Wednesday to Monday., from 11:00 to 7:00 pm, curated by critic Giancarlo Hannud, art history teacher.

During the show, visitors can see works from an extensive metal engraving production, developed since the middle of the years 1970 – Fingermann’s artistic production period, which is marked by etching and aquatint techniques and drawings that dialogue with the themes of his prints and paintings.

Through your works, Sergio bets on the construction of a work based on a lyrical subjectivity, that dialogues with art history and contemporaneity. In them, he encourages the viewer to reflect on what is on the scene, on stage or on what the staging enacts. often in their work, the artist makes use of chairs, curtains, scaffolding, ladders and moons that reappear and combine with each other, creating a territory to dream.

“Engraving is a technique that has the peculiarity of provoking reflection on the construction of images., because it is made by successive engravings on a copper plate, building a game of plots and hatches that creates sensations of shadows and lights. With a drawing production, articulated paintings and prints, I seek the creation of a poetic identity using theater signs, affective memories and observations of the real to build a world of lyricism”, Serge explains.

About Sergio Fingermann: 

The artist from São Paulo had artistic training since the beginning of his adolescence, with Ernestina Karman and in the studio of Yolanda Mohalyi, artist with whom he had intense interlocution.

Between 1973-74, Fingermann attended the International University of Art, in Venice, under the guidance of Mario de Luiggi and Mark di Suvero.

Back to Brazil, attended Escola de Arte Brasil and graduated as an architect from FAU at USP (1975-79). Sergio's artistic experience in various engraving studios and contact with artists from different poetic pacts was decisive in his identity.

The exchange of ideas and artistic questions, in that period of extreme cultural closure, because of the dictatorship, were important in the construction of a poetic repertoire, based on a lyricism. The artist has his work presented in collective and individual exhibitions., national and international.

Fingermann has works in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Contemporary Art Museum of Sao Paulo, among others. already performed, including, several solo exhibitions in Brazilian galleries and museums, among them stand out in the Museum of Art of São Paulo, MASP, Pinacoteca, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, National Museum of Fine Arts.

In the search for artistic interlocutions, he created Counterpoint, a space for dialogue with those who work with psychoanalysis, the literature, the philosophy, the music. In these fifteen years of activities, Contraponto has already organized a series of lectures on art.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the artist has occupied the Social Networks of Instagram and Facebook, daily, addressing issues of contemporary art, ethics and politics of artistic making and the place of subjectivity in contemporary.

Today, with almost 20 thousand followers on the internet, the artist talks about the creation process, in a democratic way. In addition to offering online courses that address confrontations from creation to exposure, Sergio has books published by Editora Bei with the titles: “Fragments of an extended day”, “Praise to Silence”, "Engraving: Shadow Plots”, “An Apprenticeship” and “If Night Was Water”.

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Exhibition – Juggling images of a graphic work
Local: Lasar Segall Museum – Berta Street, 111 – Vila Mariana
Date: 5 august to 6 November
Time: 11h to 7:00 pm, fourth second
Free entrance