Arcangelo Ianelli

Arcangelo Ianelli (São Paulo SP 1922 - idem 2009)

Arcangelo Ianelli was a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and draftsman. Abstract painting with refined colors is the main symbol of the work of visual artist Arcangelo Ianelli.

Our artist began drawing as a self-taught artist, and considers himself self-taught despite having studied perspective at the São Paulo Association of Fine Arts in 1940, and having briefly received academic painting guidance from Colette Pujol (1913-1999), who taught a private painting course in 1942. Soon after (ca. 1944), he attended the studio of Waldemar da Costa (1904-1982) for six months, where he met Lothar Charoux, Hermelindo Fiaminghi, and Maria Leontina[1]. Due to his temperament, self-teaching became the natural path for Ianelli's art, although he was always committed to the technique he so well observed.

In the 1950s, he was also part of the Guanabara Group[2], which had 34 members, the majority of whom were Italian and Japanese immigrants or their descendants; among them, artists who had belonged to the Seibi Group[3] and the Group of 15 (1948-...), whose mentor was the painter Yoshiya Takaoka (Tokyo, 1909 – São Paulo 1978), who provided them with artistic guidance and, as a group, was also considered the first avenue for emerging artists to enter the market.

Figure 1: Nude; drawing, 31x19cm, 1946

It is worth a digression: It is often noted in the biographies of artists active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that there is a tendency toward gregariousness. This can be interpreted as the cohesive force that fostered the growth of their beliefs—most often of unequal natures—making them strong in relation to their environment, through their participation in everything alongside "such special people," with whom they shared discoveries, criticisms, and paths to technical, pedagogical, philosophical, ethical, and other improvements. We had around 15 different artistic groups among us that, although ephemeral, fulfilled part of their purpose. The ephemerality we refer to is the natural result of coexistence, based on an initial identification, which formed bonds with leaders or dominant ideas that were not always necessarily positive, since they come from the core of an "Institution" that, however liberal and informal it may seem, ends up "stifling" the individual creative process.

Let's return to Ianelli.

1940s-1950s: From the 1940s onward, he produced everyday scenes, urban landscapes, seascapes, and drawings with a "figurative" address (Figure 1), but which reveal great formal synthesis and a very sober, even severe, chromatic range (Figure 2). Despite giving material existence in accordance with what he saw, it is clear in the work "The Boy Painter" (Figure 3) that color, despite being contained by lines or even as a demarcation of objects, is not a merely supporting element. Did the painter already know/intuit that color in its maximum expression[4] would already be the culmination of his poetics?

Figure 2: Sacristy interior, oil on canvas, 62x46, 1951

1960s: Around the 1960s, he points to the non-figurativism announced by the last seascapes and related themes produced at the end of the previous decade, with a clear geometric conception represented by verticalities and geometric figures.

The works were still technically figurative, but with very simplified structures. He was on the path to abstraction, producing canvases that presented concretely perceived material density and a dark palette. Leirner tells us, "In the phase that the critic PM de Almeida called 'Transition,' Ianelli darkens the scene as an interlude."

This "interlude" momentarily interrupted his trajectory, and critics classified it as an "Informal Abstraction"; but by the late 1960s, his work was simultaneously linear and pictorial, with a prominent use of graphic marks.

Figure 1: Nude; drawing, 31x19cm, 1946

1970: From 1970 onward, breaking with textures and graphic marks, Ianelli introduced us to "Geometric Abstraction," primarily employing rectangles and squares, which appear as superimposed planes. These were the heirs to the first rhythmic works in which geometric figures clashed. The still life painted in 1960 already contains the presence of the forms that would be painted during this decade (Figures 4 and 4a). He also worked as a sculptor since the mid-1970s, creating works in marble and wood, embodying his pictorial work. It was then, after the graphic phase (Figure 5), that his monochromatic squares and rectangles appeared, the simplifications of which would become his trademark. Due to oil paint intoxication, he began to use egg tempera, perfecting his techniques of transparency and uniformity in his late Concretism.

In this same decade and part of the following, Ianelli presented us with his series of enormous overlapping rectangles, worked with inventiveness and subtlety of color and luminous transparencies that marked most of his career. And through this, he became known and applauded, for having made it possible to perceive the coherence of his trajectory, how one phase was necessarily succeeded by the next, simultaneously avoiding the appearance of the repetition—the eventual consequence of the "serial tendency" pointed out by Murilo Mendes (1901-1975), which was neutralized by Ianelli with the succinct phrase, "there is always something unresolved in the previous painting that I try to resolve in the subsequent one."

Frederico Morais[5] gives us a different version regarding the explanation above. Perhaps the same statement may have been used more than once. Here it goes: When I asked Arcangelo Ianelli, during a three-day interview, how he comes up with the idea for a painting, he replied: "There's always something unresolved in the previous painting that I try to resolve in the next. Painting demands discipline and constancy. Even when we're not ready to work, we must get to the drawing board..."

Figure 4

Figure 4a

Figures 4 and 4a clearly show, like many others already commented on by Paulo Mendes de Almeida (1978), that within that still life (1960) were already inserted the forms that would compose the future works that began in the 1970s. Pure planes of color in which figuration gave way to geometrization, and this, in the future, would give way to color.

1980-2000: And when one thought one had seen everything the master could produce in terms of color and its infinite variables and geometry (Figure 6), Ianelli removed from his work the boundary of the drawn line – characteristic of Constructivism – and showed us that enveloping color was, and remained, sovereign, creating the so-called “Chromatic Vibrations” (Figure 7). Fabio Magalhães said: “Throughout his life, chromatic expression represented the core of his poetics. Color/light always exerted an extraordinary fascination and was also the challenge of a lifetime. In his final phase, color took on a leading role, pulsating as a source of energy and beauty! Arcângelo Ianelli left us a radiant body of work, full of energy, vibrant like the light that gives life to the universe.”

Figure 5; Graphism, oil on canvas, 96x135, 1968

To see Ianelli's contemporary painting is to discover one of the most complete Brazilian artists, through the perfect integration of all the elements that comprise his work. Emotion combines with reason to generate an abstract geometric language without theoretical recipes or orthodox rules.

In 2002, he was honored by the 10th Paulista Contemporary Art Salon in São Paulo and the 21st "Arte Pará" Salon, organized by the Romulo Maiorana Foundation in Belém, Pará.

His works are in museums in Japan, Mexico, Italy, Canada, and Latin America, in addition to being part of the collections of major Brazilian institutions. In 2002, he celebrated his 80th birthday with a retrospective organized by the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.

There is still room for a fragment of a dialogue between Ianelli and Angelo Simeone[6], which, as he himself admits, he considers fundamental to his decision to approach painting as a matter of form:

“Seeing my difficulty in representing certain objects in a still life, he (Simeone) came over and said to me: you are there striving to faithfully reproduce what you see before you, and you forget that, once the painting is finished, we will dismantle this still life and no one will remember whether the vase was blue or white, whether this apple was here or there. The subject does not matter; what will remain is the painting. From then on, I began making quick sketches, seeking a synthesis of what I saw, focusing on capturing form and color”

Figure 6; Blue Abstract, oil on canvas, 100x80, 1973

Figure 7; Untitled or Vibrations, oil on canvas, 180x145, 1998

Commented Works

“...his painting glides fluidly, in an almost conformist lyricism, very Brazilian. His pictorial work, let's say from the outset, does not oppose—it exposes.”
Mário Pedrosa, 1961.

It is not possible to comment on this work without at least making some reference to Ianelli’s artistic trajectory, which began in 1944 with Colette Pujol and later with Waldemar da Costa. He immediately freed himself from them and was, so to speak, self-taught.

He drew nudes, portraits, landscapes, and whatever else the "Academy" could desire and applaud. In the "MAM Retrospective in 1978," his career was presented in a didactic and clear manner. Large steps were evident between "Pottery – 1947" and "Houses, Ponta da Praia – 1953" and "Landscape – 1957"; and through them, his path to abstraction and geometry was already traced. His painting "Houses – 1960" presents a simplified and essential figuration and contains virtually all the elements of his geometric work. In the early 1970s, geometry gave his work a figurative character, until color displaced the line.

With a leap of 15 years, we find him in the midst of his geometric phase, as can be seen in the work above. This specific work is one of many examples of the work of a great colorist attentive to luminosity and chromatic shifts, presenting us with a purely sensorial painting, superimposing squares, rectangles, and planes that are unified through the circumspect and measured luminosity that, like a mist, seems to originate from the lowest tones. Nuances and chromatic subtleties permeate the entire work... our eyes sensorially linger over a large piece of silk!
Valerio Pennacchi-Pennacchi, 2005.

Critiques

"It is curious to observe that, between one phase and another, what occurs is never a radical change. They are linked, through the addition or purification of elements, in a constant drift. Everything develops as if the beginning of a new work were a consequence of the previous one.
The artist never completely closes, or abandons, one process to move on to another; rather, he remakes, transforms, creates new dimensions, valuing outdated experiences, even reinvigorating them at times, as if instinctively driven by the purpose of preserving the line of coherence, which has been the predominant line in the evolution of his work since its inception."
Paulo Mendes de Almeida, 1978.

"Since the 1920s, several constructive painters have, like him, sought pure painting. The painting is a concrete, palpable reality. Deep within all transparencies (and some, like the blues, look like tissue paper floating in space) lies, still, the painting. This, in fact, is most evident in the more strongly monochromatic canvases, with an accentuation of whites. Ianelli's painting never surrenders itself in a first encounter. It demands prolonged, almost loving contemplation, so that what is in the background (of the canvas, of the being) comes to the foreground, leaving the viewer with a sense of calm and spiritual well-being. Arcangelo Ianelli's exhibition is, from now on, one of the best of 1975."
Frederico Morais, 1978.

"Ianelli's mature work—which is fully defined from the moment he mastered the last traces of informal abstractionism, around 1970—could be referred to the eternal Greek formulas of rhythm, measure, proportion, unity, harmony.
His idiom registers an individualized alchemy whose dosage distinguishes him from any other Brazilian abstract artist of similar origins and of the same generation. He is neither cerebral nor rigorously constructive.
He creates a sensorial and arbitrarily structured geometry. He develops variations increasingly concentrated around the same plastic themes: the rectangle, the square, the displacement of axes in relation to orthogonality, the superposition of transparent spaces, the ambiguity between front, background, form, and support."
Olívio Tavares de Araújo

Those who believe that a colorful painting is one that contains varieties and an accumulation of colors dominating a poorly arranged surface are mistaken. The subtlety and elaboration of color itself, when created by a true artist, can contain an infinite wealth of hues within a single blue or a single gray.
Color is enough to construct and express our universe.
The difficult part is knowing how to use it.
I believe there is a relationship between my abstract proposal as a plastic phenomenon and the sound vibrations of music—an acoustic phenomenon.
I organize my colors and shapes in a space where the tones harmonize in an effect similar to polyphony and counterpoint. I believe that a musician can equally create a sound architecture in which timbres are organized into chromatic, transparent planes and effects of pure abstraction, like those that can be distinguished in my work. For example, Bach, who composed his masterful 'Art of Fugue' without indicating instruments."
Arcangelo Ianelli

...the painting should speak for itself, without the need for dissertations. It should convey something to sensitive people, solely through its pictorial content. Never with the purpose of "telling a story, revealing psychic states," etc. We should leave this problem to writers, who express themselves much better in their books. A painter must have in mind, above all, painting.
Arcangelo Ianelli In: Dicionário crítico da pintura no Brasil; José Roberto Teixeira Leite; Rio de Janeiro: Artlivre, 1988.

He began drawing as a self-taught artist in the early 1940s. He studied perspective with Colette Pujol and attended the studio of Waldemar da Costa. From 1950 to 1959, he was an active member of the "Guanabara Group," which had been formed in the studio and framing workshop of painter Tikashi Fukushima, on Largo da Guanabara, in the south zone of São Paulo. As in other forums (e.g., Grupo Santa Helena, Núcleo Bernardelli, Grupo Seibi, Grupo 15, etc.), the goal of its members was to establish a space for the development of their work without establishing rigid trends or even defining a specific artistic movement.
Initially figurative, he gradually embraced abstract painting from 1960 onward; without radical changes, from his initial figurative phase onward, each new work presented was always a descendant of the previous one, in an uninterrupted sequence that culminated in "chromatic vibrations."
An enviable career!

He participated in important exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. In August 2004, MAB-FAAP opened the exhibition "Ianelli. The Paths of Figuration" to the public. Like the 1975 exhibition, this was also an unmissable artistic manifestation!
Valerio Pennacchi-Pennacchi, 2004.

Solo Exhibitions

1950 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Palace Hotel
1950 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Itá
1961 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
1961 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo - MAM SP
1962 - Lima (Peru) - Solo, at Instituto de Arte Contemporânea
1962 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte das Folhas
1962 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Petite Galerie
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Petite Galerie
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Barcinski
1965 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Astréia
1966 - Bonn (Germany) - Solo, at Galeria Stadthalle
1966 - Milan (Italy) - Solo, at Instituto Ítalo-Brasileiro
1966 - Rome (Italy) - Solo, at Galeria de Arte da Casa do Brasil
1967 - Berlin (Germany) - Solo, at Galeria Rathaus Kreuzberg
1967 - Paris (France) - Solo, at Galeria Debret
1968 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Astréia
1969 - Curitiba PR - Solo, at Departamento de Cultura
1969 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Documenta
1970 - Belo Horizonte MG - Solo, at Instituto Cultural Brasil Estados Unidos
1971 - Santos SP - Solo, at Instituto Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos
1971 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Bonino
1973 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1974 - Washington D. C. (United States) - Solo, at Brazilian-American Cultural Institute
1975 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria de Arte Ipanema
1977 - Mexico City (Mexico) - Solo, at Museo de Arte Moderno
1977 - Lima (Peru) - Solo, at Sala de Arte da Petroperu
1977 - San Salvador (El Salvador) - Solo, at Sala Nacional de Exposiciones
1977 - São Paulo SP - Ianelli, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1978 - São Paulo SP - From Figurative to Abstract: 36 Years of Painting, at MAM/SP - best exhibition of the year award and Gonzaga Duque Prize, from ABCA - best exhibition of the year award, from APCA
1980 - Porto Alegre RS - Solo, at Cambona Galeria de Arte
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Ianelli: 40 Years of Painting, at MAM/RJ
1985 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo - Masp
1986 - Barranquilla (Colombia) - Solo, at Sala Cultural de Avianca
1986 - Bogotá (Colombia) - Solo, at Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango
1986 - Cali (Colombia) - Solo, at Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia
1987 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
1988 - Berlin (Germany) - Arcangelo Ianelli: Retrospective, at Staatliche Kunsthalle
1989 - San José (Costa Rica) - Solo, at Galeria Atma
1990 - Curitiba PR - Arcangelo Ianelli: Retrospective, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná
1990 - Curitiba PR - Ianelli in the Cultural Context of Latin American Art
1990 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Paço das Artes
1991 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Ianelli, at MAM/RJ
1991 - São Paulo SP - Ianelli, at Galeria Montesanti Roesler
1992 - Quito (Ecuador) - Ianelli: Retrospective, at Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
1992 - Quito (Ecuador) - Retrospective, at Museo del Monasterio de la Concepción
1992 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo - MAC/USP
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Ianelli: 50 Years of Painting, at MAM/RJ
1993 - São Paulo SP - Ianelli: 50 Years of Painting, at Masp
1998 - São Paulo SP - Ianelli: Formal Rigor and Chromatic Subtlety, at Galeria Nara Roesler
1999 - Curitiba PR - Ianelli: The Trajectory of an Artist, at Casa Andrade Muricy
1999 - Fortaleza CE - Ianelli: Formal Rigor and Chromatic Subtlety, at MAM/CE
1999 - Recife PE - Ianelli: Formal Rigor and Chromatic Subtlety, at Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães - Mamam
1999 - Salvador BA - Ianelli: Formal Rigor and Chromatic Subtlety, at Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia - MAM/BA
1999 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at MAM/SP
2002 - São Paulo SP - Arcangelo Ianelli: Retrospective, at Pinacoteca do Estado
2002 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Espaço Cultural BM&F
2004 - São Paulo SP - Ianelli: The Paths of Figuration, at MAB/Faap
2006 - Curitiba PR - Ianelli: The Paths of Figuration, at Museu Oscar Niemeyer

Group Exhibitions

1947 - São Paulo SP - 13th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1948 - Casa Branca SP - 4th Official Fine Arts Salon
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 54th National Fine Arts Salon, at Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
São Paulo SP - 14th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1949 - São Paulo SP - 15th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1950 - Santos SP - 1st Santos Fine Arts Salon
1950 - São Paulo SP - 1st Guanabara Group Exhibition, at Galeria Domus
1951 - Curitiba PR - 8th Paraná Fine Arts Salon, at Departamento de Cultura - Sala de Exposições
Salvador BA - 3rd Bahia Fine Arts Salon, at Galeria Belvedere da Sé
São Paulo SP - 2nd Guanabara Group Exhibition, at Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil. Departamento de São Paulo
São Paulo SP - 16th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1952 - São Paulo SP - 17th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon, at Salões do Trianon
1953 - Curitiba PR - 10th Paraná Fine Arts Salon, at Exposição Internacional do Café e Feira de Curitiba - Tarumã
Porto Alegre RS - 4th Salon of the Rio Grande do Sul Institute of Fine Arts
São Paulo SP - 18th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1954 - Juiz de Fora MG - Municipal Fine Arts Salon
Piracicaba SP - 2nd Piracicaba Fine Arts Salon, at Externato São José
Porto Alegre RS - 5th Salon of the Rio Grande do Sul Institute of Fine Arts
Salvador BA - 4th Bahia Fine Arts Salon, at Hotel Bahia
São Paulo SP - 19th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1955 - Porto Alegre RS - 6th Salon of the Rio Grande do Sul Institute of Fine Arts
1956 - São Paulo SP - 20th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon
1957 - Curitiba PR - 14th Paraná Fine Arts Salon, at Biblioteca Pública do Paraná
São Paulo SP - 21st São Paulo Fine Arts Salon
1958 - Piracicaba SP - 6th Piracicaba Fine Arts Salon
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Mother and Child Art Salon
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Sea Salon
São Paulo SP - 4th Guanabara Group Exhibition, at ACM
1959 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Painting, at Embaixada dos Estados Unidos
São Paulo SP - 5th Guanabara Group Exhibition, at ACM
São Paulo SP - 8th São Paulo Modern Art Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia - bronze medal
São Paulo SP - 24th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia
1960 - Rio Grande do Sul - Rio Grande do Sul Official Salon - gold medal and acquisition prize
São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo Modern Art Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia
Curitiba PR - 2nd Paraná Modern Art Salon - gold medal and University of Paraná Prize
New York (United States) - New York World’s Fair
Santos SP - 8th Official Fine Arts Salon of the City of Santos
São Paulo SP - 10th São Paulo Modern Art Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia - State Governor Prize
São Paulo SP - 6th São Paulo International Biennial, at Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo Sobrinho
São Paulo SP - Leirner Contemporary Art Award, at Galeria de Arte das Folhas - 1st painting prize
1962 - Curitiba PR - Curitiba Modern Art Salon - best national artist award
Curitiba PR - Paraná Salon, at Biblioteca Pública do Paraná
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 11th National Modern Art Salon - jury exemption
São Paulo SP - 11th São Paulo Modern Art Salon, at Galeria Prestes Maia - small gold medal
São Paulo SP - Leirner Contemporary Art Award, at Galeria de Arte das Folhas
1963 - Campinas SP - Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, at Museu Carlos Gomes
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Landscape as Theme, at Galeria Ibeu Copacabana
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 12th National Modern Art Salon
São Paulo SP - 7th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
Paris (France) - Salon Comparaisons, at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 13th National Fine Arts Salon - travel abroad prize
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd O Rosto e a Obra, at Galeria Ibeu Copacabana
São Paulo SP - 10 Artists, at Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil. Departamento de São Paulo
1965 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazilian Painters, at Museu Gulbenkian da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
London (United Kingdom) - Brazilian Art Today, at Royal Academy of Arts
São Paulo SP - 8th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal - acquisition prize
Vienna (Austria) - Brazilian Art Today, at Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Belo Horizonte MG - 2nd Traveling Exhibition of Works from the MAC/USP Collection, at Museu de Arte da Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte
Bonn (Germany) - Brazilian Art Today, at Beethovenhalle
1966 - Curitiba PR - 2nd Traveling Exhibition of Works from the MAC/USP Collection
Porto Alegre RS - 2nd Traveling Exhibition of Works from the MAC/USP Collection, at Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul
Switzerland - International Painting Prize
São Paulo SP - Half a Century of New Art, at MAC/USP
São Paulo SP - Three Premises, at MAB/Faap
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 17th National Modern Art Salon, at MAM/RJ
São Paulo SP - 17th São Paulo Modern Art Salon - large gold medal
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Yesterday and Today, at Galeria do Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos - Ibeu Copacabana
Salvador BA - 2nd Bahia National Biennial - 1st painting prize
Santos SP - 1st Official Modern Art Salon
São Paulo SP - Twelve of Value, at Galeria da USIS
1969 - São Paulo SP - 1st Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon, at Masp - 1st State Government Special Prize
São Paulo SP - Yellow in Painting, at Galeria Cosme Velho
1970 - Medellín (Colombia) - 2nd Medellín Art Biennial - guest artist, at Museo de Antioquia
Rio Grande do Sul - 1st Visual Arts Salon, at UFRGS - special prize for best body of work
São Paulo SP - 2nd Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - 4 Abstract Artists, at Galeria Astréia
São Paulo SP - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo 1970
São Paulo SP - Wakabayashi, Ianelli, Mabe and Fukushima, at Galeria Astréia
1970 - Santos SP - Wakabayashi, Ianelli, Mabe and Fukushima, at Centro Cultural Brasil Estados Unidos
1971 - New York (United States) - Contemporary Art from Brazil
Paris (France) - Salon d’Automne
1972 - Curitiba PR - 29th Paraná Salon, at Fundação Teatro Guaíra
São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 Years Later, at Galeria Collectio
São Paulo SP - Waldemar da Costa Retrospective: Homage to the Master, at MAM/SP
1973 - São Paulo SP - 12th São Paulo International Biennial - Constructed Art, at Fundação Bienal
São Paulo SP - 5th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1974 - Bogotá (Colombia) - 28 Artistas del Brazil, at Museu de Arte Moderna de Bogotá
Cagnes-sur-Mer (France) - International Painting Festival
Cali (Colombia) - 28 Artistas del Brazil, at Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia
Caracas (Venezuela) - 28 Artistas del Brazil
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 21 Years of the National Salon: The Award Winners, at Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos - Ibeu
Santiago (Chile) - 28 Artistas del Brazil, at Museo de Arte Moderno
1975 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 28 Contemporary Artists, at Museu de Artes Visuais
Lima (Peru) - 28 Contemporary Artists
Quito (Ecuador) - 28 Contemporary Artists
São Paulo SP - Antonio Gomide, Bonadei, Flávio de Carvalho, Carlos Scliar, Maria Bonomi, José Antônio da Silva, Ernesto de Fiori, Arcangelo Ianelli, at Galeria Cosme Velho
São Paulo SP - 13th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
São Paulo SP - 2nd Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, at Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo
Tokyo (Japan) - Brazilian Group Show
Kyoto (Japan) - Brazilian Group Show
1976 - Belo Horizonte MG - Non-Figurative Art Today, at Palácio das Artes
Paris (France) - 10 Brazilian Artists
São Paulo SP - 8th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1977 - San Salvador (El Salvador) - Festival and Homage to Latin American Painting
Madrid (Spain) - Arte Actual de Iberoamerica, at Instituto de Cultura Hispânica
São Paulo SP - 9th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1978 - Caracas (Venezuela) - 1st Latin American Art Biennial - guest artist
Mexico City (Mexico) - 1st Ibero-American Art Biennial - 1st prize
Mexico City (Mexico) - 1st Ibero-American Painting Biennial
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 3rd Arte Agora: Latin America, Sensitive Geometry, at MAM/RJ
1979 - São Paulo SP - 11th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1980 - Berlin (Germany) - Four Artists from Brazil: Twelve Large-Format Canvases
Bonn (Germany) - Four Artists from Brazil, at Kultur-Forum Bonn Center
Frankfurt (Germany) - Four Artists from Brazil: Twelve Large-Format Canvases
Lisbon (Portugal) - Four Artists from Brazil, at Museu Gulbenkian da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Porto (Portugal) - Four Artists from Brazil, at Junta Comercial
Santiago (Chile) - Four Artists from Brazil: Twelve Large-Format Canvases, at Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
São Paulo SP - Masters of Lyrical Abstractionism in Brazil, at Galeria Eugenie Villien
São Paulo SP - Four Artists from Brazil: Twelve Large-Format Canvases, at MAM/SP
Stuttgart (Germany) - Four Artists from Brazil: Twelve Large-Format Canvases
Vienna (Austria) - Four Artists from Brazil: Twelve Large-Format Canvases
1981 - Curitiba PR - 38th Paraná Salon, at Teatro Guaíra
Guarujá SP - 4 Painters, at Hotel Jequitimar
Medellín (Colombia) - 4th Medellín Art Biennial - guest artist
Osaka (Japan) - Brazil/Japan Latin American Contemporary Art Exhibition, at National Museum of Art
São Paulo SP - 3 Artists at the Medellín Biennial, at Grifo Galeria de Arte
São Paulo SP - Arcangelo Ianelli, Tomie Ohtake and Cláudio Tozzi, at Grifo Galeria de Arte
São Paulo SP - Brazilian Contemporary Artists, at Escritório de Arte São Paulo
1982 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
London (United Kingdom) - Brazil 60 Years of Modern Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at Barbican Art Gallery
New York (United States) - Brazilian Painters, at Kouros Gallery
Penápolis SP - 5th Northwest Visual Arts Salon, at Fundação Educacional de Penápolis. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Penápolis
Recife PE - 1st Latin Art Exhibition, at Galeria Lula Cardoso Ayres
Rio Claro SP - 2nd Rio Claro Visual Arts Salon, at Centro Cultural Roberto Palmari
São Paulo SP - Seascapes and Riverscapes, at Museu Lasar Segall
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modernism and New Trends, from the Sul-América collection
1983 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 1st Cruzeiro Colorido das Artes
Lisbon (Portugal) - Color and Drawing of Brazil
Madrid (Spain) - Color and Drawing of Brazil
Paris (France) - Color and Drawing of Brazil
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 6th National Visual Arts Salon, at MAM/RJ
Rome (Italy) - Color and Drawing of Brazil
Santos SP - 1st Cruzeiro Colorido das Artes
São Paulo SP - Colors and Forms, at Masp
São Paulo SP - 14th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - Color in Brazilian Painting, at MAM/SP
1984 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Masters of Brazilian Abstractionism
The Hague (Netherlands) - Masters of Brazilian Abstractionism
Madrid (Spain) - Masters of Brazilian Abstractionism
Lisbon (Portugal) - The Great Masters of Abstractionism
London (United Kingdom) - The Great Masters of Abstractionism
Milan (Italy) - The Great Masters of Abstractionism
New York (United States) - The Great Masters of Abstractionism
Paris (France) - The Great Masters of Abstractionism
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Active Brazilian Painting, at Espaço Petrobrás
Rome (Italy) - The Great Masters of Abstractionism
São Paulo SP - The Great Masters of Abstractionism, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - Color and Drawing of Brazil, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection: Portrait and Self-Portrait of Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - Tradition and Rupture: A Synthesis of Brazilian Art and Culture, at Fundação Bienal
Washington (United States) - The Great Masters of Abstractionism
1985 - Brasília DF - Active Brazilian Painting
Curitiba PR - Four Masters: Four Visions, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Six Decades of Modern Art in the Roberto Marinho Collection, at Paço Imperial
São Paulo SP - 100 Itaú Works, at Masp
São Paulo SP - Highlights of Brazilian Contemporary Art, at MAM/SP
1986 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Seven Decades of the Italian Presence in Brazilian Art, at Paço Imperial
São Paulo SP - Before and Now: 8 Painters, at Fundação Cásper Líbero
São Paulo SP - Volpi Permanence and Matrix: 7 Artists from São Paulo, at Galeria Montesanti Roesler
1987 - Brasília DF - Paulistas in Brasília, at Museu de Arte de Brasília
Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Roberto Marinho Collection, at Museu Nacional de Buenos Aires
Lisbon (Portugal) - Roberto Marinho Collection, at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Paris (France) - Modernity: Brazilian Art of the 20th Century, at Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Rio de Janeiro RJ - To the Collector: Homage to Gilberto Chateaubriand, at MAM/RJ
São Paulo SP - 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Chapel Art Show
São Paulo SP - The Craft of Art: Painting, at Sesc
São Paulo SP - 19th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal - special room
1988 - Paris (France) - Brazilian Art of the 20th Century, at Museu de Arte Moderna
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd Geometric Abstraction, at Funarte
São Paulo SP - 15 Years of the Brazil-Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, at Fundação Mokiti Okada M.O.A.
São Paulo SP - Italian Artists and Descendants in Brazil, at Banco Sudameris
São Paulo SP - MAC 25 Years: Highlights of the Initial Collection, at MAC/USP
São Paulo SP - Modernity: Brazilian Art of the 20th Century, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - Rhythms and Forms: Brazilian Contemporary Art, at Sesc/Pompéia
1989 - Copenhagen (Denmark) - Rhythms and Forms: Brazilian Contemporary Art, at Museu Charlottenborg
Cuenca (Ecuador) - 2nd Cuenca International Biennial - 1st prize
Juiz de Fora MG - Each Head a Sentence, at Museu Mariano Procópio
Lisbon (Portugal) - Six Decades of Brazilian Modern Art: Roberto Marinho Collection, at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Viva France, at GB ARTe
San José (Costa Rica) - Homage to Latin American Abstract Art
São Paulo SP - 20th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at Museu de Arte Moderna
São Paulo SP - Galeria de Arte São Paulo Collection, at Escritório de Arte São Paulo
São Paulo SP - 20th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1990 - Atami (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
Brasília DF - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
Osaka (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
Kyoto (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 9th Brazil-Japan Art Exhibition
São Paulo SP - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
Sapporo (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Fundação Brasil-Japão
Tokyo (Japan) - 9th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition
1991 - Cuenca (Ecuador) - 3rd Cuenca International Biennial - special room
Juiz de Fora MG - Poetry and Rigor, at Escritório de Arte da Casa de Papel
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Recent Works, at MAM/RJ
São Paulo SP - Synchronies
1992 - Americana SP - Reopening Exhibition of the Americana Museum of Contemporary Art, at MAC/Americana
Poços de Caldas MG - Brazilian Modern Art: Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, at Casa de Cultura
Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st On the Way to Niterói: João Sattamini Collection, at Paço Imperial
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Eco Art, at MAM/RJ
Santo André SP - Lithography: Methods and Concepts, at Paço Municipal
São Paulo SP - Dominant White, at Galeria de Arte São Paulo
São Paulo SP - 10th Brazil-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Fundação Brasil-Japão
São Paulo SP - Grupo Guanabara: 1950-1959, at Renato Magalhães Gouvêa Escritório de Arte
1993 - Porto Alegre RS - Arcangelo Ianelli, Antonio Henrique Amaral and Francisco Stockinger, at Bolsa de Arte de Porto Alegre
1994 - São Paulo SP - Flags: 60 Artists Honor the 60 Years of USP, at MAC/USP
São Paulo SP - Brazil 20th Century Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1995 - Curitiba PR - 52nd Paraná Salon, at MAC/PR
Curitiba PR - Group Show, at Waldir Assis Art Gallery
São Paulo SP - Brazil-Japan Art, at Fundação Mokiti Okada
São Paulo SP - Projeto Contato, at Galeria Sesc Paulista
São Paulo SP - United Artists I, at Casa das Rosas
1996 - Barra Mansa RJ - 12 Names in Brazilian Painting, at Centro Universitário de Barra Mansa
Campinas SP - Geometric Abstractionism, at MACC
Osasco SP - Expo FIEO: Luiz Ernesto Kawall Donation, at Fieo
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Constructive Trends in the MAC/USP Collection: Construction, Measure and Proportion, at CCBB
São Paulo SP - 1st Off Biennial, at MuBE
São Paulo SP - Geometric Abstractionism, at Museu Banespa
São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art: 50 Years of History in the MAC/USP Collection: 1920-1970, at MAC/USP
São Paulo SP - Flags, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
São Paulo SP - Six Timeless Artists, at Múltipla de Arte
1997 - Brasília DF - Poets of Space and Color, at MAB/DF
Curitiba PR - Casa Cor Sul, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
Madrid (Spain) - Group Show, at Museo de la Ciudad
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Poets of Space and Color, at MAM/RJ
Santos SP - 6th Santos National Biennial, at Fundação Pinacoteca Benedito Calixto - special room
São Paulo SP - Great Names in Brazilian Painting, at Jo Slaviero Galeria de Arte
São Paulo SP - Poets of Space and Color, at Masp
1998 - Belém PA - 2nd Eletromidia de Arte: Virtual Exhibition, at the intersection of Rua Boaventura da Silva and Avenida Doca de Souza Franco
Belo Horizonte MG - 2nd Eletromidia de Arte: Virtual Exhibition, at the intersection of Avenida Contorno and Avenida Amazonas
Porto Alegre RS - Collection: Institute of Arts 90 Years, at UFRGS. Instituto de Artes
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Art in the Collection of the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art: Recent Donations 1996-1998, at CCBB
São Paulo SP - MAM Bahia Collection: Paintings, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - Eletro Mídia Art Show, at Museu da Casa Brasileira
São Paulo SP - 2nd Eletromidia de Arte: Virtual Exhibition, at the intersections of Avenida Cidade Jardim and Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima; Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima and Avenida Rebouças; Avenida Morumbi and Avenida Luis Carlos Berrini; Rua Vergueiro and Avenida Paulista; Avenida Juscelino Kubitschek and Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima; Avenida Paulista and Alameda Campinas
São Paulo SP - The Modern and the Contemporary in Brazilian Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection - MAM/RJ, at Masp
São Paulo SP - Lines and Forms, at Jo Slaviero Galeria de Arte
Curitiba PR - Highlights of Brazilian Painting, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
Fortaleza CE - Inaugural Exhibition of the Dragão do Mar Center for Art and Culture
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Rio Gravura Show: Brazilian Modern Printmaking: Collection of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
São Paulo SP - The Female Figure in the MAB Collection, at MAB/Faap
São Paulo SP - The Resacralization of Art, at Sesc/Pompéia
São Paulo SP - Lithography: Fidelity and Memory, at Espaço de Artes Unicid
2000 - Belém PA - Arte Pará 2000, at Museu de Arte Sacra
São Paulo SP - The Female Figure in the MAB Collection, at MAB/Faap
2001 - Brasília DF - Collections of Brazil, at CCBB
Porto Alegre RS - Liba and Rubem Knijnik Collection: Brazilian Contemporary Art, at MARGS
São Paulo SP - Aldo Franco Collection, at Pinacoteca do Estado
São Paulo SP - Museu de Arte Brasileira: 40 Years, at MAB/Faap
São Paulo SP - Trajectory of Light in Brazilian Art, at Itaú Cultural
Belém PA - 21st Arte Pará Salon, at Museu do Estado do Pará
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection: From Modern Restlessness to the Autonomy of Language, at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
São Paulo SP - 10th São Paulo Contemporary Art Salon, special room
São Paulo SP - 28 (+) Pintura, at Espaço Virgílio
São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection: From Modern Restlessness to the Autonomy of Language, at CCBB
São Paulo SP - Metrópolis Contemporary Art Collection, at Pinacoteca do Estado
São Paulo SP - Map of Now: Recent Brazilian Art in the João Sattamini Collection of the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
São Paulo SP - The Plane as Structure of Form, at Espaço MAM - Villa-Lobos
São Paulo SP - Portão 2, at Galeria Nara Roesler
2003 - Brasília DF - Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection: From Modern Restlessness to the Autonomy of Language, at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
Ipatinga MG - Brazilian Art in the MAP Collection, at Centro Cultural Usiminas
Recife PE - See Again/See the New, at MAMAM
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilianart Project, at Almacén Galeria de Arte
São Paulo SP - Painted Bodies at Oca, at Oca
São Paulo SP - The Art Behind Art: Where Artworks Are Kept and How They Travel, at Espaço MAM-Villa-Lobos
São Paulo SP - MAC USP 40 Years: Contemporary Interfaces, at MAC/USP
2004 - Campinas SP - Metrópolis Contemporary Art Collection, at Espaço Cultural CPFL
Niterói RJ - Transitive Modernity, at MAC/Niterói
São Paulo SP - Brasileiro, Brasileiros, at Museu Afro-Brasil
São Paulo SP - Gesture and Expression: Informal Abstractionism in the JP Morgan Chase and MAM Collections, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - New Acquisitions: 1995-2003, at MAB/Faap
Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Century of a Brazilian: Roberto Marinho Collection, at Paço Imperial
2005 - São Paulo SP - Art in Metrópolis, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
São Paulo SP - Small Great Works, at Cultural Blue Life
São Paulo SP - 100 Years of the Pinacoteca: The Formation of a Collection, at Galeria de Arte do Sesi
São Paulo SP - Ship of Fools, at MAC/USP
Fortaleza CE - Brazilian Art: In the Public and Private Collections of Ceará, at Espaço Cultural Unifor
Curitiba PR - Art in Metrópolis, at Museu Oscar Niemeyer
Curitiba PR - 10 Brazilian Painters, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
2006 - Belém PA - Traces and Transitions of Brazilian Contemporary Art, at Espaço Cultural Casa das Onze Janelas
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Modern Art in Context: ABN AMRO Real Collection, at MAM/RJ
São Paulo SP - Pincelada - Painting and Method: Projections of the 1950s, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Recife PE - Modern Art in Context: ABN AMRO Real Collection, at Instituto Cultural Banco Real
São Paulo SP - Brasiliana Masp: Modern Contemporary, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo
São Paulo SP - Modern Art in Context: ABN AMRO Real Collection, at Banco Santander
São Paulo SP - MAM at Oca, at Oca
São Paulo SP - Viva Cultura Viva do Povo Brasileiro, at Museu Afro Brasil
2007 - São Paulo SP - Itaú Contemporâneo: Art in Brazil 1981-2006, at Instituto Itaú Cultural
Americana SP - ... limites ..., at Casa de Cultura Hermann Müller
Curitiba PR - Color and Form, at Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte
São Paulo SP - Panorama of Panoramas, at MAM/SP
São Paulo SP - Brasil Brasileiro, at CCBB
São Paulo SP - BM&F BOVESPA Collection, at Espaço Cultural BM&F Bovespa
2009 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasil Brasileiro, at CCBB
São Paulo SP - Latitudes: Latin American Masters in the Fensa Collection, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake

Posthumous Exhibitions

2009 - São Paulo SP - Critics' Gaze: Awarded Art from ABCA and the Artistic Collection of the Palaces, at Palácio dos Bandeirantes
São Paulo SP - Featured Papers: 20th Century Masters, at Dan Galeria
São Paulo SP - Treasures from the Roberto Marinho Collection, at BM&F Bovespa Cultural Space
Milan (Italy) - Small Great Works – Brazilian Contemporary Art, at Istituto Brasile – Italia
2010 - Curitiba PR - Color and Form II, at Simões de Assis Art Gallery
2011 - São Paulo SP - Modernisms in Brazil, at Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo
São Paulo SP - Artist’s Donation, at Pinacoteca do Estado
São Paulo SP - Obsessions of Form – Sculptures from the MASP Collection, at São Paulo Museum of Art
São Paulo SP - Collection Highlights, at Ricardo Camargo Gallery
Belo Horizonte MG - 1911–2011: Brazilian Art and Beyond in the Itaú Collection, at Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Palácio das Artes
Ipatinga MG - Country Landscape, at Usiminas Cultural Center

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