Bassano Vaccarini (Milan, Italy 1914 - Altinópolis SP 2002)
Sculptor, painter, teacher, set designer, costume designer, filmmaker. Milan began studying at the artistic high school in 1929 and in 1932 he joined the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. He continues his studies at the School of Applied Arts in Monza, Italy, in 1934, with Marino Marini (1901 - 1980). During this period, he joined the group of the magazine Corrente, made up of Renato Guttuso (1912 - 1987), Bruno Cassinari (1912 - 1992) and Ennio Morlotti (1910 - 1992). He takes a specialization course in Sculpture at the School of Art in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1943. In 1946, he moved to São Paulo and works as a set designer, costume designer and technical director of the Brazilian Theater of Comédia - TBC, from Cia de Teatro Bela Vista and Cia. de Teatro Silveira Sampaio. In 1951, he is hired as a professor of the Plastic Chair at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, FAU/USP, and remains in office until 1955. He joined Bonadei (1906 - 1974), Bruno Giorgi. (1905 - 1993), Lothar Charoux (1912 - 1987) and Frans Krajcberg (1921) The Oda Grupo Oficina de Arte. In 1956, he moved to Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, where a year later he participated in the foundation of the School of Visual Arts. In the 1960s, he taught at the Faculty of Visual Arts of the University of the Association of Ribeirão Preto, in which he is co-founder of the Experimental Cinema Center, and creates Atelier 1104. Installs works in public spaces in Ribeirão Preto and other cities of São Paulo, like Altinópolis.
Critical comment
Bassano Vaccarini has a diversified production. He works in scenography, painting, sculpture, works with scrap and plastic resins, in addition to experiences in the areas of cinema, photography and architecture. Until the mid-1960s, he dedicated himself to performing abstract compositions. As the art historian Teixeira Leite notes, more recently, the figuration in his paintings retaken, presenting affinities with expressionism. In some of his sculptures, he works with organic, abstract forms, combined with figurative elements.
For the art historian Tadeu Chiarelli, Vaccarini could be defined as an experimental artist par excellence, dedicated to the research of new supports and materials, which adapts to the of his production.
Criticism
"The heavy, the ponderable in Vaccarini's sculpture, also present in many works carried out with scrap, derives from the importance that the masses have in the context of each work. It could be said that the masses have a strong recollection, as if the shapes tried to concentrate or were attracted to a nucleus of the sculpture, in a considerable concentration of matter, in other cases, more rare, there is a sense of abandonment, as if matter were loose, a rest, occupying the Maximum of your space. These two aspects, when they appear in the same work, are one of the causes of drama.
(...) Vaccarini has experimented with all the techniques, all the resources, all the materials. It sculpted by subtraction, by addition and by junctions, that is, it used the hoist, the modeling and the weld. It used materials such as marble, soapstone, wood and even cement for carving. wax, clay and as many substitutes as they found served him for the modeling that passed to noble and traditional metals such as bronze or lead. Scrap has turned into various forms with welding. He did not repudiate plastic resins and scraps to create shapes. This entire range of techniques and materials was used to reproduce forms of nature, to suggest, to deform or to elaborate abstract shapes.
(...) Among the various techniques used in the three dimensions, above and beyond these techniques, two veins appear. A rare, almost exceptional, linked to slender, almost graphic shapes, carried out with scrap and torch. Another, broad, powerful, fertile, always present, using the most different resources and materials, plastic in essence, the result of mass games. In the second streak, any difference in the result disappears between the use of modeling or carving. It is in it that the most expressive core of Vaccarini is found, where his soul and his ancestry are hidden."
Pedro Emanuel
Emanuel, Pedro. Bassano Vaccarini: the paths beyond the scare, of the Desencontro, from Crop. In: Vaccarini, Bassano. B. Vaccarini. N. P.
Individual exhibitions
1932 - Italy - first solo
1948 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Domus Gallery
1953 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at MAC/USP
1968 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at the auditorium Italy
1978 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Salão Portinari of the Secretary of Culture, Science and Technology
1980 - Altinópolis SP - Individual, at the inauguration of Atelier Bassano Vaccarini
1980 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Individual, at Itaugaleria
1981 - Londrina PR - Individual, at Itaugaleria
1982 - Brasília DF - Individual, at Itaugaleria
1982 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Individual, at Itaugaleria
1986 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Individual, at Itaugaleria
1987 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Individual, in Itaugaleria
1989 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Individual, at Itaugaleria
1996 - Ribeirão Preto SP - The painter and the sculptor: Bassano Vaccarini, at the Unimed Cultural Space
1997 - Sumaré SP - Individual, at Galeria Bassano Vaccarini
Collective exhibitions
1933 - Italy - Art Exhibition - Milanese Futuristic Group
1935 - Italy - Exhibition and Rural Plastic - Futuristic Group of Genova
1942 - Venice (Italy) - Venice Biennale
1943 - Italy - Art Exhibition with the Milanese Futurist Group
1946 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Italian Contemporary Art: News from Milan
1946 - São Paulo SP - Italian Contemporary Art: Novos de Milan - 2nd Prize in Painting
1947 - São Paulo SP - Circulating Exhibition of the Government of the State of São Paulo - 2nd Award in Painting  
1947 - São Paulo SP - Hall of the Union of Plastic Artists of São Paulo - 1st Award in Sculpture
1947 - São Paulo SP - São Paulo Salon of Fine Arts - 1st Award in Sculpture
1949 - São Paulo SP - Clube dos Artists and Friends of Art
1951 - São Paulo SP - 1st São Paulo International Biennial, at the Trianon Pavilion
1953 - São Paulo SP - 2nd São Paulo International Biennial, at the Pavilion of States
1955 - São Paulo SP - 3rd São Paulo International Biennial, at the Pavilion of Nations
1955 - São Paulo SP - 4th Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1962 - Piracicaba SP - 1st Official Contemporary Art Salon - Acquisition Award
1963 - Araraquara SP - 21st Salon of Fine Arts of Araraquara - 1st Prize in Painting
1964 - São Paulo SP - 3 from Ribeirão, at Galeria Seta
1965 - Brasília DF - 2nd Federal District Modern Art Salon
1965 - Campinas SP - 1st Contemporary Art Salon - Gold Medal
1966 - Campinas SP - 2nd Contemporary Art Salon
1966 - São Paulo SP - 15th Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna, at Galeria Prestes Maia - Silver Medal in Painting
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1968 - Piracicaba SP - 1st Official Hall of Contemporary Art of Piracicaba - Acquisition Award
1969 - Campinas SP - 5th Contemporary Art Salon
1969 - Curitiba PR - 26th Salão Paranaense, NA Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná
1969 - Piracicaba SP - 2nd Official Salon of Contemporary Art of Piracicaba
1974 - Milan (Italy) - 4 of Ribeirão, in the Galleria d'Arte Italo-Brasiliana
1975 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 1st Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto
1976 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 2nd Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto
1977 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 3rd Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto
1978 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Collective, at the SESC gallery
1978 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 4th Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto - City of Ribeirão Preto Award
1979 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Ten plastic artists from the city, in Itaugaleria
1980 - Campinas SP - Anachronics at dawn, at MacC
1980 - Ituiutaba MG - Dawn Anachronics
1981 - Altinópolis SP - Dawn Anachronics  
1981 - Cravinhos SP - Anachronics of dawn
1981 - Matão SP - Anachronics of Dawn
1981 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Collective, at the new art gallery Senac
1981 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Anachronics of the dawn, in Itaugaleria
1981 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 6th Art Salon of Ribeirão Preto, at the Casa da Cultura de Ribeirão Preto
1981 - São Carlos SP - Anachronics at dawn, at Itaugalia
1981 - Tokyo (Japan) - Inaugural Exhibition of the Japan International Artists Society
1982 - Belo Horizonte MG - Anachronistics of the dawn, Itaugaleria
1982 - Brasília DF - Anachronics of the dawn, in Itaugaleria
1982 - Londrina PR - Anachronics at dawn
1982 - Ribeirão Preto SP - collectives, at the New Art Gallery Senac
1982 - São Paulo SP - One hundred years of sculpture, at MASP
1982 - São Paulo SP - A century of sculpture in Brazil, Masp
1982 - São Carlos SP - Anachronics of the dawn
1983 - Catanduva SP - Anachronics of the dawn, in Itaugaleria
1983 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Exhibition Pro Symphonic of Ribeirão Preto, in the Itaugaleria
1984 - Ribeirão Preto SP - 9th Ribeirão Preto Art Salon
1984 - São Paulo SP - Ribeirão Group, at Paço das Artes
1985 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Artists from Ribeirão Preto, at SESC
1986 - Cravinhos SP - 3rd Contemporary Art Salon of Cravinhos
1987 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Eight sculptors from Ribeirão Preto, At Itaugaleria
1992 - Ribeirão Preto SP - Modernity/Experimentalism: Visual Arts in Ribeirão Preto, at USP. Ribeirão Preto Medical School
Source: Itaú Cultural
