Ivan Freitas (João Pessoa PB 1932 - Rio de Janeiro RJ 2006)
Ivan Freitas was a painter and muralist. He began his artistic activity as a self-taught, in João Pessoa, where he held his first individual exhibition at the Public Library, in 1957. In 1962, he traveled to Paris as a scholarship holder for the Maison de France. The following year, he returned to Brazil and presented the exhibition Ivan Freitas: Paris 1963, at Galeria Barcinski, in Rio de Janeiro. In 1968, the magazine Galeria de Arte Moderna (GAM) published an article entitled Ivan Freitas and the Cosmic Space. Between 1969 and 1972, he was in New York, commissioned by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Back in Brazil, he participated, in 1984, in the first Arte nos Muros project, painting a mural on the external wall of the National School of Music, in Rio de Janeiro. of the orderly image linked by a severe commitment of style and in the harmony between traits and colors, clearly expressed in terms of 'concentrated poetry'... Young Freitas refuses the chance of the material effect and automatic gesture. Controls and dominates each part of the painting with a desire to deepen the image. that surprises and enchants. It is a strange fascination that adjoins the mystery. Nature is mixed with the history of an ancient time, revived through the centuries. Colorful that adds an agitated fascination to the elegance of those secret structures. Freitas defines the enigmas. ´ And it's fair. The beautiful and confident rational constructions of humanism are replaced by the enigmatic adventures of the spirit. (...) Today the young Brazilian arrives to remake us, in his own way, the speech of Klee, with a security that haunts, with a rare ease of research that brings him to origins, unknown to us and that we feel common, strangely close".
Giuseppe Marchiori
CAVALCANTI, Carlos (org.); AYALA, Walmir (org.) Brazilian Dictionary of Plastic Artists - D - L. Brasília: MEC: INL, 1973. v. 2, Pt. 1, Il. P&B. (Specialized Dictionary, 5). New York from 1970 to 1972. If before the trip, following a phase of abstraction close to the informal, its painting already announced a willingness to dialogue with the high civilization of the machine, the appeal of technology only attracts it definitively during and after the direct experience of the American metropolis. (...) Since then, especially the machine itself, the mechanisms of movement that it uses in kinetic constructions with small hidden engines in boxes and triggering light patterns in continuously repeated cycles. (...) Focused on the playful use of light and movement, Ivan Freitas seemed for some time, between 1972 and 1974, to have abandoned or placed apart, in a less privileged position in his work, the painting. More recently, however, she has recovered the predominance, always seeking the machine as a source of visual effects, within the strict limits of an activity - that of painting - which is still intended to result exclusively from human action, independent of the machine, although considering it carefully and wondering".
Roberto Pontual
Pontual, Roberto. Contemporary Brazilian Art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Translation. Translation Florence Eleanor Irvin, John Knox. Rio de Janeiro: Editions Jornal do Brasil, 1976. 478 P., Il. Color.
Individual exhibitions
1957 - João Pessoa PB - Individual, at the João Pessoa Public Library
1960 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Ivan Freitas: exhibitions of painting, Galeria Penguin
1961 - Salvador BA - Individual, at MAM/BA
1962 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Individual, at the Rubbers Gallery
1962 - Trieste (Italy) - Individual, LA Cavana Gallery
1962 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Instituto Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos
1962 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Individual, at the Instituto Brasil - Uruguay
1962 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Barcinski Gallery
1963 - Naples (Italy) - Individual, at the Galleria del Canale
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Ivan Freitas: Paris 1963, at the Barcinski Gallery
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Barcinski Gallery
1966 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria Relivo
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria Relevo
1969 - Washington (United States) - Individual, at Pan American Union
1971 - New York (United States) - Individual, at Iramar Gallery
1971 - New York (United States) - Individual Blooming - Dale's Art Gallery
1973 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Bonino Gallery
1973 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Collectio
1974 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Ivan Freitas: Paintings/Objectives, in the Rio de Janeiro Art Scholarship
1975 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Global Art Gallery
1976 - São Paulo SP - Ivan Freitas: Paintings/Space/Movement, at Galeria Ipanema
1977 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Paulo Prado Gallery
1978 - João Pessoa PB - Individual, at the Cultural Foundation of the State of Paraíba
1979 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria B. 75 Concorde
1980 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the SESI gallery
1980 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Paulo Prado Gallery
1986 - São Paulo SP - Ivan Freitas: the reinvented landscape, in the gallery Applied Art
1987 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Applied Art
1989 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria Evasion Art
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria GB Arte
Collective exhibitions
1959 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th National Salon of Modern Art
1960 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 9th National Salon of Modern Art
1961 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 10th National Salon of Modern Art - Jury Exemption and Criticism Award
1961 - São Paulo SP - 6th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Ciccilo Matarazzo Sobrinho Pavilion
1963 - Europe - Art of America and Spain
1963 - Paris (France) - 2nd Bienal do Jovem
1963 - São Paulo SP - 7th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Biennial Foundation
1964 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd Art Summary of Jornal do Brasil, at MAM/RJ
1965 - Bonn (Germany) - Current Brazilian Art
1965 - London (England) - Current Brazilian art
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st Esso Salon of Young Artists, at MAM/RJ
1965 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Opinion 65, at MAM/RJ
1965 - São Paulo SP - 1st Esso Hall of Young Artists, in the MAC/USP
1965 - São Paulo SP - 8th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Bienal Foundation
1965 - Vienna (Austria) - Brazilian Art Current
1966 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 5 contemporary painters of Brazil
1966 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - 5 contemporary painters of Brazil
1966 - Salvador BA - 1st National Biennial of Fine Arts
1967 - São Paulo SP - 9th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1968 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd Esso Salon of Young Artists, at MAM/RJ
1969 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 7th Summary of Art JB, at MAM/RJ
1970 - Medellín (Colombia) - 2nd Coltejer Biennial
1972 - São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 years later, at Galeria Collectio
1973 - São Paulo SP - 12th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1973 - São Paulo SP - 5th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1974 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Nacional 74, at Fundação Bienal
1975 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Communication according to plastic artists
1975 - São Paulo SP - 13th International Biennial of São Paulo, NA Biennial Foundation
1976 - São Paulo SP - 8th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1979 - São Paulo SP - 11th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1979 - São Paulo SP - 15th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1982 - Lisbon (Portugal) - Brazil 60 years of modern art: Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the José de Azeredo Modern Art Center Perdigão
1982 - London (England) - Brazil 60 years of modern art: Gilberto Chateaubriand collection, at the Barbican Art Gallery
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian painting active, at Espaço Petrobras
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Opinion 65, at the Banerj Art Gallery
1986 - Fortaleza CE - Imagine: The planet salutes the comet, in the art gallery
1986 - São Paulo SP - 17th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1987 - São Paulo SP - 20th Exhibition of Contemporary Art, at Chapel Art Show
1990 - João Pessoa PB - 2nd current art from Paraíba, at Fundação Espaço Cultural of Paraíba - Guest Artist
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Ecoart, at MAM/RJ
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Opinion 65: 30 years, at CCBB
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilianart Project, at Almacén Art Gallery
Source: Itaú Cultural
