Exhibition "Rebolo and Morumbi: connected by nature"

This month, Maria Luisa and Oscar Americano Foundation will host an exhibition in partnership with the Rebolo Institute and the Marcelo Guarnieri Gallery, which will celebrate one of the great masters of Brazilian visual arts: Francisco Rebollo Gonsales (1902-1980). To be opened on September 22, Sunday, at 10:30 am, the exhibition “Rebolo and Morumbi: connected by nature” will bring together paintings produced by the artist between the 1940s and 1980s, the period in which he lived in the neighborhood.

The exhibition will feature works never before exhibited, as well as a sketch of Rebolo's last painting, unfinished due to the artist's death. The show will also feature archival photographs, publications and objects that were part of the painter's studio.

“Francisco Rebolo is the Painter of the Environment, and has been proposing this theme in his works since the 1930s and 1940s, when he decided to live in the untouched neighborhood of Morumbi to be closer to his great source of inspiration. This exhibition will showcase this beautiful relationship,” says Sergio Rebollo, publicist, curator and president of the Rebolo Institute.

The exhibition is part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Maria Luisa and Oscar Americano Foundation and will be open to the public until November 14. “It is an honor for the Foundation to host an exhibition that will pay tribute to one of the greatest landscape artists in Brazilian art,” says Eduardo Monteiro, the Foundation’s cultural director. “Like Maria Luisa and Oscar Americano, Francisco Rebolo was fundamental to the construction of the Morumbi neighborhood based on a perspective that valued art and culture,” he adds.

“A master of halftone”

Recognized by renowned critics such as Mário de Andrade and Sérgio Milliet, Francisco Rebolo was considered, from the beginning of his artistic career, one of the most important landscape artists in Brazilian painting. With a total production of over 3 paintings, in addition to hundreds of drawings, engravings and portraits, Rebolo's work remains a reference today, present in the main Brazilian museums, in the collections of cultural institutions and in private collections throughout the country.

Through his work, Rebolo contributed to the construction of an imaginary about Morumbi, which, at the time, was a nearly uninhabited area, devoid of urban infrastructure. As one of the first residents of the neighborhood, the artist was responsible for producing paintings that were based on different landscape references, including non-existent vegetation and topographies.

“In the set of paintings presented in the exhibition, it is possible to observe Rebolo’s inverse movement, which went towards the countryside and the mountains; a movement that allowed him to understand, for four decades, the aspects of those landscapes through his pictorial practice”, says gallery owner Marcelo Guarnieri, one of the curators of the exhibition.

Thus, Rebolo witnessed a period of profound transformation in the city of São Paulo, which was no longer a province but a metropolis. “The landscape interested him not only as a research topic, but also from an ecological perspective. Leaving the city center to come to Morumbi meant being in close contact with nature, something he needed. He came to live in the neighborhood,” says the Fiscal Advisor of the Rebolo Institute and professor emeritus of the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Integration at USP, Lisbeth Rebollo Gonçalves, the painter’s daughter.

Illustrated piano lecture

On the same day, the public will be able to attend an illustrated piano lecture with essayist, professor, composer and pianist José Miguel Wisnik. Starting at 11:30 am, the second and final lecture-show of the José Miguel Wisnik Series will be held at the Maria Luisa and Oscar Americano Foundation, entitled “Infinito vá – Conversa musical sobre arquitetura e canção” (Infinite span – musical conversation about architecture and song).

This time, Wisnik will be alongside his son, the architect, essayist, professor and curator, Guilherme Wisnik, to talk about a shared passion: Brazilian music. The chat will bring interesting facts about Brazilian songwriters linked to architecture, explore considerations about the form of songs and buildings – such as the infinite gap –, and comment on and sing works and their relationships with each other and with history.

“It will be a pleasant morning, with music and very interesting conversations about music and architecture, in a more than privileged space: the Foundation itself, designed by architect Arthur Bratke, a reference for modernism in São Paulo”, says Eduardo Monteiro.

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Exhibition | Rebolo and Morumbi: connected by nature
From September 22th to November 14th
Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 17:30pm