Saudades de São Paulo : fotografies de Palmira Puig i Marcel Giró
fotografias Palmira Puig e Marcel Giró
The show (...) is a tribute to the photographic output of Palmira Puig (Tàrrega, 1912 - Barcelona, 1978) and Marcel Giró (Badalona, 1913 - Mira-sol, 2011) as well as a record of the lifetime of an extraordinary couple.
Curated by Rocío Santa Cruz, the exhibition brings together some sixty works by the two photographers, who went into exile in Brazil and played a central role in Brazilian avant-garde photography. Many of Marcel Giró’s early photographs, dating from the 1930s, were taken in the Catalan Pyrenees and already displayed a marked tendency towards abstraction, a common feature in all his later work. For her part, Palmira Puig’s work is based on, as in the case of Giró, the experimentation and formal audacity witnessed in her black and white pictures. The larger part of her output is characterised by the poesy and elegance of her still lifes, landscapes and portraits.
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Catálogo de exposição homônima realizada na Fundació Vila Casas, em Girona (Espanha), de 1º de fevereiro a 3 de maio de 2020.
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