Selected Texts and Press Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato Mendes Wood DM São Paulo Rua da Consolação 3368 01416 – 000 São Paulo SP Brazil Brussels 13 Rue des Sablons / Zavelstraat 1000 Brussels Belgium New York 60 East 66th Street, 2nd floor New York NY 10065 United States www.mendeswooddm.com
[email protected] Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato review: Visionary intensity of Bra- Selected Texts and Press zilian artist’s first show in Britain,2019 Review by Ben Luke published on Evening Standard It’s encouraging when an unknown painter is unearthed by younger artists. Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, the Brazilian-born artist shown for the first time in Britain in this exhibition, was born in 1900 and lived to 95. Towards the end of his life, he formed a relationship with a younger generation in Belo Horizonte, and one of them, the artist Rivane Neuenschwander, co-curated with Alex- andre da Cunha two shows of Lorenzato’s work in São Paulo in 2014. His paintings are small and intense, often evoking landscapes but veering into abstrac- tion. Some have the feel of the childlike language sought by European modernists, while others — the strongest, in my view — feature a visionary response to elemental phenom- ena: vivid suns and tumbling clouds over seas, hills, and headlands. While the imagery differs, Lorenzato’s handling of paint is consistent, applied with a fork or a comb. There’s no attempt to find an equivalent in paint for the ephemeral effects of nature; rather, Lorenzato seems intent on turning them into solid form as a means of recording and preserving his emotional response.