Manfredo de Souzanetto

Born in 1947 in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Since 1981 he lives and works in Rio de Janeiro  He studied in Brazil at the Belo Horizonte School of Architecture and at the Rio de Janeiro School of Fine Arts, later at l'École Louis Lumière and at l'École Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris.

When I saw Manfredo de Souzanetto's work in 2015, I was struck by the constructive reductiveness of his painting and the presentation of the works, which were almost always held together by wooden supports. His chromatic colors have little to do with the industrial color palette. It seems that the painter refuses the modern painting material and returns to earlier methods of production. Manfredo de Souzanetto extracts his colors from the earth. For example, he finds his ochre tones on the side of the road or in the quarries of his scenic surroundings in Brazil. He regularly visits these locations.