Mario Francisco Ormezzano

1915, Mar del Plata, Argentina – 1983, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

The artist has reached a balance of architecture, sculpture and painting in a great many of works. His painted or sculpted relieves were frequently applied to murals, and even his interior pieces were at the threshold of environmental architecture, with the ample proportions of the grounds he employed. Taken to Italy at the age of five, receiving his entire education in that country. He studied at the Royal Albertina Academy in Turin, concentrating on sculpture and general art history. He was granted a degree in Art history Education at the University of Rome, the first in his class of six hundred. He engaged in travel-study throughout Italy, France Switzerland and Germany, furthering his knowledge of classical architecture. He begin architecture studies at Polytechnic School of Turin in 1936, but at the outbreak of World War II returned to South America, completing his architecture studies at the Pontifical University of Santiago, Chile while at the same time lecturing Art History and Sculpture at the School of Architecture of the same University, until 1952. He then traveled to Chile, Peru, Argentina and Brazil to study the colonial style of these countries. In 1954 he settle in Brazil and became a Brazilian Citizen.

EXHIBITIONS:

1952 – Mar del Plata Casino (Argentina);

1954 – Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro (RJ);

1954 – SNAM, Rio de Janeiro (RJ);

1955 – Forma Gallery, Rio de Janeiro (RJ);

1955 – Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro (RJ);

1958 – SNAM, Rio de Janeiro (RJ);

1959 – 6th São Paulo Biennial (SP);

1959 – Folhas Gallery, São Paulo (SP);

1960 – Oca Gallery, Rio de Janeiro (RJ);

1962 – Oca Gallery, Rio de Janeiro (RJ);

1963 – 7th São Paulo Biennial (SP);

1964 – Piazza di Spagna, Rome (Italy);

1965 – 8th São Paulo Biennial (SP);

1966 – Burdeke Gallery, Zürich (Switzerland);

1971 – Bonino Gallery, Rio de janeiro (RJ);

1972 – MAM, São Paulo (SP);

1974 – Marte 21 Gallery, Rio de Janeiro (RJ);

1976 – MASP, São Paulo (SP).

Dictionary of Brazilian Painters, 1997, Walmir Ayala.