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Iberê Camargo is an artist of singular strength and feeling, and one of the great names in 20th century art. Ibere created an extensive body of work which includes paintings, drawings, gouaches and prints. He was born in November 1914 in Restinga Seca, in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, and spent a great part of his life in Rio de Janeiro.
He is known for his pictures of spools, cyclists and idiots, and never connected himself with groups or movements. From youth he showed himself to be attracted to independent personalities like Guignard and Goeldi. He studied in Europe with such masters as Giorgio de Chirico, Carlos Alberto Petrucci, Antônio Achille and André Lothe.
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Iberê Camargo was always at the forefront of the artistic and intellectual field throughout his life. His work was praised in such internationally renowned exhibitions as the Biennials of São Paulo, Venice, Tokyo and Madrid, and was shown in numerous exhibitions in Brazil, and such countries as France, England, The United States, Scotland, Spain and Italy.
The artist died in August 1994 in Porto Alegre aged 79, leaving a collection of more than 7000 works. A large number were left to his wife, Sra. Maria Coussirat Camargo, and are now part of the Iberê Camargo Foundation collection.
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