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Identifying, cataloguing and publicising the work of Iberê Camargo is one of the prime aims of the Foundation that carries the artist’s name. This work has been being developed since October 2000 alongside the collection that Iberê and his wife, Maria, kept at their home and studio on a hill in the Nonoai district of Porto Alegre.
The collection has been being catalogued and registered and, since July 2002, the focus of the work has concentrated on developing the catalogue raisonné of prints, which has now been published. The project is coordinated by Mônica Zielinsky, lecturer at UFRGS Instituto de Artes and Doctor in Fine Art from the University of Paris I -Sorbonne. It currently works with a team of three: Lisiane Cardoso, Elisa Malcon and Romy Pocztaruk, and also two Scientific Reseach bursary holders.
All this activity is concerned with in-depth and systematic research into the work of Iberê Camargo. It includes three important intersecting angles: a technical vein, in activities of identifying information about the works and the documentary collection; a reflexive, conceptual and historical investigation deriving from the data indicated by the works and the documents; and finally, this work involves training the human resources involved in the project, preparing them to assist in these tasks during the long period of its development.
The cataloguing project is scrupulous and establishes relationships between the various activities which involve museological work (assisting curators, supplying material to the educational sector, suggestions for seminars). It demands of its team a similar sensibility and identification of the central problems in the work of the artist.
It is presently directed towards cataloguing the complete works of the artist. With the work on printmaking now completed, it is concentrating on the rest of Iberê’s output, his paintings, drawings, gouaches, tapestries, ceramics and work in other artistic fields, such as posters for example.
From the intersection of its technical, reflexive and training objectives, the project will tend to increasingly grow in information and provide further discussions about the work of this great Brazilian artist, and even beyond, generating substantial advances into knowledge about art and Brazilian art in particular.
The Cataloguing Project is supported by Gerdau and Petrobras.
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