Sérgio Ferro Pereira

Sérgio Ferro

Brazil - 1938

Sérgio Ferro Pereira (Curitiba, PR, 1938) is a renowned Brazilian painter, draftsman, architect, and professor. He graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU/USP) in 1962. Three years later, he completed his postgraduate studies in museology and urban evolution at the same institution.

In 1965, Sérgio participated in organizing the "Opinião 65" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ), where he also exhibited his work. In 1966, he studied semiology at the Presbiterian Mackenzie University in São Paulo. During the 1960s, he was part of the Grupo Arquitetura Nova with Flávio Império and Rodrigo Lefèvre, collaborating on projects that sought a new approach to Brazilian architecture.

Sérgio Ferro was a professor at the School of Higher Education in Design from 1962 to 1968, taught art history and aesthetics at FAU/USP from 1962 to 1970, and lectured in the architecture course at the University of Brasília (UnB) between 1969 and 1970. Due to the military dictatorship in Brazil, he moved to France in 1972. There, he taught at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble until 2003, where he also founded and directed the Dessin/Chantier laboratory from 1982 to 1997.

Sérgio Ferro is known for his figurative paintings, mainly inspired by the figures in the drawings and paintings of Michelangelo Buonarroti. He received the best painter award from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA) in 1987. He has published several books, including "O Canteiro e o Desenho" (1979), "Michelangelo: Notas por Sérgio Ferro" (1981), and "Michel-Ange, Architecte et Sculpteur" (1998).

In addition to his academic and artistic career, Sérgio Ferro created murals for various institutions in France and Brazil, such as the Memorial da América Latina (1990) and the Memorial de Curitiba (1996 and 2002).

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