Sergio Valle Duarte

Sergio Valle Duarte (born September 26, 1954) is a Brazilian multimedia artist and fine-art photographer.

Biography Self-taught, he lives and works in São Paulo. Between 1972 and 1974, he worked as an actor in television advertisements for Campari and Nestlé.

Due to the military dictatorship in Brazil, in 1976 he moved to London where he worked as assistant to Rex Features International Photographic Press Agency.

As freelance photographer, he followed pop music groups also the exhibition The plot of Taste another look at the daily, at the Julio Plaza installation Electronic Amusement with the project "Video Hypnosis" at the Biennial Foundation, São Paulo, 1985 and The First Quadrienal de Fotografias, curated by Paulo Klein at Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1985. Duarte evolved his work adding new technologies and techniques with digital images, electrophotography, Xerox art conceptualizing artistically the reading of DNA and also in the future, the writing of DNA. To his portraits he sewed strands of hair of the models to allow them a future cloning.

During the 1980s, he befriended the Italian artist and philosopher Joseph Pace, founder in Paris of Filtranisme, a neo-existential philosophical and artistic current, joining, in 1990, the enlarged "filtranistes" group.

Due to a leak in the roof of his artist studio at Spring Street during a summer storm in the late 1990s, much of his work was destroyed.

He authenticates his works with a thumbprint.

Duarte focuses his personal expression interpreting freely sacred and profane themes. From 2005 to 2015 he collaborated as curator for Brazil for the Florence Biennale and for the Padua Art Fair.

Collections São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland Museum für Fotokopie, Mülheim, Germany Auer Photo Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland Museum Afro Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil Museu Afro Brasil Musée Français de la Photographie, Bievres, France Museum of Art of the Parliament of São Paulo, Brazil

Gallery

Selected bibliography Robert Louit " Portifolio Revista Zoom Internacional", 1985, edição 121, pp. 26–31, France Daysi Peccinini – "Arte Meios Multimeios 70/80" FAAP – Projeto Video Oil,1985,(Brazil). Paola Sammartano " Portifolio Revista Zoom Internacional" 1995, pp. 62–67, (Italy). Tadeu Chiarelli "Catalog geral do acervo do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo", 2002, pp. 85–89, (Brazil). Coleção Joaquim Paiva, "Visões e Alumbramentos" Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro", 2002, (Brazil). Eduardo Bueno "São Paulo 450 anos em 24 horas", Bueno e Bueno 2004, pp. 21–23, 197, (Brazil).