Sergio Valle Duarte (born September 26, 1954) is a Brazilian

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artist and fine-art photographer.

Biography

Self-taught, he lives and works in

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. Between 1972 and 1974, he worked as an actor in

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Due to the

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in Brazil, in 1976 he moved to London where he worked as assistant to Rex Features International Photographic Press Agency. As

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photographer, he followed pop music groups

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. In 1977 Brazilian magazine ''Geração Pop'' (

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) featured a series of pictures he made in London of

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. Soon after, between Europe and South America, he collaborated with a range of magazines, ''

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,'' (1978–1990). In those years he joined The Image Bank,

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(1980–2005) and was featured in photography art magazines ''Collector's Photography U.S.A.,'' ''Zoom France,'' ''Special Bresil,'' ''Zoom Italy,'' ''Newlook France,'' ''Newlook USA,'' and '' Playboy (Brazil).'' As

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artist, since 1970, he participated in the exhibition ''New Media Art Multimedia 70/80'' with the triptych "Video Oil" at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, curated by Deysi Piccinini, 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

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conceptualizing artistically the reading of

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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

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Gianne Albertoni is a part of the series that is featured in the permanent collection of museums in Europe and South America. The series is denominated by the artist as "Eletrografias e Fotografias com Fios de Cabelo para Futura Clonagem" (Electrophotographs and Photographs with Human Hair for Future Cloning), BioArt.Photographers Encyclopedia International Biography
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tradition and the originality of his work resides in the fantastic colors and in the richness of details that he uses. Irreverent, but never dramatic, with a playful irony, Duarte's works are constantly moving, dancing, flying, stretching, as if they are to expand out of the frame. During the 1980s, he befriended the Italian artist and philosopher

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, 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; it is rare to find analog works before this period. He authenticates his works with a

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. Duarte focuses his personal expression interpreting freely sacred and profane themes. From 2005 to 2015 he collaborated as

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for Brazil for the Florence Biennale and for the

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Art Fair.

Collections

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, Yokohama, Japan * Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland * Museum für Fotokopie, Mülheim, Germany * Auer Photo Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland * Museum Afro Brasil,

, Brazil * Musée Français de la Photographie, Bievres, France *

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, Brazil

Gallery

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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).

References

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