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| The ‘Ordered World’
of Eleonore Koch: between Figurativism and Abstraction Fernanda Pitta, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
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| The following is an abstract of the paper presented at the conference.
The early critical receptions of Eleonore Koch’s work, the only pupil Alfredo Volpi ever took, suggested a kind of sacralized representation of material objects, which are frequent components of her paintings. The artist’s choosing of figurative painting was always a willful one, and she did not follow the path so common to Brazilian painters of the 1940s and 1950s, from Figurativism to Abstractionism. Nevertheless, we have reasons to believe that her painting does not emphasize a narrative or allegorical representation of the world. This communication puts forward a view of Kochs’s work that avoids psychologizing approaches, turning instead to its visuality. With this in mind, we sketch an interpretation that questions the significance of Koch’s attachment to the figurative system, in view of her particular artistic trajectory. The paper also focus on the reception of her work in the years 1950-1960, when the debate between the ‘new’ proposals of concrete and neoconcrete art stressed a need of engagement with abstractionism, putting in the shadow works that did not fit on this description. |
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