Meeting with Rodolfo Nanni, Brazilian filmmaker, meet the 8.02.1988
Rodolfo Nanni was born in São Paulo in 1924, the son of Italian parents from the Farnese region. In his early youth, he had a close relationship with the sculptor Victor Brecheret, who was his first cousin and had his studio on the grounds of Rodolfo’s parents’ house. Consequently, he also lived with Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Tarsila do Amaral, Menotti del Picchia, Di Cavalcanti and other artists of Brazilian modernism.
Rodolfo started his studies in plastic arts in 1943, first in Brazil with Anita Malfatti, Candido Portinari and Axl Leskosceck and later, in Paris, with Arpad Zsenès. In the French capital, in 1948, he started Cinema Studies at IDHEC – Institut des Hautes Études Cinematographiques, where he stayed until 1950. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Nanni
meeting with the most important landscape architect Burle Marx on February 26, 1988 in his house in the village of Guaratiba near Rio de Janeiro, 4 June 1994 – unfortunately deceased..
Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909 – June 4, 1994) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernistlandscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. His work had a great influence on tropical garden design in the 20th century. Water gardens were a popular theme in his work. He was deftly able to transfer traditional artistic expressions such as graphic design, tapestry and folk art into his landscape designs. He also designed fabrics, jewellery and stage sets.
He was one of the first people to call for the conservation of Brazil’s rainforests. More than 50 plants bear his name. He amassed a substantial collection of plants at his home, including more than 500 philodendrons.
In 1932, Burle Marx designed his first landscape for a private residence by the architects Lucio Costa and Gregori Warchavchik. This project, the Schwartz house was the beginning of a collaboration with Costa which was enriched later by Oscar Niemeyer who designed the Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Niemeyer also designed the Pampulha complex in 1942 for which Marx designed gardens. His first garden design was completed in 1933. In 1937, Burle Marx gained international recognition and admiration for this abstract design of a roof garden for the Ministry of Education building. The design highlighted elements of tension and drama.
Roberto Burle Marx founded a landscape studio in 1955 and in the same year he founded a landscape company, called Burle Marx & Cia. Ltda. He opened an office in Caracas, Venezuela in 1956 and started working with architects Jose Tabacow and Haruyoshi Ono in 1968. Marx worked on commissions thorough out Brazil, Argentina, in Chile and many other South American countries, France, South Africa, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Additionally his artwork can be found displayed throughout the city of Rio de Janeiro “it is an open-air museum of works displaying his unmistakable style, one wholly his own” (Montero 2001 p. 29). Roberto Burle Marx’s 62-year career ended when he died June 4, 1994 two months before his 85th birthday.
He spent time in the Brazilian forests where he was able to study and explore. Burle Marx was one of the first Brazilians to speak out against deforestation. This enabled him to add significantly to the botanical sciences, by discovering new rocks and plants for example. At least 50 plants bear his name. Marx was also involved in efforts to protect and conserve the rain forest from the destructive commercial activities of deforestation for bananas and other crops and clear cutting of timber.
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