OCTOBER 15 – NOVEMBER 14
ROGERIO DUARTE (BRAZIL)
Rogério Duarte (b. 1939) Brazilian graphic designer, musician, songwriter,
poet, philosopher, translator and professor. A luminous ?gure in the 1960s Rio
creative underground and associated with the most important artistic projects
of the era, he has come to be recognised as the intellectual genesis of Tropicália,
along with his friend Caetano Veloso. Tropicália, an avant-garde pop
music movement was as popular as it was
innovative, launched the careers of many
of Brazil’s most famous musicians and was Duarte’s closest association
with fame. A true polymath, his work spans numerous ?elds and decades but he
is best known as a designer of record covers for many of the great names of
Brazilian popular music, such as Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, João
Gilberto and Jorge Ben, posters for some of the signal films of Brazilian cinema,
including Black God/White Devil, as well as book covers and works in other media.
Presented as part of the
2009
Melbourne International Arts Festival
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