Sculpture in white-painted metal and blue glass
2 x 1.13 m
Installed at Usina de Arte in 2023, Pássaro distills recurring themes in Marianne Peretti's work, such as luminosity, flight, and the idea of transformation. The sculpture combines white metal volumes with a delicate blue glass element that suggests the bird's eye. Resting on a geometric base and a symbolic egg, the piece alludes to birth, renewal, and freedom, in a composition of great formal simplicity that interweaves art, nature, and spirituality.
Marianne Peretti
Paris, France, 1927 (died in Recife, Brazil, 2022)
At Usina de Arte: Pássaro (undated)
Painter, sculptor and draughtswoman, she became a reference for the integration of art and architecture, notably through her stained glass and reliefs in buildings by Oscar Niemeyer, in which light, colour and form play a central role. A Parisian who settled in Brazil in the 1950s, she died in Recife in 2022.
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