{"id":8278,"date":"2026-09-29T13:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usinadearte.org\/julio-villani\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:01:13","slug":"julio-villani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usinadearte.org\/en\/julio-villani\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00falio Villani"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Tr\u00eas Andaimes Para
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Iron and industrial lacquer
1.3 x 1.41 x 0.88 m
0.93 x 1.15 x 1.15 m
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How does one become who one is? Starting from a simple structure inspired by a coffee filter stand, Julio Villani creates three sculptures that unfold as stages of a single quest to answer this question, as objective as it is existential. Identity appears less as an essence than as an ongoing construction, shaped by the marks accumulated over a lifetime. The work makes self-portraiture an open process, in which each scaffold seems to hold up a provisional stage of this inquiry into a self in constant formation.<\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n

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Biography<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n
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J\u00falio Villani
Mar\u00edlia, S\u00e3o Paulo, 1956
Lives and works in S\u00e3o Paulo and Paris
At Usina de Arte: Tr\u00eas Andaimes para um Retrato (2011)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Born in Mar\u00edlia, S\u00e3o Paulo, in 1956, and also trained in Paris, he has a multifaceted practice that moves between painting, drawing, embroidery, collage, assemblage, and sculpture, in a process open to experimentation. More interested in the play of associations than in fixed meanings, he weaves together historical references and different artistic traditions.


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