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Artist: Carlos Kis
Latin American , Brazilian Surrealist Painting Carlos Kis after Rene Magritte
By Carlos Kis
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 28 X 28 sight 23 X 23
"Veterans", 1988,
paint, inlay, with monogram signature on formica board
Framed: 28 x 28 in. Sight: 22 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.
This painting is after Surrealist master Rene Magritte. It depicts men with bowler hats
Carlos Kis, 1932-2010 a well known Brazilian artist.
Kis was born in Uruguay to a Romanian Jewish family and moved to Brazil where he was well known for his painting and sculpture. His formica paintings were an extremely laborious process and the media has not been used by other artists other than that of his daughter Anita, under Kis's supervision. Known as a painter, watercolorist and graphic artist Carlos Kis artworks show the surreal, modern and expressionist aspects of his inexhaustible talent and imagination. Inspired by Surrealism he developed Sinapsism. Kis studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad de la República (UdelaR) and at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas. For three years he ran the art gallery Opus in Brasília , then was director of a fashion magazine, worked as an interior designer and in the design department of an automotive company. Initially painting on canvas, he refrained from doing this during a five-year stay in New York in the 1970s and increasingly turned to works of art made from the artificial material Formica than baked into an enamel at high temperature. The Cyanamid company provided him with the necessary materials. In 1995, the Art of Living magazine devoted an extensive story to his works in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Punta del Este, New York, Guarujá, Porto Alegre, Joinville, São Paulo and Mexico City among others.
In 1960, he came to Brazil and lived in São Paulo for ten years. In this city, he released several albums of his own: Razão & Coração e Galos e Galos, 1966; IV Screenprints, 1968; and Woodcuts by Carlos Kis, 1969. After spending four years in New York (United States), he settled permanently in the city of Santos SP, in 1975. He is the creator of paintinlay, a technique of painting on pressed formica and submitted to high temperatures.
Reviews
"Carlos Kis exposes his painting, populated by madonnas, roosters and images, a threshold between the real and the fantastic, a mystical force that exerts a fascination on the public, the result of a cosmopolitan experience, from Yugoslav ancestry, to coming to Brazil and the departure for the United States. The five years he lived in New York put him in direct contact with the busy world of megalopolises, at the same time in search of explanations - like the primitive ones - in the fantastic. Magics, fetishes, myths , symbols, become strong in a new trend".
Roberto Peres
CARLOS Kis: oils and prints. Texts by Delmiro Gonçalves, Roberto Peres, Dottie Campbell and Thomaz S. Corrêa. Brasília: Itau Galeria, 1978.
"He is a man of the world and a 'creature of the universe', as Dottie Campbell asserts in 'Reviews' in New York. This universalism gives him conditions to produce a 'sui generis' style in painting. Various phases have marked the career of the artist He still now paints on Formica, not in the traditional Formica found in stores, but in a pressing process he calls 'paintinlay.' For this exhibition, Carlos Kiss prepared figures (a series of Mona Lisa, the posture of the model), still life, which the artist calls silent, all in water-quenching-and-oil. The result is in good taste and reveals the 'deep self' of the sensitive artist".
Paulo Augusto Bueno Wolf
CARLOS Kis: painting. Presentation by Paulo Augusto Bueno Wolf and Jorge Amado. Santos: Brazil-United States Cultural Center, Art Gallery, 1987.
Select collections
Philathea College Museum Of Modern Art - London (England)
Chase Manhattan Collection - New York (USA)
Exxon Corporation
Columbia University
Long Island University
New York University - New York (USA)
Private Collection - USA Beverly Hills Private Collection - USA
Private Collection by Greta Garbo - USA
Private Collection by Jackie Onassis - New York (USA)
Private Collection by Júlio Mesquita Filho - São Paulo SP
Private Collection by Marques Della Stufa
Oehschlaege Gallery Abril
Editora Collection - São Paulo SP
Cyanamid Química
Collection Hotel Collection San Rafael
Individual Exhibitions
sd - São Paulo SP - Carlos Kis: Recent Paintings Made in Unique Technique in the World, at Paço das Artes
1945 - Mexico City (Mexico) - Individual - 1st prize with the work Descargando pedregulho
1963 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Gallery Artécnica
1964 - Campinas SP - Individual, at the Jockey Club Art Gallery in Campinas
1965 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at KLM Gallery
1968 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Individual, at Kraft Moreno Gallery
1968 - Punta del Este (Uruguay) - Individual, at the San Rafael Art Gallery
1968 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Individual, at the Columbia Palace Hotel Art Gallery
1968 - Montevideo (Uruguay) - Individual, at the Rio de la Plata Gallery
1968 - Punta del Este (Uruguay) - Individual, at the Guendalina Gallery
1969 - Punta del Este (Uruguay) - Individual, at the San Rafael Art Gallery
1969 - Porto Alegre RS - Individual, at the North American Brazilian Cultural Institute
1970 - Punta del Este ( Uruguay) - Individual, at the San Rafael Art Gallery
1970 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Actualidades da Hebraica Art Gallery
1971 - New York (United States) - Individual, at the Empire Savings Bank Art Gallery
1971 - New York (States United) - Solo, at Charles Mann Gallery
1972 - Long Island (United States) - Solo, at Long Island University
1972 - New York (United States) - Solo, at Saint Bartholomew's Art Gallery
1973 - Englewood (United States) - Solo, at the Jewel Spiegel Art Gallery
1973 - Newark (United States) - Solo, at The Art Gallery
1973 - New York (United States) - Solo, at the Park South At Carnegie Hall Art Gallery
1974 - New York (United States) - Solo, at the Empire Savings Bank Art Gallery
1974 - New York (United States) - Solo, at the New York University Art Gallery and The Catholic Center
1976 - Santos SP - Retrospective, at the Municipal Gallery
1977 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at UCBEU
1978 - Florianópolis SC - Individual, at Clube Doze de Agosto
1978 - Brasília DF - Carlos Kis: oils and prints, at Itaugaleria
1978 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Kis: oils and prints, at Itaugaleria
1978 - Itapetininga SP - Individual, at City Hall
1978 - Santos SP - Individual, at Cades Art Gallery
1978 - Santos SP - Individual, at Santos Art and Decoration Center
1982 - Santos SP - Individual, at CCBEU Gallery
1982 - Santos SP - Individual, at Centro Cultural Brasil-United States Gallery
1983 - São Carlos SP - Carlos Kis: oils and prints, at Itaugaleria
1983 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Galeria de Arte Atualidades da Hebraica
1983 - Guarujá SP - Individual , at Delphin Hotel Gallery
1983 - Santos SP - Individual, at Banco do Brasil
1983 - São Paulo SP - Carlos Kis: oils & paintings in phenolic art, at Galeria Atualidades
1983 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the First National City Bank Gallery
1983 - São Paulo SP - Kis-Pinturas Recentes, at the State Department of Culture
1984 - Santos SP - Individual, at the Santos Association Gallery
1984 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at Sesi Art Gallery
1985 - Sorocaba SP - Individual, at Sesc/Senac Art Gallery
1986 - Joinville SC - Individual, at Joinville Art Museum
1986 - Joinville SC - Individual, at Victor Kursancev Gallery
1987 - Santos SP - Individual, at the Brazil-United States Cultural Center Gallery
1987 - Santos SP - Carlos Kis: paintings, at the United States Brazil Cultural Center
1988 - Santos SP - Individual, at the Santos Doctors Association Gallery
1989 - Santos SP - Individual, at Aliança Francesa
1990 - Sebring (United States) - Individual, at Kissimmee Valley Gallery
1991 - Sarasota (United States) - Individual, at Frank Oeheschlaeger Gallery
1992 - Santos SP - Individual, at CCBEU Gallery
1997 - Santos SP - Individual, at the CCBEU Gallery
Collective Exhibitions
1966 - São Paulo SP - Collective at Masp
1970 - Chicago (United States) - Collective at Gilman Galleries
1971 - New York (United States) - Collective at The Weyhe Gallery
1971 - New York (United States) - Brazilian Art, at Iramar Gallery
1972 - Mexico City (Mexico) - Collective, LifShitz Art Gallery
1972 - London (England) - Collective, at Philathea College Museum of Modern Art
1972 - New York (United States) - Collective, at Lexington Art Gallery
1972 - New York (United States) - Latin American Art at Columbia University
1972 - New York (United States) - Spring Arts Festival, at Educational & Cultural Fund. of EI
1972 - New York (United States) - Spring is Here at One World Trade Center New York
1972 - Paris (France) - Paintings & Sculptures, at Le Demeure
1973 - Long Island (United States) - Collective, at Crow's Best Gallery
1975 - São Paulo SP - The theme is the Woman, at Azulão Art Gallery
1976 - São Paulo SP - Collective, at Masp
1976 - Santos SP - Collective, at the Centro Cultural Brasil-United States Gallery
1976 - Santos SP - Collective, at the Santos Art and Decoration Gallery
1976 - Santos SP - Beneficent Exhibition, at the Alhambra Art...
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