Lenora Rosenfield

Nascida em Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, Lenora tem pintado nas últimas décadas com um procedimento criado por ela, o afresco sintético, realizado com materiais nacionais usados na construção civil, e que é uma das suas pesquisas.

Biography

Nascida em Porto Alegre, Brasil, Lenora tem pintado nas últimas décadas com um procedimento criado por ela, o afresco sintético, realizado com materiais nacionais usados na construção civil, que é uma das suas pesquisas. 

At 18 years old, through an exchange program she studied painting at the New School for Social Research (New York, USA). In the 80s she lived in Florence (IT) where she studied restoration. In the following decade, she received a scholarship from Harvard University, where she researched restoration and painting materials. Later, she completed a Masters in Poetics in Visual Arts at UFRGS and a PhD at USP, in a Fulbright Sandwich Doctorate at New York University.

Pós-doutora pela Università degli Studi di Udine (IT), também pela Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), foi professora de pintura do Instituto de Artes da UFRGS (1993 a 2017) e por mais de duas décadas esteve à frente do laboratório de restauração da instituição.

She participates in collective and individual exhibitions since the 70’s. 2016’s end culminates with the retrospective Itinerários (Itineraries), at the Art Museum of Rio Grande do Sul (Margs) Ado Malagoli, curated by Francisco Dalcol. Her works can be found in the collections of the main institutions of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and in private collections in Brazil, the United States and Europe.

Em maio de 2018 lança o livro “Itinerários”, que marca seus quase 50 anos de dedicação às artes. Desde 2020 tem mostrado seus trabalhos em Nova York e Rio de Janeiro.

Lenora Rosenfield
Photo: Egídio Pandolfo

Itineraries, by Lenora Rosenfield

The book “Itineraries” reveals personal and professional moments in the nearly five decades of Lenora Rosenfield’s performance in the visual arts.

The book was conceived as an extension of the Itineraries exhibition, which took place in 2017 at MARGS, in order to broaden the understanding of the artist’s production and trajectory.

With bilingual text, based on interviews, research and documentation, was organized by art critic and curator Francisco Dalcol. The narrative tries to give an account of the artistic production, but also of the other segments of Lenora’s work: as an art conservator and the teaching performance.

It is a career spanned by several challenging events and defining facts, places and times that have offered remarkable experiences in their professional personality.

Among these are the seasons spent in New York, Florence, Cambridge and Udine, and, of course, in Porto Alegre. The texts are accompanied by photographs, reproductions and documentary images that reinforce the biographical character of the publication. The Lenora’s art production shows the diversity of the artist’s languages. Itinerários is a production of Genuinaobra, edited by Circuito.