Lenora Rosenfield

Born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Lenora has been painting for decades utilizing a procedure that she herself created, the synthetic fresco, made with materials of Brazilian origin used in civil construction, which is part of her research.

Biography

At age 18, she studied painting through an exchange program at the New School for Social Research in New York City. In the 1980s, she lived in Florence, Italy, where she studied restoration. The following decade, she received a scholarship from Harvard University, where she researched restoration and painting materials. Later she completed her Masters in Poetics in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a PhD at the University of São Paulo, in a Fulbright inter-university exchange doctorate at New York University. She holds a postgraduate degree from the Università degli Studi di Udine in Italy, as well as from Rio de Janeiro State University. She taught painting at the Art Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul from 1993 to 2017 and for over two decades she headed the institution's restoration lab. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions since the 1970s. The end of 2016 culminated in the retrospective Itinerários, held at the Ado Malagoli Art Museum of Rio Grande do Sul (MARGS) and curated by Francisco Dalcol. Her work can be found in the state of Rio Grande do Sul's main art institutions, as well as in private collections in Brazil, the United States and Europe. In May of 2018, she published the book “Itinerários,” which marks her nearly 50 years of dedication to the arts. Since 2020, she has shown her work in New York and Rio de Janeiro.

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 “Itinerários” 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 exhibition Itinerários, held at MARGS, in order to broaden the understanding of the artist’s production and trajectory.

With a bilingual text comprised of interviews, research and documentation, it was edited by art critic and curator Francisco Dalcol. The narrative attempt to embody the artistic production, but also other aspects of Lenora’s work as an art conservator and teacher.

Her career has been defined by several challenging events and facts, places and times that have offered remarkable experiences in their professional character, including seasons spent in New York, Florence, Cambridge, Udine and, of course, in Porto Alegre.

The texts are accompanied by photos, reproductions and documentary images that reinforce the publication's biographical nature. Lenora’s body of art work shows the diversity of her languages. Itinerários is a production of Genuinaobra, published by Circuito.