Iole de Freitas
Iole de Freitas was born in Belo Horizonte (MG), in 1945. At the age of six, she moved to Rio de Janeiro and began her training in contemporary dance. He studied at the Superior School of Industrial Design (ESDI) of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), from 1964 to 1965. From 1970 onwards, he lived for eight years in Milan, Italy, where he worked as a designer at the Corporate Image Studio of Olivetti, under the guidance of architect Hans von Klier, from 1970 to 1971. He began to develop and exhibit his work in plastic arts from 1973 onwards.
Iole de Freitas’s first contact with art was through dance, an element that has visibly accompanied her throughout her career. During the 1970s, Iole mainly used photography and Super-8 films to create works that deal with the fragmentation of body image. In the following decade, he turned his research to three-dimensional space and developed the Aramões: sculptures structured by metal wires and tubes, fabrics and saws. From then on, sculpture prevails, always maintaining the primary interests with the body, space and movement. During the 1990s, he approached architecture, creating works that relate directly to real space, and made use of translucent materials, such as polycarbonate and hollow canvas.