Sergio Valle Duarte
| Sergio Valle Duarte | |
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London 1976
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| Born |
September 26, 1954 São Paulo (São Paulo) Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Known for | Multimedia, photography, electrophotography |
| Movement | Contemporary art, BioArt |
Sergio Valle Duarte (born September 26, 1954), also known as Sergio Duarte, is a Brazilian multimedia artist and photographer.
Self-taught, he lives and works in Sao Paulo. Between 1972 and 1974, he worked as an actor in television advertisements for Campari and Nestle.
Due to the military dictatorship in Brazil, in 1976 he moved to London where he worked as assistant to Rex Features International Photographic Press Agency.
As freelance photographer, he followed the pop music groupsThe Who, Tangerine Dream, Genesis, Deep Purple, ZZ Top. In 1977 Brazilian magazine Geração Pop (Editora Abril) features a series of pictures he captured in London of The Rolling Stones. Soon after, between Europe and South America, he collaborates with a range of magazines, Interview, Playboy, Vogue, Sony Style, (1978– 1990). Within those years he joins The Image Bank, Getty Images (1980 - 2005) and he is featured in photography art magazines Collector's Photography U.S.A., Zoom France, Zoom Italy, Newlook France, Newlook U. S. A., Newlook.
As Multimedia artist, since 1970, participated in the visionary exhibition "New Media Art Multimedia 70/80" with the triptych Video Oil at Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, curatorial Deysi Piccinini and the exhibition " The plot of Taste " another look at the daily, at the Julio Plaza installation " Electronic Amusement " with the project " Video Hypnosis " at the Biennial Foundation, São Paulo, 1987. Duarte evolved his work adding new technologies and techniques with digital images, electrophotography, Xerox art conceptualizing artistically the reading of DNA and also in the future, the writing of DNA. To his portraits he sewings strands of hair of the models to allow them a future cloning.
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