Moysés Baumstein

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Moysés Baumstein (São Paulo, June 13, 1931 - São Paulo, December 4, 1991) was a Brazilian artist.

Moysés worked in many fields: from literary creation to painting, from film making to holography. He was driven by singular curiosity and diligence and typified as a "Renaissance Man" joining science with art throughout his accomplishments.

Baumstein began his artistic career as a painter influenced by the Spanish painter Joan Ponç, with whom he founded the group “L´Espai” in Sao Paulo in 1960. He later became interested in photography, cinema and theatre and at the beginning of the seventies began to write experimental fiction and produce animation cinema in Super8 and 16mm. In 1981 founded VIDECOM a video production house in Sao Paulo directed for corporate and cultural productions.

It was not until 1982 that he began to work in holography, using artisanal methods. He completed and perfected his technique in 1983 after a holography workshop with the German artist Dieter Jung. In the same year he had his first holographic exhibition at the Museu da Imagem e do Som in Sao Paulo. In 1984 he developed a specific holographic technique for chromatic control and began the regular production of technically very elaborate works. At that time in his holographic studio he began the production of commercial holograms as well as artistic works.

In some of his projects in this field he worked in collaboration with other Brazilian artists and poets interested in holography (Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, Julio Plaza and José Wagner Garcia). The results of such collaboration were shown at the “Triluz” exhibition (1986) in the Museu da Imagem e do Som, and at the “Idehologia” exhibition (1987) in the Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Sao Paulo, amongst others. With José Wagner Garcia he created the prototype of a holographic cinema projector a "Holographic Kinetoscope". A retrospective of his cinema and video works was held at the 9th International “Videobrasil” Festival in 1992 in Sao Paulo.

[edit] External links

Baumstein's page: *Videcom

Unesco cultural page: *Portal Knowledge

[edit] References

• VideoBrasil, Moysés Baumstein participation/works in multimedia festival (critical text by Julio Plaza)