Tag: photomontage

  • Vaclav Veltchek (photomontage), 1948

    Vaclav Veltchek (photomontage), 1948

    Vaclav Veltchek was a Czech dancer and ballet choreographer who emigrated to Brazil in 1939. He there founded and directed the modern ballet troupe Conjunto Coreográfico Brasileño, with which he visited Montevideo in 1948, and was guest choreographer for several ballet companies, such as the troupe of Montevideo’s Sodre Theatre. He was a precursor of…

  • About, Part 7: A New Artistic Identity

    About, Part 7: A New Artistic Identity

    Light (black photogram), 1948/49 (Jeanne and Arno Mandello) Jeanne’s personal artistic identity changed on arriving in Uruguay and became “arte foto-gráfica”[1]. She now expressed herself by creating compositions which seem to float outside of a physical space. In addition to her adopting a new country and new cultures, she began to explore a new, resolutely…