ART + AUCTION
Caio FonsecaJANUARY 2012
At the peak of his powers, the abstract painter strikes out in a new direction from his latest show.
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ART IN AMERICA
Painting a Paradox
Harder than finding the painting I am going to do," Caio Fonseca said in a recent interview, "is deciding what painting I am not going to do." It's a puzzling statement from a painter whose work seems, at least at first acquaintance, to be triggered wholly by informed intuition and made without prior...
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ART REVIEW
Caio Fonseca
In the world of automobile transmissions, there is something called 'overdrive', a kind of Uber-gear that allows a car to move faster even as the engine revs at a lower rate- in effect, speeding the vehicle forward while doing less work. This fall, Paul Kasmin presented an example of an artist in such a state, with 25 works by the hugely talented American abstrationist Caio...
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VANITY FAIR
Two Lives
"Thurgood Marshall Community Center and Resource Facility. This is Cindy speaking. How may I redirect your call?" says the man on the phone. I've called no such place, and I've not misdialed. The man speaking is Caio Fonseca. I know this because, much to the annoyance of friends and family, he often asnwers the phone this way.
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DEPARTURES
Strokes of Genius
Caio Fonseca's studio in his spacious Manhattan apartment would on most occasions be in total disarray. But on this sunny afternoon, as his studio manager helps him prepare for his upcoming show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., more than 30 of his vibrant abstract paintings are hung in perfect chronological alignment on the...
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MODERN PAINTERS
"The Painter and his Tools"
Pietrasanta is a small village close to the marble quarries of Carrera. Consequently it's home to around 200 sculptors, but a few painters have joined this artistic community as...
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THE NEW YORK SUN
Gallery-Going
At once upbeat and calm, whimsical and rigorously disciplined, Caio Fonseca's paintings radiate a perennial optimism about life in general and painting in particular. His large, abstract canvases constitute a series of variations on a basic theme - neatly orchestrated arrangements of bright geometric...
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BOMB
In many ways Caio Fonseca seems like a painter from another time. Rather than go to art school, he spent his formative years in Spain under the private tutelage of a master painter, Augusto Torres, whose father had mentored Caio's own father in Uruguay during the...
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ART IN AMERICA
Caio Fonseca at Paul Kasmin
Since his emergence on the New York art scene in 1992, after an extended romp around Europe (which included an apprenticeship in Barcelona with Uruguayan painter Augusto Torres), Caio Fonseca has been making large abstract compositions with a Mediterranean coloristic sensibility. This recent show featured eight of his by-now signature...
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ARTNEWS
Caio Fonseca
Caio Fonseca's acrylic compositions display such a deep engagement with the formal and aesthetic potential of paint on canvas that they do not fit easily within any recognizable category of contemporary art. The paintings' aspirations to abstract autonomy and formal beauty suggests a commitment to the artistic concerns of early-20th-century modernism, but not to the irony or appropriation that informs so much abstraction...
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