Alberto Farah

From Italian father and Austrian mother, Alberto was born in Egypt (1937), where he graduated from French schools. Since he was a child, he developed his artistic gifts, specially drawing, painting, sculpting and engraving.In 1957, he came to Brazil, dedicating his skills to shop windows decoration with paper sculptures, and then interior decoration, furniture projects and design, as well as business installations and finally graphic arts.In 1967 he revolutionized the plastic arts with the use of polyester resins and fiberglass for painting and sculpting and instead of the traditional canvas he uses as support the "Canvas card", invented by himself in this time.He creates the personalized card of votes, made with ink drawing, quite published by companies and public departments.

In 1977 it sets up his atelier, open to the people, in Itanham, exposing paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures and several other handcraft objects, while he continues researching new modalities of communication " artist / people ", since his current goal is to change the secular forms of artistic manifestation: polyester paintings on fiberglass canvas.It is in this small city on the coast, very well known as "the girlfriend of the sun" that the artist, autodidactic, looked for the inspiration for new series of works.It resided some years in Poos de Caldas, where he elaborated several tourism guides.In 1994 he went back to Itanham, where he resides currently.,