The sculptor Amilcar de Castro began attending Alberto da Veiga Guignard's drawing and painting course in 1943, while he was in his third year of law school at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte. His sculpture starts from a sheet of metal (in the shape of a circle, rectangle, or square), which, after being cut and folded, gains three-dimensionality. There is no addition or subtraction of material. In 1952, he moved to Rio de Janeiro and, in 1959, he signed the... Manifesto NeoconcretoAs a layout designer, he carried out the graphic redesign of Jornal do Brasil in the 1950s.
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Amilcar de Castro was the first Brazilian artist to receive a fellowship from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, in 1965. He participated in numerous exhibitions, including several editions of the São Paulo Biennial.
