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Parted Purity

From the India ink drawings made in the mid-1960s, featuring stacked forms and bodies — those which resemble blocks leaning on each other, possible shadowy and enigmatic visions of walls, buildings, imaginary cities, or whatever they might be; others, disjointed heads, torsos, and genitalia —,Tuneu’s work , as often happens, experienced many variations. Born and raised in São Paulo, addicted to visits to museums, galleries and successive editions of the São Paulo Biennial, initially as visitor and, from 1967, at the famous Pop Biennial, as a participant — incidentally, the …