Documento e ficção na biografia de Fernando Pieruccetti

Abstract

In a recent postdoctoral research, I dedicated myself to writing a biographic essay on cartoonist Fernando Pieruccetti, the creator of the famous mascots of the main football teams in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, and an important member of the group of artists who introduced modern art trends in the local art scene. The purpose of this article is to revisit this research, taking it as a starting point for a reflection on artists’ and writers’ biographies, focusing on the fictional dimension of these narratives and the relationships between the works of art and the lives of their creators. In this reflection, I try to understand the artist’s biography as the result of a circularity process, in which the document and the fiction, and therefore the author’s life and the projective strength of their creation, intersect themselves, and become indiscernible.