Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Chico Liberato :: 40 Years of Production
During our visit to Bahia, while we were staying with the Liberatos, Chico was preparing for a 40-year retrospective of his work that is being presented by the State Cultural Center in Fortaleza, capital of the state of Ceara. The exhibition will span four decades of production, from his first installations in 1967, including paintings, serigraphs, sculptures, and animated film. I asked him why he didn't try to exhibit in museums in the United States, and he basically said that he didn't want to bother with the bureacracy; that at this stage of his artistic career he was more interested in creating dialogues and cultural exchanges than in being celebrated.
Chico Liberato's Private Collection
This is a painting in Chico Liberato's home in Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
Passageiro do Vento :: Itaparica Island, Bahia, Brasil
Just down the street from the Instituto Sacatar, on Itaparica Island, is an amazing pousada run by a French ex-patriate pirate: Passageiro do Vento. An astonishingly beatiful place.
A Visit to Gabriel Arcanjo's Studio in Salvador
We've just returned from a trip to the Amazon and Bahia, where we had the pleasure of meeting with Gabriel Arcanjo in his studio at the Museum of Modern Art in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. We bought 13 works on paper from Gabriel, covering a period of 12 years of production. Among these are a great number of traditional cordel prints, and 3 of Gabriel's new works, which clearly evidence his own artistic evolution- using the traditional forms and motifs he developed over many years of working within the cordel tradition to create uniquely contemporary forms of great beauty and simplicity.
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