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.
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