Véio
[Cicero Alves dos Santos]
1948Nossa Senhora da Glória – SE
Born in the city of Feira Nova, family farmers, from boy sculpts in beeswax, to then find wood, today its fundamental matter of expression. With a sense of peculiar volume, it came not only balances four elements in harmony in a single small sculpture - a woman's figure, two children, a bundle of wood - as most recently set out for the installation of your work open spaces, public, in the Sergipe hinterland. Engineer Jorge Neto on the highway, which passes in front of your site, life-size figures or gigantic farmers with their shovels, pregnant women carrying weights, children and animals, Lantern, Maria Bonita, Padre Cicero, and burial processions, pairs dancing forró, create an atmosphere to a dream time and Critical painful day-to-day man field in their poverty, but powered by the aura of their culture.
"Little Dictionary of the Brazilian people" - Lélia Coelho Frota