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A tribute to King Pelé by
Waldecy de Deus
Waldecy de Deus, a
self-taught artist born in Bahia, is known for her striking features of the
naive technique. With a career that began in 1967, the artist has already
achieved several recognitions over the years.
Recently, the artist
produced a 1.60m x 2m work as a tribute to King Pelé, in honor of the second
anniversary of his passing, which will be in December 2024. Intending to send
it to the Pelé Museum in Santos, SP, the artist demonstrates his talent and devotion
to the great idol of Brazilian football.
With participation in
several national and international exhibitions and events, Waldecy de Deus had
his work highlighted in important spaces and media, such as Luxus Magazine, the
city of Campos do Jordão and the Birmingham Festival of Arts, in the United
States.
Furthermore, the artist
had her work published in the chronicles of critic Oscar de Ambrósio, cataloged
twice in the Lousada Dictionary and received American Cultural Consul Allan
Fisher and his wife Florence in her residence in 1982. The artist also
conquered her space by having a of his works in Museums in Paris - France.
With a vast CV in
accessibility around the world, Waldecy de Deus continues to enchant the public
with his unique works full of personality. Her career shows the talent and
dedication of an artist who not only celebrates art, but also pays memorable
tributes like the one she plans to pay to King Pelé.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Waldecy - sister of the
award-winning artist Waldomiro de Deus - is known throughout the country and
abroad. His naïve style of painting has won over art critics.
Born on March 10, 1952,
in Boa Nova, BA, she spent her early years fishing, riding horses and making
traps to hunt birds. In 1967, following in the wake of his brother Waldomiro de
Deus, who had begun a successful career as a painter in São Paulo, he came to
the largest city in Latin America in search of a promising future.
It was also in São Paulo
that Waldecy began painting. Her first paintings dealt with death, with wakes
and coffins, a fact she attributes to being a very thoughtful child who had
many nightmares. Encouraged, however, by the good reception of her first works,
she continued her career, also painting weddings and folklore scenes, such as werewolves
and headless mules.
Progressively, the
initial work of a more realistic nature gave way to increasingly idealized
everyday scenes. Oil also gave way to acrylic paint and the dark tone, little
by little, abandoned canvases in favor of colored canvases and, more recently,
flowers.
With more than 30 years
of career and more than 600 paintings painted, Waldecy has had works exhibited
in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and the USA. He frequently exhibits his
work at Conjunto Nacional, in São Paulo, a prime space in the city, located on
the corner of the traditional Paulista and Augusta avenues. There, since 1999,
there has been a panel entitled Festa na Avenida Paulista, which offers a
romantic view of the city's main avenue.
Waldecy, who lives in Carapicuíba,
SP, also carried out, in 2000, the panel The internet invading the world for
Groupe Coface. At the top of the screen, a dove appears blowing intelligence
into a hollow brain, indicating how new forms of communication can help human
beings in their search for knowledge.
In short, life, in
Waldecy de Deus's paintings, is shown in romantic plenitude. The metropolis
becomes beautiful, the internet makes people happier and misery gives way to
harmony between people. In his paintings there is joy in life, faith in the
future and a love for his own work. For her, painting is an act of love for
life and confidence in the future. By seeing real everyday scenes, she is
inspired to create, with her landscapes and flowers, an entirely private,
idealized and happy world, the result of her colorful ingenuity and the talent
of her art.
Photo: Personal
collection
Source: Press office
Edition: Costa Consulting
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