Title: O universo de J. Cunha
Description: "The book is an account of how artist J. Cunha (Itapagipe, Baixa, 1948) appropriates several affective territories of the Indian and African deities, baiano modernism, the hinterland, the tropicalismo.  In a universe populated by Kiriri Indians (his ancestors on his mother side), caboclos, orixás, gypsies, queens and kings, Cunha uses traditional and contemporary devices as a creator without limits. "In the 1990's, J. Cunha painted "Códice" which sums up the art, a masterwork that contains a reading of his entire repertoire, which was recreated in 2014, in the monumental railings for the national Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (MUNCAB), a landmark in the historic center of Salvador"--Page 8.
Subjects: Catalogs, Brazilian Art
People: José Antônio Cunha (1948-)