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00:00I want to make it clear that painting in Ceará exists, it's not a utopia, it's pure art.
00:16When I say pure, I don't mean techniques or geniuses, but sincerity.
00:25He goes to France to really develop another language.
00:34It was a very painful moment for France, in this sense, the need for an imagetic reconstruction.
00:41And Bandeira arrives at this moment.
00:43He leaves Brazil figuratively, but it was almost logical that he would take a stand for free abstraction.
00:50Take any of his works and look for anything in the world that you don't find.
00:56Nothing that looks like him.
01:03He went to Japan, he went to many places, he went to the Venice Biennale.
01:08A very important moment for Bandeira was the Bruxelles exhibition.
01:13From Italy, he goes to Geneva, he exhibits in Geneva, he also goes to Germany and produces in Germany.
01:21He has an exhibition in London that was an absurd success.
01:25The whole exhibition sold out.
01:27And it was certainly the great division of waters for Bandeira when he exhibited these works in the 1950s.
01:34Painting, I will spread my observant soul around the world.
01:39I will show the peoples my tears and also those who suffer.
01:44And I will redeem myself from my sins, finding in art the dwelling of God.