This exhibition featured paintings, sculptures and objects that highlight our popular traditions manifested through various languages, revealing the creativity of genuine art, as well as our deepest roots. Through the perspective of Emanoel Araújo, the public was able to appreciate the intuitive and spontaneous art by painters such as José Antonio da Silva, Maria Auxiliadora, Julio Martins da Silva and Heitor dos Prazeres, as well as by sculptors that included GTO, Chico Tabibuia, Nuca, Nhô Caboclo, Vitalino, João Egídio, Artur Pereira and the Maria sisters, along with original functional objects that border on the world of art.


The pieces in the exhibition were chosen for their appeal to beauty and the cleverness of their manufacture, revealing the long historical process of the development of these techniques in Brazil. This development took place in workshops where there was never any separation of the masters, whom we call artists, from the technicians, tradesmen and apprentices who worked alongside the masters to produce the pieces.


The Lina Bo and P.M. Bardi Institute contributed to this exhibition with the loan of countless objects originally collected by Lina Bo Bardi, which today belong to the Institute’s collection.