The living heritage of Pernambuco and one of the most important woodcuts in Brazil […]
This Saturday 26 July, it is marked by the first year without J. Borges, the artist Bezerrense who used ink and wood to bring North -Ast of Brazil to the world.
Dead at the age of 88, this living heritage of pernambuco was one of the most important woodcuts in Brazil and became known all over the world, with its screens that represented destinations such as Guaranhuns, Caruaru and Limoeiro, as well as north-eastern cultural elements, such as Boi-Bumbá, Reisado and Cangaço.
J. Borges was born and lived in Bezerros, a municipality of Pernambuco Ascureste, 100 km from Recife, where he held a crowded study open to the public.
J. Borges
“I only make works related to customs and life of the north -est because I consider Bahia from Bahia here. He is a natural Brazil, by Northeastern Blood,” said the artist, in an interview with the journalist Eduardo Vessoni, publisher of Trip to the agenda.
His relationship with the arts began at the age of 12, when he literally wanted to read the ropes that his father brought home. So I read everything that was going to the eyes: Jornal Velho, a wrapping soap magazine and what “was flying on the road”.
To write, he used coal to leave his mark “on the entire surface that appeared”, such as sidewalk, stone and old house. The famous landscapes that illustrate his works are from the moment in which J. circulated through the north -est as a string seller in the interior fairs.
Already famous, the artist was in over ten countries, such as Germany, Cuba and Switzerland. Not to mention the lessons he held in New Mexico in the United States.
For him, it was the low prices of his works that made his art reach every corner of Brazil.
– “The tourist who likes art comes here and is amazed. So buy 8 or 10 prints for this price to give as a gift,” he explained.
But the greatest responsible for his fame, according to the artist himself, was nothing more than Ariano Sue Assoca who, when he saw his work for the first time, asked “Where does this beast live?” The bridge between His Assoca and Borges was the artist Ivan Marchetti in the 70s.
– “I have a son with his name. But he is Ariano” Peba “, because the legitimate has been,” he recalled once again laughing.
And since then, according to J. Borges himself, he had no tranquility in his life. “In a good sense,” he made a point to clarify.
It is not surprising that your hometown to date is synonymous with woodcut, the Chinese wood printing technique acts as a species of stamp with images reproduced by a matrix.
“Today, the desire is intertwined with the profound gratitude for everything that has represented and represents. J. Borges has not disappeared … He remains alive, printed in the soul of our culture, on the walls of our homes, in the books of Cordel and now, also immortalized on the portico of our city”, published J. Berges Memorial, on Instagram.
Source: Terra
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