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Hello, good morning.
It is in the neighborhood of Campo Grande in Recife,
where an artist creates his works.
This is the studio of Jose Ferreira and believe me,
is not every day you see a place like this.
In the neighborhood of simple houses in Recife,
this building calls attention In the facade the great panel
is signed by the owner of the house,
José Ferreira de Carvalho, or simply Ferreira,
as he is best known.
One of the greatest artists from the state.
Here runs the studio and it is very easy
find him working.
He arrives punctually at seven o'clock in the morning
and has no hour to quit.
And the doors,in fact, creations of Ferreira
are always open to visitors.
This is the world of this artist
we are going to discover from now.
Ferreira, already is here. Working, of course.
To whom the studio is open?
To the general public and people of
my community who always come to visit me in the studio,
because I grew up here with them.
They participate also of my entire production,
including helping me to carry, to transport,
to arrange the cleaning, so they are always here with me.
It's all a teamwork.
And the buyers when they arrive here?
I always stop working to serve them,
because it is much better for you to be more courteous
to people, isn´t it? So I like to stop, when the customer
arrives,
It all started here right?
It all started here, in this space here.
It was a simple house, that you renovated?
Yeah, always renovating, and I bought the neighbour´s house
and expand it.
The idea for this workshop was also to create a place
for you to expose the work permanently?
It happened naturely. I created this space so that it became
a studio and a gallery at the same time, right?
To serve the customers well, they may want to look at the
pictures.
and imagining them more or less as if it would be in there
house. so I gave it more or less a dimension that you look so ..
well a painting on a messy wall isn´t nice to be seen, isn´t it?
And here I think there exist a very own light for you
to see the paintings, the same way that it exists in a gallery,
only that customers today like to go to the house of the artist.
Everyday there is something new, if you get here in a week,
almost everything is different, isn´t it?
But there are also older works, well, these here for example?
Yes, these are works of the year 2000. I worked on paper
with dough and acrylic. Dough, acrylic and glaze and painted in
different acrylic, using a mixed technique on commun paper.
You don´t allow youself to work with only one type of material
No, because it is tiring, isn´t it? Also it is even difficult to
working on a painting, finishing it in only one time.
You always have to stop and wait for it to dry, to receive
to receive the next layer, you know?
Then you stop and wait to dry and this also gives you time
to reflect because when you're too hung up on the job
you don´t see, what you didn´t want to happen.
And you usually create several work at the same time,..
while one dry creating another!
Ah, I like doing that. While making ceramics, stop a little
and go painting.. soon making porcelain an...making a panel...
I like to work.
But you started painting a very different style than what
you are painting today?
Yeah, I started painting primitive, but it is a primitive elaborated
in a different way, if you look at today it´s more recent,
Maracatu.. (--tipical folclore dance--) among others, isn´t it?
This is a painting five years old.
But initially you painted what.. in primitive painting?
Children's games.., street festivals.., folklore too,
like Bumba Meu Boi, Maracatu.., these kind of things.
Recalling customs, old traditions?..
That´s it. Everything, everything, all kind of different motives;
Children playing with flowers, boy playing marbles, it all came
in the context of primitive painting.
Today you still make a lot of primitive painting, or ...
Less.. but still paint it, because everyone still buy them.