Embu
also knowns as Land of the Arts or, simply, Embu of the Arts. The name
appeared in years 60´s, when a strong movement characterized for
the primitive art and the influence of the hippie culture in the city.
However,
we can say that the artistic tradition of the city retraces to the Jesuits
times. One knows that the priests of the M'Boy village accepted orders
of saints.
According
to Manuel da Fonseca priest, Belchior priest who sculptured the image
of Nossa Senhora do Rosário in the church. Of the Macaré
priest, you can see in the Museum of Sacra Art several beatifull scupltures.
This
tradition of saintmans was retaken, in years 20, for the artist Cássio
M'Boy, whom residence fixes in Embu. In 1937, it gains first the great
prize in the International Exposition of the Arts Techniques, of Paris.
Other
artists start to arrive to Embu, forming a group that would go to shake
the city in years 60. One of them was Japanese farmer Tadakiyo Sakai,
who later would be called Sakai of the Embu.
Recognized
internationally as sculptor in terracota, Sakai was initiated in the arts
in 1951, under orientation of Cássio M'Boy and of the sculptors
Bruno Giorgi and Victor Brecheret. In 1959, attracted by the names of
Cássio M'Boy and Sakai, the sculptor Claudionor Assis Dias, or
Assis de Embu, also comes to the city. In its atelier, the Barraco of
the Assis, starts to give lessons of sculpture in wood, rock and bronze,
transforming it into a true nucleus of art production. There the Movement
of Embu would be born, that gains force in 1961 with the arrival to the
Barraco of the Assis of the poet, painter, theater and flocloreman Solano
Trindade and its company Brazilian Popular Theater, formed for more than
twenty people. The movement intended to popularize the art.
More
and more ateliers had been appearing in the city, folloied of antiquarys,
store of arts, rustic furniture and restaurants.
Everything this, ally to the charm of the historical downtown, transforms
Embu into a pleasant option of stroll for who is in São Paulo.
Occupying all the central area of the city, the fair invites the visitor
to take a walk enters the typical historical of Brazil colonial period.
The
940 expositors are divide in the sections of plastic arts, ornamental
artes, plants and typical foods.
The
CAT - Center
of Attendance to the Tourist (to see details in services), possesss relation
of all the store, galleries, antiquários and ateliers of the city
to distribute the interested parties.
Address:
Largo 21 de Abril, Largo dos Jesuítas an the central streets of
city.
Click on MAp botton to se how to go to Embu of Arts The Fair of Arts Open: Saturdays, sundays and holidays
of 8h to 18h.
