Talking with Alberto Valença’s Paintings
From Oct. 20 th 2021 to Jan. 30 th 2022, the Museu de Arte da Bahia (Museum of Art of Bahia) and at the Museu Carlos Costa Pinto (Carlos Costa Pinto Museum), both in the city of Salvador, BA, Brazil, held a retrospective exhibition Conversando com a Pintura de Alberto Valença (Talking with Alberto Valença’s painting), inspired on the book with the same name. It gathered 95 art works, from the museums’ collection and from private collections. It is still possible to see Valença’s works at Carlos Costa Pinto Museum once it is the museum that keeps the greater number of Valença’s works, with 27 units.
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You can watch author Vera Spinola’s interview on Jornal da Metrópole.
You can watch historian Rafael Dantas' testimonial about Alberto Valença's work.
The Poet of Color
It took place in 1991
Valença was born on June 7 th 1890. His centenary was celebrated with the exhibition Alberto Valença: the poet of color, at Cañizares Gallery, Salvador, Bahia, School of Fine Arts of Bahia, from June 7 th to July 7 th 1991. The art show was sponsored by the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Its catalog contains texts of Professor Márcia Magno, who was the director of the School of Fine Arts; of the professor and fine artist Juarez Paraíso; of the anthropologist Thales de Azevedo; of professors Maria Helena Ochi Flexor and Carlos Eduardo da Rocha; of the artists Mário Cravo Júnior and Carybé.
Retrospective Exhibition celebrating Alberto Valença’s 80th birthday
It took place in 1970
In 1970 it was organized a retrospective art show of Alberto Valença’s work in the Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahia (Bahia Museum of Sacred Art) in Santa Teresa Convent, celebrating his 80th birthday, sponsored by the Culture State Council of Bahia and by the Federal University of Bahia.
The exhibition counted with 61 units from museum and private collections. Its catalog is a literary piece written by the poet Godofredo Filho (Feira de Santana, BA/Brazil, 1912 – Salvador, 1992), who was one of the members of the literary and fine arts’ club Ala das Letras e das Artes. Godofredo comments that Valença should be “the last survivor, really remarkable, of a certain kind of Bahian art in disagreement with the current concerns”.
He was probably the sole representative of the Bahia School of Painting still alive at that time.