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" This is more than an exhibition. It is my tribute to Antônio Batista de Souza, aka Poteiro, a Portuguese man who came to Brazil with his family at an early age.
In the beginning, Poteiro used clay to make utility pieces and small-format decorative objects. He even owned two ceramic indus-tries but eventually went bankrupt. He started painting encouraged by the painter Siron Franco and became a great colorist.
I met Poteiro briefly in the late 1980s, when I was a partner at Galeria Paulo Vasconcellos. This was a very rich moment of my artis-tic discovery especially in popular art, when …