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Flowers of the Cerrado The flowers of the cerrado on this page are the work of Brazilian photographer José Maurício (see biography below).
José Maurício has received critical acclaim ever since the beginning of his career as a photographer, in his native city of Rio de Janeiro in 1974. He has been a resident of Cuiabá (in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso) since 1981. In 1984 his photographs of medicinal plants in their natural habitat were exhibited at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), and in 1987 he was one of the contributors to the exhibition Artists by Nature at the Cuiabá House of Culture. Parallel to his photographic work, he has written extensively about the work of visual artists in Mato Grosso, for example in Aline Figueiredo’s collections of art criticism Here, Art is Forest (1990) and Dalva de Barros - Jewels of Memory (2001); Bernadette Durães Araújo’s Cuiabá - A Window on History (2000), which displays the historical and architectural treasures of the city; and José Serafim Bertoloto’s Art-Memory-Body in 2001. José Maurício has worked as a teacher of art, and has been head of the Heritage Division in the Cuiabá city council’s Department of Culture and Tourism. In 1999 his photographs of the flowers of the Mato Grosso savannah, Collecting Flowers, were displayed at the Museum of Art and Popular Culture at UFMT. His book Cerrado Flowers was launched on June 5 2003, the International Day of the Environment and Ecology. In January this year, photographs from Cerrado Flowers were published in the magazine Natureza, distributed not only in Brazil but also in Europe. José Maurício currently holds the position of Adviser on Cultural Matters at Cuiabá city council’s Institute of Research and Urban Development. |
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