Description
Fine art print of illustration “Cascudo-Zebra” part of the book “Brasileirinhos da Amazônia”, by Laurabeatriz, partnership with Lalau
The work is sent inside a rigid folder handcrafted specifically for it.
Dimensions: 46,9 x 29,9 cm
Series of 20
About the book
The third volume of the Brasileirinhos collection is dedicated exclusively to the animals that inhabit the largest tropical forest on planet Earth: the Amazon.
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world, and its trees hold the largest reserve of biodiversity on the planet. There are countless plants, insects and animals that live and keep our great forest alive.
Long-time partners Lalau and Laurabeatriz transform some animals that inhabit the Amazon and are extremely important for Brazilian fauna into poems and illustrations. From the bush dog to the Hercules beetle, this selection will entertain and raise awareness among young readers about Brazil's living treasures.
Publisher/seal: Companhia das Letrinhas
exhibition Refloresta: 30 anos de Lalau e Laurabeatriz
We have to reforest our imagination and, in this way, who knows, we can get closer to a poetics of urbanity that restores the power of life.
Ailton Krenak
REFLORESTA brings together art and poems created over a 30-year partnership between Lalau and Laurabeatriz, illustrated book artists whose identity was solidified based on a repertoire built by observing the diverse specificities of Brazilian fauna and flora. A powerful tool for expanding perception, the verbal and visual language of these artists shares a worldview that reveals the poetics of the existence of non-humans. Ancestral rivers, tree-houses, and so many creatures that coexist around us and are rarely seen by the colonized gaze, are now read, looked at, observed, and perhaps understood as possibilities of existence that go far beyond anthropocentric constructions. “The future does not exist, we only imagine it,” emphasizes Krenak. May the works of Lalau and Laurabeatriz continue to contribute to this reforestation of imaginaries that is so necessary to enable futures beyond the monoculture of thought.
Renata Nakano
About the artist
LAURABEATRIZ born in Rio de Janeiro but who has adopted São Paulo as her home, is a visual artist who is passionate about nature. She has participated in several exhibitions with her drawings, woodcuts and paintings. Laura is truly engaged in several campaigns for the protection of animals, such as whales, tigers, bears, sharks, seals, jaguars, stray dogs and abandoned pets. In her partnership with Lalau, through her illustrations she always emphasizes the natural riches of our Brazil.
About Fine Art Printing
These are those created with techniques and materials that use the most rigorous criteria today to achieve an impression with museum longevity.
The papers are 100% cotton. The inks, which are made of mineral pigments, are not soluble in water, therefore they do not fade. And the color fidelity, by using RGB, is much greater than common printing.
A work printed in fine art, therefore, deserves to be signed and numbered, and can last a lifetime.
