Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato

"For decades, he was considered a regional artist, a naïf or a ‘primitive artist’, even though he never saw himself as such and preferred to self-classify himself as ‘current’. Maybe his work has been seen in these registers because Lorenzato was a self-learner and, as such, was not included in any ism, also being non-existent for the Brazilian art market and not invoking any school or tradition. The path he has trailed makes it evident that he was an authentic outsider, painting whatever he felt like painting, as he himself wrote on the back of one of his paintings. Crowning his marginality as an artist, one fact that counted was the fact that Lorenzato was poor and carried out many trades that can hardly be considered as prestigious, especially that of a wall painter. However, the man and his work are not satisfied with clichés, as his grandeur rests in the modesty of his life and also the commitment of his art." —Laymert Garcia dos Santos, "Lorenzato, the grandeur of modesty," 2014