Cacequi

Cacequi is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Latitude 29°53'01" South, and longitude 54°49'30" West. Its altitude is 103 meters.

Emancipation date: 23 Dec 1944.

The Patron Saint is Our Lady of Victory.

Its approximate resident population is 15,599 (2004 est.)

It's area is 2,441 km².

The distance from the city of Porto Alegre is 407 km.

The name of the city derives from the language Tupi-Guaraní: Cacequi, (bean's water) from "cumandá", bean; "í", water.

Other definition say the name of the city means: "indigenous chief water" or "indigenous chief River".

The mayor of the city is Renê Mendonça Fernandes.

External links

* [http://www.tagzania.com/item/2581 Cacequi at the map]
* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/BR/23/Cacequi.html Cacequi, Brazil Page]
* [http://www.ericosantos.com.br/ericosantos/midia.asp Erico Santos, famous painter from Cacequi - Erico Santos was born in Cacequi, in Rio Grande do Sul, in 1952. He began to paint professionally from 1976, in Sao Paulo, in Pinheiros' district, in the atelier of the painter and restoring florentino, Renzo Gori. He helped Gori to restore works of important artists like Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Tarsila, Rebolo, Bonadei, Volpi etc. and the pictures what he was painting were taken by the marchands that were frequenting the atelier. In 1977, he returned for Santa Maria, in Rio Grande do Sul to end the course of Legal Practice.

From 1978 in before, alternated the legal practice with the painting. In 1981 he was for Porto Alegre to assume the post of public autarchic attorney in the Institute of Foresight of the State. From 1987, one begins to dedicate exclusively to the painting where if it made one of the leaders into the market of the south of the country. He did engraving in metal in the atelier of Iberê Camargo, and began to participate effectively of the world of the arts like juror in official halls of art, speaker in universities, writing on art in newspapers and specialized magazines. It published the books “ Painting and Word ” and “ Art: Emotion and Dialog ”.

He's counselor and one of the idealizadores of the Museum of Art of Montenegro, in Rio Grande do Sul. At present, he divides the time between the ateliers of Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo, in the Peixoto Gomide's street, near to the MASP. He is in the next dictionaries: Art Trade International Guide of Quotation, of Narcizo Martins, in Porto, Portugal, 1993; Plastic Arts Brazil, of Julio Louzada, Sao Paulo, several publications; Dictionary of Plastic Arts in Rio Grande do Sul, of Renato Rosa and Décio Presser, Porto Alegre, l997; Art and Artists, Sao Paulo, 2002/2003 and Yearbook of Art, Barcelona, Spain. 2002.

Quoted in the books: Act Architecture and Decoration, of Renato Andreuchetti, Porto Alegre, 1998; Art Brazil, Series Brazilian Artists, vol. 9 and Plastic Arts Brazil 500, R Editora, Belo Horizonte, 2000 and Brazilian Yearbook of Plastic Arts, Belo Horizonte, 2001, being the cover of the book, and carried out more than 20 individual exhibitions and more than 150 national and international collective ones where it obtained, between other prizes: Golden medal CULTUR-RS; Silver medal in Rio Claro-SP; Medal of the Artistic Cultural Merit UNAP-SP; Revelation Award World Talents in Miami; Honors Distinction CIAB VIII in Rome; Prize Detaches England Best Art in Eastbourne; Distinction Relecturas in Guadalajara; Master Gold Medal Fascination Best Art in Miami; the UNAP-SP Detaches Prize in Plastic Arts for; Order of the Merit of the Plastic Arts in the Rank of Official Knight's Degree , for the National Union of the Plastic Artists, Sao Paulo-SP; Great Medal from Gold in the “ Edinburgh Best Art Show ”, Scotland, United Kingdom, Gran Medalla de Oro, “II Exhibición Extraordinaria de Arte”, Madrid, España; Master Gold Medal in “II Fantastique Exposition de L’art, Paris, France. He also participated of the Off Bienal 2, in the MUBE in Sao Paulo-SP