BRASIL
The paintings of Tania de Maya Pedrosa, full of dazzling colours, and teeming with tiny, smiling people and sad animals, are far from naïve, despite them being frequently labeled so. Naïve artists strive for a sense of realism which is of no use to Tania. Her strokes, falsely childish, are in fact highly effective reductions that build-up texts about life in the sertão, always accompanied by a more profound meditation than the mere chronicle of bygone traditions