Antonio da Cruz

Antonio da Cruz was born in 1956, in the city of Maruim, Sergipe. He lives and worrks in Aracaju, Sergipe’s capital. Effectively develops his works as a visual artist in 1974. At the Alvaro Santos Art Gallery, Aracaju, he performed over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 80 collective...

Antonio da Cruz was born in 1956, in the city of Maruim, Sergipe. He lives and worrks in Aracaju, Sergipe’s capital. Effectively develops his works as a visual artist in 1974. At the Alvaro Santos Art Gallery, Aracaju, he performed over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 80 collective exhibitions. He also exhibited in Brasília and Bahia. Was president of the ASAP (Sergipan Association of Plastic Artists) and director of the Alvaro Santos Art Gallery. He was the head manager of cultural exchange and diffusion of Funcaju (Aracaju’s art and culture municipal organ).
Cruz also worked as an industrial technician at brazilian oil companies. Workin in industry he acquired the knowledge about industrial rotary tools and chemicals he furthermore would use to develop the Holoesgraffito technique. He was an active member of the sindicate of oil companies industrial workers, and one of his most brilliant scultpures is permanently exhibited at the sindicate’s entrance, a sculpture he created to honor oil workers that drowned in a sunking oil station. Other Cruz’s sculptures are in permanent exhibition at government buildings, private companies halls and private condominiums, as well as being of the state’s and those private companies’ and condominiums’ collection. Today he is one of the Sergipe's Government Council Member for cultural matters.