The Tucumã Amazonian Design itinerant exhibition has an exceptional framework: the collection consisting of numerous pieces of the tradition and culture of the Amazon Indians that designer Luiz Galvão has collected over thirty years of life in contact with the Indians.

This is what Luiz Galvão wrote as an introduction to this collection of such extraordinary objects:

“... I have put the vision of the artist and not that of the anthropologist in the description of all the pieces. I believe that today’s world needs artists very much more than scientists. Only artists know how to resound, create and produce. Scientists only know how to experiment. 

In my long 30-year experience with Brazilian natives, I discovered that they are much more artists than scientists. I know every detail of their habitat and that they use the least amount of it to create the beauty of their artefacts, objects of daily living. It was they who showed me the infinite colours of the woods of the Amazon. It was they who encouraged me to work with the Arumã, the Cipó Titica, the Cipó Imbé and the Piaçava fibre. It was they who taught me the secret magic of working with the wood of the Tucumã palm.

For these and other reasons I can affirm that the richness and biodiversity of Amazonia are contained in the Indians blood, impregnated in their DNA. Today, my research is the proof of the conservation of Amazonia through ART”.

In this section we want to offer you the pieces of the collection together with the introduction that Galvão wanted to provide us.