Carybé

Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó (7 February 1911 – 2 October 1997) was an Argentine-Brazilian artist, researcher, historian and journalist. His nickname Carybé, a type of piranha, comes from his time in the scouts. He died of heart failure after the meeting of the candomblé community's secular board of directors, the Cruz Santa Opô Afonjá Society, of which he was a member. He produced five thousand pieces of work, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and sketches. He was an Obá de Xangô, an honorary position at Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá. Some of Carybé’s work can be found in the Afro-Brazilian Museum in Salvador: 27 panels representing different spirits of the candomblé religion. Each board shows a spirit with his weapons and his animal of worship. They were sculpted on cedar wood, with engravings and scaling of various kinds of material. The work was commissioned by the former Banco da Bahia ...