“The exhibition In the Landscape of São Paulo – Rebolo and the Santa Helena Group is presented with 2 objectives. The first one is to highlight the group of artists that started getting together in a building at Sé Square, in the heart of São Paulo, in the 1930s – the Santa Helena Palace – invited by the painter Rebolo Gonsales. The second one is to celebrate the relevance of these artisan artists in the context of Brazilian modern art and the social and political transformations of the Revolution of 1930, right after the great impact of the modernist pioneers of the Week of 1922. The professional training of the Santa Helena Palace artists basically happened in the city of São Paulo and its suburbs; they captured the development of São Paulo in the 1930s and 1940s, which was in fast expansion. They all shared a humble background, unlike the early modernists of the 1920s who had international experiences traveling back and forth from São Paulo to Paris. Mario de Andrade called them ‘proletarian artists’. They were immigrants or immigrants’ children who worked with wall painting, decorative house painting and therefore were also called painting workers. Another important aspect is the contribution of immigration with these artisan artists, especially the Italian immigrant work, with implications referring to the history of painting and architecture. Many of them also taught at the School of Arts and Crafts of São Paulo. All these artists stood out for their references to the history of painting, despite their immigrant and humble background. Therefore, it is important to include these artists in the celebrations of the Modern Art Week of 1922 and its developments. That is why the Artistic-Cultural Collection of the Governmental Palaces of the State of São Paulo made a partnership with the Rebolo Institute to present works that belong to the collection of the Artistic-Cultural Collection of the Palaces and the Rebolo Institute in São Paulo.”