A Life of Distinctive Presence Born in Belém, Pará, Alcides Santos Coelho was a man who understood the power of a persona. He became known to the public as Alcides Naval, a name derived from his time serving in the Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais in Rio de Janeiro. His identity was not merely a matter of professional history but a deliberate construction of self. He moved through the art world with a calculated sense of difference, often ad…