Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM) is one of the most important cultural institutions in Brazil. It is located under the marquee of Ibirapuera Park, in São Paulo, in a building inserted in the architectural ensemble designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1954 and renovated by Lina Bo Bardi in 1982 to house the museum. It is a non-profit Civil Society Organization of Public Interest whose purpose is the conservation, extroversion and expansion of its artistic heritage, the dissemination of modern and contemporary art and the organization of exhibitions and cultural and educational activities.
The museum was founded by Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho, named Ciccillo Matarazzo, in 1948, concomitant with the emergence of the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art, both inspired by the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the fruits of a vibrant cultural environment. and socioeconomic progress that characterized Brazil in the 1940s. Throughout its history, MAM has been noted for its active cultural agenda and important initiatives aimed at the sedimentation and diffusion of modern art in Brazilian society, namely the creation of the International Biennial of Sao Paulo. In its early years, it also gathered a remarkable artistic collection, adding works by some of the most relevant national and international names of the visual arts in the twentieth century.
Successive institutional crises and financial difficulties, however, led to the founder's break with the museum's board of directors, resulting in his temporary extinction and donation of all his assets to the University of São Paulo (which used it as the base collection of his Museum of Art Contemporary). MAM then began a process of restructuring and recomposition of its collection, today focused on contemporary art, despite its denomination. It remained, however, as an important reference in the cultural life of the country.
The collection now has over 5,000 pieces, most produced by active Brazilian artists from the 1960s onwards. It maintains the Sculpture Garden, a 6,000 m² space designed by Roberto Burle Marx, where works from the open-air collection are exhibited. It has one of the largest specialized art libraries in the city of São Paulo, with more than 60,000 volumes, as well as its own publishing sector, responsible for catalog editing and the quarterly magazine Moderno. Since 1969 he has organized the biennial Panorama of Brazilian Current Art Panorama, one of the most traditional periodical exhibitions in the country and an important tool for expanding the collection.
Created in 1948 by the Italian-Brazilian industrialist and patron Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho (Ciccillo Matarazzo) and his wife, the famous São Paulo aristocrat Yolanda Penteado, the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, was one of the first institutional seats of modernist artistic production in the country. .
The museum model was that of New York's MoMA, then chaired by Nelson Rockefeller, who had given instructions and works for the new foundation.
In the collection there are paintings by Anita Malfatti, Aldo Bonadei, Alfredo Volpi, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Jose Antonio da Silva, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Mario Zanini, Pablo Picasso and Raoul Dufy, among others. Most had belonged to the private collection of Matarazzo and his wife, the famous Yolanda Penteado.
MAM's inaugural exhibition, entitled From figurativism to abstractionism, deepened a discussion that had begun years earlier about the opposition between figurative (nature-representing) art, which was already thought to be retrograde, and abstract (subjective) art, which had emerged two times. decades earlier in Europe, considered the forefront of the fine arts.
Organized by the museum's director at the time, Belgian art critic Léon Degand, the exhibition brought together 95 works, mainly from European artists - as financial problems prevented the arrival of works originating from the United States.
Names like Jean Arp, Alexandre Calder, Waldemar Lamb, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Francis Picabia and Victor Vasarely could be seen in this exhibition. All abstractionists.
Schedule:
monday Closed
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm
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