Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Modern Art museum of San Pablo

As the South American city that shelters it, this symbolic Brazilian construction wastes art and feels, intensely, the avant-garde. To cross the door of revenue of the Modern Art museum of San Pablo implies contacting the local artistic creation. The fact is that it has arrived at one of the most ancient and important museums of the country, and also of Latin America, proprietor of a rich collection: it presents more of 5.000 works of more than thousand artists representatives of the modern and contemporary art of the country and the world. By his spaces there appear Anita Malfatti, Alfredo Volpi, Emiliano di Cavalcanti, Picasso, Chagall and It looked, between others.

Located in the big green lung of the capital paulista, the Park do Ibirapuera, was founded on July 15, 1948 by the industrialist Francisco Matarazzo and his wife, Yolanda Pentenado, inspired in the Modern Art museum (MoMA) of New York. The construction and the structure
landscape and architectural they were developed by Oscar Niemeyer and his last reform, in 1995, it was in charge of Malú Pereira of Almeida. In his interior it is provided with a library integrated by more than 65.000 qualifications and, in whole, it rises on an area of 6.000 m2, including the Garden of the Sculptures, the restaurant and the area of exhibition.

The MAM takes as a principal target to spread the art and the culture. That's why, in addition to standing out for the exhibitions that populate his rooms, he has a programming of cultural and educational activities, like a wide courses offer. And every two years, as, it takes forward the Panorama of Brazilian Art, one of the most important and traditional exhibitions of art of the country, which began in 1969. To cover it and to know it thoroughly, it is possible to realize holding a permit visits.

For more information: www.mam.org.br

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