• “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”

    Date posted: July 18, 2016 Author: jolanta
    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”. Anita Malfatti Retrato Mário de Andrade, 1922 Óleo sobre tela 51 x 44 cm 76.5 x 69 x 6 cm Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    The Secretaria de Cultura, through the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo Nacional de Arte, in collaboration with MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, present “Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel (1908- 1979). Antropofagia y Modernidad. (Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection (1908-1979) Anthropophagy and Modernity)”

    The Museo Nacional de Arte and the MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires come together to exhibit for the first time in México, a selection of more than 150 works from the Sérgio Fadel and Heclida Collections.

    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”. Tarsila do Amaral Un cubista ou O Modelo,  1923 Óleo sobre tela 55 x 46 cm 69.2 x 60.2 x 8 cm Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”.
    Tarsila do Amaral
    Un cubista ou O Modelo, 1923
    Óleo sobre tela
    55 x 46 cm
    69.2 x 60.2 x 8 cm
    Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    The exhibition includes Works of artists such as Belmiro de Almeida, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Cícero Dias, Cándido Portinari, Lasar Segall, Maria Martins, Waldemar Cordeiro, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, among many others.

    The Secretaría de Cultura, through the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo Nacional de Arte, in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), present the exhibition “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel (1908- 1981).” (Antropophagy and Modernity. Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection (1908-1981) with a large selection of works which come from the Collection Heclida y Sérgio Fadel, one of the most complete and important collections of Brazilian art ranging from the end of the XIX century to the present.

    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”. Di Cavalcanti, Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Melo, dito Menina de Guaratinguetá, c. 1929 Óleo sobre tela 81.5 x 65 cm Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”.
    Di Cavalcanti, Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Melo, dito
    Menina de Guaratinguetá, c. 1929
    Óleo sobre tela
    81.5 x 65 cm
    Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    The collection has a patrimony of more than 3000 pieces that address the history of art in Brazil and its relationship with the modern and contemporary international scene. Thanks to the generosity of the Fadel family, the pieces of the collection have been exhibited in important museums around the world.

    Victoria Giraudo (Curatorship Executive Coordinator of the MALBA) is in charge of the curatorship which has a selection of more than 150 pieces that represent the different modern movements bound to the cultural and artistic construction of Brazil, up to the beginnings of contemporary art. This will be the first time that such an important selection from the Colección Hecilda y Sérgio Fadel will be displayed in Mexico.

    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”. Candido Portinari Futebol,  1935 Óleo sobre tela 97 x 130 cm Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”.
    Candido Portinari
    Futebol, 1935
    Óleo sobre tela
    97 x 130 cm
    Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    Victoria Giraudo mentions that this exhibition “is about an international gaze, that is to say, from outside Brazil, from a neighbor country that shares many cultural heritage, sociological, political and commercial singularities with it, but that is at the same time completely different in its geography, history, people and language. To have a better knowledge and comprehension of its culture it’s necessary to better know the country, which seems to include many countries and diverse communities.”

    The exhibition, which includes painting, sculpture, graphic, drawing and installation, is chronologically articulated in 3 modules, which are also subdivided in different subjects: the first module begins with the first modernism in Brazil (until the thirties decade); the second one explores the autochthonous roots and international modernization (forties and fifties decade); and the last one, reviews the modern rupture including some experiences towards the contemporary (from the sixties decade forward).

    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”. Waldemar Cordeiro Sem título, 1958 Esmalte sobre aglomerado 51 x 51 cm 52.3 x 52.2 x 2 cm Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    “Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel”.
    Waldemar Cordeiro
    Sem título, 1958
    Esmalte sobre aglomerado
    51 x 51 cm
    52.3 x 52.2 x 2 cm
    Exhibition organized by MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires.

    Among the precursors of modernism we find characters like Castagneto Visconti, and the first abstract pieces of Belmiro de Almeida. Modernity is represented with pieces from Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Lasar Segall, Cícero Dias, Cándido Portinari, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, and Ismael Ney; joined by expresionst engravings of Goeldi, Art Decó influences of Antonio Gomide,  pieces of John Graz, and nativist spirit sculptures of Victor Brecheret and Maria Martins.

    The Museo Nacional de Arte received in 1994 a major donation from Maria Asúnsolo that includes a portrait of the muse made by the Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti. This piece had not been shown until the exhibit Los modernos. This time the museum offers an exhibition dedicated to assessing the relevance of Brazilian art in the creation of modern languages ​​in the last century. As modern art occurred simultaneously in different geographies, it is pertinent to present not only the perspective of Mexico and Europe, but also the context in this part of South America.

    The exhibition will also include representative pieces of geometric abstraction, concretism and neoconcretistm pieces of artists such as Waldemar Cordeiro, Lothar Charoux, Anatol Wladislaw, Lygia Pape, Hélio Oiticica, and Lygia Clark.

    From the second generation of the sixties and seventies there are pieces from artists such as Mira Schendel, Sergio Camargo, Waltércio Caldas, and Wanda Pimentel, which reflect the big sociopolitical transformations that happened in Brazil.


    Courtesy of Museo Nacional de Arte

     

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