Bank Collections / Galleries by Neri Bastiacich
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Banks, museums and galleries
By Neri Bastiancich and…
….Giulia Casertelli!
Correspondent from Rwanda
Banco Central do Brazil
Banco Central is the Brazilian Monetary Autority. Founded in
1964, is an autonomuos federal institution and part of the
National Financial System. It carry out the functions of the
government banks.
1. ART COLLECTION
The collection comprises works received in the ‘80 as
payment in kind for financial institution debts.
4500 works. The 200 deemed more valuable and expressive
were incorporated in the Central Banks artistic assets. The
aim is to secure the their preservation and exhibition to the
Brazilian and international community.
2. CULTURAL CENTRES
Central bank has 3 cultural centres:• Brasilia. Inaugurated in 1980, is now an important centre of
expression for artists. Aside providing services for the community it offers to the emplyees a permanent contact with contemporary artistic events.
• Belo Horizonte. Inauguraed in 1981, is an exhibition space in the headquarter of the bank and offers exhibits, seminars, cncerts…
• Sao Paulo. It was inaugurated in 1990 with an exhibition of works by the Bank’s employees. Now it offers exhibition of varied art’s forms.
3. MUSEUM OF MONEY
Objective: preserving the nation's heritage on the progress of means of payment, based on the principle that money is an important form of people's cultural expression, and an essencial element in economic History.
Banco ItaùBanco Itaù is a publicly quoted bank with headquarters in
Sao Paulo. Itaù is currently merging with Unibanco of Brazil
to form Itaù Unibanco Holding S.A. wich will be the largest
conglomerate in the Southern Emisphere and one of the 20
largest in the world.
Corporate social responsability:
1. Fundação Itaù Social - http://www.fundacaoitausocial.org.br/
Founded in 2000, the activities focus on the creation and implementation of public, educational and social activities and projects.
2. Itaù Cultural - http://www.itaucultural.org.br/index.cfm?cd_pagina=2675
The Institute offers free access to the main archive of Brazilian coins (Itaù Numismatica or Museu Herculano Pires) and, through the mediateca, to more than 30 millions documents regarding Brazilian arts and culture (such as books, movies, magazines, CDs, etc.)
THE GLOBAL TURN OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN BRAZILIAN COLLECTIONS
The forum examined the global turn in contemporary art in different global contexts. The aim is to build up a body of comparative knowledge that can be duscussed and applied in a cross-culture perspective. (Global Art and the Museum-GAM Project, Hans Belting)
Two main questions for the Brazilian workshop:
• What is the response to the global expansion of contemporary art in Brazil today? Does a Brazilian audience as yet have any experience of a new situation in what we call global art? Or is the dichotomy between international (Western) art and local Brazilian art production still prevailing?
• What is the institutional presence of the contemporary? What role do museums play, as opposed to galleries and private collections? How do museums deal with the global turn in today’s art in their collection and exhibition policies? To what extent is contemporary Asian or African art present in Brazilian collections?
CONT..Other aspects of the topic to be considered as far as museums are concerned are:
• The suppression of ethnic art, frequently to be observed as a result of a new global art production
• The new museum geography and the agenda of newly founded contemporary art museums
• Art history after Modernism (Belting) and global art history • The de-centralization of the concept of art
Most participants agreed that such an open discussion had not happened before. They saw the global turn of contemporary art as a stimulus to rethink the discussion about art and art collections in Brazil.See links:http://www.globalartmuseum.de/site/cr_brazil
Contacts
Martin Grossmann: Forum Permanente for Arts Museums and director of the Centro Cultural Sao Paulo.
Mail: mg@usp.br tel: +55 11 3091 4076
Links: http://www.forumpermanente.org/Members/martin-grossmann/martin-grossmann/
http://www.forumpermanente.org/journal/articles/forum-eng
Joachim Bernauer: Goethe Institut Sao Paulo
Mail: bernauer@saopaulo.goethe.org Tel: +55 11 3088-4288
MUSEUMS
Brasilian Museum of Sculpture – Sao Paulo
MAMThe Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo is part of the cultural history
of Latin America. It was founded in 1948 as one of the continent's first
modern art museums by Italian-Brazilian entrepreneur Francisco
Ciccillo.
The permanent collection has 4500 works
Dating from 1950 to the present. In 1963 part
Of the collection moved to the Museum of
Contemporary Art.
In the past 15 years the museum started also
politics of talent scouting and promotion of
Artists.
MASP
The Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo was founded in 1947 by Assis
Chateaubriand and by the Italian art critic Pietro Maria Bardi. The
building, ideated by the Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, was inaugurated
in 1968.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea of Univrsidade de São Paulo
The USP has an outstanding collection of around 8,000 pieces of art,
including paintings, prints, drawings etc. The collection offer an
interesting panorama of Italian and Brasilian art of the ‘900.
The Museum is “is a classroom, a laboratory, an open forum for any
kind of discussion and creation that expresses the density of
contemporary and modern art.”
Suggeted link: http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/museums
ART GALLERIES - SCENARIO
GALERIA LUISA STRINAOpened in 1974 is the oldest contemporary art gallery in Sao
Paulo. It focus mainly on abtract and conceptual Art.
Exhibition of Marcius Galan, born in Indianapolis (USA), lives and
works in Sao Paulo.
GALERIA VIRGILIOThe gallery is an altrnetative in the art market. The gallery conduct an
intensive and systematic mapping of art produced by young artist,
making their work visible and creating space for the new generation.
The intention is to provide some criteria that may guide the market in
Terms of its cultural outook and the production of values. The gallery
also acquire works in order to create a collection.
Exhibition: Adams Carvalho
GALERIA FORTES & VILLAÇAFounded in 1992, in the past ten years has been costantly present at
the most important art fairs all over the world: Art Basel & Miami,
Frieze, etc. It represents both foreign and Brazilian artists. Some are
Vik Munitz, Damian Ortega, Carlos Bevilacqua…
Present Exhibition: Nudes, with works of 57 artists.
BOA VIAGEM
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