Moderna Para Sempre - Brazilian Modernist Photography in São Paulo
01.25.2014
The exhibition Moderna Para Sempre - Brazilian Modernist Photography at the Itaú Collection arrives to the Itaú Cultural institution, in São Paulo, and remains on display until March 9th. Since 2010, part of the collection was exhibited arond Brazil, Paraguay and Mexico. Now, the exhibition brings most of the photographs on the Itaú Unibanco Collection of Artworks for the first time.
Curated by the photographer Iatã Cannabrava, the exhibition seeks to give visibility to Itaú's photographic collection, as well as to focus on the importance of the modernist movement to the Brazilian culture and identity. For that, works of artists like Geraldo de Barros, José Yalenti, José Oiticica Filho, Marcel Giro, Thomaz Farkas, Alemão Lorca Ademar Manarini and Paulo Pires were selected.
The collection has about a hundred modernist ouvres, highlighting works done between the 1940s and 1970s, as the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirantes, created in 1939. The collection also comprises approximately 12,000 items including paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, films, videos, installations, rare editions of literary works and other pieces, collected over more than 60 years and covering the entire history of Brazilian art and important periods in the history of world art.
Tags: geraldodebarros, photography, itaucultural, exhibition, saopaulo, modernism.
Photoforms (detail), Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (1951) (credits: Geraldo de Barros)