Category Archives: Artwork

Contemporary Dialogues, Brazil National Museum of Fine Arts

In commemoration of the national date of France, the National Museum of Fine Arts opened, together with the Consulate General of France in Rio de Janeiro, the Contemporary Dialogues exhibition. The show brings together about 100 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints. The visitor will be able to glimpse…

Contemporary Dialogues, Brazil National Museum of Fine Arts

Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art Gallery, Brazil National Museum of Fine Arts

A wide and rich panel of national art from the 20th century and today, awaits the visitor to the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art . With more than 1,800 m² of area and filled with around 170 works from the Museum’s collection on a permanent basis, the Gallery…

Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art Gallery, Brazil National Museum of Fine Arts

19th Century Brazilian Art Gallery, Brazil National Museum of Fine Arts

Probably the largest art gallery in the country, it concentrates in one space no less than the most significant authors and works produced in the 19th century in Brazil. As if that weren’t enough, it is the oldest permanent art gallery in Rio de Janeiro, because at the beginning of…

19th Century Brazilian Art Gallery, Brazil National Museum of Fine Arts

Moldings Gallery I and II, Brazil National Museum of Fine Arts

One of the postcards of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the two Molding Galleries are home to more than 150 plaster works. This magnificent collection consists of pieces molded on originals from the Hellenistic, Roman, and classical Greek period (the so-called Golden Age). Most of the Moldings exhibited in…

Moldings Gallery I and II, Brazil National Museum of Fine Arts

Art in Brazil: a story in the São Paulo Pinacoteca

The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo presents its new long-term exhibition Arte no Brasil: a story at the Pinacoteca São Paulo, which occupies the entire second floor of the building on Avenida Tiradentes with works from its collection, and marks a new and outstanding stage in the centenary tour…

Art in Brazil: a story in the São Paulo Pinacoteca

Kandinsky: everything starts at one point, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro

The exhibition “Kandinsky: everything starts at one point”, presents the history and creative universe of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). The exhibition brings together more than a hundred works and objects by the artist, his contemporaries and his influences. They are paintings, photos, books and letters from Russian and contemporary artists. On…

Kandinsky: everything starts at one point, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro

The Construction of the Nation, 1822 to 1889, National History Museum of Brazil

The Construction of the Nation shows the process of building the Nation and its challenges. “The Construction of the Nation” telling the story of the Imperial State, from its foundation, on September 7, 1822, until the Proclamation of the Republic, on November 15, 1889. The battles with uniforms, war objects…

The Construction of the Nation, 1822 to 1889, National History Museum of Brazil

Portuguese in the World, 1415 to 1822, National History Museum of Brazil

It presents since the Portuguese maritime expansion, its causes and consequences, mainly the colonization of Brazil, until the proclamation of Independence by D. Pedro I. It covers: the period of the Iberian Union, with Portugal and Spain governed by the Spanish Crown; the French and Dutch presence in the 16th…

Portuguese in the World, 1415 to 1822, National History Museum of Brazil

Pilar Citoler: Collecting, a passion in time, Part 1 Painting Collection, Pablo Serrano Museum

Regarding painting, the curator of the exhibition, María de Corral, makes a selection of works from the 60s and 70s, which “cast a selective gaze on the origin and development of Spanish abstraction from the middle of the 20th century ”. Add a small sample of works by Japanese artists…

Pilar Citoler: Collecting, a passion in time, Part 1 Painting Collection, Pablo Serrano Museum

Pablo Serrano Exhibition, Pablo Serrano Museum

The exhibition Pablo Serrano, portrayed portraitist, raises a double glance around the sculptor of Crivillén, taking the genre of the portrait as the central axis from which the sculptor is observed, but also the man. The exhibition has been curated from the center with its own funds and the loan…

Pablo Serrano Exhibition, Pablo Serrano Museum

La Boite: Odyssey of a thinking head, Pablo Serrano Museum

La Boîte (La Caja) is a creative project of a constructive and material nature. It consists of an installation made up of a series of several heads carved from recycled wood and assembled together, generating different chromatic and textured qualities. The heads (Boîtes) contain a world of fictions hidden within,…

La Boite: Odyssey of a thinking head, Pablo Serrano Museum

Salvador Victoria: A painter returns, Pablo Serrano Museum

Coinciding with the commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the death of Salvador Victoria (1925-1994), the IAACC Pablo Serrano exhibits a complete sample of the work of the Aragonese painter. The exhibition has 23 large canvases, original graphic work (drawings, collages, gouaches) and a selection of prints of different techniques…

Salvador Victoria: A painter returns, Pablo Serrano Museum

Caspar Voght Exhibition, Jenisch House

In the west wing on the second floor are the former private rooms of the Jenisch family. Today, the rooms are dedicated to the life and work of the Caspar Voght (1752–1839), a figure in the philosophical and intellectual Enlightenment movement. The Hamburg businessman, together with his friend and business…

Caspar Voght Exhibition, Jenisch House

Busan Biennale 2016, Project 2, Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude

Design concept related to the theme of Busan Biennale 2016; Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, is derived from ‘annual ring’ found on stem or root of trees. Annual ring has different shape depending on rate of growth, but eventually has one line in common like cultural development. Various cultures are developed…

Busan Biennale 2016, Project 2, Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude

Hamyon Wood Carving Collection, Kamthieng House Museum

Kamthieng House Museum’s wood carving collection – ‘Hamyon’. This intricate, carved wooden plaque above the bedroom door is considered a protective talisman for the family, dividing the private family space inside, from the public verandah space outside. Beyond this point, those who are ‘tang-phi’ (literally ‘of a different spirit’) meaning…

Hamyon Wood Carving Collection, Kamthieng House Museum

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