Rio Art Museum will have free admission until January 15

Until the next January 15th, the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) will operate with free admission to the public, coinciding with the holiday period. Visitors will be able to see the seven exhibitions currently on display in the equipment, in addition to the belvedere and the hill, already consecrated places in the museum. Among the attractions are two new exhibitions, inaugurated on the 10th. Located on the fifth floor of the Escola do Olhar, the Clara Nunes exhibition presents unpublished photos of one of the greatest singers in Brazilian music, Clara Nunes, telling a little about the artist’s relationship with Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition Ter Histórias e Território, from the University of Quebradas, brings experiences of the breakers students during the Black Art: Philosophy, History and Curatorship course, composed of lectures and exchange of knowledge between artists, professors and contemporary thinkers. The students produced the works and are responsible for curating the show, which occupies the museum’s pilotis and MAR’s library. In the exhibition pavilion, another five exhibitions can be visited by the public. One of them is the individual exhibition Lataria Espacial, by the artist from Pará, Emmanuel Nassar, integrating the popular and the erudite. Visitors will find a full-size executive plane there and will be able to interact with the work. Other attractions But the attractions don’t stop there. On the first floor of the Exhibition Pavilion, the itinerant exhibition of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo – It’s dark but I can sing presents the story of North American abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass based on his portraits, made throughout his life. The show also features works by 13 artists from eight countries. On the second floor of the pavilion, the public will have the opportunity to see the exhibition Agnaldo Manuel dos Santos – The Conquest of Modernity. Held in partnership with Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte, the exhibition brings together more than 70 wooden sculptures by the black artist from Bahia, who died at the age of 35, in 1962. This exhibition will remain at MAR until February 26, 2023. Organized in partnership with the French Embassy in Brazil, the Margens exhibition, by French photographer Ludovic Carème, presents a collection of 68 photos, which will be donated to the MAR collection. The exhibition brings a documental view referring to the harsh reality of Brazilians and will be at MAR until March 26th of next year. The museum’s main exhibition, in turn, A color defect, inaugurated in September of this year, makes a historiographical review of slavery, addressing struggles, social and cultural contexts of the 19th century. The exhibition is based on the book by Ana Maria Gonçalves, which he also signs the curatorship alongside Marcelo Campos and Amanda Bonan. In total, there are 400 works of art including drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by more than 100 artists from Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Maranhão and even from the African continent, most of them black, mainly women. The Museum An initiative of the city of Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the Roberto Marinho Foundation, the Museu de Arte do Rio started to be managed by the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) as of January of this year. The director and head of the representation of the OEI in Brazil, Raphael Callou, informed that the OEI is an international organization of cooperation that has in culture, education and science its institutional mandates, since its foundation, in 1949. For the OEI, the Museu de Arte do Rio “represents an instrument for strengthening access to culture, closely related to the territory, in addition to contributing to training in the arts, having in Rio de Janeiro, through its history and its expressions, the material press for our work”, commented Callou. MAR has the support of the Rio de Janeiro government and is carried out by the Special Secretariat for Culture, the Ministry of Tourism and the federal government, through the Federal Law for Cultural Incentives. Located at Praça Mauá, 5, port area of ​​Rio de Janeiro, the museum is open from Thursday to Sunday, from 11 am to 5 pm.

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