Pinacoteca de São Paulo opens third building in the Luz region

The Pinacoteca de São Paulo inaugurated, this Friday (3rd), a new space, the Pinacoteca Contemporânea, which will be open to visitors from tomorrow (4th). The complex is also located in Parque da Luz, in the central region of the city, next to the museum’s historic building, designed by architect Ramos de Azevedo at the beginning of the 20th century. The facilities were built taking advantage of the buildings of a deactivated state school. space will have free visitation for a month. The project by Arquitetos Associados was chosen, among other reasons, precisely because of the dialogue it establishes with the old college. “It preserves the school setting. This was a very important point for us”, emphasized Pinacoteca’s director, Jochen Volz. He highlighted that the structure of the patio and classrooms was maintained, however, the walls were knocked down, increasing permeability with the park and the surrounding streets. “It is possible to find a Tunga [uma obra do artista que fica na praça central], go to the library or an educational room, coming from the park, without going through a turnstile”, he added. One million visitors The new facilities mean that the Pinacoteca now has more than 22 thousand square meters of total area, including the buildings in Parque da Luz and the Pinacoteca Station, which operates about 500 meters away, in the building of the former Department of Political and Social Order (Dops), organ of repression of the military dictatorship. The expectation is that the state museum can receive 1 million visitors per year. The new facilities, specifically designed to meet the needs of the cultural institution, will also help to house the growth of the collection of works and the library over more than a century of history. “We operate in two buildings that have been adapted over decades to be museums,” said Volz, commenting on the limitations of the current facilities. The Pinacoteca headquarters building was initially designed for the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts. Approximately R$85 million were invested in the works, R$55 million of which from the state government and R$30 million donated directly by the Gouvêa Telles family. Exhibitions and works In the central square of the new building, there is a work by the artist Tunga from Pernambuco. A large installation that mixes chains, cauldrons and chalices in dark metal through which a bundle of copper wires passes. In the basement, the exhibition Chão da Praça: Works from the Pinacoteca Collection was opened. The show is an opportunity to “display works that we wanted to exhibit for a long time and were unable to do”, said Pinacoteca’s curator, Ana Maria Maia,. Part of them are large complex works, such as Tteia, by Lygia Pape. The work, inspired by spider webs, is formed by bundles of metallic threads that come from the ceiling to the floor, with lighting that reveals or overshadows the compositions, depending on the angle of observation. Another highlight is the work Necklace, by Lygia Reinach, which consists of a necklace of ceramic beads the size of a melon, which also starts at the gallery ceiling and rolls along the floor. There are also works in different languages, such as photography, painting and video. An exhibition by South Korean artist Haegue Yang was also opened. These are works with collages that occupy the walls and ceiling of the gallery, in addition to installations that use plastic blinds and fluorescent tubes.

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