Fluxos do Moderno" exhibition

Flows of the Modern (1910 to 1940)

Casa Roberto Marinho organises an exhibition of
collection to celebrate 100 years of the Week of Modern Art

Exhibition highlights the construction of the Modernist movement over decades and brings together some of its most relevant representatives

The Roberto Marinho House, an active centre of reference and research in Brazilian modernism announces the exhibition Flows of the Modern in response to the centenary of the Week of 22. Curated by Lauro Cavalcanti, director of the Institute, the group exhibition will be inaugurated on March 12, bringing together 43 works from the collection produced between 1910 and 1940, on the ground floor of the House.

The experimentation and diversity of repertoires of some of the exponents of the cultural movement that transformed the artistic language of the country is expressed in the works of the 12 names presented in the exhibition: Alberto da Veiga Guignard (1896-1962), Anita Malfatti (1889-1964), Candido Portinari (1903-1962), Di Cavalcanti (1897-1976), Ismael Nery (1900-1934), José Pancetti (1902-1958), Lasar Segall (1889-1957), Milton Dacosta (1915-1988), Roberto Rodrigues (1906-1929), Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), Victor Brecheret (1894-1955) e Vittorio Gobbis (1894-1968).

The exhibition opens with expressions that date back to the early days of the movement, such as caricatures and illustrations that present themselves as a favourable path to the installation of the modern. Next, the visitor finds the giants Candido Portinari and Di Cavalcanti, who asserted themselves in the 1930s and 1940s in defence of a genuinely Brazilian colour; and Guignard, another important voice of the modernist current. The metaphysical reflections of Ismael Nery, one of the most present artists in the Roberto Marinho Collection, are also part of the group show.

Paintings by Anita Malfatti, Milton Dacosta and Di Cavalcanti exhibited for the first time at Casa - since its inauguration as a cultural institute in April 2018 - are an invitation to the most assiduous frequenters of the space in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro's south zone. The exhibition brings together other works rarely seen by the public, such as the six paintings by Pernambuco artist Roberto Rodrigues, brother of writer and playwright Nelson Rodrigues.

Three sculptures by Brecheret, the famous canvas "The bull (Landscape with bull)", c. 1925 by Tarsila do Amaral, and paintings by Pancetti and and Vittorio Gobbis make up the selection. All the works are within the arc of the three decades that guide the curatorship.

According to Cavalcanti, "exhibitions and studies in various Brazilian institutions both praise and relativise the importance of the Week of Modern Art, pointing out the lack of attention paid to movements in other regions and/or raising questions that, perhaps, reflect no more than the transposition of contemporary agendas to another time".

According to the curator, the Week of 22 is certainly not the inaugural milestone of modernity, but the relevance and symbolism of those February days at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo is indisputable:

"Understandable, but oversimplifying, to choose a precise date for its awakening. The movement took shape in Brazilian art in slow and successive ruptures, over decades, through immigrant artists and Brazilians who went to study in Europe. And it acquired its own character through metabolisations which made its accent unique. The works of the collection now on show at Casa Roberto Marinho, a place devoted to Brazilian modernism, belong to this continuous flow", concludes the curator.

The show runs until June 26, with online booking through the institute's website.

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Flows of the Modern

Opening: 12 March 2022

Closing date: 26 June 2022

Roberto Marinho House

Rua Cosme Velho, 1105

Rio de Janeiro - RJ

Tel: (21) 3298-9449

www.casaroberomarinho.org.br

Instagram: @casarobertomarinho

Regular opening hours:

Tuesday to Sunday, from 12h to 18h

Tickets: R$ 10 (full) / R$ 5 (half price)

On Wednesdays, admission is free.

On Sundays, the "family ticket" costs R$10 for groups of four people.

CRM respects all gratuities provided by law.

Free parking for visitors, in front of the site, with capacity for 30 cars.

Casa Roberto Marinho is accessible for people with physical disabilities.