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Аннотация: Inhotim is a museum that holds Brazil's largest collection of contemporary art, which originated from Bernardo Paz's (a former miner tycoon) private collection. Located outside the urban area and far from the leading art centres of the country, it has become a place of pilgrimage for art lovers. This chapter analyzes the singularities of Inhotim, which derive from the combination of its great collection with its tropical setting. The role played by tropicality is a central aspect of the museum's value and the way it engenders distinctiveness in relation to other museums in Brazil and elsewhere. Another focus of the chapter is the formation of the collection based on the patron's friendship with conceptual artists Cildo Meireles and Tunga, followed by the institution's paths towards internationalization by the hiring of high-profile art world agents. Finally, it examines the incorporation of Neo-Concrete artists of the 1960s, who turned out to be the glue to the visitors' experience focus of Inhotim. In that way, international artists (mostly from the North Atlantic) and Brazilians are put together into this international Brazilian collection. I argue that Inhotim can be seen as a consecration spot of a southern avant-garde that goes beyond national frontiers. However, this process could not have been possible without the participation of North-Atlantic agents and institutions. Canonization, hence, continues to pass through the central places of the art world, even though it is now enunciated from a geographically new, ex-centric place.
Год издания: 2023
Авторы: Amélia Siegel Corrêa
Издательство: Informa
Источник: Routledge eBooks
Ключевые слова: Travel Writing and Literature
Открытый доступ: bronze
Страницы: 37–60