ExhibitionJuly 2, 2021
Fulvia and Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Art Déco at MAC USP
The Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Universidade de Sao Paulo (MAC USP) current exhibition “ Coleção Fulvia e Adolpho Leirner do Art Deco” is the result of a donation from the collectors to the Museum at the end of 2020.
The Fulvia and Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Art Déco, came to enrich and further illuminate the existing collection and research on the history of visual arts from the first half of the 20th century under constant development in the institution. This collection is a unique set of works made for the “modern living”, which was so appreciated by the modernist elite of São Paulo, as well as revealing of the modes of circulation of modern forms among us. Some of the objects now received by the Museum complement many other pieces already present in it – such as the works by the Gomide-Graz family and the chairs by Flávio de Carvalho. Finally, it is worth mentioning the furniture that Lithuanian architect Gregori Warchavchik designed for his Modernist House in 1930.
MAC USP entered the history of artistic institutions in Brazil for pioneering the collection of new trends in the visual arts, through the gathering of a set of works and propositions of conceptual art.
The Museum continues to deliver a permanent action in collecting and investigating the history of art of the first half of the 20th century, done since its first decade of existence through the acquisition of works by artists not considered in the narrative of modern art, and beyond the more traditional supports of the visual arts. This was the case of the purchase of 18 stamping studies by Antônio Gomide on the occasion of the artist’s first retrospective exhibition in an institutional environment in 1969, as well as the purchase of projects for murals and other objects of graphic arts and the so-called applied arts authored by Fulvio Pennacchi and Mario Zanini, for example. These initiatives recognized the importance of considering this broader dimension of the modernist project, which was also reflected in the very collection that MAC USP inherited from MAM when it was founded in 1963. Largely raised through the editions of the São Paulo Biennial of Art in the 1950s, the MAC USP’s modern art collection already had some objects and works from sections of the event dedicated to the arts of spectacle, graphic arts and decorative arts.
For more information, visit: http://www.mac.usp.br/
The Fulvia and Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Art Déco, came to enrich and further illuminate the existing collection and research on the history of visual arts from the first half of the 20th century under constant development in the institution. This collection is a unique set of works made for the “modern living”, which was so appreciated by the modernist elite of São Paulo, as well as revealing of the modes of circulation of modern forms among us. Some of the objects now received by the Museum complement many other pieces already present in it – such as the works by the Gomide-Graz family and the chairs by Flávio de Carvalho. Finally, it is worth mentioning the furniture that Lithuanian architect Gregori Warchavchik designed for his Modernist House in 1930.
MAC USP entered the history of artistic institutions in Brazil for pioneering the collection of new trends in the visual arts, through the gathering of a set of works and propositions of conceptual art.
The Museum continues to deliver a permanent action in collecting and investigating the history of art of the first half of the 20th century, done since its first decade of existence through the acquisition of works by artists not considered in the narrative of modern art, and beyond the more traditional supports of the visual arts. This was the case of the purchase of 18 stamping studies by Antônio Gomide on the occasion of the artist’s first retrospective exhibition in an institutional environment in 1969, as well as the purchase of projects for murals and other objects of graphic arts and the so-called applied arts authored by Fulvio Pennacchi and Mario Zanini, for example. These initiatives recognized the importance of considering this broader dimension of the modernist project, which was also reflected in the very collection that MAC USP inherited from MAM when it was founded in 1963. Largely raised through the editions of the São Paulo Biennial of Art in the 1950s, the MAC USP’s modern art collection already had some objects and works from sections of the event dedicated to the arts of spectacle, graphic arts and decorative arts.
For more information, visit: http://www.mac.usp.br/
