ExhibitionJanuary 30, 2020
“Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat” at the Jumex Foundation
Jumex Foundation is presenting “Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat” until May 10, 2020. The exhibition addresses the life, work, and legacy of this Italo-Brazilian architect, designer, curator, museum director, writer, editor, and stage designer. Bo Bardi is recognized worldwide for the design of the Sao Paulo Art Museum in 1968, and SESC Pompéia in 1982, a recreational center for workers in Sao Paulo.
Through a selection of drawings, photographs, and furniture designed by Bo Bardi, the exhibition presents her work as a practice that modified the canon of modern architecture in Brazil and the educational task of the museum by incorporating other types of knowledge acquired by her close contact with popular culture.
This exhibition—whose title comes from Habitat, a magazine founded and published by Bo Bardi and her husband, Pietro Maria Bardi, between 1950 and 1953—presents her as a radical cultural figure of the 20th century who became critically involved in a process of unlearning Western knowledge through her multiple commitments in the expanded field of cultural practice.
Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) studied architecture in her native Rome. Arriving in Brazil in 1946 at the age of 32, she quickly immersed herself in the country’s diverse cultural landscape in order to create a new design vocabulary that stemmed from the unique perspective of her experience, especially from the years she lived in Salvador de Bahia. “Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat” is co-organized by MASP, Museo Jumex, and MCA Chicago.
The exhibition was hosted by MASP from April 5 to July 28, 2019, and will be in Chicago in June 2020. It includes works from the MASP Collection, displayed on the iconic glass easels designed by Bo Bardi for the museum's art gallery, as well as a recreation of her 1969 solo show "A mão do povo brasileiro" (The Hand of the Brazilian People).
For more information visit: https://www.fundacionjumex.org/es/exposiciones/
Through a selection of drawings, photographs, and furniture designed by Bo Bardi, the exhibition presents her work as a practice that modified the canon of modern architecture in Brazil and the educational task of the museum by incorporating other types of knowledge acquired by her close contact with popular culture.
This exhibition—whose title comes from Habitat, a magazine founded and published by Bo Bardi and her husband, Pietro Maria Bardi, between 1950 and 1953—presents her as a radical cultural figure of the 20th century who became critically involved in a process of unlearning Western knowledge through her multiple commitments in the expanded field of cultural practice.
Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) studied architecture in her native Rome. Arriving in Brazil in 1946 at the age of 32, she quickly immersed herself in the country’s diverse cultural landscape in order to create a new design vocabulary that stemmed from the unique perspective of her experience, especially from the years she lived in Salvador de Bahia. “Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat” is co-organized by MASP, Museo Jumex, and MCA Chicago.
The exhibition was hosted by MASP from April 5 to July 28, 2019, and will be in Chicago in June 2020. It includes works from the MASP Collection, displayed on the iconic glass easels designed by Bo Bardi for the museum's art gallery, as well as a recreation of her 1969 solo show "A mão do povo brasileiro" (The Hand of the Brazilian People).
For more information visit: https://www.fundacionjumex.org/es/exposiciones/
