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In 1993, the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art opened the Sculpture Garden with works from its collection and that of the São Paulo City Hall. The initiative created a unique and diverse space for the city, already accustomed to works of art in public spaces, but which now hosted an open-air exhibition in the most visited park in the country. The Sculpture Garden marks an initiative that revived the mam collection in its own, free space with a large circulation of people – a trajectory that turns 30 years old in 2023.
The landscape project was commissioned for the office of the emblematic landscape architect Burle Marx. For MAM's Garden, Burle Marx created his own logic for the arrangement of artistic volumes with modern characteristics, and combined the landscape, the volumes of the works and the intervals in a fruition full of an apparent informality of the curves, approaching the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer around him, particularly in the marquee and in Oca.
The artworks form a heterogeneous group, which shows in an asymmetrical way an important section of the three-dimensional production of Brazilian contemporary art, centered on the second half of the XNUMXth century. To a large extent, this stems from its own history of formation, as some of the works were legacies from various biennials and others were added as mam was able to intervene in the space. Thus, for example, upcoming works such as Exu mola de Jeep, by Mário Cravo, which participated in the V Bienal de São Paulo – integrating the Bahia pavilion by Lina Bo Bardi -, with the steel work by José Resende, donated to MAM by Itaú Cultural, which snakes through the space. In another similar situation, we have the granite sculpture by Lélio Coluccini, The Huntress, belonging to the city of São Paulo, close to works loaded with constructive rationality, such as the sculptures by Amilcar de Castro and Franz Weissman.
The diversity of origins and productions give the Garden an individual relevance in the Park's landscape, which has mobilized mam several times over these 30 years. Changes were made to the set of works displayed, temporary exhibitions occasionally took place, major restorations and lighting projects, in addition to the permanent presence of Educativo do mam in this space.
artworks
Lélio Coluccini, The Huntress
Mauricio Bentes, Untitled
THE TWINS
Since 2010, the entrance to MAM has welcomed visitors with a large painting by the artist duo OSGEMEOS. The unmistakable characters of the duo that we see in different places around the city make up the MAM Garden, which is routinely visited by the park's different audiences. The mural presents a playful scene where animal and plant shapes mix with humanoid figures of different sizes, shapes and colors. The fantastic nature setting, with the violet sky, the vast and dazzling horizon, and the orange water cascades, complements the composition of a dreamy image that also contains references from the urban context. The variety of colors, figures, gestures and actions allude to the multiplicity of experiences and situations that occur in its surroundings and offer the museum and park public a space for imagination and the re-invention of life in the city.
In partnership with Google, the work was photographed to the millimeter and we bring here this gigapixel virtual journey.
It is possible to visit the work every day during Ibirapuera Park's opening hours.
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