Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Established | 1905 |
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Location | São Paulo, Brazil |
Coordinates | 23°32′4″S 46°38′2″W / 23.53444°S 46.63389°W |
Visitors | 397,000[1] (2007) |
Director | Marcelo Araújo |
Curator | Ivo Mesquita |
Public transit access | Luz |
Website | Pinacoteca.org.br |
The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Portuguese for "
After passing through a renovation conducted by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in the 1990s, the museum became one of the most dynamic cultural institutions of the country, lining up with the international circuit of exhibitions, hosting cultural events and keeping an active bibliographic production.[4] "Pina", as the museum is also known, administrates the art space called Estação Pinacoteca (Portuguese for "Pinacoteca Station), or Pina Estação, installed in an old building which was once owned by the DOPS, in Bom Retiro district, where it holds temporary contemporary art exhibitions, the Walter Wey Library and the institution's documentation center, called Documentation and Memory Center.
The Pinacoteca houses one of the largest and most representatives Brazilian art collections, mainly noted for its vast assemblage with more than ten thousand pieces of art covering mostly the history of Brazilian painting in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also noteworthy the Brasiliana Collection, a collection composed by foreign artists actives in Brazil or inspired by the country iconography, the Nemirovsky Collection, with an ample and expressive collection of masterpieces of Brazilian modernism and, recently, the Roger Wright Collection, received by the institute in January 2015.
Logotype and naming
Since January 2006, Pinacoteca uses a logo representing only its nickname, "Pina".[5] According to the director of institutional relations at the museum, Paulo Vicelli, the changing oficializes the name that the visitors were already using. The Pinacoteca Station started being named as "Pina Station", and the Jardim da Luz museum as "Pina Luz". The new visual identity was created by the publicity agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi . The memorable elements from the museum architecture, such as the columns, the wall bricks and the grand staircase, makes appearances in the visual identity.[citation needed]
History
Background
The Pinacoteca origins takes you back to the criation of the
2008 heist
On June 12, 2008, three armed men broke into the museum with a
Collection
The Pinacoteca has a wide-ranging collection of Brazilian art, mainly noted for its vast assemblage of 19th-century paintings and sculptures, one of the largest in the country, as well as for a number of iconic Brazilian Modernist artworks.[3] The collection also includes a department of works on paper, European paintings and sculptures from 19th-century artists, decorative arts, etc.
Innovation
In 2017, IBM partnered with Pinacoteca de São Paulo for the 'Voice of Art' project, using Watson to allow visitors to interact with artworks like 'Mestiço' by Cândido Portinari, Saudade, by Almeida Junior (1899), Lindonéia, a Gioconda do subúrbio, by Rubens Gerchman (1966). through a smartphone app, blending technology with art engagement.[11][12]
Paintings
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Vera Alves de Lima
Cyprien Eugène Boulet
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See also
- Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation
- Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
- São Paulo Museum of Art
- List of largest art museums
References
- ^ (in Portuguese)Alfano, Ana Paula. Istoé Gente. Retrieved on 2008-1-11.
- ^ "Pinacoteca muda logotipo do museu e quer ser conhecida só como Pina - 27/01/2016 - Ilustrada". Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ^ a b Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Encyclopaedia Itaú Cultural Visual Arts, retrieved 2009-11-21
- ^ (in Portuguese)Arc08. Ministério da Cultura. Retrieved on 2009-21-11.
- ^ "Pinacoteca muda logotipo do museu e quer ser conhecida só como Pina - 27/01/2016 - Ilustrada". Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ^ Lemos, Lourenço & Rocha, 1994, pp. 19-20.
- ^ Barros (ed.), 2005, pp. 21-22.
- ^ "Two Picassos stolen in Brazil". BBC News. June 13, 2008. Archived from the original on February 20, 2016.
- ^ "Thieves steal Picassos, Brazilian works from São Paulo museum". France 24. June 13, 2008. [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Quadros recuperados devem voltar hoje para Pinacoteca". Globo.com. August 7, 2008. Archived from the original on January 2, 2015.
- ^ IBM. "IBM and Pinacoteca de São Paulo Train IBM Watson to Talk with Visitors about Works of Art". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
- ^ "How AI Can Make Museums Attractive Again | Js Magazine". 2023-12-09. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
External links
- Pinacoteca.org.br
- Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo at the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural
- Virtual tour of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo provided by Google Arts & Culture
- Media related to Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo at Wikimedia Commons