An exhibition celebrating 62 years since the founding of Brasilia, with 300 works on the ideas and historical figures involved in the Brazilian capital, will open on September 15 at the Lisbon Carriage Museum, the organization announced.
As part of the official commemorations of the Bicentennial of the Independence of Brazil, the exhibition has already passed through Paris, Berlin, London, Rome, among 12 cities, and is entitled “Brasilia — From Utopia to the Capital.”
the show, which will remain at the National Carriage Museum until October 30with free admission, it celebrates the 62 years of the Brazilian capital by recounting the historical path that led to the creation of a city that reflects Brazilian modernist thought.
Around 300 works of art and documents, including models of iconic buildings designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer, were gathered in this exhibition on a city conceived as a “complete work of art”and a reference to the new phase of internalization of the country’s public power, previously concentrated on the coast.
The exhibition is the result of extensive research work by curator Danielle Athayde at the Ortega y Gasset Foundation, in Madrid, Spain, and also includes drawings and a photographic model of the urban plan by Lucio Costa, sculptures by Maria Martins, Bruno Giorgi and Alfredo Ceschiatti, and photographs by Marcel Gautherot, Peter Scheier, Jean Manzon and Mário Fontenelle.
the works are of Brazilian public and private collectionsincluding the Moreira Salles Institute, the Public Archives of the Federal District and the Brasilia Collection – Izolete and Domício Pereira Collection.
The transfer of the capital of Brazil from the Atlantic coast to the center-west of its territory, at the beginning of the 1960s, “awakened a feeling of developmentalist euphoria in the Brazilian population,” recalls the organization in a statement on the historical context of the founding of the city. .
The common people, moved by the desire to be part of the dream of building a new city, seat of government, moved from the comfort of their families and their cities of origin, especially in the northeast of Brazil, to the center-west “, describe.
The site “became a construction site of epic proportions, whose nuclei of precarious accommodation, one of them was the Free City, which housed more than 30,000 workers during construction, which lasted three years and 10 months,” he still recalls. .
The exhibition evokes the effort to build Brasiliashared by officials, architects, artists and ‘candangos’ —“workers from various areas of knowledge, generally belonging to the lower classes”—, through historical documents, such as the Pilot Plan project, proposed by Lucio Costa.
The cathedral, landscaping projects, public spaces, such as the City Park, the Itamaraty Palace, are some of the projects that can be seen in detail in this exhibition.
“Brasília — From utopia to the capital” is a production by Artetude Produções with the special participation of the Brasilia Collection, the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil and the institutional support of the Casa da América Latina, the Union of Women of Portuguese language. Capital Cities and the Embassy of Brazil in Lisbon.
Source: Observadora
