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Opening of Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection (1908-1979) at the Munal·
June 17, 2016The exhibition Anthropophagy and Modernity. Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection (1908-1979) was opened at the National Museum of Art (Munal, for its acronym in Spanish) with 150 works that shed light on the evolution of an artistic movement parallel to Stridentism and based on the Oswald de Andrade’s manifesto of 1928.
The Secretary of Culture, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, said that Hecilda and Sérgio Fadel’s collection is one of the most important in the world and this exhibition will enable the public to discover the parallels with Mexico in its creators’ universality and expressiveness of great strength, the same that place both countries’ expressions in one of the most prominent places worldwide.
Tovar y de Teresa and Brazilian Ambassador in Mexico, Enio Cordeiro, with the presence of Hecilda Fadel and Marta Fadel, safeguards of the collection, presided the opening ceremony of this exhibition that includes works by Hélio Oiticica, Belmiro de Almeida, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Emiliano di Cavalcanti, Cícero Dias, Candido Portinari, Lasar Segall, Maria Martins, Waldemar Cordeiro and Lygia Clark, among others.
The Secretary of Culture of the Government of the Republic said that there are great similarities between the Stridentism movement and Oswald de Andrade’s manifesto of 1928 that led to the Brazilian artistic movement that is presented in our country as a sign of the similarities between the two nations and its cultures.
Meanwhile, Ambassador Enio Cordeiro said that this exhibition, a result of collaboration between three countries, will enable the public to know another side of Brazil through the avant-garde that its artists kept over decades having a strong bond with our avant-gardes that developed in Mexico connecting both nations through its art and culture.
The curator Victoria Giraudo said that Hecilda and Sérgio Fadel’s collection covers three thousand works from the colonial baroque to the present day, an exhibition where you will find in 11 rooms the artists who put that country in the international art outlook, based on the manifesto and referring to anthropophagy, they sought to assimilate all Europe model and transform it into Brazilian art.
The exhibition made up of paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings and graphic works, includes from the first Modernism in Brazil, the relationship between indigenous roots and the international modernization, as well as the new artists’s ways to contemporary art.
Anthropophagy and Modernity. Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection (1908-1979) will run until August 28th at the National Museum of Art. Tacuba No. 8, Historic center of Mexico City.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
