A collection of Italian modern art in Brazil and the Roman artistic milieu in the 1930s

• Grant number: 19/12084-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: October 01, 2019
• End date: November 26, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Ana Gonçalves Magalhães
• Grantee: Ana Gonçalves Magalhães
• Host Investigator: Tristan Weddigen
• Host Institution: Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Italy
• Associated research grant: 17/07366-1 - Collect, identify, describe, exhibit: the curatorial cycle and the production of knowledge, AP.TEM

Abstract

The project to be developed during the internship period at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome will aim at studying 28 Italian paintings from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP), whose origin and interpretation within the largest set of modern Italian works under investigation since 2009, are still to be properly studied. They indicate another hypothesis of choices and relations of Italian art with the artistic milieu of São Paulo in the context of the creation of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo in the 1940s. Furthermore, this study is in the scope of the thematic project that I develop and of wich I am the coordinating researcher, whose main objective is the research around the collection of modern art of MAC USP. (AU)