Dutch and Belgian modern art in the MAC USP Collection

• Grant number: 21/11207-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: April 15, 2022
• End date: April 14, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Ana Gonçalves Magalhães
• Grantee: Felipe Sevilhano Martinez
• Supervisor: Chris Stolwijk
• Host Institution: Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), Netherlands
• Associated to the scholarship: 20/14274-9 - Dutch and Belgian Modern Art in the collection of MAC-USP, BP.PD

Abstract

This project studies the artists of Dutch and Belgian origin present in the MAC-USP collection. I have selected 38 artworks by 26 painters from the museum's collection, born in Holland and Belgium, or related to artistic movements in these countries between 1930 and 1970. They are: Constant Permeke, Karel Appel, Pierre Alenchinsky, William Gear, Johann Gutlich, Gerrit Benner, Daniel den Dikkenboer, Koos Hooykaas, Christine Boumeester, Roger van Rogger, Louis van Lint, Gaston Bertrand, Jozef Cantré, Jean Cobbaert, Georges Collignon, César Domela, Wally Elenbaas, René Guiette, Octave Landuyt, Frieda Hunziker, Remo Martini Isaac Monteiro, Antoine Mortier, Gustave Singier, Philip Zilcken. Some of them were winners of Bienal acquisition awards, such as Permeke, Appel and Benner; others lived in Brazil for long periods, such as Gutlich and van Rogger.This research is part of the thematic project, "Collect, identify, process, disseminate. The curatorial cycle and the production of knowledge", and the proposed project is similar to that organized by the research supervisor in Brazil and director of MAC USP, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, on the Italian modern art collection present in the museum's collection. Due to the number of artworks and artists studied and the scarcity of information about them available in Brazilian archives, a period of research abroad was initially foreseen as a fundamental step of the project's development. The central spot for the research abroad is the Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (RKD), Netherlands Institute for Art History. (AU)