Alberto Magnelli: relationship with Brazil

• Grant number: 07/04640-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2007
• End date: November 30, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Lisbeth Ruth Rebollo Goncalves
• Grantee: Tiago Guilherme Pinheiro
• Host Institution: Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work intends to study how the Italian artist Alberto Magnelli contributed to form the historician collection of modern art of MAC/USP by his dialogue with Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho and León Degan. For this porpose it’s necessary to look for the documents of that period - specially the mails changes between them - locating the works of art acquires by the museum according to the artist s advice and the criterias that guided such choice. With this the objective is an analysis that brings a new information for the institutional history of museum and the Brazilian art in the mid-20st century, as well as the gathering and organization of materials able to cooperate with the exhibition "Alberto Magnelli" planned to 2009 in the MAC USP.