Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim
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| place | Brumadinho, Minas Gerais , Brazil
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| Art |
Contemporary art collection
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| Number of visitors (annually) | 250,000 (2011) |
| operator |
Bernardo Paz
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The Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim (Center for Contemporary Art Inhotim; also: Instituto Inhotim ) is an institution with a collection of contemporary art. It is located in Brumadinho in the state of Minas Gerais , a city with around 40,000 inhabitants and 60 km from the capital Belo Horizonte .
The opening took place in 2004 to house the collection of the entrepreneur Bernardo Paz . Today it exhibits works that were created between 1970 and the present. The central exhibition building was designed by the Brazilian architect Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez . The collection consists of 450 works by Brazilian and foreign artists, with an emphasis on works by Cildo Meireles , Vik Muniz , Hélio Oiticica , Paul McCarthy and Zhang Huan . The area is 300,000 square meters.
The exhibition is embedded in a spacious garden, the design of which included suggestions from Roberto Burle Marx . In the outdoor area, surrounded by local forest, two sculptures by the artist Adriana Varejão are exhibited, as well as the mahogany boat by the British artist Simon Starling . Thematic tours and educational visits are offered for school groups.
Illustrations
Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez
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Web links
- Official website (English and Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Romero: A Keeper of a Vast Garden of Art in the Hills of Brazil . In: The New York Times , March 9, 2012. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
Coordinates: 20 ° 7 ′ 26.9 ″ S , 44 ° 13 ′ 7.6 ″ W.