Photos and paintings of 75 Brazilian and foreign artists on display at Casa Roberto Marinho depict the last 120 years of Rio de Janeiro. Sample “Rio: desire for a city | 1904-2024” makes an ode to the capital of Rio de Janeiro, with works from different aspects, goes on display on Saturday (11), at noon.
Starting from the date of birth of journalist and businessman Roberto Marinho (1904-2003), who would have turned 120 years old, the press conference displays 139 pieces and others 46 expanded works and plotted on the walls of the institute.
There are also drawings, sculptures, videos, models, design pieces, posters and publications presented in eight exhibition centers that express the complexity and cultural diversity of the Marvelous City: “Body”, “Living”, “Celebrating”, “Concentrating”, “Airport”, “Designing”, “Building” and “Remembering”.
“We created rooms for the architecture, design, traditions and literature produced here, considering that Rio is a character city in which nature and culture are inseparable. Music is also relevant at various moments in the exhibition”, explains Lauro Cavalcanti, director of the institute at Cosme Velho and one of the exhibition’s curators.
Another curator is Marcia Mello, whose area of knowledge is photography. According to her, postcards were avoided at the exhibition.
“We brought works that exalt, at the same time as they stress, the beauty of Rio.”
Photographs of Alair Gomes, Anna Kahn, Cristiano Mascaro, Custódio Coimbra, José Medeiros, Leonardo Aversa, Marc Ferrez, Pierre Verger, Renan Cepeda and Vincent Rosenblattbetween others.
The photos are presented in dialogue with works by artists such as Allan Weber, Carlito Carvalhosa, Carlos Vergara, Di Cavalcanti, Djanira, Ismael Nery, Jarbas Lopes, J. Carlos, Luiz Alphonsus, Rivane Neuenschwander and Tarsila do Amaral.
Other highlights of the exhibition:
- room dedicated to the composer and painter’s production Heitor dos Prazeres (1898-1966);
- painting painted by Clarice Lispector;
- poems by Vinicius de Moraes It is Carlos Drummond de Andrade;
- texts from Lima Barreto It is João do Rio;
- sheet music of Heitor Villa-Lobos;
- sketches of Oscar Niemeyer;
- a self-portrait of Santa Rosafrom 1937;
- photographs of exponents such as Topper, Chiquinha Gonzaga It is Great Othello;
- exhibition multimedia with chronology illustrated by cartoons and newspaper publications;
- parallel show displays cinema classics in the exhibition and Globoplay (find out more below);
- TV will show images of the deceased Channel 100the newsreel founded in 1957 by producer Carlos Niemeyer that showed in Rio cinemas, before the films, a newsreel with a documentary view in slow motion of the main games of the round;
- some of best Brazilian album covers made by the record label Elenco, between the 1950s and 1960s;
- copies of Rio Magazineedited and directed by Roberto Marinho in the 1950s, who featured great artists on his covers, such as Di Cavalcanti It is Roberto Burle Marx.
Shows at the cinema and on Globoplay
As a parallel activity, a themed exhibition about Rio will be on display both at the Casa Roberto Marinho cinema and on the Globoplay platform, open free of charge to non-subscribers.
In classics such as “Macunaíma”, by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade; “Terra em trance”, by Glauber Rocha; “Rio 40ºdegrees”, by Nelson Pereira dos Santos; and “Central do Brasil”, by Walter Salles, different perspectives on the city are presented.
The exhibition brings together works from the Roberto Marinho Collections, the Rio Art Museum, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Moreira Salles Institute, the Hélio Oiticica Project, the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation, the Cinemateca Brasileira and private collectors.
The curatorship is by Lauro Cavalcanti, Marcia Mello and Victor Burton, with consultancy from executive Jorge Nóbrega (former president of Grupo Globo), collector Luiz Chrysostomo and architect Pedro Mendes da Rocha.
‘Rio: desire for a city | 1904 to 2024’
- Opening: May 11, 2024, from 12pm to 6pm
- Closing: July 21, 2024
- Visitation: Tuesday to Sunday, from 12pm to 6pm (on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, Casa Roberto Marinho opens its green area and café from 9am)
- Location: Instituto Casa Roberto Marinho – Rua Cosme Velho, nº 1105
- Tel: (21) 3298-9449
- Tickets on sale exclusively at the box office: R$10 (full price) / R$5 (half price)
- On Wednesdays, the entry is free for all audiences.
- On Sundays, “family ticket” for R$10 for groups of four people.
- Casa Roberto Marinho respects all gratuities provided for by law and is accessible to
- people with physical disabilities.
- Free parking for visitors, in front of the site, with capacity for 30 cars.
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