A Rio Museum

By MAM Rio

Rio de Janeiro was the most photographed city in the world after Paris until the 1950s, and even today, decades later, the city is still awakening interest of artists and photographers. The exhibition "A Rio Museum" brings together works of names from different generations, born in Rio or not, that somehow relate to the city. They are objects, paintings, photographs and installations in a selection that shows the "Rio spirit" in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating how chaotic and creative this city is. Combining improvisation and rigor, the images reveal the contrast between public spaces of the city and the cliché of the "wonderful city". Amid the hills and streets are informal gestures and geometric structures, where feelings and conflicts and alternate identities remain in flux. The deterritorialized meaning of the spirit of Rio, emphasized in works that alternate notionsof local and global, feeding common concerns and challenges.

Parangolé P4 Cape 1 (1964 - 1986) by Hélio Oiticica MAM Rio

Sugar Loaf with Red Frame (1968) by Glauco Rodrigues MAM Rio

cut on a mountain (2008) by Luiz Alphonsus MAM Rio

The Island (1995) by Luiz Zerbini MAM Rio

Complexo do Alemão (2008) by Paulo Climachauska MAM Rio

The Contemporary Hamlet Does Not Carry a Skull, He Doesn't (1994) by Luiz Zerbini MAM Rio

The Man of the Lonely Star (1967) by Rubens Gerchman MAM Rio

Goal (1940/1949) by Thomaz Farkas MAM Rio

Untitled (c. 1990) by Daniela Dacorso MAM Rio

A Night in Rio (1985) by Victor Arruda MAM Rio

Untitled (2013) by Arjan Martins MAM Rio

Roberto Carlos 3 | Roberto Carlos series (1966/1967) by Maria do Carmo Secco MAM Rio

Bandits/Pants Down! (2013) by Opavivará MAM Rio

Maracanã (2003) by Chelpa Ferro MAM Rio

Summer (1967) by Glauco Rodrigues MAM Rio

Untitled | Entanglement series (1968) by Wanda Pimentel MAM Rio

Crashing Waves in Urca (1999) by Cesar Barreto MAM Rio

To Wander - Corcovado I | To Wander series (2003/2012) by Tiago Rivaldo MAM Rio

Dois irmãos and Pedra da Gávea II - Rio de Janeiro (2005) by Thereza Miranda MAM Rio

Bandit Embrace (2011) by Daniel Lannes MAM Rio

Christ the Redeemer (2010/2011) by Alexandre Mury MAM Rio

Trophy (1989) by Jorge Barrão MAM Rio

Untitled | Christmas at the Minhocão series (2009) by Luiza Baldan MAM Rio

Simple | Everything Fits series (2008) by Maria Tuca MAM Rio

I Love Street Vendors (2009/2010) by Opavivará MAM Rio

Eu só vendo a vista (1998) by Marcos Chaves MAM Rio

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