This exhibition presents a selection of 25 artworks by 17 artists received in the Long-term Loan MASP B3 – BRASIL, BOLSA, BALCÃO, in honor of the former board members of BM&F e BOVESPA, for a period of 30 years. The complete group, which includes 66 artworks by 28 artists, that once belonged to the collections of the former BM&F and BOVESPA, and were in their offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo before arriving at MASP. This is a gesture of great generosity from B3, which through this loan allows MASP to share with its visitors artworks spanning a period of about one hundred years of Brazilian art.
The Long-term loan MASP B3 consists of an extensive set of works, beginning with academic artists from the late 19th century, such as Benedito Calixto (1853–1927) and Antonio Parreiras (1860–1937). The most outstanding segment is that of Brazilian modernism, with truly extraordinary paintings by Alberto da Veiga Guignard (1869–1962), José Pancetti (1902–1958), Emiliano Di Cavalcanti (1897–1976), Candido Portinari (1903–1962) and Anita Malfatti (1889–1964). The show also includes artists who worked around abstraction, such as Antonio Bandeira (1922–1967), women artists like Lygia Clark (1920–1988), Maria Leontina (1917–1984) and Ione Saldanha (1919–2001), and even the presence of a self-taught artist like Ranchinho (1923–2003). These artworks fill significant gaps in the museum’s holdings, enlarging sets of works by artists already present in the collection.
The exhibition is contextualized within the long-term show Picture Gallery in Transformation, featuring works from MASP’s collection on the museum’s second floor. The show has a spirit of constant change, with exhibits entering and leaving nearly weekly, due to the rotation of artworks, loans and new acquisitions. With this exhibition, this idea of a living collection is expanded to the mezzanine, on the first sublevel. Little by little, the artworks of the Long-term loan MASP B3, which are temporarily part of the museum’s collection, will also be shown on the glass easels, in dialogue with the rest of our collection.
To celebrate the beginning of this long-term loan, the artwork Mulata/Mujer [Mulatto Woman/Mujer], by Di Cavalcanti, is on display in MASP’s picture gallery, and starting on June 28 it will be part of the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories, in the portrait section, on the museum’s first floor. MASP is intensely grateful to B3 for lending this precious group of works to the museum, which can share it with its publics and thus develop new readings, intersections and researches with its open, dynamic and continuously transforming collection.
CURATED BY Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director, MASP; Olivia Ardui, Curatorial Assistant, MASP; Guilherme Giufrida, Curatorial Assistant in Special Projects, MASP.
