Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
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The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Portuguese for "pinacotheca (picture gallery) of the state of São Paulo") is one of the most important art museums in Brazil.[2] It is housed in a 1900 building in Jardim da Luz, Downtown São Paulo, designed by Ramos de Azevedo and Domiziano Rossi [pt] to be the headquarters of the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts. It is the oldest art museum in São Paulo, founded on December 24, 1905, and established as a public state museum since 1911.[3]
Established | 1905 |
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Location | São Paulo, Brazil |
Coordinates | 23°32′4″S 46°38′2″W |
Visitors | 397,000[1] (2007) |
Director | Marcelo Araújo |
Curator | Ivo Mesquita |
Public transit access | Luz |
Website | Pinacoteca.org.br |
After passing through a renovation conducted by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in the 1990s, the museum became one of the most dynamic cultural institutions of the country, lining up with the international circuit of exhibitions, hosting cultural events and keeping an active bibliographic production.[4] "Pina", as the museum is also known, administrates the art space called Estação Pinacoteca [pt] (Portuguese for "Pinacoteca Station), or Pina Estação, installed in an old building which was once owned by the DOPS, in Bom Retiro district, where it holds temporary contemporary art exhibitions, the Walter Wey Library and the institution's documentation center, called Documentation and Memory Center.
The Pinacoteca houses one of the largest and most representatives Brazilian art collections, mainly noted for its vast assemblage with more than ten thousand pieces of art covering mostly the history of Brazilian painting in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also noteworthy the Brasiliana Collection, a collection composed by foreign artists actives in Brazil or inspired by the country iconography, the Nemirovsky Collection, with an ample and expressive collection of masterpieces of Brazilian modernism and, recently, the Roger Wright Collection, received by the institute in January 2015.