To celebrate the 470th anniversary of the city of São Paulo, the Higienópolis-Mackenzie station, on the 4-Yellow subway line, will be transformed into an art gallery dedicated to the work of Brazilian artist Candido Portinari.
Not even the poetry written by Portinari was left out of the exhibition. “The retreatants have been coming with bundles and packages. They come from dry and dark lands; boulders. Painful like sparks from burning coal.” The verses that reflect the reality of the city are represented on the train boarding platform. Next door is a reproduction of one of the artist's best-known works, the painting Retirantes.
The idea of the exhibition is not just to celebrate the city's anniversary and the 120th anniversary of the artist's birth, which took place on December 29th. But still democratize art and make it accessible to a population that, even due to the rush of everyday life, is unable to visit the city's museums. Around 30,000 passengers pass through the Higienópolis-Mackenzie station per day.
The exposure
Parada Portinari, as the immersive exhibition was called, will present 44 replicas of Portinari's works. These replicas will be displayed on panels, glass doors on platforms and escalators. The exhibition will also feature a train carriage completely customized with popular paintings by the artist.
Furthermore, the subway access tunnel will feature special, stylized art on the famous War and Peace panels, the originals of which are on display at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York.
On the boarding platforms, in addition to poems and reproductions of some of the artist's works, information will be presented to passengers about where the original canvas can be visited in the city of São Paulo. The work Retirantes, for example, is part of the collection of the São Paulo Museum of Art (Masp).
Carousel
One of the highlights of this exhibition is the Raisonné Carousel, made up of an LED screen. More than 5,000 works by Portinari will be projected in this space, corresponding to more than nine hours of uninterrupted projection to view the complete collection. The carousel will be installed at the end of a corridor, close to the escalators leading to the boarding platforms.
The free Parada Portinari exhibition began this Thursday (25) and will last for one year. The exhibition is part of the Centenários Project, an initiative by the CCR Group that pays homage to renowned names in literature, architecture, music and visual arts in Brazil that are completing or have already completed their 100th anniversary. Before Portinari, the first artist to be honored by the project was Tomie Ohtake, whose work is being presented at the Faria Lima station on line 4-Yellow.
Source: CNN Brasil
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