Inhotim
The Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim is a museum and contemporary art museum located in Brumadinho in southeast Brazil, founded by former mining magnate Bernardo Paz.[1]
Beginning in the 1980s, Paz converted a 3,000-acre ranch into a sprawling botatical garden designed by the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx, a friend of Paz′s.[1] Inhotim, now at 5,000 acres, is vast enough to require 1,000 employees.[2] The garden, which boasts two dozen art “pavilions”, opened to the public in 2006.[1] In 2011, it attracted nearly 250,000 visitors from all over the world.[2] The pavilions include more than 500 works by noted Brazilian and international artists, such as Hélio Oiticica, Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Hirschhorn, Matthew Barney, Doug Aitken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Steve McQueen, Cildo Meireles and Vik Muniz.[1][2] One pavilion is devoted to one of Paz′s ex-wives, the Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão.[2]
Paz has plans to expand Inhotim with 10 or more new hotels, an 15,000-capacity amphitheater, and even a complex of “lofts” for those who want to live amid the collection.[2]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Phillips, Tom (9 October 2011). "Brazilian millionaire builds ambitious contemporary arts park in the hills". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Romero, Simon (9 March 2012). "A Keeper of a Vast Garden of Art in the Hills of Brazil". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2012.