Pinacoteca do Amazonas

Museum of Visual Arts

The Pinacoteca do Amazonas was created on June 18th, 1965 (law 233), during Arthur Reis' administration, with the objective of developing, preserving, and conserving the State's artistic and cultural heritage. Moacyr Couto de Andrade was its first director. The space is configured in the Visual Arts museum typology, with the mission of promoting the development of artistic culture and keeping long or short term exhibitions of plastic arts and iconography.

Its museum collection is composed of donations from artists and acquisitions made by the State Secretariat of Culture (SEC) and the Amazon Agency for Cultural Development (AADC). The Pinacoteca, during its 53 years, has conquered a collection of approximately 2,300 works of art by local, national and international artists, in the most diverse techniques.

The space is composed of two rooms, bringing together about 270 works of art by 104 artists, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, mixed techniques, drawings, digital printing, installations, and sculptures. They are works by local, national, and some international artists, classical, impressionist, modern, and contemporary. Following a chronological order, the exhibition is articulated from several thematic axes, essential in understanding the development of artistic practices in the country, thus offering a broad panorama of Brazilian artistic production from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries (cherry wall). It also highlights artists from the Clube da Madrugada, who had a great influence on the plastic arts in Amazonas.

In Room 1, there are 86 works in exhibition, by several artists, such as: Vienot et Morisset, French painter who painted "D. Pedro II"; Aurélio de Figueiredo, academism and romanticism, in which stands out "Último Baile da Ilha Fiscal and Banho de Ceci of 1900"; Haydéa Santiago, with the work "Veranista of 1937"; Antônio Parreiras, with "Tormento of 1901", the greatest work of the Pinacoteca, and "Carnaval na Roça", of 1904; Manoel Santiago, who was a draftsman, muralist, painter, art teacher, painted landscapes, seascapes, nudes, portraits, self-portraits and genre painting, with "Cobra grande, Iara and Curupira"; Moacir de Andrade, who in 1954 helped found the Clube da Madrugada, has 7 works on display; the work of Branco e Silva, always focused on the style known as Allegorical Realism, whether in the sacred or landscape genre, presenting the mystical and popular character; the filmmaker and photographer Silvino Santos, with the work "Cortador de Castanha"; the first work donated to the Pinacoteca, by German artist Marianne Overbeck, in 1965, "Menino Canoeiro".

Internationally known as one of the most important landscape architects of the 20th century, Roberto Burle Marx has 7 works on display. Other artists with works in the Pinacoteca are Anísio Mello, Álvaro Pascoa, Afrânio de Castro, Rita Loureiro, Manoel Borges, Arnaldo Garcez, Brennand, Turenko Beça, Paulo Ricci, Da Silva da Selva, Otoni Mesquita, Bernadete Andrade, Van Pereira, and Gualter Batista.

With 184 works, Room 2 highlights the vanguardists Rubens Gerchman, Antônio Dias, Volpi, Ostrower, Anna Letícia, Caribé, Goeldi, Cícero Dias; Enéas Valle, who graduated from Staedel in Frankfurt, PhD in Communication and Culture with the work "Bytes"; Hahnemann Bacelar, self-taught, rebel and genius artist, one of those classical anarchists who confuse art with poetry itself, with 6 works in oil on canvas and several works in black and white studies; Roberto Evangelista, who has participated in several national exhibitions and international biennials, being awarded in several salons; Oscar Ramos, an award-winning artist, designer and director of cinematographic arts, signs as curator of the current exhibition and has 4 works in display; Jair Jacqmont (workshops at the Museum of Modern Art, Parque Lage-RJ) and art teacher at the Claudio Santoro High School, has 4 works in highlight; Manaus Macaco presents himself with an "Installation in wood and mixed on canvas"; Ademir Martins, who carries the mark of the Northeastern man's landscape and interprets the Brazilian being, presents 3 works.

Also noteworthy are Álvaro Páscoa, Sergio Cardoso, Nelson Falcão, the Parintinenses Helem Rossi and Evanil Maciel, Zeca Nazaré, Eli Bacelar, Mario de Paula, Jandr Reis, Acácio Sobral, the Cuban Roberto Fabelo, the Italian Roberto Sambonet, the Peruvian Rosamar Corcuera, the Spanish Roser Bru, Iolovitch, the Lebanese sculptor Odette Eid, among other great names.

Address

Heliodoro Balbi Square (inside the Provincial Palaces/n, Centro - Cep: 69.005-260)

Hours of operation

Tuesdays to Fridays, from 9am to 5pm; Saturdays, from 9am to 2pm. Free admission

Contact

E-mail: pinacoteca@cultura.am.gov.br
Phone: (92) 3631-6047

Source: Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy