Building Brasilia
11/16/2011 — 01/15/2012
BIP – Brussels Info Place, Brussels, Belgium
The exhibition Building Brasilia, consisted of 62 photographs from the collection of Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), and it was part of the festival Europalia. The show offered a broad overview of the timing of the capital of Brazil highlighting the main works of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the city. It also presented images of the Bandeirante, the district officially created in 1957 to house the thousands of workers who were attracted there during construction.
The exhibition gathered images of Marcel Gautherot (Paris, 1910 – Rio de Janeiro, 1996), Peter Scheier (Glougau, 1908 – Airing, 1979) and Thomaz Farkas (Budapest, 1924 – New York, 2011), European photographers who immigrated to Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s, becoming essential references in the context of Brazilian photography of the twentieth century.
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