Jimmy Schönning / Blog: MASP MUSÉU de Arte de São Paulo

I have been MASPED

"One might even think it is ugly, and I say :

MASP is not beautiful,

it was never beautiful.

I did not seek beauty, I sought freedom.

The intellectuals did not like it,

the people liked it. They liked it a lot.

You know who did that? It was a woman"

Lina Bo Bardi

Lina Bo Bardi at MASP
as it was built showing her unique
minimal modernist
art stand in glass and concrete
that is still being
used to day throughout the museum.

The permanent exhibit at MASP still uses the Lina Bo Bardi
art stands in glass and concrete
that offers a unique way to display art.

MASP is currently considered the most important art museum in the Southern Hemisphere, with about 10,000 pieces of art from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas including Brazil, from time periods spanning from antiquity to the 21st century and including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, clothing and other media.

I´VE BEEN MASPED. I TRIED MASPIFIED FIRST BUT IT DID NOT ROLL OF MY TOUNGUE EXACTLY. MASPed meaning,

I have visited and seen the museum

and the exhibit that had the longest line out under the belly of

MASP was :

Tarsila Do Amaral : Canabalizing Modernism (will come back to this exhibit later here on the blog)

On the bottom of my post you

find what I came for:

Lina Bo Bardi : Habitat

Lina has a deeply intimate relationship with MASP

she is the author of this building, inaugurated in 1968,

and conceived exhibitions at the former headquarters of the museum on 7de Abril street from the time of its foundation in 1947 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Brecheret the sculptor (to whom I have not been introduced to prior to this stroll in the park) has created in Parq Trianon you see in the photo above which was part of the magnificent castle of a building that Joaqin Eugenio de Lima owned and when he donated his property to the municipality (which is a story of its own...) with the promise that his view should never be altered which is the reason

WHY Lina Bo Bardi choose a suspended building for it to preserve the view of

the previous owner.

(Don't be to surprised if there are more than 1 explanation. This is Brasil)

Many wanted to build where MASP was planned and other museums were also interested in this prominent city center position at Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo 1968.

Trianon long before MASP was born.

A photograhic recollection of the history of Avenida Paulista
on display in Parq Trianon.

Elevated so that the view would not be
(completely)spoiled.
Which is a kind of funny take on it all,
don't you think?

Interesting is that MASP now so

connected to its red color was meant

to be yellow first. In a later stage

changed to the red columns that

hold the structure of ground

is part of the exhibit on

Lina Bo Bardi at MASP at the moment.

The view of MASP that I love.

The garden balconies placement and impact is impressive.

LINA BO BARDI

THE STAIRCASE at MASP

IF YOU ARE A CONSTRUCTIVIST THEN YOU SEE THAT

THE BASE OF THE STRUCTURE HOLDS

THE ENTIRE PIECE OF LONG NECKED STAIRCASE

TO THE EXTENT THAT IF YOU STAND AT THE HIGHEST POINT

AND JUMP UP&DOWN AND

WEIGH AROUND 80 KG,

LIKE ME THEN THE

CEMENT STRUCTURE MOVES

LIKE A SPRING BOARD.

A very happy me getting a shot (and then using GoArt)
of the whole staircase from a far.
As you see there are no columns holding up
the structure of this gigantic room
perfected for exhibitions without any architecural interruptions.

LINA BO BARDI

December 5 1914- March 20 1992

was an italian-born B

razilian modernist architect.

She deovoted her working

life as a designer

and architect spent

in Brazil promoting the social

and cultural potential

in architecture and design.

Above ground MASP on AVENIDA PAULISTA
you see the held glass structure.
Below ground is the largest
part of the museum
of MASP as seen in this photo above.