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Carnival in São Paulo: Where the World Meets Brazil Carnival in São Paulo is one of the most festive annual celebrations in Brazil. The largest city in Latin America organizes this central Brazilian cultural manifestation full of creativity and beauty. São Paulo Brazil - "Group of Baianas" from Vai-Vai Samba School, in Carnival 2009, on the Sambódromo. Photo: Caio Pimenta Five nights of parades for almost 120,000 people singing together reveal their joy and way of life. Because of Carnival, the city of São Paulo hosts 30,000 tourists, and 20% of visitors come from abroad. São Paulo City Council is the main sponsor of Carnival 2010. This funding supports almost 100 samba schools and related activities. Carnival in Sao Paulo generates almost 25,000 direct and indirect jobs in 52 economic sectors. A study carried out by São Paulo City Council shows that samba schools in Special Group employ 120 to 200 people for Carnival productions: 30% work in samba schools for more than 8 years; 28% work almost 8 months a year in samba schools; and 42% are employed just before the parade; 14 samba schools are in special groups, with an estimated 2,240 jobs. Polo Cultural e Esportivo Grande Otelo, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is one of the largest outdoor event venues in the city. Also known as Sambódromo (Sambadrome), it is administrated by São Paulo Turismo and holds approximately 30 great events a year at Sambódromo, such as Carnival parade, and festivals like Nokia Trends, Skol Beats and Oi MegaRampa. This venue has recently received several international concerts and shows, like Carlos Santana, Jack Johnson, Black Eyed Peas, Elton John, Kiss and others. Sambódromo also offers an infrastructure for concerts, events and parades, like Sete de Setembro parade (Independence Parade) since 1998. There is a reserve for 400,000 liters of water and 1.4 Mw for lights at the track. During the last years, a varied use of its facilities made Sambadrome a venue for different events, including civic events, entertainment, sports or arts. To learn more, visit www.cidadedesaopaulo.com. Jefferson Pancieri - SPTuris |
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| Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection is the first in a series of exhibitions scheduled during the next three years. The show offers an overview of the most important works in the museum’s collection (currently 103 works by 63 artists), revealing the connections between their respective contexts and presenting a sweeping vision of the museum’s holdings. The acquisitions program of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao focuses on collecting works created between the mid-20th century and the present day,complementing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation collections and forging a separate identity. The guidelines that govern these acquisitions include the purchase of masterpieces and singular works by prominent contemporary and post-war artists; the commissioning of site-specific works for the spaces of Frank Gehry’s building; an in-depth analysis of certain artists through a representative collection of works; and an emphasis on Basque and Spanish artists. This first presentation analyzes the collection’s particular focus through approximately 20 works created between the 1950s and the 1970s, generating a dialogue between American artists like Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol as well as their European contemporaries, such as Yves Klein, Antonio Saura, or the Basque sculptors Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. In addition, the exhibition will feature a work by Jacques Lipchitz, one of the 20th century’s greatest sculptors and a pioneer of modern sculpture who notably influenced the development of this field; the piece is called Working Model for Government of the People. Almost two years after the death of Robert Rauschenberg (May 12, 2008), the museum also pays tribute to this great artist with the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts. On view now through Sept. 12, 2010, this show will display nearly 60 creations that reveal a relatively unknown facet of his work with metal, made possible by generous loans from the Estate of Robert Rauschenberg and private collections and institutions in several different countries. After having experimented with his famous Combines—which blended two-dimensional painting with sculpture—in the late 1950s, exploring the collaboration between art and technology in the 1960s, and focusing on the use of natural fibers of paper, cardboard and fabric in the 1970s, Rauschenberg’s artistic attention shifted toward the exploration of the visual properties of metal. In 1986, Rauschenberg began to assemble found metal objects and experiment with his own photographic images screen-printed onto aluminum, stainless steel, bronze, brass or copper, in an attempt to capture the reflective, textural, sculptural and thematic possibilities of the material. The artist continued to work with this new material off and on until 1995. In November 1998, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosted the most comprehensive retrospective to date on this American artist. The show was a highlight of the international exhibition calendar, given the quantity and quality of the works displayed, and emphasized the beauty of the formats presented in Frank Gehry’s recently inaugurated spaces as well as a fascinating language of dialogues and disciplines. Eleven years after that retrospective, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has come full circle with the artist's last series. For a virtual tour and details about current and upcoming exhibits, see www.guggenheim-bilbao.es. |
