Do objeto para o mundo

de Abraham Cruzvillegas, Rodrigo Moura, Inês Grosso, Allan Schwartzman

The book accounts for the four moments of the formation of contemporary art - the Brazilian neoconcretism, the 1960s production, the Japanese avant-garde group Gutai and the action and performance practices of the 1970's - and shows works produced between 1950 and the first decades of the 2000's The title of the exhibition makes reference to the movement of approach of the object of art to the daily experience of the spectator. With the curatorship of Rodrigo Moura and Inês Grosso, the show features various supportsand media, featuring works by artists such as Lygia Pape, Rivane Neuenschwander, Lygia Clark, Channa Horwitz, Décio Noviello, Hélio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles and Melanie Smith, Gordon Matta-Clark, Abraham Cruzvillegas amongst others. In 2015, Banco Itaú and Itaú Cultural celebrated five years of partnership with Instituto Inhotim. To celebrate the occasion, Itaú Cultural had the honor of opening its doors for the exhibition DO OBJETO PARA O MUNDO [From the Object to the World : Inhotim Collection] the first show of pieces by 29 different artists from different generations, cultures and nationalities that are part of the holdings of the Inhotim Collection, to ever take place outside of its headquarters in Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais.