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CACI
Contemporary Art Center Inhotim
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
ArtNexus No. 55
|  | During the Sao Paulo Biennial, Bernardo Paz invited many personalities from the art world – among them gallery owners, curators, collectors and artists – to what he calls “a dream”. It was a country house located in the state of Minas Gerais, sixty kilometers from the urban center of Belo Horizonte. For this event an infrastructure of flights from Sao Paulo to Belo Horizonte and an hour long journey in bus to the destination were made available. There those invited were treated to an exquisite lunch and then walked through the gardens to admire the 450 works that form part of the foundation.
The landscaper Burle Marx designed the 300,000 meters of gardens in which Bernardo Paz had spent different periods of his life. From the middle of the 1990s – when he began to collect contemporary art – sculptures were installed bit by bit into this idyllic space. It took Ricardo Sardenberg of the Galería Zabruski in New York, Mochen Volz of the Neugerriemschneider Gallery in Berlin, Allan Schwartsman, one of the founders of the New Museum of New York, and Rodrigo Moura of the Museo de Pampulha in Belo Horizonte three years to reunite and install the works of the foundation. Among the most outstanding international pieces are: a sculpture of a mirror in stainless steel by Dan Graham; Volkswagen cars painted by Jarbas Lopes; an igloo in fiber glass by Olafur Eliasson; the fun little cars by Rirkrit Tiravanija presented in the exhibition “Cities on the Move”; a bronze sculpture of 3.2 meters high by Paul McCarthy. Besides this there is a collection of works and installations of the most important contemporary Brazilian artists such as: Glove Trotter 1991, by Cildo Meireles; Organograma 2004, by José Damasceno; Nave Deusa 1998, by Ernesto Neto; Gritos surdos 2001, by Miguel Rio Branco and Palindromo Incesto 1991-1992 by Tunga.
The tour was complemented with plans of the installations and instructions to visit the 7 buildings that house the works and a catalogue with a selection of the most important ones. |  |
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