Brazilian Collector and Rio Museum Benefactor, Gilberto Chateaubriand, Dies at 97 – RisePEI

Brazilian artwork collector and museum benefactor, Gilberto Chateaubriand, died final week on the age of 97 in São Paulo. Throughout his lifetime, Chateaubriand amassed a sprawling assortment of contemporary and up to date artwork that’s estimated to have spanned greater than 8,000 works.

Born in 1925 in Paris as Gilberto Francisco Renato Allard Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, he was the son of Brazilian media tycoon and lawyer Assis Chateaubriand, whose firm Diários Associados oversaw a big swathe of media retailers within the nation. In 1947, he based the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), the primary museum in Brazil to gather and exhibit trendy artwork. He died in 1968.

The youthful Chateaubriand first started gathering after assembly Brazilian painter José Pancetti at his studio in Salvador, Brazil. There, he acquired the portray Paisagem de Itapuã (Panorama of Itapuã), 1953, a seaside panorama of the realm wherein Pancetti was then based mostly.

The Chateaubriand assortment spans artwork produced over eight many years starting within the Fifties. It contains examples by Maria Martins, Tarsila do Amaral, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Alfredo Volpi, Abraham Palatnik, Hélio Oiticica, Tomie Ohtake, Cildo Meireles, Adriana Varejão, and Claudia Andujar, amongst others.

Since 1993, Chateaubriand has loaned round 6,600 works from his holdings to the Museum of Trendy Artwork Rio. The loan, which started first with 4,000 objects of twentieth century artwork, helped to revive the museum’s picture after a hearth brought on main injury to parts of the gathering in 1978, quickly squandering the establishment’s fame. At this time, greater than 100 works from Chateaubriand’s assortment are featured within the present exhibition Nakoada: Methods for Trendy Artwork, which explores matters associated to Brazilian trendy historical past and colonialism and is open till January.

Chateaubriand served on the executive committee of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and was on the board on the Museum of Trendy Artwork of São Paulo. He was additionally on the worldwide board of the Museum of Trendy Artwork in New York and the Cartier Basis for Up to date Artwork in Paris.

In a tribute to the benefactor, MAM Rio curator Fernando Cocchiarale, described Chateaubriand as “a sort of hero of Brazilian gathering,” calling his penchant for buying new works “irrepressible.”

Luiz Camillo Osorio, a curator at Brazil’s PIPA Institute, emphasised the patron’s assist of artists of their early careers. PIPA, the place Chateaubriand as soon as served as an honorary president, distributes Brazil’s premier up to date artwork prize. “Getting into his assortment meant, for the younger artist, that their trajectory had change into institutionalized, ” mentioned Osorio.