Last year the Museu de Arte de São Paulo opened the new 14-storey Pietro Maria Bardi building, named after the institution’s founding director. Five of those storeys are now full of some 190 works exploring the creation of Latin American identity from the pre-colonial era to the present day (4 September–31 January 2027). The show is split into five sections, which explore the catastrophe and culture shock that accompanied Spanish conquest; urbanisation and industrialisation in the 20th century; the emergence of co-operatives, peasant movements and community organisations; the development of Latin American music, cuisine and consumer culture; and the ongoing ecological destruction wrought by logging, mining and other forms of extraction. Maps, documents and textiles also illustrate how ideas, power and ways of making have spread over the last 500 years.
Find out more from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo’s website.
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