On Nature. On Nature Travel Does Instituto Inhotim, a 240-hectare art park and botanical garden in south-east Brazil, represent a new kind of institutional operation? Chris Burden Beam Drop (1984/2008) I am on a parched hilltop some 60 miles from Belo Horizonte, south-east Brazil. Galeria Adriana Varejão ‘Mr Tim’ (‘Ino–’ is local dialect for ‘señor’) was the nickname given to the man who used to farm the land that now comprises the 240-hectare art park and botanical garden, Instituto Inhotim. Hélio Oiticica Invençaõ da cor, Penetrável Magic Square No. 5 – De Luxe (The Invention of the Colour Penetrável Magic Square No. 5 – Deluxe) (1978) Inhotim sits just outside the town of Brumadinho in the Minas Gerais mining region.
Matthew Barney De Lama Lâmina (From Mud, A Blade) (2004–9) Inhotim is seductively beautiful. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Desert Park (2010) Paz first started collecting contemporary work at the suggestion of his friend, the artist Tunga, whose work is also represented at Inhotim. Dan Fox. TerrorHaza.hu. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org.
The Getty. Home. Home | Southbank Centre. Palazzo Grassi. Musée d'Art Moderne - Paris.fr. Tate Modern: International modern and contemporary art. Palais de Tokyo. Where dreams come true | The Art Newspaper. Collectors Brazil Deep in the Brazilian jungle, Inhotim’s founder Bernardo Paz offers artists a place to realise their most ambitious projects By Cristina Ruiz.
Features, Issue 218, November 2010Published online: 22 November 2010 Lost in the jungle (from top): Matthew Barney's "De Lama Lamina" in a geodesic dome designed by Paula Zasnicoff Cardoso, Chris Burden's "Beam Drop" and Doug Aitken's "Sonic Pavilion" There is a place in the Brazilian jungle where artists are told to make their dreams come true. This is a place where the usual institutional limitations do not apply: where there is endless space to realise projects, no time limit in which to make them, and plenty of money to pay for them. This place is Inhotim, a remote exhibition centre in rural Brazil set up by the mining magnate Bernardo Paz, which is arguably the most ambitious contemporary art museum ever conceived. Like Barney, other artists have been encouraged to realise their visions at Inhotim.
Art in the jungle Email* Name* Inhotim. A “subversive Disneyland” at the end of the world | The Art Newspaper. Collectors Australia The gambling millionaire David Walsh is opening a museum in Tasmania that will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before By Cristina Ruiz. Features, Issue 215, July-August 2010Published online: 15 July 2010 Tasmanian collector David Walsh owns Jenny Saville's Matrix, 1999 (above), which he describes as "one of the pieces I like most" Imagine a museum that assaults every sense as you walk through its rooms. A museum where the rotting flesh from one work of art is fed to the mechanical digestive system of another so it can be processed and turned into excrement; where the mutilated bodies of suicide bombers are sculpted in chocolate and the Bible and Torah are displayed with bombs inside them.
This is the vision of David Walsh, mathematician, professional gambler, vineyard and brewery owner, who describes his Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) currently nearing completion outside the Tasmanian capital Hobart, as both an “unmuseum” and a “subversive Disneyland”. Making money. Museum of Old and New Art.