PALÁCIO DAS ARTES - FUNDAÇÃO CLÓVIS SALGADO
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Interesting cultural center on the wide Avenida Afonso Pena with four exhibition halls dedicated to contemporary art.
The Palais des Arts, managed by the Fundação Clóvis Salgado, is an interesting cultural centre located on the Grand Avenida Pena, but connected to the municipal park. Designed by the modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, his facade contrasts in the landscape. Although it was inaugurated in 1971, it was commissioned in 1941 by Governor Juscelino Kubitschek to be the municipal theatre of Minas Gerais, but such as the Sagrada Familia of Gaudí in Barcelona, the cursed edifice suffered intermittent work and remained unfinished for years. Until its final achievement by architect Helio Ferreira Pinto, who has had to adapt the Niemeyer Project to the reality of the late 1960 s and which did 4 years to achieve the current result. Its construction was so long that a temporary theatre saw the day in parallel with the building: The Teatro Francisco Nunes, which was not destroyed after the inauguration of the Palais des Arts. Hit by bad luck, the main theatre room went smoke in 1997, but has since been rebuilt by contemporary architects. Today, the latter is mainly dedicated to the show: opera, theatre pieces, symphonic concerts, dance and concerts of folk music, screening of authors'films, debates and conference, artistic training… It has four fairly broad exhibition rooms dedicated to contemporary art. Exhibits are changing, quite varied and of high quality.
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