Playgrounds

From March 17 to July 31, 2016, the MASP presents the contemporary art project Playgrounds, which will feature six new proposals from artists and collectives around what is the common space, leisure, fun and participation of the public at the Museum. The guests are: Ernesto Neto (Rio de Janeiro), Yto Barrada (Morocco), APT artist Céline Condorelli (France / England), Rasheed Araeen (Pakistan / UK) and the collective Contrafilé Group (São Paulo) and The Whole Group (São Paulo) .

The Playgrounds name is appropriate individual eponymous exhibition of Brazilian artist Nelson Leimer held at the inauguration of the building MASP on Paulista Avenue, in 1969. The exhibition Playgrounds of Leirner, occupied the museum Go Free with a number of willing participatory works outdoors, turning the street and urban space and blending the boundaries between art and life. The new assembly Playgrounds, however, does not intend to recreate the original exhibition with works by Leimer, but retrieve the size of the engagement and the game as an emancipatory form and a way of organizing social and collective life of the museum community.

This dimension is also present in the museum conception of Lina Bo Bardi architecture, which attached great importance to public space and the possibilities it offers in the community building process. In one of Lina's drawings to the museum, practicable Sculptures Belvedere Museum Art Trianon (1968), the architect portrays the Go Free area as a playground for children. With this proposal, the children not only would bring joy to the museum, but could also be interested to enter it and see the collection of their own accord.

In 2016, Playgrounds is an interdisciplinary project, which will occupy the Go Free (tbc) and the 2nd basement of the MASP, integrating exposure to public programs and museum mediation initiative that is part of the reform of the education program started in 2015. Thus, Playgrounds seeks to establish spaces for dialogue and activities in their own exhibition space. Education, once a "service" offered after the design of exhibitions, spreads throughout the museum - understood as a living environment, training and knowledge sharing that can engage different audiences in different ways.

Playgrounds is curated by Adriano Pedrosa (Artistic Director of the MASP), Julieta González (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art) and Luiza Proença (curator Mediation and Public Programs).