Exhibition "Brasilia: from Utopia to the Capital" Automatic translate

At the height of the World Cup in the halls of the Museum of Moscow, an exhibition opens on the history of the capital of the most titled football country. The project about the city of Brasilia, which has already been seen by more than 300 thousand people in 7 countries, will be presented in Moscow from July 4 to July 31.

The exhibition is also dedicated to the 190th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Brazil and Russia and will be held with the support of the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of Brazil and the special assistance of the Brazilian Embassy in Moscow.

Almost 60 years ago, Brazil had a new capital - the unique city of Brasilia, specially designed and then built in just 4 years. In 1987, the city was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The Brasilia: From Utopia to the Capital exhibition includes over 300 exhibits: photographs, audiovisual materials, maps, objects, models and sculptures from public and private collections, collected by curator Daniel Ataide.

Particular attention is paid to key figures in the construction of the city: Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, urbanist and author of the "pilot plan" of the city of Lucio Costa, landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, Oscar Niemeyer, whose buildings became the hallmark of Brasilia, artist, ceramics master Athos Bulkao.

The central object of the exposition is a 6 by 4, 8 meter mock-up of the “pilot plan” of the city of architect Lucio Costa. It is made of panels with high-resolution photographs, all the main structures are shown in 3D laser cutting figures.

The exhibition presents rare photos that capture the birth and today of Brasilia. For example, the shots of Peter Scheyer convey the way of life to Brasilia in the 1960s, in the pictures of Marcel Gothero - “Kandangus”, the builders of the capital, and the modern project “On the Wings of Brasilia” by Joao Faco will show the city from above.

Visitors to the exhibition will see art from the private collection of Izoleta and Domisio Pereira, one of Brazil’s most significant artistic and historical collections. The Brasilia Collection is dedicated to the period of construction of the capital and includes the work of famous artists, from drawings to commemorative coins and sculptures.

Specially for the presentation of the exhibition in Moscow, a bilingual catalog was published in Portuguese and Russian.