THE POMPIDOU MUSEUM PROJECT IN FOZ DO IGUAZU WILL BE PRESENTED AT PINTA Sud | ASU 2024
The next Pompidou Museum project in Foz do Iguaçu will be presented by Luciana Pereira, Secretary of Culture of the State of Paraná, Brazil, at the Pinta Sud | ASU conference, to be held at the Casa de la Integración (CAF) on August 8, 2024. This will be the first Pompidou Center in Latin America.
The Pompidou Museum in Foz Iguaçu is the first satellite in Latin America, with a building designed by Paraguayan architect Solano Benitez. The first Latin American branch of the renowned French institution seeks to transform the city into a cultural epicenter for the region.
The project will be presented during FORO, a series of talks at the Casa de la Integración (CAF) - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. The lecture “Pompidou-Paraná Museum. International Key of Contemporary Art in the Triple Frontier (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)” will feature the participation of Luciana Pereira (architect and urban planner. President of the State Council of Culture, of the State Council of Historical and Artistic Heritage and state secretary of Culture of Paraná) and Solano Benítez (architect, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2016, author of the building project).
Architect Benítez will work with Angelo Bucci, a professor at USP and a key figure in contemporary architecture in Brazil, renowned for his design of the Brazilian pavilion at Expo Seville '92. The museum will be built next to the Foz do Iguaçu International Airport, the entity that donated the land. The building is expected to be ready by 2026.
Pinta Sud | ASU 2024 will be held in Asuncion, Paraguay, from August 5 to 11, with general curatorship by Adriana Almada and a rich program of exhibitions, visits to private collections and artists' studios, urban interventions and a conversation with referents of the international art circuit.