Felícia Leirner Museum and Claudio Santoro Auditorium
Campos do Jordão (SP)
Felícia Leirner Museum and Claudio Santoro Auditorium,
institutions from the Secretariat of Culture from the State of São
Paulo, are located on a 35-thousand-square-metres area, inside one
of the Atlântica Forest remnants, in Campos do Jordão (SP).
Currently, the institutions work by highlighting three elements:
Visual Arts, Music and Environmental Heritage.
Both institutions offer an exclusive space for welcoming and
receiving visitors as well as a free car park, also able to receive
disabled people. Among the projects for the community, there are
the “Chorinho at the Museum Series”, “Appointment with the Art”,
the “Claudio Santoro Series” and the “Orchestra at the Museum
Series”, among others.
Since 2010, the management is done by ACAM Portinari,
(Cultural Association for the support of the Casa de Portinari
Museum), Social Organization of Culture, in a partnership with the
State Government. Apart from the institutions in Campos do Jordão,
ACAM also manages two museological units more, from the interior
of the state, in a partnership with the Secretariat of Culture from
the State of São Paulo: Casa de Portinari Museum (Brodowski-SP)
and Índia Vanuíre Historical and Pedagogical Museum (Tupã-SP),
and still supports the actions of SISEM-SP (State Museums
System).
Felícia Leirner Museum
Installed since 1978, in Campos do Jordão, and officialised in
2001, the collection of the museum gathers 85 sculptures by the
artist, of bronze, white cement and granite, spread outdoors, by the
own artist criterion, on the grass and along the edges of groves on
the space of the garden which is shared with the Claudio Santoro
Auditorium. The artworks show the artist’s passion for the nature
and portray the set of her work that can be divided into five phases:
Figurative (1950 to 1958), Heading Towards the Abstraction (1958
to 1961), Abstract (1963 to 1965), Organic (1966 to 1970) and
Landscape Cutouts (1980 to 1982).
The museum collection was considered one of the most
important on this genre in the world, by the Sculpture Magazine,
from the International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. (USA), in
1987.
In 2009, the Secretariat of Culture from the State of São Paulo,
through ACAM Portinari, started a preservation project for the
artworks. The professional responsible was Júlio Moraes. The
institution has a modern visual identification project, with a device
signing the start of the visitation circuit and informative texts about
Felícia Leirner and the creation of the institution, as well as the
description of the works done by the artist. Each sculpture has an
acrylic transparent sign, with the title, creation year, materials used
and the phase that the work belongs. The collection has a
permanent conservation program to avoid the objects get
excessively bad-weathered, once they are exhibited over an openair area.
Felícia Leirner
The patron of the institution was born in Warsaw (Polland), in
1904. She came to Brazil, country that she “adopted” as her nation,
in 1927. Her name is the Portuguese translation, from the Polish
word “Fayga”, which means “bird”. Curiously, the passion for
animals and the nature was a memorable characteristic of the
artist’s
Moved by the death of her partner Isai Leiner, in 1962, she
changed the city of São Paulo for Campos do Jordão, to live in a
simpler way, next to the nature. From 1978 on, when Felicia Leirner
Museum was inaugurated, she started to dedicate her last years to
increase the collection that can be seen nowadays. In 1982, she
concluded her production for the museum. She passed away in
1996, when she was 92 years old, at home, in São Paulo.
Through Felícia Leirner’s work, considered one of the most
important artists of the country, that the Brazilian contemporaneous
sculpture began to achieve international traces. After several works
donated to the city, the sculptor linked her name, permanently, to
the history of Campos do Jordão and the Brazilian plastic arts.
Among her achievements are the acquisition of the Museum of
Modern Art from Rio de Janeiro Prize, in 1955, and the Best
Brazilian Sculptor Prize, during the Biennial of São Paulo, in 1963.
In 1957, her sculptures were incorporated into the collections of the
São Paulo Museum of Art (Masp) and the Museum of Modern Art
from Paris (Georges Pompidou Centre), in France. Other
international collections also received her works, such as
Hermitage, in Russia, the Royale de Belgique, in Belgium, the EinHod, in Israel, and the Belgrade Modern Gallery, in Serbia.
Claudio Santoro Auditorium
Claudio Santoro Auditorium, which shares the space with the
museum, was inaugurated in 1979 and is able to have an audience
of 814 people. Its modern architecture mixes rustic elements to
great glass-walls, which highlights the natural light and the
environment landscape, not ignoring the worries about the comfort
of the public. The institution also has accessibility equipment such
as ramps, lifts for disabled people and adapted toilets.
The stage has an orchestra pit, and in the offstage area, big
dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms and a technical area. In the
entrance hall, there is a lounge bar and a café/restaurant. This is
also the house of the greatest and most important event of classical
music in Latin America, the Winter International Festival of Campos
do Jordão.
Claudio Santoro
Claudio Franco de Sá Santoro was born in Manaus (AM), in
1919, and was one of the restless and versatile musician in his
time. Prodigy boy, inspired creator and brilliant performer, dynamic
organizer, playful pedagogue and restless researcher, he developed,
nationally and internationally, an intense activity as composer,
conductor, professor, organizer, manager, columnist, juror,
Brazilian
representative
in
conferences
and
international
organizations, and special guest of several governments and foreign
institutions. Santoro got countless prizes and badges of honour, and
led several institutions and orchestras, among the most important
from Brazil and from the world.
He passed away in March 1989, in Brasília (DF), when he was
leading the general rehearsal of the season, which would be a
tribute to the Bicentennial of the French Revolution. His performing
in artistic, educational and political levels was memorable and has
influenced many generations. After his death, the Government of
São Paulo decreed that the Auditorium in Campos do Jordão would
be named as Cláudio Santoro.
Environmental Heritage
The area, where Felicia Leirner Museum and Claudio Santoro
Auditorium are located, is an important Atlântica Forest remnant. A
study done in 2011, by the Monitoring Centre of the Itapequy
Mountain (Cemasi), linked to the Development of the Research of
the Agrobusiness (Fundepag), requested by ACAM Portinari,
concluded that the place presents a rich biological diversity, which
includes species of animals threatened with extinction, but
demanding preservation and management necessities.
The survey noticed the existence of at least 110 species of
fanerogams plants and trees that measured about 25 metres high,
including robust Araucárias, which make the landscape even more
exuberant. As for the fauna, 92 species of birds, 19 of them
particularly from the Atlântica Forest, and 10 species of mammals,
were identified there.
By having this survey as a base, the institutions can now
target their environmental actions, strengthening themselves as
partners of conservation unities and as references for the
environmental communication about the region, integrating
themselves to the mosaic of protected forests, management
protection of biodiversity and recovering of degraded areas.
SERVICE:
Felícia Leirner Museum e Claudio Santoro Auditorium
Address: Av. Dr. Luís Arrobas Martins, nº 1880 - Alto da Boa Vista
– Campos do Jordão (SP) – CEP: 12460-000
Telephone Number: (+55)(12) 3662.2334
Working Hours: from Tuesdays to Sunday, from 9.00 to 18.00
Entrance fee: free
[email protected]
www.museufelicialeirner.org.br
Press Information
Núcleo da Notícia Comunicação Corporativa:
Phone (+55)(16) 3237-7367/68
André Luís Rezende – (+55)(16) 9.8142-4299
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Secretariat of Culture from the State of São Paulo:
Jamille Menezes – (+55)(11) 3339-8243
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