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Martins, Luiz Hermano, Eduardo Frota, among others, performing art events such as But I have always made my business life parallel with my interest in culture and art.
the International Biennial of the Americas (2002), curated by the Belgian Jan Hoet I studied, I did Economy and Philosophy. Philosophy threw me into art. Art channels
(Documenta de Kassel); International Biennial of Ephesian Sculptures, in Parque various areas of my interest. However, I also had to work with the material and that is
Cocó (1991), curated by Sérvulo Esmeraldo and other important exhibitions. He also where my work began as an artist. I recover old planes, buy aeronautical pieces and

created the Dragon Center of the Sea of Art and Culture, museums and cultural create sculptures. Today, in another moment, I use concrete, blowtorch, decompo
institutions. Naturally, large collections and collectors arose. and construction. But the whole process is a way of being close to my father and
at the same time being able to create my language.
At this moment in which the University of Fortaleza completes 45 years, A!B: What brought you back to Brazil?
what is the importance of the collection of the Edson Queiroz Foundation for Since 2008, I started collecting and dedicating most of my art projects.
the University? Specifically, my job requires a lot of space and in Belgium I did not. I created the
The performance of the Edson Queiroz Foundation in the artistic field has taken place Marcos Amaro Foundation in 2012, and recently I acquired the Emathomas gallery
since the creation of the University of Fortaleza in 1973, with the first edition of the brand, I took over two of the gallery’s artists, Alan Fontes and Paula Klien from Rio
Unifor Plástica exhibition. This activity consists of projects related to theater, music, de Janeiro, and I am adding a new cast.
dance, literature and, above all, visual arts, through exhibitions at Espaço Cultural In 2017, we created the Marcos Amaro Prize in sp-art, where we give R $ 25,0000 to
Unifor and in Brazilian and foreign museums. Since 2004, the Cultural Space has the winning artist and we still have a work of his own. In 2017, the winner was Ivan
held more than 50 exhibitions of great international artists, such as Rembrandt, Grilo and this year Brígida Baltar. There are many things to fly from afar.
Rubens and Miró, and Brazilians, such as Portinari, Bandeira and Oiticica, always A!B: How is the Foundation born and with what goals?
with free access. Therefore, the relevance of the Edson Queiroz Foundation goes It is born with some goals. To spread my work as an artist. Today I am her President,
far beyond the excellence of its collection and the exhibitions it presents, as it also but the more we can professionalize her, the less she will need me. So I can dedicate
opens space for other languages, including the audience formation mission, as it more to my work as a plastic artist. It is born with the purpose of investigating the
has as a priority children, adolescents and university community. ways of contemporary art, to document what is done in Brazil and fundamentally
What kind of stamp does the University give to this remarkable collection of to promote the collection.
Brazilian art, considered one of the most important in the country? After 10 years, the collection has more than 1000 works ranging from baroque
The Edson Queiroz Foundation is the institution that maintains the University of to contemporary. It will be predominantly Brazilian, composed of sculptures, an
Fortaleza. important collection of photographs and paintings - engravings and drawings - and
What is the relevance of the show Da Terra Brasilis à Aldeia Global within the with Latin American artists. In this sense I began to undo European and American
university? To what extent does such a show motivate students, teachers, and pieces that are no longer in the focus of the collection.
generate scholarly works? (At the close of this issue, we learned that Amaro had donated an Andy Warhol to
The importance of the Da Terra Brasilis exhibition to the Global Village for Unifor the MASP collection).
is to offer the academic community and the general public the possibility to learn The collection of sculptures is not random, specifically it dialogues with my work.
about the history of Brazil through works of art from the Edson Queiroz Foundation Some of the artists who are already part are Cildo Meireles, Nuno Ramos, Tunga,

Collection, which results in a knowledge, values and worldviews that only art provides. León Ferrari and Henrique Oliveira.
Teachers from all centers can relate the content seen in the room to the exhibition, The Marcos Amaro Foundation is legally an association, an Oscip. Right now I am
through active and creative methods. separating what is from the private collection and what will be the Foundation’s
What do you highlight as exceptional in the collection and why? Will this exhibition collection. For this, I am making lending agreements. I think it is necessary to create
travel to other capitals? this professionalization. I want to separate clearly, give density to the project.
The relevance of the Edson Queiroz Foundation Collection is to cover the main artists A!B: How do you intend to show the collection?
and vanguards of Brazilian art, from travelers from the seventeenth century to the Raquel Fayad is the director of the Foundation and I invited the curator Ricardo
contemporary, with a special focus on modern art. Included are rare books dating Resende as curator responsible for showing the collection as a whole, creating
back to 1592, belonging to our Library of Special Collections. It is a wide collection, exhibitions with different poetics. What to show, what to choose, why in each
from which it is possible to create the most diverse cutouts, as can be seen in the show. I was always very focused on developing my work, and since I did not study
exhibition currently on display at Espaço Cultural Unifor. art formally, for example, I did not know that there was an American sculptor who
worked with scrap and in a line very similar to what I followed, John Chamberlaine.
FOUNDATIONS MARCOS AMARO | PAGES 88 TO 93 I heard that from one of our meetings. Today I can see many interesting things in
MARCOS AMARO ART my dialogue with Ricardo. This is very important to me.
A!B: and how will the Foundation work?
FACTORY - FAMA The Foundation now has two spaces. The Art Factory Marcos Amaro (FAMA) in
Itú, where originally my studio works. An old fabric factory, the São Pedro factory,
INAUGURATES SPACE IN ITU the second most important in the state of São Paulo. And then we will develop
several activities. We have created an annual program, an edict, which selects 4
ON JUNE 23RD, THE MARCOS AMARO FOUNDATION INAUGURATES, IN THE ART artists to intervene in space. In this first one was chosen, from a jury presided by
the Currier of the Marcos Amaro Foundation, Ricardo Resende and composed by
FACTORY, IN ITU, IN THE OLD SÃO PEDRO WEAVING ITS FIRST EXHIBITION TO the invited curators Bitu Cassundé, Fortaleza, Douglas de Freitas of São Paulo and
THE PUBLIC Marcus Lontra of Rio de Janeiro, the artists Edith Derdyk of São Paulo, with the
project Start, Eduardo Frota, The Fall of the Sky, of Fortaleza; the Grupo EmpreZa
BY PATRICIA ROUSSEAUX Group with the Fábrica Grupo EmpreZa, from Goiânia; Pola Fernandez, Hipóstasis,
MARRIED TODAY WITH RUSSIAN PIANIST Ksenia Kogan Amaro and of Itu; Regina Parra, Choreography of Survival, from São Paulo; and Rodrigo Sassi,
father of 5 children, Marcos Amaro, the youngest son of Commander Rolim Adolfo Triptych, of São Paulo.
Amaro, founder of TAM, who died in 2001, returns to Brazil. After several years We also have partnerships with UNESP, teachers and artists, José Espaniol and
living abroad, in the USA and Belgium, he prints a certain amount of oxygen in the Sergio Romagnolo, where we organize the arrival of up to 50 students who stay in
battered national cultural scene. He has the father’s entrepreneurial trait. It is clear, a kind of residence for a week, producing and researching ephemeral sculptures.
in the form that organizes your work and your choices, that your horizon is broad. The other space, to be inaugurated in the second half of this year, is a 100,000 square
He’s a planner. Here is a little of their history and projects. meter property in Mairinque, near Itu, where we are creating the MESCLA, Museum
A!B: Tell a little about your trajectory of Contemporary Latin American Sculpture, focused on land-art, sculptures in the
My father died in 2001 from a helicopter accident when I was 17 years old. landscape, exhibitions of ephemeral sculptures. The first artist to install a project
All his fortune was in the company. He was from a time where the patrimony of there is Marcia Pastore, who has just exhibited at MuBE in São Paulo.
the businessman was all invested in the company. At that age, I went to work as a A!B: What kind of autonomy do you intend to create for this operation?
trainee at TAM and I became a member of the Board. I decided to leave the company I want the project to be feasible in different ways, if I come to acquire space for
in 2006-2007, although I really like aviation. I am the only child of my father and example, can be a source of income for the project itself. I’m trying to make this
mother. I decided to sell my shares for two reasons: the first because I would not project viable in time. The Foundation already exists as a Foundation in my will.
be able to have control in the company and also did not want to depend on my Although I am very young I have a will where she is treated as another child. All
brothers. The second because I wanted to go my own way. works of art are not part of the spolio, they belong to the foundation. There is a Fund
I went to undertake, to be an entrepreneur. I had the Carol Optics here in Brazil, and its financial administration provides the necessary resources for the operation
and then I sold it in 2013. of the foundation. However, the resources come from the financial capital gain that