The Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (Masc) was created on March 18, 1949 and since then brings together and makes available to the public a diverse and expressive collection, which contains approximately 1.750 works by national and international artists, with emphasis also on artists from Santa Catarina. The Museum is linked to the Fundação Catarinense de Cultura (FCC) and its mission is to expand and socialize art, culture and aesthetic pleasure for the entire community and visitors, either through exhibitions of the collection or through temporary exhibitions.
The creation of the Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina began with the “Contemporary Art Exhibition”, brought to Florianópolis in 1948 by the carioca writer Marques Rebelo. The exhibition, which at the time had great repercussions in the city, was presented at the former Grupo Escolar Modelo Dias Velho, and left, on the occasion, important donations from the writer himself and participating artists.
The writer's idea was that the exhibition would be the initial step towards the construction of the Museum and together with the support of a group of intellectuals from Florianópolis, known as Grupo Sul, this intention worked. Thus, in March 1949, on account of a State Decree, the Museum of Modern Art of Florianópolis (MAMF) was created, later named the Museum of Art of Santa Catarina (Masc).
Collection
Currently, Masc's management and technical team has carried out a process of qualification and improvement of the collection, aiming at planning increasingly focused on the contemporary and vanguard role of the Museum, carrying out various processes of mapping, research, documentation and cultural preservation .
The Masc collection houses a significant representation of national art and, mainly, art from Santa Catarina, represented, among others, by works by Eduardo Dias, Malinverni Filho, Martinho de Haro, Hassis, Eli Heil, Rodrigo de Haro, Elke Hering, Rubens Oestroem, Luiz Henrique Schwanke, Juarez Machado.
The national collection has works by Di Cavalcanti, Cândido Portinari, Djanira, Emeric Marcier, Alfredo Volpi, Tarsila do Amaral, Guignard, José Pancetti, Carlos Scliar, Iberê Camargo, Tomie Ohtake, Aldo Bonadei, Mário Zanini, Lula Cardoso Ayres, Frans Krajcberg, Antonio Maia, Marcelo Grassmann, Fayga Ostrower, Antonio Henrique Amaral, Lívio Abramo.
To help ensure the integrity of these works, the Conservation Center was created, which also organizes didactic, temporary and permanent exhibitions, with the aim of providing the public with more information about the works and their artist.
Address, Visitation and Contact
Santa Catarina Art Museum – Av. Gov. Irineu Bornhausen, 5.600 – agronomic.
From Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 am to 20:30 pm. Sundays and holidays from 10 am to 19:30 pm.
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(48) 3953-2319, email masc@fcc.sc.gov.br or at MASC website.
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