PALÁCIO DAS ARTES - FUNDAÇÃO CLÓVIS SALGADO
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Interesting cultural center on the wide Avenida Afonso Pena with four exhibition halls dedicated to contemporary art.
The Palace of Arts, managed by the Fundação Clóvis Salgado, is an interesting cultural center located on the wide Avenida Afonso Pena, adjacent to the municipal park. Based on Oscar Niemeyer's modernist sketches, its facade stands out in the landscape. Inaugurated in 1971, it was commissioned in 1941 by Governor Juscelino Kubitschek as the municipal theater of Minas Gerais. However, like Gaudí's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, the construction suffered from intermittent work and remained unfinished for years. Its final completion was the work of architect Helio Ferreira Pinto, who had to adapt Niemeyer's design to the realities of the late 1960s, and then took 4 years to achieve the current result. Construction took so long that a temporary theater was built alongside the building: the Teatro Francisco Nunes, which was not demolished after the inauguration of the Palace of Arts. Unluckily, the main theater was destroyed by fire in 1997. It was subsequently rebuilt by contemporary architects. Today, the Palais des Arts is mainly dedicated to the performing arts: opera, plays, symphonic concerts, dance and folk music concerts, film screenings, debates and conferences, artistic training courses... It has four large exhibition halls dedicated to contemporary art. Exhibitions are changing, varied and of high quality.
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