3M Art Show

3M Art Show was born in 2010 with the aim of democratizing art, bringing together and stimulating a new audience that appreciates contemporary art. At that time, it was called Mostra 3M de Arte Digital.

In each edition, with the support of an invited curator, Brazilian and international artists presented works that discussed several latent themes for the time our society lived: 3D technology, tension between ultra advanced technologies and more primal technological solutions, fiction that merges with reality, poetics of love in its various facets, the appropriation of art by art. Consistent exhibitions, welcomed by important cultural institutions from São Paulo: Mackenzie Institut, Marta Traba Galery (Memorial da América Latina) and Tomie Ohtake Institut; and Rio de Janeiro: Fundição Progresso.

In 2017, the public space was appropriated by 3M Art Show as an art space, being showcased in Largo da Batata, Pinheiros, São Paulo, for three consecutive years. From that moment on, another leap forward in the exercise of patronage: all works were original, never before seen and fully commissioned by the project. The coexistence, mostly harmonious with the space and its 150 thousand daily passers-by, was an enormous learning experience, and left the certainty that the path of approaching society and creating spaces for coexistence with art was correct.

Another important quality of the 3M Art Show is the space given to either emerging artists or whose work is mostly focused outside the well-known Rio-São Paulo axis. In virtually every edition there were public calls for proposals for the presentation of artworks in different formats, and the 9th 3M Art Show was entirely composed of works selected via public notice.

2020 is a very meaningful and commemorative year: 10 editions of a visual arts ehxibition project, with the participation of highly relevant artists and curators on the national and international scene: Gisele Beiguelman, Paulo Brusky, Guto Lacaz, Fernando Cocchiarale, Paulo Miyada , Nelson Leirner, Gisela Mota and Leandro Lima, Estela Sokol, Raquel Kogan, Bill Viola, Ori Gerst, Lech Majevisky, a long list to complete, huge gratitude to everyone who built the project (the complete list of participating curators and artists can be seen in the previous editions tab). A special year where the exhibit will occupy a special and very relevant place as a public space and "Commonplace" (see curatorial concept): Ibirapuera Park.

Finally, a huge thanks to 3M Brazil, full sponsor of the project since the first year. True patron, that cares and encourages artistic freedom and recognize its importance for building a better, more creative, more inclusive society.

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