A transmutação do espaço museológico e a Modernidade expográfica: galerias de arte no Rio de Janeiro

This paper presents the analysis of the galleries at Gustavo Capanema Palace (Palácio Gustavo Capanema - PGC), Helio Oiticica Art Center (Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica - CAHO) and the Imperial Residence (Paço Imperial). These spaces are exhibition areas dedicated mainly to contemporary art and installed inside representative buildings of historical and urban-architectural constitution in downtown Rio de Janeiro. From the beginning, it is considered that Funarte and PGC Galleries mantain some of the fundamental modernist atributes; therefore, this “feature” has given this category of a standard, which accomplished its role in configuring the basis for other spaces. From the point of view of defining elements of modernist ambience and of specific thematic museum architecture, the PGC and Funarte Galleries were fit into the “modern exhibiting spaces, in transformation” category. On the other hand, in the “radically modernist” transformation of eclectic and colonial styles, which compose the ambiences of the galleries at CAHO and at the Paço, is verified a somewhat excluding “anomy” regarding the treatment of heritage architecture.