A atuação da FUNARTE através do INAP no desenvolvimento cultural da arte brasileira contemporânea nas décadas de 70 e 80 e interações políticas com a ABAPP / FUNARTE, INAP and their political interactions with ABAPP : promoting the cultural development of Brazilian contemporary art in the 1970 s and 80 s
AUTOR(ES)
André Guilles Troysi de Campos Andriani
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the importance of the National Foundation for the Arts (Fundação Nacional de Artes - FUNARTE) through the actions of the National Institute for the Fine Arts (Instituto Nacional de Artes Plásticas - INAP) in designing a cultural policy for the fine arts in Brazil. We demonstrate the relevance of INAP in the cultural development of contemporary Brazilian art in the 1970 s and 80 s as well as the Institute s interactions with the civil society, especially with the Brazilian Association of Fine Arts Professionals (Associação Brasileira de Artistas Plásticos Profissionais - ABAPP). Those institutions were also studied by focusing on their participants, especially the ones who most influenced the fine arts scenario in Brazil, eitherby means of projects, debates or clashes of ideas. The data for this research was collected from documents at the FUNARTE Documentation Center (CEDOC) in Rio de Janeiro; private archives; newspapers and magazines from the period; and a 9-and-a-half-hour video produced for this research, featuring interviews carried out with former directors of INAP, former presidents of ABAPP and fine artists. The data were collected and confronted by using historic and comparative methods; we believe they indicate the innovative role played by FUNARTE at designing and implementing a cultural policy that disseminated the new languages of fine arts in the foundation s projects and venues. The data also points to the foundations great effort to promote its policy in the states of the Federation that had been least benefitted by earlier cultural public policies. The importance of ABAPP emerges in the opposite pole of this process, not simply as an opponent, but also as the promoter of political and artistic proposals, with singular and innovative demands that fostered autonomy among fine artists during the military regime (1964-1986). The results allow us to conclude that FUNARTE and INAP were positively challenged by ABAPP and that their members were competent professionals that worked to decentralize the actions of INAP from the Rio/São Paulo axis. Such professionals acted with all available means to overcome the geographical, economic and ideological barriers of the Brazilian art market of the 1970 s, which had insidiously dominated museums, art galleries and public salons. Unfortunately, the closing down of FUNARTE during the presidency of Fernando Collor de Mello in 1999 broke the State free from its commitment with Brazilian culture and triggered an overall disarticulation of the fine arts, with a consequent democratic recess. FUNARTE is presently trying to reestablish it own legitimate role. We hope the foundation accomplishes this goal by the actions of the FUNARTE Center for the Visual Arts (Centro de Artes Visuais da Funarte - CEAV), leaving behind its bureaucratic praxis and assuming a more direct and effective role in the culture of fine arts, not only following the pioneer example of INAP but also excelling in terms of the challenges that face the present social scenario
