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The Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim is a museum and contemporary art museum located in Brumadinho in southeast Brazil, founded by former mining magnate Bernardo Paz. ==History== In the 1980s, Paz began buying tracts of land surrounding his modest farmhouse as developers threatened to destroy the natural landscape.〔Charmaine Picard (August 26, 2009), (Major new commissions at Brazilian art centre ) ''The Art Newspaper''.〕 The farm had been named by locals after a former owner, a British engineer known as Senhor Tim — ''Nhô Tim'' in Minas Gerais's dialect.〔Tony Perrottet (August 20, 2013), (Mining Magnate Bernardo Paz's Dedication to Inhotim ) ''Wall Street Journal''.〕 Paz soon converted the then 3,000-acre ranch into a sprawling, 5,000-acre〔Vincent Bevins (August 28, 2013), (Brazilian sees museum as 'the Disney of the future' ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 botanical garden designed by his friend, the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx.〔 The project began when Brazilian contemporary artist Tunga persuaded Paz to start collecting contemporary art.〔 Eventually, he allowed artists all the space and resources they needed to create larger-than-life works.〔 The garden, which boasts two dozen art “pavilions”, opened to the public in 2006.〔 The pavilions include more than 500 works by noted Brazilian and international artists, such as Hélio Oiticica, Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Hirschhorn, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Steve McQueen, Cildo Meireles and Vik Muniz.〔 One pavilion is devoted to one of Paz′s ex-wives, the Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão.〔 In 2008, a geodesic dome designed by Paula Zasnicoff Cardoso of the Brazilian architectural practice Arquitetos Associados, was constructed within a eucalyptus forest and now contains Matthew Barney's installation ''De Lama Lâmina (Mud, a Blade )'' (2004–08), which shows a vehicle uprooting a tree.〔Cristina Ruiz (November 22, 2010), (Where dreams come true ) ''The Art Newspaper''.〕 Chris Burden’s ''Beam Drop'' (1984/2008) is made of 72 steel beams dropped 45 meters from 150-foot-high cranes〔 into a pit filled with wet cement.〔 ''Sonic Pavilion'' by Doug Aitken was realized in 2009 and consists of a circular building of frosted glass〔 on top of a hill which contains a well. This goes down 200 meters into the ground and at its bottom microphones capture the sounds of the earth which are then amplified and played live in the gallery above.〔 ''Vegetation Room'' (2012), by Cristina Iglesias, is a cube of polished stainless steel reflecting the surrounding forest. Visitors slip into crevices where the walls are sculpted foliage, entering a labyrinth within the labyrinth; at the cube's heart, torrents of water periodically rush.〔 In 2011, Inhotim joined the Brazilian government's official botanical garden association, and the staff has begun an inventory of its 4,500 plant species, including 1,300 types of palm alone. There are greenhouses for unusually rare plants.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inhotim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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