leonardo finotti | michelle jean de castro
24APR>18MAY2004 transitspaces Bauhaus Dessau Foundation DESSAU, GERMANY
06MAR2014>03MAY2015 art towards architecture lama-sp.org SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
19AUG2014>19FEB2015 futebol: urban euphoria in Brazil lama-sp.org SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
15JUN>11SEP2014 tatu: futebol, adversidade e cultura da caatinga Museu de Arte do Rio RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
10JUN>01JUL2014 one shot MuBE SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
06>25NOV2013 10+10 Architekturzentrum Wien VIENNA, AUSTRIA
12OCT>01DEC2013 leis na verticalização em são paulo? CCSP SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
13>21JUN2012 abitare la comunitá Rio+20 | Italian Pavilion RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
11>29DEC2008 forte príncipe da beira Instituto Camões BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL
25JAN>02MAR2008 100 photos, 100 works, 100 years Museu da Electricidade LISBON, PORTUGAL
photography as an installation books and exhibitions as platforms
about the author Leonardo Finotti is a visual artist whose path is structured around two complementary themes: through his photography he rigorously explores Modern Architecture and also investigates anonymous or informal urban spaces. After graduating in architecture and completing a postgraduate degree at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Dessau, Germany), he began his career as a photographer in Portugal, where he lived for six years, collaborating with leading Portuguese architects. He then set out on a systematic project aimed at rereading Modernism in different continents, an activity that he followed upon his return to Brazil. He has contributed with different architects and publications around the world, while developing personal projects such as exhibitions and publications, with architecture and the city as the main axis of his visual research: Pelada (2014), Latinitudes (2015), Rio Enquadrado (2016), A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture (2016) are just a few examples. Leonardo’s work has been shown in several individual and group exhibitions and is part of collections of some of the most important public and private institutions worldwide such as Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Germany), EDP Foundation (Portugal), AzW (Austria), MOT (Japan), L ‘Architecture & du Patrimonie (France) and MAR (Brazil). He represented Brazil in two Biennials of Architecture in Venice and in the 10th Biennial of Art of Mercosur and was a prizewinner at the 15th Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture. In 2008, Finotti was invited by Barry Bergdoll, chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York to join the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 19551980. The project, developed over seven years, visually reinterprets the legacy of modern architecture in Latin America. In addition to his contribution to the exhibition, 15 of his works were acquired for the permanent collection of the institution and a chapter of the MoMA catalogue was dedicated to his work, in the form of a portfolio. www.leonardofinotti.info
leonardo finotti | michelle jean de castro photography as an installation: books and exhibitions as platforms with text by Eder Ribeiro all exhibitions are curated by Michelle Jean de Castro, except when indicated translation (PT-EN): Themis Scalco graphic design: Beatriz Menezes photo editing: Alex Souza print: Printi, São Paulo SP, Brazil risography cover: Entrecampo, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil binding: Abrigo de Rabiscos No part of this book may be used or reproduced without prior written permission in any form or by any means, except in the case of small citations incorporated in critical articles or reviews. © copyright 2018 leonardo finotti | obra comunicação ISBN 978-85-93867-00-2 obra comunicação São Paulo SP, Brazil www.obracomunicacao.com
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leonardo finotti, building a visual discourse The artistic path of Leonardo Finotti is structured in two complementary pillars. On the one hand, he undertakes, through photography, a rigorous exploration of modern architecture, and on the other, he promotes an investigation of the anonymous or informal spaces of the city. These two poles form the guiding thread of his production and feed each other. In both cases he constructs the image with the same rigor and formal precision, as the researcher and critic Carlos Eduardo Comas observed: Contrary to editorial cuts of the image, he emphasizes the geometric rigor in the construction of his compositions, tributary of a concrete discipline. The pursuit of exact framing is a constant.1 To speak of construction in his case is not merely a figure of speech, it is a powerful way of confronting some of the greatest modernist icons, as well as the apparent disorder of the informal city. The camera viewer is the space of agency of the elements that constitute his objects of exploration, thus the light, the materials, the plans, the scale compete to reconstruct an image that is not the representation of a given landscape or architecture, but its materialization according to new formal codes.In the definition of curator Barry Bergdoll of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York: Leonardo Finotti is an architect photographer just as he is an architectural photographer. He builds his photographs with the eye of an artist who was trained, first, to draw buildings. 2
Thus, an advertisement can perfectly settle on the orderly and exact façade of a given building, and the street vendor can find his space on the sidewalk beside; none of this eliminates the force of its central object, on the contrary, it places it in a temporal register and contextualizes it. According to the architect and researcher Carlos Alberto Maciel: His work illuminates the capacity for permanent transformation of those sites because of the daily modification of contexts in which they are inserted, and because of the subtle redefinition of their identity from the different forms of appropriation that their spaces present. 4 When approaching the informal city, it is still the establishment of a formal organization that matters. Not to deny its apparent disorder, but to better reveal the political, social and aesthetic nature of these spaces of otherness. Take the example of the Pelada series (2014), which explores the connection between peripheral football pitches and their surroundings, suggesting their emergence as a space for collective negotiation. The aerial images show us a succession of soccer fields and the buildings around it. They illuminate the logic of maximum spatial occupation and emptiness, which serves everyone. Individual logic and its collective counterpoint. What is clear in this series is that from the same urban situation he explores different formal points of view, where sometimes the field of pelada is the main object, sometimes it is merely an adjunct of constructed mass, without these variations of approach and scale compromising the unity of the series; on the contrary, they establish potent individualities that, side by side, complement each other and suggest different readings.
This construction of the image appears clearly in one of his first series (transit spaces) held in Russia, as part of the post-graduation program of the Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau, Germany (2003/2004). The series takes advantage of the horizontality of the set and specificity of the units to construct a visual interpretation of this post-Soviet universe back to the market. In this work, the use of the panoramic image allows a side-by-side alignment of the various fragments (kyosks) in a single set, where the individual interventions in each unit overlap with homogeneous mass architecture, as a kind of incrustation of the new order on the previous one.
Considering yet the series pelada and A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture (2016), his formal strategy consists of, through the image in large format, provoking an immersion and a new perception of the viewer in relation to his visual constructions. It allows two levels of reading: the first, from a certain distance, where the established relation is the one corresponding to a window open to the world, a resource of the universe of painting that was appropriated by photography in the 1980s. The second is a close observation, glued to the work, in a reading by scanning the image, revealing details of the urban noises or the permanent transformation through which buildings go through.
We could easily classify his artistic formulation as tributary of documental and conceptual photography simultaneously, whose maximum exponents are those from the so-called Dßsseldorf School (Bernd & Hilla Becher and Andreas Gursky, especially). Some of his general principles are present in his work: extreme formal rigor, serialization, the large format. What distinguishes Finotti’s artistic approach from that of the German school is that, in the latter case and its followers, the environment is radically eliminated, on behalf of extreme neutrality and the reconfiguration of buildings as a sort of anonymous sculptures 3, smooth and opaque. Finotti, on the contrary, upon revisiting modern architecture or aiming at the informal one, encompasses the surroundings and its noises. His strict treatment of the composition does not prevent the incorporation of these features and the unpredictables.
The expography of some of his exhibitions confer other levels of reading, a process carried out in partnership with the architect and scenographer Michelle Jean de Castro. Take the emblematic case of his exhibition on Niemeyer in Lisbon.5The one hundred works are aligned side by side along a fictitious horizon line, and they vary in size in such a way as to create a scale relationship between buildings. These references from the field of architecture (horizontality, scale and rhythm) and from editing construct a new visual narrative for these images. In this sense we can say that, more than an installation, we are facing the creation of another place from these images. The horizon line, the first reference of classic landscape painting, structures the different spaces | buildings, giving unity to the whole. Thus works do not simply occupy space, but are themselves places (Georges Didi-Huberman).6 This same principle
is found in the exhibition of the project Latinitudes (2015), where an imaginary line connects and symbolically links the legacy of modern architecture in America Latin America through blocks of cities.
of a society and how it views itself. It is not by chance that his visual research transits between the formal and the impromptu city, or simply the city that has been appropriated. Eder Ribeiro
The objectivity of his images, the frontal treatment of architectural objects, (A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture), uses the graphic feature of the representation of the façade to define the three-dimensional object. Finotti escapes the trap of a possible direct association of his work with the object represented, making use of the incorporation of elements of the landscape that blur its immediate legibility (FAU-USP), or by choosing other angles and façades, not immediately recognizable (Sesc Pompeia). This visual building resource is particularly powerful when the objects on display are such icons of modern architecture. It is in these moments of confrontation with the already represented exhaustively that his research of visual artist reaffirms itself. The image of the Alvorada Palace, tiny under the mass of clouds, is a more than eloquent example of the tug-of-war between the artist and the icons. The obvious issue here is who is at whose service. For a long time photography was only a tool of communication and affirmation of modern architecture, in other words, the construction of its image and discourse. Finotti is part of the lineage that reaffirms its commitment to a visual research based on experimentation and uses its object to build his own and autonomous work in relation to the strict field of architecture. As he states : Architecture is the guiding thread of my visual narrative, yet the photographic project goes beyond the limits of this discipline allowing, for example, anthropological readings of the permanence of this heritage and, above all, an aesthetic experience of immersion of the spectator in these spaces. 7 Like Walker Evans, Finotti understands that images about architecture can be a powerful way of charting the state
1 Carlos Eduardo Comas, Oscar Niemeyer. Santos: Editora Brasileira, 2016, p. 11. 2 Barry Bergdoll, in volume preface: Leonardo Finotti: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2016, p. 151. 3 Bernd and Hilla Becher, Anonymous Sculptures | A Typography of Technical Constructions. Düsseldorf: Art-Press, 1970. 4 Carlos Alberto Maciel is an architect, co-founder of Arquitetos Associados Office and professor of Architecture and Urbanism at UFMG. 5 100 photos, 100 works, 100 years | Oscar Niemeyer by Leonardo Finotti, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal. 6 Cited by Maud Hagelstein in Devant Les Images. Paris: Les Presses du Réel, p. 163. In this essay, the author analises the issue of place in the work of French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, from the phenomenology standpoint. 7 Leonardo Finotti, Leonardo Finotti: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture in op. cit. Sentence complemented in testimony of the author in march 2016.
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6-8 Exhibition 100 photos, 100 works, 100 years | Oscar Niemeyer by Leonardo Finotti at Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal (2008)
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33 Wheatpaste poster of exhibition Mayo Bucher | Leonardo Finotti: Art Towards Architecture, SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil (2015) 34 View from Mirante do Vale Building from AnhangabaĂş valley
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43 Exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 at MoMA, New York, USA; curatorship of Barry Bergdoll, Patricio del Real, Jorge Francisco Liernur and Carlos Eduardo Comas (2015) 44 Webpage of MoMA’s permanent collection
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47 Exhibition Identidade Latino Americana at Galeria Bolsa de Arte, SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil (2015) 48 Exhibition at X Biennial of Mercosul, Biografia da Vida Urbana at Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; curatorship of GaudĂŞncio Fidelis (2015)
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Exhibition Ecos del MoMA at Cultural Center Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015) 49 Exhibition Leonardo Finotti – Latin America Collection at Galerie 94, Baden, Switzerland (2016) 50
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51 Photographic Installation Ciudad Abierta | 2016 | several dimensions | edition of 5+2AP 52 Series ON #049 | 2007 | 100 X 150 cm | edition of 5+2AP
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58 Series Rio Enquadrado #042 | 2016 | 80 X 80 cm | edition of 5+2AP 59 Raul Juste Lores, “Modernist militant frames” Rio, Folha de São Paulo, July 18, 2016 60 Series Rio Enquadrado #043 | 2012 | 80 X 80 cm | edition of 5 + 2AP
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68-71 Exhibition at UABB, “Cities, Grow in Difference” Burle Marx and Leonardo Finotti a dialogue at Nantou Town, Shenzhen, China (2017/2018)
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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures - Landscape as Art and Urbanism Lars Müller Publishers Zürich, Switzerland edited by Gareth Doherty 20 X 15 cm | 240 pages 58 images | english ISBN: 978-3-03778-379-5 2018
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Leonardo Finotti: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture Lars Müller Publishers Zürich, Switzerland text by Barry Bergdoll 30 X 24 cm | 160 pages 103 images | english ISBN: 978-3-03778-503-4 2016
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Leonardo Finotti: Rio Reenquadrado artist book | edition of 200 obra comunicação São Paulo, Brazil text by Michelle Jean de Castro concept | graphic design: Julio Mariutti | Alice Viggiani 19,5 X 19 cm | 76 pages 80 images | portuguese 2018
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Oscar Niemeyer photography: Leonardo Finotti Editora Brasileira, Santos, Brazil text by: Carlos Eduardo Comas 30,5 X 31,0 cm | 224 pages 110 images | portuguese | english ISBN: 978-85-69935-04-9 2016
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10th Biennial of Mercosul Mensagens de uma nova América, vol.2 Exhibition Catalogue Fundação Bienal do Mercosul Porto Alegre, Brazil 23 X 29,5 cm | 1008 pages portuguese | english ISBN: 978-85-99501-41-2 2015
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Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 Exhibition Catalogue The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA edited by Barry Bergdoll, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Jorge Francisco Liernur & Patricio del Real 25 X 31 cm | 320 pages | english ISBN: 978-0-87070-963-0 2015
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Mayo Bucher | Leonardo Finotti: Art Towards Architecture Exhibition Catalogue obra comunicação São Paulo, Brazil 21 X 29,7 cm | 36 pages portuguese | english 2015
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Leonardo Finotti | Ed Viggiani Football: Urban Euphoria in Brazil Lars Müller Publishers Zürich, Switzerland text by Luís Antônio Jorge & Afonso Celso Gárcia Reis 17 X 23 cm | 64 pages 32 images | english ISBN: 978-3-03778-431-0 2014
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Leonardo Finotti: 10+10 modern and contemporary Brazilian houses Exhibition Catalogue AzW Vienna, Austria text by André Correa do Lago & Fernando Serapião 25 X 20 cm | 212 pages portuguese | english 2013
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100 photos 100 works 100 years: Oscar Niemeyer by Leonardo Finotti Exhibition Catalogue Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal text by José Mateus 23.5 X 29 cm | 176 pages | 300 images portuguese | english ISBN: 978-972-8909-03-1 2008
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha: Tutte Le Opere Electa architecttura, Milan, Italy Daniele Pisani 25.4 X 27.9 cm 402 pages | italian ISBN: 978-88-370-8736-4 2013
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Álvaro Siza: Fundação Iberê Camargo Cosac Naify, São Paulo, Brazil Flávio Kiefer (org.) 21,5 X 26,5 cm | 192 pages portuguese | english ISBN: 978-85-7503-730-0 2008
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Inhotim: Architecture, Art and Landscape Monolito, São Paulo, Brazil Fernando Serapião 21 X 29 cm | 150 pages portuguese | english ISBN: 978-85-66275-02-5 2013
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Leonardo Finotti: Brasília 50 anos, Niemeyer 100 anos Exhibition Catalogue Cascais Arquitectura, Portugal texts by Ana Vaz Milheiro & Fernando Serapião 21 X 29,7 cm | 65 pages 31 images | portuguese ISSN: 1646-8155 2007
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AREA #114: São Paulo Renato Anelli, Elisabete França, Luís Antônio Jorge & Vanessa Grossman 24,7 X 32 cm | 208 pages italian | english ISSN: 0394-0055 2011
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Transit Spaces Jovis | Bauhaus Edition Berlin, Germany Regina Bittner, Wilfried Hackenbroich & Kai Vöckler 16,5 X 24 cm | 479 pages english | german ISBN: 3-936314-80-2 2004
leonardo finotti 1977, born in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil Lives and works in São Paulo SP, Brazil education 2003-2004, post-graduate program at the Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany 1997-2001, BA in Architecture at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia MG, Brazil lectures 2018.11.28 ARPAFIL Conversaciones con la luz Guadalajara, Mexico 2018.11.15 Casa da Arquitectura Infinito Vão: Guilherme Wisnik Fernando Serapião, Leonardo Finotti Matosinhos, Portugal 2018.09.28 MASA building photography Bangalore, India 2018.07.24 Palácio Provincial Construção da Fotografia Manaus AM, Brazil 2018.06.04 Casa Canto Leonardo Finotti: Latinitudes Florianópolis SC, Brazil 2017.12.17 Urban Village | Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture panel discussion: Urbanization and Architectural Practice of Latin America, Nantou old town Shenzhen, China 2017.11.22 MUnA | 12º do.co.mo.mo Difusão da Arquitetura Moderna na América Latina, Uberlândia MG, Brazil 2017.06.16 MAPA pororó #2, Montevideo, Uruguay 2017.05.04 Harvard University Conversations on Ecological Urbanism in Latin America, Boston MA, USA 2016.09.15 Galerie 94 Artist Talk | Leonardo Finotti: Latin America Collection Baden, Switzerland 2016.06.01 Hotel Emiliano Rio Enquadrado por Leonardo Finotti São Paulo SP, Brazil 2015.10.09 Centro Cultural São Paulo tem lugar pra ser São Paulo SP, Brazil 2015.09.25 Minas Cultural quando atitudes (trans)formam Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil 2015.07.19 MOT Oscar Niemeyer: the man who built Brasilia Tokyo, Japan 2015.04.30 W Hollywood Hotel Expanding Architecture: Creativity, Design and Technology, Los Angeles CA, USA 2015.04.07 LAMA.SP Free Speech: Mayo Bucher | Michelle Jean de Castro | Leonardo Finotti, São Paulo SP, Brazil 2014.10.23 Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie XI Semana Viver a Metrópole, São Paulo SP, Brazil 2014.06.23 FAU UCV Taller X charla Leonardo Finotti Caracas, Venezuela 2014.04.08 IAB-RN Arquitetura X Fotografia Leonardo Finotti Natal RN, Brazil 2013.11.06 Architekturzentrum Wien 10+10 Brazilian Houses Vienna, Austria 2013.11.05 Fakulta architektúry STU 10+10 Brazilian Houses Bratislava, Slovakia 2013.10.24 Universidad Nacional de Asunción charla Leonardo Finotti Asunción, Paraguay 2013.09.19 Deutsches Architekturmuseum Neun Neue Frankfurt, Germany 2012.04.23 Universidade Belas Artes Arquitetura | Fotografia São Paulo SP, Brazil 2010.10.26 Centre Culturel Français Brésil: l 'Architecture en Photographie, Cotonou, Benin 2010.08.17 PUC-Camp Arquitetura + Cidade: Oliver Mann, Leonardo Finotti, Campinas SP, Brazil 2010.06.08 Centre Culturel Français Brésil: l 'Architecture en Photographie, Lomé, Togo 2007.12.04 IAB-TO Arquitetura+Fotografia: Fernando Serapião, Leonardo Finotti, Palmas TO, Brazil 2007.11.08 GTA/ETH Oscar Niemeyer | Eine Hommage Zurich, Switzerland 2007.05.02 Atelier Naval Rocha Freespeech: Leonardo Finotti Lisbon, Portugal
2006.11.13 Oficina Cultural Rotas Poéticas | Deslocamentos Uberlândia MG, Brazil 2004.04.24 Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Transit Spaces Dessau, Germany 2000.09.09 16º congresso Brasileiro de arquitetos CromoFotoGrafoPólis, Cuiabá MT, Brazil awards, commissions and fellowships Commission photo essay | exhibition, Brazilian Architecture Collection: Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos, Portugal (2018) Consultant Publications, Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, NY, USA (2018) Grantee project: Leonardo Finotti: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture, Volume 2, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, USA (2017) Acquisition Award, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA (2016) Acquisition Award, Buendner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (2016) Represented Brazil for the Venice Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy (2016) Participation in 10a Mercosur Biennial Messages from a New Americal Porto Alegre RS, Brazil (2015) First Prize, XV Bienal BA | Centro Cultural Recoleta Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015) Commissioned photo installation | exhibition, Latin America in Construction: the Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA (2015) Commissioned photo installation | exhibition, X Architecture Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil (2014) Represented Brazil for the Venice Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy (2014) Commissioned photo installation, Architekturzentrum Wien Vienna, Austria (2013) Commissioned photo installation | exhibition Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany (2013) Commissioned contemporary photography | exhibition Italian Pavilion Rio+20, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil (2012) Commissioned video installation, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimonie, Paris, France (2011) Represented Brazil for the Venice Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy(2010) Commissioned photo installation, Instituto Camões, Brasília DF, Brazil (2008) Commissioned photo installation | exhibition Architekturfoyer ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2007) Scholarship Bauhaus Kolleg, Dessau, Germany (2003-2004) Trial Fabrica Communication Research Centre, Treviso, Italy (2002) Scholarship CNPQ Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil (2001) public collections the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA GAD, Canberra, Australia the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan Brazilian embassy, Tokyo, Japan Buendner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland Architekturzentrum Wien, Austria Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimonie, Paris, France Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy Brazilian embassy, Rome, Italy Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos, Portugal Instituto Camões, Brasília DF, Brazil Câmara Municipal de Cascais, Portugal Fundação EDP Lisbon, Portugal MUnA, Uberlândia MG, Brazil Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil Centro Cultural São Paulo SP, Brazil Itaú Cultural, São Paulo SP, Brazil
leonardo finotti | michelle jean de castro
29MAR>19JUL2015 latin america in construction: architecture 1955-1980 MoMA NEW YORK, USA 23OCT>06DEC2015 10th Mercosul Biennial biografia da vida urbana Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL 04JUN>31JUL2016 leonardo finotti: rio enquadrado Museu da Casa Brasileira SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
20AUG>02OCT2016 leonardo finotti: latin america collection Galerie 94 BADEN, SWITZERLAND
10SEP2016>13FEB2017 building optimism: public space in south america Carnigie Museum of Art PITTSBURGH, USA 15JUN>12AUG2017 latinitudes Museo Zorrilla MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
08JUN>5JUL2017 leonardo finotti : collection of museums Galeria Pilar SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
08NOV>10DEC2017 leonardo finotti: from LAMA to chaos MUnA UBERLÂNDIA, BRAZIL
15DEC2017>17APR2018 burle marx and leonardo finotti, a dialogue UABB - Nantou Town SHENZHEN, CHINA