100 years of Poty Lazzarotto: around 500 works will be exhibited at MON

From April 12th, the exhibition Trilhos e Traços - Poty 100 years , will be available to the public at Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON) . Designed to celebrate the centenary of the Brazilian designer, engraver and muralist, the exhibition brings together approximately 500 works — a selection of the 4,000 pieces donated by the artist's family to the Museum — and is curated by Maria José Justino and Fabricio Vaz Nunes. According to the curators, in addition to highlighting the importance of his work in the Paraná scene, the exhibition seeks to transcend regional boundaries and present Poty in his universal dimension . “In his incessant and obstinate artistic activity, he recreated, in images, the creative universe of literature; in his murals, he shaped the great adventure of universal history,” they state.

(Cadi Busatto/CASACOR)

In the exhibition, the works were organized around nine thematic groups present in Poty's artistic career , representing his different facets: the Narrator, the Work, the Xingu, the Sacred, War, the Everyday, the Traveler, the Muralist and the Portraitist . “But Poty, the Capanema kid who loved cinema and comic books, is even more than all of this,” say the curators. About the artist

But with his monuments or panels of tiles and exposed concrete , present throughout Curitiba, the artist also left his mark on urbanism . In the panels of Travessa Nestor de Castro, Poty shows, on one side, the scene of a Curitiba that no longer exists, and on the other, the evolution of the city, which emerged in the middle of the pine forest, inhabited by immigrants.

(Levy Ferreira/SMCS/CASACOR)

MON Collection

On March 29, 2022, Curitiba's birthday – and coincidentally, the birth date of artist Poty Lazzarotto – MON received the largest collection ever donated to the institution: approximately 4,500 pieces that constitute a true ethnographic material about the artist. This collection has more than 3,000 drawings and 366 engravings, as well as tapestries, engravings, silkscreens and sculptures, among others. The donation was made directly by the artist's brother, João Lazzarotto. A selection of Poty's vast collection will be on display in this exhibition. The central axis of the Museum building will be transformed into a stage for the largest collections received by the MON, alongside exhibitions of Asian and African art.

(Leonardo Finotti/CASACOR)

"Poty, in his centenary, remains current, incomparable, and this new exhibition reinforces the importance of the artist for the cultural identity of Paraná. I am certain that the exhibition at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum will introduce his unique work to thousands of people and also to new generations", says Luciana Casagrande Pereira, Secretary of State for Culture of Paraná.

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