A educação museal como perspectiva da construção de uma biografia do objeto: o painel de Oscar Niemeyer

Abstract

This dissertation aims to research and disseminate a panel located at Ballroom (Casa do Baile), in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and donated in 2003 to Casa do Baile – a Reference Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, an integral part of the Pampulha Modern Complex – a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The panel is rapidly disappearing and states that “Pampulha was the beginning of Brasília...”. Niemeyer also stated that Pampulha was the beginning of his professional career. The panel presents sketches of two of its great works, Pampulha and Brasília, and in addition, the architect leaves two political-ideological statements on it. The research analyzes Oscar Niemeyer's intellectual biography; his first authorial work, the Pampulha complex, in the 1940s and the creation of the panel, in the 2000s. Finally, an analysis of the life trajectory of the panel and the meaning of its iconography were examined, highlighting the possibility that it was Oscar Niemeyer's wish to inscribe it in Pampulha, his first major work. Concepts related to musealization, memory, biographies of things, museum education, and gifting were examined and contributed to the understanding of the research subject. The result of the investigation culminated in the writing of a script that will be publicized, through the production of a podcast.